Except in Massachusetts--Liz Warren, Ed Markey, Joe Kennedy III, and many state legislators...and the gov is RINO Charlie Baker (could have been Martha Coakley...)
Posted on 12/10/2016 6:18:09 AM PST by raccoonradio
It ain’t easy being a Republican at Harvard, and certainly not in the era of Donald Trump, according to Emily Hall, an unabashed conservative at the world’s most famous university.
Hall, a junior who’s majoring in government, watched the presidential election results come in at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, once again finding herself in the minority while stunned Hillary Clinton supporters openly sobbed with each victory racked up by Trump.
“I felt bad for them,” Hall said of her liberal schoolmates. “But I also recognize that people would not have felt bad for me if I had been the one crying.
"I’ve experienced both tolerance and intolerance, depending on who I’m talking to,” Hall said during interviews with both the Herald and Boston Herald Radio yesterday.
“There are some places where discourse is welcome. There are other circles and other individuals I’ve interacted with who have not been so tolerant, who have been open and willing to call Republicans racist or sexist or xenophobic.
“I think that intensified with Trump,” she said. Hall, a 20-year-old native of Clinton, Conn., said professors and students often broached Trump’s victory as if a horrific tragedy had taken place and spoke of creating support for Clinton backers.
“Had Hillary won, I don’t know those same sentiments would have been extended, because the assumption was the majority of everyone in the room were liberals and were Democrats,” said Hall. “It was just disheartening to me.” There have been other examples of well-meaning liberal professors not presenting balance in their lectures, she said.
“They want to include conservative perspectives in the classroom, they just don’t know how,” said Hall. “And I think they may not even realize that what they’re teaching has a liberal bent to it, because there are so few conservatives there to actually challenge that.
“I think that often people will teach things in a way that I guess doesn’t showcase the other side … Maybe because they haven’t seen someone who actually articulates the other side to them, they don’t realize there is an intelligent other side,” she said.
Hall said that liberal group-think at Harvard has created an environment where some Republicans don’t bother speaking out.
“I’d say there are a lot more that are openly Republican and conservative,” she said. “I think people tend to be less politically active when they’re conservative, just because there are so many fewer people who actually identify with those beliefs on campus.”
But there have been promising signs of late, she added. Hall has started a group on campus for conservative female students, called the Network of Enlightened Women — and it’s since received official recognition as a student group by Harvard.
She knew Harvard leaned heavily leftward when she first hit the Cambridge campus — and was even jokingly warned before she left home not to lose her conservative principles in the land of liberals. Still, she admitted her first few months at the school were a “culture shock.”
“It’s been a good thing for me because I’ve learned a lot about how to defend my beliefs,” she said. “I absolutely respect people who have liberal beliefs, but I think they need to expose themselves to the other point of view as well and they need to listen to the other side and be able to argue back against the other side. “We have a government that’s almost completely controlled by Republicans right now,” she noted. “If they ever want to regain control … then they need to understand the other side and be able to argue succinctly and intelligently against the other side.”
Except in Massachusetts--Liz Warren, Ed Markey, Joe Kennedy III, and many state legislators...and the gov is RINO Charlie Baker (could have been Martha Coakley...)
“World’s most famous university...”
Oxford mght have something to say about that.
She really should be questioning the true value of the education that she is receiving instead of the name of the college/university on the degree.
I once told a college friend who identified as a Democrat but had some conservative views to “come out of the closet as a Republican” and was loudly told to SHUT UP.
She makes the mistake of calling these people liberals. They’re not. They’re Fascist-Communist “Special Snowflake” thugs, the complete and absolute enemy of freedom, the rule of law, traditional values and morals, not to mention the Constitution.
I like the Confederate gray jacket. Poor girl will realize as she gets older liberals are mentally ill. You cannot reason with them as they do not use reason in their arguments.
Speaks volumes.
She calls herself a compassionate conservative.
https://mobile.twitter.com/emh731/photo
I have a hard time feeling compassion for the people that are doing everything possible to destroy our country.
Most famous in the USA - Harvard.
England - Oxford or Cambridge
Germany - Heidelberg?
France - Sorbonne?
I was reading some posts over at the DUmp yesterday and it was shocking. People were bragging about telling elderly family members to go die already, yelling and cursing at strangers who wore Trump gear, and other assorted insanity. Apparently, their need for catharsis through venting in the most inappropriate settings trumps everyone else’s right to avoid crazy people.
“Oxford might have something to say about that”.
That was my first thought also.
As these snowflakes enter the real world their perspective changes. They get a job (most of them will have to when mom and dad stop supporting them), then they have to pay student loan payments, rent, insurance, buy food, and pay taxes. Once they realize that a significant portion of the cost of goods is taxes and the grocery bill keeps going up they eventually start to change their mind about putting all the money in a big pot and let others take it.
They are currently sheltered from reality, coddled, coached, spoon fed their thought processes.
Granted some will never develop into real people. Some will have so much money that taxes don’t figure into the equation. Some will continue to think like they do. But a good number of the late 60’s liberals voted for Trump this past election - just took a while to sink in.
“Oxford mght have something to say about that.”
Isn’t that where the oxen cross the stream back in the holler where Jethro went to school all the way to the eighth grade?
“——————at the world’s most famous university.”
Really?
I wonder how Oxford feels about that ?
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I was talking to a woman who worked at my dermatologist’s office yesterday who is also Conservative. We both had experienced the vicious, angry, seething wrath of more than one democrat - some we had considered close friends - yet were not able to think of a single instance where we saw the same behavior in any Republican to a dem. We are tolerant of their views but still surprised when someone we think we know well hisses their hatred of our views with no provocation. It is time for the tables to turn and to stop allowing these unchecked behaviors.
This spring my son graduated from North Eastern, College of Professional Studies, and he said it was pretty much like that there too.
Republicans were libeled as evil, Nazi-like, greedy etc. Can’t think for themselves, herd like mentality ...programmed what to think not how to think.
Very quick to throw out insults and accusations when at a loss for a ‘logical’ response to any tough political question/debate etc.
I think that simply “Fascists” will suffice for these neophytes. I think they would be surprised to learn that they are actually the totalitarians that will not allow anyone to have a different opinion that theirs.
Standing up for your convictions in the midst of overwhelming opposition speaks highly for that person's strength of character.
If I were an employer, I’d put a premium on hiring conservative kids who had the backbone to stand up on liberal campuses. It would be an interesting experiment to be explicit about this. I would be careful to stress that I was not imposing a narrow political test. Rather, I would be seeking employees who had demonstrated the personal integrity and courage it took to uphold minority views in a hostile environment. Politically conservative and religiously orthodox young people would be at the head of the list, but I suppose others might qualify as well.
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