Posted on 01/29/2020 3:11:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
It’s a new year, but nothing much has changed since 2019 as far as how dumb and ignorant some college kids can be.
Yeah, you can chalk it up as kids just being young and dumb, but when a graduate student and some other college kids from several of America’s most prestigious law schools and colleges decide to express their deep disdain for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, well, some of us take notice.
Daniel Espo, who according to his Facebook profile is studying or had studied at Harvard Law School, expressed his distaste for the late Justice Scalia, another Harvard Law School graduate when he wrote “guess who isn’t going to have a happy new year” on a post of a picture of Scalia’s actual tombstone.
Espo went further, riling up other anti-Scalia “students,” saying that “it’s just too bad Kissinger is still around.”
Hating on Scalia is disturbing. Regardless of what side of the political aisle you find yourself, respect should always be given to all elected officials and confirmed jurists, regardless of how they voted or ruled.
One Emory University and Old Navy alum, Duy Nyugen, went as far as to say that Scalia didn’t deserve the honor and respect he is given after his death because according to Nyugen, he “didn’t earn it while living.”
“If Scalia didn’t want people to trash his memory, maybe he should have tried harder at not being a dick,” added Nyugen
Hmm? I am not sure why “Little Duy” would post something so vulgar or offensive, but maybe he is deflected away from a “shortcoming” he may have?
Enter more frustrated kids.
Nicholas Van Erp, Brad Storch, Connor Peth, and others, decided to turn to the same toilet bowl they appear to think from.
Let’s just remember that in 1986, Judge Antonin Scalia was confirmed by the U.S. Senate 98-0. That’s 98-0.
And you know what, current 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was part of the Senate Democratic Caucus who voted that day. Ouch!
Biden once said that Justice Scalia was “one of our most influential justices.”
More wisdom from the “The Constitution Is A Living Document” crowd.
Exactly. See my post above. That is a mealy mouthed, weak sentiment I would just as soon take a leak on.
This country was founded on the rough principle that nobody is deserving of respect simply because of a conferred title, especially if their actions are not worthy of respect.
I most certainly don’t. That one line raised my hackles.
Again, I am assuming (and hoping) you misunderstood our responses.
Interesting and cool story, I just hate giving those asshats of the lung turds a click ... ever.
I wouldn't tweet out a picture of the gravestone of some politician I disagree with and write something nasty. What's the point.
Also, it seems like you guys don't disagree with some of the ways Trump has been treated, you just disagree with the target. You would agree with it if it was against Obama?
Certainly, I don't respect many elected officials and jurists in one sense. But, I won't be giving up my dignity and beliefs and acting like a leftist idiot. Nothing would be served by that.
Would you engage in some like the women’s march with those stupid hats and profane signs, like they do that last few years? Or are you a mature conservative who realizes that would only reflect on you, not the opponent?
You stole my thought ; )
In a perfect world their hearts would be changed and I could call them friend. It is not a perfect world.
And I will continue to call out the people who are trying to destroy me and mine.
As Tony Soprano said: “Those that want respect, give respect.”
And furthermore. I'd also piss on Bill and Hillary Clinton's grave. And Jane Fonda. And TONS of other people I can think of and some I can't.
We fought an entire revolution to escape a monarchy, where you were forced to 'respect' so-called 'leaders'.
Here in America, we are free. People given authority by us need to respect US, not the other way around.
#FreeBornManInTheUSA
You should tell that to the huge number of freepers who worship the monarchy and hate Americans.
Okay.
*megaphone*
Consider yourself told, Tories!!!!
If the Clintons can’t get you to do that, then they succeeded in their mission.
What he said.
“but when a graduate student and some other college kids from several of America’s most prestigious law schools and colleges decide to express their deep disdain for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, well, some of us take notice.”
Harvard law isn’t prestigious due to high achievement. It is exclusive for the ruling class and a few tokens. That is not the same as good. Their only metric of success is that their graduates rise in the establishment. Which is no surprise because they were picked to go there due to connections with the establishment.
But I see no evidence of respectable thinkers coming out of there. Certainly not compared to numerous non-Ivy schools.
Thank You.
Foreign snowflakes. Even worse than domestic ones.
HEY ASSHOLES! GO BACK TO YOUR OWN COUNTRY!!
How do I go from refusing to give respect to someone (whose actions not only do not merit respect, but actively call for complete disgust and total rejection) to someone who would tweet out a picture of some politician's gravestone or wearing a hat that is supposed to resemble a vagina?
I completely do not understand the jump you make there.
Nowhere...NOWHERE in my post or bagster's post did either of us approve of ANYTHING those people did. As a matter of fact, if you read our initial posts, his was one word, and mine was two very short sentences, both of us focused on that ONE repulsive sentiment by the author "...respect should always be given to all elected officials and confirmed jurists, regardless of how they voted or ruled..."
We were speaking of that ONE sentiment: that we should respect someone with a title simply because they have a title? I wholly reject that concept root and branch. And I don't reject it because I am on one side of a political argument or another. I reject it because the actions of the people I refuse to "respect" COMPEL me to reject it.
I have a personal rule that over the years I have come to embrace over the years, I call it "Default Respect" and will touch on it at the end. I hope you will read that far. But I have specific examples of why I don't respect "ALL elected officials and confirmed jurists"
I could go on, but you get the idea.
There is one common thread through all of these examples-all these people should have held respect, but did not because of specific actions they took or activities they engaged in.
You mentioned you are old fashioned in some respect. I am too. My parents taught me two major things:
I have developed a code for myself that I call "Default Respect". It means that I respect EVERYONE and treat with them as such, until they give me cause to not respect them.
In the case of all of these people and nearly the entire Democrat party along with the Leftist jurists who inhabit our court systems, they are attacking our Constitution and this country I love and owe so much to, and I know enough to see their actions WILL both bankrupt it and destroy it.
I cannot respect those people. I will not. That doesn't mean I have to tweet rude pictures of their gravesites or put a Pussy Hat on my head. But I damn sure will not respect them because they have a title, are elected, or sit behind a judge's bench.
I have had my current Free Republic tagline for some time, and that is because I think it is true: "Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both."
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