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Penn State Retracts Statement Saying Conservative Voices Are Important
thefederalist.com ^ | July 9, 2020 | Jonah Gottschalk

Posted on 07/12/2020 11:25:59 AM PDT by lowbridge

Penn State University recently made a surprising statement about intellectual diversity, only to retract it after outrage from left-wing students.

“Dear conservative students. Your viewpoints are important,” the announcement read, referencing the isolation and self-censorship many conservative students experience on left-wing campuses. According to the schools Director of Strategic Communications, it was part of a statement aimed at creating a supporting and inclusive environment for students.

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The message of inclusivity was swiftly met with fire by left-wing students who, according to the school newspaper, “found the Tweet harmful towards students of color and ignorant of the systemic issues that oppress people of color in the United States today.” A number of the offended students statements were then published in the Collegian, where the message was called “disgusting” and a “humiliation for communities of color.”

Some of the left-wing students attacked the statement as they didn’t consider free speech for conservatives a serious issue on campus. The others, ironically, attacked the statement for welcoming conservative viewpoints at all. “(Conservative students) are the students that call us the N-word and show us first-hand what white-supremacy is,” one of the published students claimed.

The University quickly crumpled, and retracted the statement. They did not respond to The Federalist’s request for comment.

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To: lowbridge
“(Conservative students) are the students that call us the N-word and show us first-hand what white-supremacy is,” one of the published students claimed.

I can't imagine a conservative doing this. He must have heard a Democrat in, what was supposed to be, a private conversation.

41 posted on 07/12/2020 12:30:10 PM PDT by stevem
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To: Steely Tom

CW2 approaches.


42 posted on 07/12/2020 12:40:19 PM PDT by reardensteel
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To: lowbridge
“(Conservative students) are the students that call us the N-word and show us first-hand what white-supremacy is,” one of the published students claimed.

So Penn State chose not to educate the ignorant student (after failing to recruit a smart one) that the Democrat Party is the Party of Racism, the Ku Klux Klan, filibustering the Civil Rights Amendment, and bragging of social programs that "would have them N-words voting Democrat for the next 100 years" (Lyndon Johnson).

Penn State instead aimed for being an Institute of Lower Learning.

43 posted on 07/12/2020 12:41:08 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: lowbridge

So “outrage” trumps (pun intended) intellectual discussion of ideas.


44 posted on 07/12/2020 12:41:32 PM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting.)
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To: lowbridge

Dear conservatives: We appreciate your attendance at Pedo State University because, frankly, we need your money but make no mistake about it, you’re the new n-words around here. Shut up and don’t say or do anything that might make us think you’re “uppity” or your future here at Pedo State will be cancelled. Got it?

Cordially,

Your fellow students and faculty at Pedo State. Go Lyins!


45 posted on 07/12/2020 12:43:39 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Isaiah 5:20 "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.")
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To: Truthoverpower

You are too optimistic
Dumb people are in charge all over the world, it can also happen here.


46 posted on 07/12/2020 12:44:10 PM PDT by reardensteel
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To: lowbridge

Ped state is inclusive of leftists and child molesters.


47 posted on 07/12/2020 12:47:15 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (Socialism requires slavery.)
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To: lowbridge

Do we give them any money from the federal government?


48 posted on 07/12/2020 12:58:13 PM PDT by Hattie
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To: lowbridge

Importance is in the eye of the beholder.


49 posted on 07/12/2020 1:05:38 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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To: LoveMyFreedom
Then no federal funding plain simple.

Yeah, right.

Remember this?

Trump Tweets: Threatens to Take Away Federal Funds from UC Berkeley for Preventing Free Speech with Violence

Never happened. Berkeley never missed a dime in Federal funds.



50 posted on 07/12/2020 1:19:09 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Brilliant

“At what point do we start fighting back?”

Probably about the same time we stop talking about it?


51 posted on 07/12/2020 1:23:19 PM PDT by Leep (We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
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To: Brilliant

“At what point do we start fighting back?”

Probably about the same time we stop talking about it?


52 posted on 07/12/2020 1:23:20 PM PDT by Leep (We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
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To: Leep

It seems that the talk is never ending.

The Dems can fight and talk at the same time. We need to fight fire with fire.


53 posted on 07/12/2020 1:30:06 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: lowbridge

Wish I could retract my son’s tuition.


54 posted on 07/12/2020 1:30:15 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: SkyPilot

Trump apparently has little control over the Federal government, civilian or military. Three and one half years with two attorneys general, and not one of the many Democratic scandals have been pursued, not even the lower echelon players. The President had to rely on the Department of Homeland Security to protect the White House and the Federal monuments. In the cases of the 1968 Martin Luther King riots and the 1931 Bonus Army riots, the military was used to suppress the outbreaks in the District of Columbia. Why wasn’t this done in 2020? Initially, the Secretary of Defense sent 1,200 troops to Washington, but reversed course almost immediately. Given statements by the Secretary of Defense, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Attorney General Barr contradicting or disputing Trump’s statements and positions, it is clear that most of the U.S. government is disobedient, if not outright mutinous.


55 posted on 07/12/2020 1:30:42 PM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: NobleFree

Dear White/Black/Biracial/Multiracial Male students:

Your views are welcome here. NOT.


56 posted on 07/12/2020 1:45:49 PM PDT by Concentrate (ex-texan was right and Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election.)
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To: SkyPilot
Trump Tweets: Threatens to Take Away Federal Funds from UC Berkeley for Preventing Free Speech with Violence
Never happened. Berkeley never missed a dime in Federal funds.

That's not completely true. The California University System was running slush fund where vendors would refund unused contract amounts that instead of going back into the education fund were put into a Nancy Pelosi slush fund (run out of UC Berkeley). Someone from within the Cal State system likely dimed them out and the Feds cut the exact amount of the slush fund from the Federal funds.

57 posted on 07/12/2020 2:07:50 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Brilliant

“At what point do we start fighting back?”

NOW. If we don’t start now, we will lose. Mark my words.


58 posted on 07/12/2020 2:12:24 PM PDT by Concentrate (ex-texan was right and Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election.)
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To: lowbridge

Conservative students should come back and say they are threatened by the leftists. Systemic discrimination against their beliefs.


59 posted on 07/12/2020 2:29:47 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ("Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy." - Franz Kafka)
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To: JudgemAll

To conservative students - come here and get Sandusky-ed.


60 posted on 07/12/2020 2:30:46 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ("Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy." - Franz Kafka)
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