Georgetown senate publicly condemns student for rejecting Black Lives Matter movement

College Reform ^ | July 10, 2020 | Lacey Kestcher

[C19fan]

The Georgetown University Student Senate voted in favor of a resolution denouncing a conservative student’s blog post. William Torgerson, a student at Georgetown University, wrote a blog post called A Nation of Virtuous Individuals in which he condemned the Black Lives Matter movement. He also made another blog post - which is now-deleted but the GUSA had obtained screenshots of - where he wrote that “being depressed is not normal.”

In the most recent post, Torgerson wrote that “Black Lives Matter is a movement entirely based in unfalsifiable ideological possession, and it does not deserve your support.”

[C19fan]

At Georgetown one can commit acts of blasphemy and heresy and not be touched but oppose BLM and the school will go after you. Kneel Before ZodBLM!!!

[Rummyfan]

In the most recent post, Torgerson wrote that “Black Lives Matter is a movement entirely based in unfalsifiable ideological possession, and it does not deserve your support.”

True. So what does being denounced mean to him as a student and personally? Is this like being excommunicated from the Church of Social Justice?

[PGR88]

Peter Strzok and his wife are both products of Georgetown, in the early 90s.

Georgetown will continue to produce DC bubble-dwellers, statists, swamp creatures and apparatchiks unabated.

[Blood of Tyrants]

An attack on his free speech.. Lawsuit.

[posterchild]

Ideological possession: https://fee.org/articles/the-diagnosis-and-treatment-of-ideological-possession/

[Henry Cavendish]

A lot of the world’s problems start at Georgetown.

[olezip]

The Georgetown University Student Senate voted in favor of a resolution denouncing a conservative student’s blog post.

The Communist Georgetown University Student Senate voted in favor of a resolution denouncing a conservative student’s blog post. Communists do it every time.

All they need is an accusation!

[campaignPete R-CT]

STUDENT SENATE

not the administration

[BEJ]

Yes, the prestigious Georgetown where communists want to destroy the family before your very eyes... just before cocktail hour and the Satanic Rites being performed in the next room with the Dean’s staff.

[Sarcasm Factory]

From the article, a quote:

In response to these claims, the GUSA Senate drafted a resolution to condemn Torgerson for using rhetoric which “is racist, ignorant, discriminatory, demeaning, and hateful." The resolution claims that by Torgerson writing “the United States of America is not systemically racist today,” he “negates the existence of institutional racism.”

I'll rephrase that gem thusly:

In response to these claims, the GUSA Senate drafted a resolution to condemn hysterically attack Torgerson for using rhetoric [that] "is accurate, cogent, descriptive, and pointed." By writing that "the United States is not in fact populated by mythical creatures," Torgerson "negates the existence of fairies and mermaids."

Oh, yeah. The so-called "resolution" is just that nonsensical and self-serving.

[pepsi_junkie]

The left has discovered a key to the communist revolution: rebrand it in racial terms and then silence and ruin anyone who dares to even suggest it’s not perfect. Once dissent is utterly suppressed, they can start to reveal what their real goals are (and it’s not defunding police, if they get total power we’ll have a police state like we’ve never seen and it will not be gentle)

[rightwingcrazy]

You need a Marxist-to-English translation for the Student Senate resolution. It's pretty straightforward, and after translation, hard to argue with:

"In response to these claims, the GUSA Senate drafted a resolution to condemn Torgerson for using rhetoric which “is anti-Marxist, anti-Marxist, anti-Marxist, anti-Marxist, and anti-Marxist." The resolution claims that by Torgerson writing “the United States of America is not Marxist today,” he “negates Marxism.”

[Sarcasm Factory]

I like your version a lot. It’s simple and straightforward. :-)

[Steely Tom]

That is a superb reference. Thank you. "Ideological possession" is the perfect term for a phenomenon we've all noticed for years, that is often — I might go so far as to say routinely — used by the left. That phenomenon is "X is something that all Y want, therefore if you are against X you must hate Y and therefore want to destroy Y."

"If you are against abortion, you must hate women and want them all barefoot and pregnant."

"If you are against welfare, you must hate poor people and want to kill them."

We all know the endless variations on this theme. Nancy Pelosi, Hillary and Bill Clinton, and virtually every other Democrat has used this formulation, particularly when their backs are against the wall.

Remember Ted Kennedy?

"Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists would be censored at the whim of the government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is often the only protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy."

That quote is from the Congressional Record - Senate, for 1 July, 1987.

[Hambone 1934]

It needs to be bankrupted....

[I want the USA back]

I condemn the movement and the political hate-America organization.

[rightwingcrazy]

It’s a rough translation. Some words might be closer in meaning to “un-Marxist” than “anti-Marxist”. But I got the gist of it.

[Deplorable American1776]

I’d love to see the political leanings of the GU Student Senate. 100% Communist, I guess

[Blood of Tyrants]

Still, this is nothing less than a form of bullying.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Just because they passed a resolution doesn’t make it any less right than the majority of the people voting to steal your property.