Posted on 09/23/2024 7:55:48 AM PDT by DFG
A West Point graduate who first made headlines for his “Communism will win” message written in his uniform cap is now a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) studying “Modern Arab intellectual history.”
In 2017, Spenser Rapone displayed various Marxist messages, such as wearing a Che Guevara shirt beneath his official West Point uniform and posting “#VeteransForKaepernick” on social media.
According to UT’s website, Rapone entered the Ph.D. program in 2020. His university biography cites his interests as “decolonization, revolution, metaphysics, [and] consciousness,” with his research topics focusing on “question of the self, soul, and spirit in modern Arab thought.”
“Specifically, he engages with the intellectual contributions of the Ba’th Party, the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, and other anticolonial nationalist formations that sought to construct a new order and bring about a liberated life and authentic existence in the Arab World,” his biography reads.
Two investigations were launched after Rapone’s communist sentiments were exposed: one by his unit of assignment, the 10th Mountain Division, and another to examine United States Military Academy policies regarding “his suitability for graduation and commissioning.”
Rapone also made headlines in 2018, when he left the U.S. Army under other-than-honorable discharge after a full investigation. As reported by The Associated Press, Rapone resigned due to “conduct unbecoming of an officer” and admittedly advocated online for a socialist revolution.
“I consider myself a revolutionary socialist,” Rapone told The Associated Press at the time. “I would encourage all soldiers who have a conscience to lay down their arms and join me and so many others who are willing to stop serving the agents of imperialism and join us in a revolutionary movement.”
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Rapone’s university biography cites his interests as
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The service academies are just as liberal as Harvard, Berkeley, etc now. It ensures the officer corps stays indoctrinated in far left Marxist thinking.
Pretty much all of Austin is now a Democratic rat hole.
He was enlisted ... served a tour in a war zone (Iraq/Afghanistan) and was awarded an appointment to West Point.
Will be the world’s shortest thesis even penned.
Becky Sue Fancher’s 3rd grade report on the pig farm she visited over summer vacation will prove more substantial.
ditto
They don’t care for “intellectuals” in the commies food chain.
If I thought I could get away with it I’d administer a dose of high speed lead therapy to this Maoist pig fornicator.
>A West Point graduate who first made headlines for his “Communism will win” message written in his uniform cap is now a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) studying “Modern Arab intellectual history.”
Sounds like a short dissertation.
Wonder if they considered requiring him to pay back tuition to USMA.
Perhaps the Congress critter that nominated him should write the check.
The left is literally declaring war on the American citizens.
A professor who operated like that in today’s political climate in a fair manner would be chastised by students and administration higher-ups for not being radical enough. Ultimately he’d be fired, tenure or no tenure.
No surprise. They just gave Obama some worthless award. West Point is another destroyed institution.
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“Modern Arab intellectual history.”
He mastered Oxymoron
Those impressed with their own brilliance seldom get the opportunity to actually live in or under a system they believe is superior to what we have here. I wonder why they seldom leave the good old USA to experience first hand the joys of what they promote. Could it be they are cowards, or could it be they know deep down the “righteousness “ they wish to embrace is all just an act.
I’m just happy he was booted out of the military. Wouldn’t be surprised if he does something really stupid (violent) in the years ahead.
He is on track for much, much higher rank in THIS new woke military
Ooops,,,,,should have read the entire article,,,didn’t realize he is not in the military now. In that case, he will do well as a democrat politician in the future.
The kind of person Danny Elfman wrote about in Oingo Boingo’s “Capitalism”...
You’re just a middle class, socialist brat
From a suburban family and you never really had to work
And now you tell me that we’ve got to get back
To the struggling masses, whoever they are
You talk, talk, talk about suffering and pain
Your mouth is bigger than your entire brain
What the hell do you know about suffering and pain you dumb f...?
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