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Conservative Student Attacked at Charlottesville Vigil in Syracuse for Wearing YAF Cap
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| 08.16.17
| Posted by Mike LaChance
Posted on 08/16/2017 6:53:53 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Caleb Slater, a conservative student and the president of the Ithaca College Republicans, recently attended YAFs 39th Annual National Conservative Student Conference, where he received a baseball cap with the Young Americas Foundation logo and our slogan, The Conservative Movement Starts Here, printed on the back. Caleb chose to wear his YAF hat when he attended a vigil in Syracuse, New York, for the victims of last weekends violent clash in Charlottesville.
I wore my Young Americas Foundation hat to the rally as a symbol of peace, Caleb explained. I wore the hat to show that conservatives condemn the actions of the alt-right just as much as anyone else in our culture. It was this hat that earned Caleb the attention of antifa supporters at the same rally, and led to a violent attack caught on camera.
This incident highlights the true intolerance of the Left today: when a conservative goes out of their way to find common ground with their ideological rivals, leftists lash out merely due to a conservative logo and slogan on a ball cap.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: assault; collegerepublicans; ithaca; leftismoncampus; yaf
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To: Thank You Rush
The political terms left and right have been so bastardized as to become essentially meaningless.
The battle is not left vs right.
The battle is Americanism vs Totalitarianism
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posted on
08/16/2017 8:29:31 AM PDT
by
kanawa
(Trump Loves a Great Deal)
To: Blue Jays; The Toll; Thank You Rush; ProtectOurFreedom; Glenmore; Whenifhow; LucyT; ...
Blue Jays :" They meanwhile create a pejorative and/or degrading term for us...and we foolishly adopt it into our own daily language in an instant!
My goodness, let us not be so quick to enable freedom-hating leftwingers to frame the ongoing discussion."
Quite true ! Remember who first used the term:" The Deplorables " ?
And then the collective conservatives used her term against her, threw it up in her face daily, and then wore that term as a 'Badge of Honor',
which chased her candidacy unmercifully, daily so that none could forget up to election time and her failed candidacy what she felt about the electorate.
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posted on
08/16/2017 8:35:01 AM PDT
by
Tilted Irish Kilt
(The Fourth Estate has become Fifth column !)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
“Liberals” are the brown shirts of our time.
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posted on
08/16/2017 8:44:10 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Shaming into silence is the antithesis of psychological safety-James Damore-fired for speaking truth)
To: Tilted Irish Kilt; The Toll; Thank You Rush; ProtectOurFreedom; Glenmore; Whenifhow; LucyT
"...The Deplorables..."
We successfully countered her effort because we used it to mock an *individual* to maximum effect...specifically on Tuesday, November 8, 2016 to elect President Trump.
Why adopt anything that assorted leftwingers otherwise wish to foist upon us against our better judgment?
That is why I consistently identify our opposition as leftwinger, communist, socialist, totalitarian, statist, and similar descriptions.
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posted on
08/16/2017 8:54:02 AM PDT
by
Blue Jays
( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
To: The Toll
"What are you talking about! Its EXACTLY the same thing!" No, it's not. One term (antifa) is others defining us, the other term (Tea Party) is US defining ourselves. Yes?
To: Behind Liberal Lines
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posted on
08/16/2017 9:03:38 AM PDT
by
Sergio
(An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
To: jackibutterfly
No.
Alt-Right is a movement of young conservatives on line for the past 5 years and CNN started degrading it immediately after Trumps win.
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posted on
08/16/2017 9:05:12 AM PDT
by
The Toll
To: kanawa
BookMark for later.
Thank you FRiend,
Tatt
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posted on
08/16/2017 9:07:51 AM PDT
by
thesearethetimes...
(Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr.Eric Cunningham)
To: Tilted Irish Kilt; The Toll; Thank You Rush; ProtectOurFreedom; Glenmore; Whenifhow; LucyT
"...Vast Right Wing Conspiracy / VRWC..."
As an aside, that was another time we successfully used a misstep to crush an individual crooked politician.
Hillary Clinton seems especially vulnerable to making moronic statements that can be cleverly used against her.
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posted on
08/16/2017 9:09:47 AM PDT
by
Blue Jays
( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
To: Blue Jays
“leftwinger, communist, socialist, totalitarian, statist”
Unfortunately, for those who didn’t grow up with knowledge of totalitarianism, it seems that those terms have become badges of honor.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
"...badges of honor..."
I hear what you are saying and do my best to preserve clarity. :-)
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posted on
08/16/2017 9:18:17 AM PDT
by
Blue Jays
( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
To: Kenton
Now that public urination is permitted in NYC (thank you Warren Wilhelm), can I pee on Che’s statue?
Yeah, the same Che that wanted to nuke NYC.
BYW, when did NYC put up that atrocity?
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posted on
08/16/2017 9:35:18 AM PDT
by
Fred Hayek
(The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Freaking Nazis.... that is what comes to my. They are using the same tactics.
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posted on
08/16/2017 10:38:40 AM PDT
by
VaeVictis
(~Woe to the Conquered~)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I have faith that the Fake News Media will ask President Trump to condemn Antifa.
To: rightwingcrazy
because they self-identify as tolerant.
President Trump pantsed them during the latest conference. Said they were as violent the white hate groups. Sessions is going after these violent left wing radicals, too.
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posted on
08/16/2017 5:22:07 PM PDT
by
SaraJohnson
( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Proving once again that there is no middle ground with the left. It’s their way or the highway.
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posted on
08/17/2017 6:31:09 AM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine's brother
(Crush the Democrats; see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of the girly men.)
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