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'What are they afraid of?': Student govt. rejects hosting anti-woke survivor of Maoist China
Campus Reform ^ | 21 Apr 2023 | Thomas Stevenson

Posted on 04/22/2023 8:58:19 AM PDT by Rummyfan

During an Apr. 12 meeting, the Associated Students of Whitworth University voted 9-4 against hosting Xi Van Fleet, a survivor of Maoist China, on campus and cited her anti-woke tweets.

'Those people who believe in lived experience, then they are going to get the lived experience from me because I’m not talking about an idea that I read or researched or studied,' Van Fleet says.

The student government at Whitworth University (WU) voted to reject a speaker who survived communism under Mao Zedong and criticizes woke culture for suppressing opposing ideas.

During an Apr. 12 meeting, the Associated Students of Whitworth University (ASWU) voted 9-4 against hosting Xi Van Fleet on campus. Van Fleet immigrated from Maoist China to the U.S. and draws parallels between the Chinese Cultural Revolution and what she calls the “Woke Revolution,” according to a description of her book Mao's America: A Survivor's Warning.

WU is a private Christian university in Spokane, Wash.

(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...


TOPICS: Education; Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: communism

1 posted on 04/22/2023 8:58:19 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Our educational institutions are toilets! Flush them.


2 posted on 04/22/2023 9:01:34 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: Rummyfan

What a disappointment. Whitworth is a good school and we have friends whose kids went there.


3 posted on 04/22/2023 9:02:06 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else)
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To: Rummyfan
WU is a private Christian university in Spokane, Wash.

Sure it is.

4 posted on 04/22/2023 9:02:10 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Rummyfan

Send the nine yes voters to Uyghurville. Let them enjoy the Maoist life they’ve always wanted. Then let the rest of us live LIKE AMERICANS where freedom of speech, and the right of THE PEOPLE to peaceably assemble. IT’S TIME!


5 posted on 04/22/2023 9:03:05 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Rummyfan

Zoomers.

Fun times ahead.


6 posted on 04/22/2023 9:07:01 AM PDT by fretzer
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To: Rummyfan
Whitworth Associated Students...


7 posted on 04/22/2023 9:07:11 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else)
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To: Rummyfan

Americans have been indoctrinated to believe anything that goes against what they have been taught to believe is hate speech.


8 posted on 04/22/2023 9:08:41 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Rummyfan

“WHAT ARE THEY AFRAID OF?”
My question exactly to anyone attempting to stifle free speech in this country.


9 posted on 04/22/2023 9:09:04 AM PDT by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars. A Man, and proud of it!)
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Simply host the event next to the school at the original time, and send tickets to all those students, see if any of the 9 have the guts to show up. Have security standing by.


10 posted on 04/22/2023 9:11:26 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: brownsfan

11 posted on 04/22/2023 9:14:33 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Rummyfan

Colleges and universities are cesspools for radical Marxists, collectivists, and revolutionaries, and have been for decades.


12 posted on 04/22/2023 9:20:45 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Rummyfan

Colleges are no longer places for learning, understanding, and critical thinking. They are places of indoctrination; therefore, why would they willingly allow different opinions and new facts? They are cults spewing out dangerous, brainwashed cultists.


13 posted on 04/22/2023 9:41:11 AM PDT by grimalkin (Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. -Fulton J. Sheen)
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To: telescope115

Afraid of free thinkers, of people not easily brainwashed. They likely fear self-reflection and the possibility of questioning their perspectives and beliefs. These are people whose entire identities are based around “woke.” They have become a collective organism where individuals are irrelevant. So to them, if you attack “woke,” it is personal, like the Borg.


14 posted on 04/22/2023 9:48:33 AM PDT by grimalkin (Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. -Fulton J. Sheen)
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To: windsorknot

Associated with the Presbyterian Church, USA = Leftist lunatics.


15 posted on 04/22/2023 10:22:40 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: Rummyfan

Apparently SOMEBODY is afraid of being indoctrinated. It would be ironically funny if it wasn’t so sad.


16 posted on 04/22/2023 11:02:00 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: newfreep

True, if you count pinks and reds as USA.


17 posted on 04/22/2023 3:25:40 PM PDT by cowboyusa (IT'S TIME TO PLAY COWBOYS AND MARXISTS!)
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To: cowboyusa

You missed the point...


18 posted on 04/22/2023 3:27:38 PM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Rummyfan

.


19 posted on 04/22/2023 6:16:45 PM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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