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My parents fled communism decades ago. But at my elite D.C. university, the ideology is alive and well.
The College Fix ^ | 14 Feb 2022 | Jessica Costescu

Posted on 02/15/2022 8:03:29 AM PST by Rummyfan

To my family, the ability to speak freely and without fear is worth dying for. My parents’ only hope was to raise their children in a land that would not oppress them for daring to speak out, and to their horror, their children’s First Amendment right to freedom of speech is in grave danger.

In the 1970s, my father fled Romania, was thrown into a communist labor camp in Yugoslavia, beaten by guards there, and starved. He eventually got out, made his way to Austria, and applied for asylum to the United States.

It was a difficult journey, but if you ask him he would say he’d do it all again in a heartbeat for the price of free speech and personal freedom.

So it’s ironic — and frankly frightening — that as his daughter attending one of the country’s top universities in the capital of our country, that I am threatened for my speech so much so that I now fear to speak freely and voice my conservative beliefs.

As a junior at Georgetown University, I have been cyberbullied by my peers in such a menacing way that I am now afraid to engage online, or even during class, with my left-leaning peers.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Mississippi; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; communism; dc; georgetown; university
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1 posted on 02/15/2022 8:03:29 AM PST by Rummyfan
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Georgetown is an elitist puppy-mill at the center of the deep-state empire.

Last year, they hired Peter Strzok as a visiting professor.

Kind of tells you what they are about.


2 posted on 02/15/2022 8:16:29 AM PST by PGR88
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Why is it always the people who fled socialist paradises that speak out louder about their evils than those who live in real freedom?

Evil just loves shaming people who have “privilege”.


3 posted on 02/15/2022 8:17:05 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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Georgetown has been well known as a communist hotbed for ages. You have to wonder why she chose Georgetown and not Hillsdale.


4 posted on 02/15/2022 8:20:17 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If truckers quit their jobs, society would collapse. If politicians quit their jobs...HALLELUJAH!)
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To: Rummyfan

Universities of Marxism started gaining ground in the 60’s hippies cut hair and put on a tie to teach.


5 posted on 02/15/2022 8:20:25 AM PST by Vaduz ( )
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Which is why folks like DHS Commie Prog Mayorkas are such a conundrum.
How could this phoooker ever think the way he thinks?

Makes one see that, regardless of teh screeches from The Left, Indoctrination at US Schools is in fact very effective.


6 posted on 02/15/2022 8:23:34 AM PST by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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I too am afraid.

Every time I post something on the internet that is critical of the power structure and its privileges, I feel a rush of fear.

Every time I think of the persecution of the protesters in Washington on January 6, 2021, who were exercising their God-given right to peaceably assemble, a right recognized by the US Constitution and incorporated into US law, I feel a rush of fear.

Note tagline.

7 posted on 02/15/2022 8:28:50 AM PST by Savage Beast (The Left has replaced the American Dream with an American Nightmare!)
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Do you think they care about what he fled? The only solution is to move the capitol-at least the congressional sessions. Put the hurt to the lobbyists.


8 posted on 02/15/2022 8:35:16 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Rummyfan

Hunter Biden went to Georgetown


9 posted on 02/15/2022 8:35:23 AM PST by indthkr
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To: Rummyfan

The main advocates of Communism are those who have never lived under it.


10 posted on 02/15/2022 8:36:27 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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Move the Hours session to Mar a Lago. The senate can be moved to Chicago-south side.


11 posted on 02/15/2022 8:37:25 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Rummyfan
The corrupt politicians, university professors, "news reporters," "celebrities," and the others who are responsible for American decadence, who are feeding at the public trough, who are willing to sell the USA and every man, woman, and child in America to the highest bidder, will not stop the exploitation of America and the American People voluntarily.

They will stop only if they are forced to do so.

If the American People do not force them to stop, all the horrors of Ceaușescu, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Nero, Caligula, and the rest of them will overwhelm America and the American People.

That's where we're headed if this decadence and destruction are not brought to a halt--and fast!

12 posted on 02/15/2022 8:42:11 AM PST by Savage Beast (The Left has replaced the American Dream with an American Nightmare!)
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No, they don't care. If they have their way, it will come to that.

I think the only hope is for huge numbers of Americans who have believed their propaganda will suddenly wake up, come to their senses, and demand a stop to all this.

That's what we need.

13 posted on 02/15/2022 8:45:27 AM PST by Savage Beast (The Left has replaced the American Dream with an American Nightmare!)
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Why is it always the people who fled socialist paradises that speak out louder about their evils than those who live in real freedom?

Because they have lived the truth of the lie that is communism and socialism. They know of what they speak.

14 posted on 02/15/2022 9:01:35 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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“I, for one, will not be silenced. My family has come too far, and fought too hard, for me to surrender.”

Courageous gal! I applaud her.

I thought the re-education camps were all about providing “safe spaces” for students.

I guess it’s safe space for me but not for thee.


15 posted on 02/15/2022 9:20:11 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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The DNC is pushing hard to the left and won’t stop until America is like Canada and then Cuba or Venezuela.


16 posted on 02/15/2022 9:23:58 AM PST by chopperk
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I met this Polish immigrant here in the USA now for forty years. She lived in Poland during the Communist repression years. She is very dismayed with the current crop of Wokeness and sees major similarities to her former years. Woke morons are dolts and dupes in ignoring warnings from immigrants who fled such commie crap.


17 posted on 02/15/2022 9:28:22 AM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny )
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If I were here I’d move back to Poland. Much freer there. I may even do it one day myself.


18 posted on 02/15/2022 9:30:13 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Georgetown has been well known as a communist hotbed for ages. You have to wonder why she chose Georgetown and not Hillsdale.
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Prestige, although very much unwarranted. Also, I think I read she’s in the School of Foreign Service which could qualify her for a lucrative position in a country of her choice.


19 posted on 02/15/2022 10:09:46 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Stay to the right and be ready to fight.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Put the hurt to the lobbyists.
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The entire lobbyist institution is an invitation to engage in unlawful activity, and it should have been put out of business decades ago.


20 posted on 02/15/2022 10:14:29 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Stay to the right and be ready to fight.)
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