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West Point grad who wrote 'Communism will Win' under military cap is now a Ph.D. candidate at UT Austin
Campus Reform ^ | 09/19/2024 | Emma Dayton

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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TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: austin; communist; defundutaustin; education; enemieslist; rapone; socialist; spenserrapone; texas; utaustin; westpoint
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To: volare737

>He is on track for much, much higher rank in THIS new woke military

10 to 1 this retard ends up in the State Dept. pushing anti-semitic policy


41 posted on 09/23/2024 10:04:57 AM PDT by struggle
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To: HYPOCRACY
Dirty, little, insignificant, attention whore.

Of course this narcissist is a PhD candidate. Where else was he going to go except Academia?

He'll find a job as a professor, spewing hateful rhetoric at others he blames for his own deficiencies, while behind closed doors, he'll ask young men on campus to abuse him sexually because he hates himself.

42 posted on 09/23/2024 10:05:18 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Rlsau1

Yes, exactly: Where is the mass exodus to all the People’s Democratic Republics?


43 posted on 09/23/2024 10:27:23 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: struggle

He does come across to me as the next John Kerry. I agree, probably aiming for an academic career and maybe a turn in the State Department. The way things are these days, a ruined career in the Army needn’t hobble one for another somewhere else in Woke-ademia or the FedGov fun-house.


44 posted on 09/23/2024 10:33:36 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: DFG

Rapone had a less than honorable record in the Army.

But his West Point bachelor’s degree gives him the right to become a graduate student!

Phooey, anyway!


45 posted on 09/23/2024 10:46:06 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: DFG

He sounds like a very useful fellow, and truly productive member of society. Why, if there were 99 more of him, all 100 together might be half as useful to the health and wellbeing of America as a single, average farmer or trucker...


46 posted on 09/23/2024 11:04:16 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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He won’t take the job. Will be in Kamala’s Cabinet


47 posted on 09/23/2024 11:06:47 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: DFG

And we dropped about $200k to educate this fool.


48 posted on 09/23/2024 11:19:30 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Jamestown1630

Free education. Sort of.


49 posted on 09/23/2024 11:26:18 AM PDT by DPMD ( )
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To: Vermont Lt

Somehow, I don’t think ‘education’ took, with him.


50 posted on 09/23/2024 11:31:14 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Vermont Lt

Back in the old days, it was about $40K...crammed up your ass a nickel at a time.


51 posted on 09/23/2024 11:31:45 AM PDT by DPMD ( )
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To: volare737

He certainly qualifies for a DNC leadership role.


52 posted on 09/23/2024 11:50:01 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good Bye Ellen)
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To: dfwgator

Obi Wan made a great Bolshevik.


53 posted on 09/23/2024 11:53:09 AM PDT by Clemenza
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To: DFG

De-colonization and muzzies and communism. One of these things is not like the other. Muzzies and commies have always practiced colonization.


54 posted on 09/23/2024 1:15:31 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Liz

he’s still breathing???


55 posted on 09/23/2024 2:09:08 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Made In The USA

Yes, he will. With ‘West Point graduate’ on his resume’, he will someday be a top level government political appointee!


56 posted on 09/23/2024 2:54:22 PM PDT by volare737 (Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated.)
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To: volare737

Secretary of Defense.


57 posted on 09/23/2024 2:56:26 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DFG

Thos is the new brass. Obama and chomo Joe are commissioning America haters as fast as they can.


58 posted on 09/23/2024 8:11:24 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Sirius Lee
studying “Modern Arab intellectual history.” Will be the world’s shortest thesis even penned.

Nah. That would be “The Complete Book of Irish Foreplay.”

59 posted on 09/23/2024 8:17:28 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Propaganda keeps only governments in business, not corporations. —John Nolte)
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To: DFG
For reference in the thread, this is the scumbag:


60 posted on 09/23/2024 9:31:46 PM PDT by rlmorel (J.D. Vance and The Legend of The MaMaw of The 19 Loaded Guns!)
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