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VCU students walk out of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s commencement speech
Fox News ^ | May 12, 2024 | Bradford Betz

Posted on 05/12/2024 8:33:23 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Dozens of graduating students walked out of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) on Saturday after Gov. Glenn Youngkin took the stage to deliver a commencement address.

Video of the Saturday morning incident shows throngs of graduates getting up from their seats and leaving the Greater Richmond Convention Center as the Republican governor began talking.

A few could be heard cheering the students on.

The governor, who also received an honorary doctorate of humane letters at the commencement ceremony, kicked off his speech with a shout-out to all the mothers ahead of Mother’s Day.

He did not acknowledge those leaving and carried on with his speech.

“The world needs your music,” Youngkin said to those students still in attendance. “You, all of you, will be the symphony. Make it a masterpiece.”

Many who left during Youngkin’s speech showed support for Palestinians amid Israel’s ongoing war in the Gaza Strip against Hamas terrorists.

Others held signs signaling their opposition to the governor’s education policies, per reporting from local outlet WRIC-TV.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: vcu; youngkin
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To: j.havenfarm

>> ...4%, so it’s the a-hole tiny minority that governs the news cycle

...which of course was my point, and yours: 4% disrespected Governor Youngkin. 96% did not.

THANK YOU!!! for engaging on this question and finding the facts!

FRegards


21 posted on 05/12/2024 10:05:29 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

No respect anymore. I had To sit through a 1.5 hour speech by Mario Cuomo when I graduated and as much as I disagreed It never even dawned on me to walk out.


22 posted on 05/12/2024 10:06:47 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: MinorityRepublican

Communists are extremely tolerant of everyone they agree with.


23 posted on 05/12/2024 10:16:24 PM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races you do not like.)
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To: Hildy

>> I had To sit through a 1.5 hour speech by Mario Cuomo when I graduated

Poor thing! But it helped mold you into the woman you are today... right? :-)


24 posted on 05/12/2024 10:19:08 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The walking out students should have their degrees suspended, no certificates issued. Maybe put a freeze on their transcripts pending disciplinary hearing in 10 years. Let’s see how they like that.


25 posted on 05/12/2024 11:01:30 PM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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To: mythenjoseph

Withhold their transcripts and diplomas . . . for starters.


26 posted on 05/13/2024 12:18:07 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Hillsdale or nothing. There isn’t a big enough campaign to inform parents not to spend their money on public universities. And most private ones.


27 posted on 05/13/2024 1:10:18 AM PDT by Salvavida
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To: MinorityRepublican

Back in the day...I checked the “will not attend” and received my stuff in the mail. Had their been a reason write in block, it woulda’ been Gone Fishin’ - some boreass was speaking and I was moving on quick.

Youngkin is a boreass... he’s more interested in building a big Stadium complex up in Northern Virginia. Calls it a money maker... Stadiums are traditionally money pits. He should fill pot holes instead. He can KMA.

I wonder what percentage of walk outs were stoners?

I might have stayed for Winsome Sears. Oohrah!


28 posted on 05/13/2024 1:56:36 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: MinorityRepublican

students need an awakening, send them into gaza


29 posted on 05/13/2024 2:33:57 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Az Joe
Is Youngkin a RINO?

Perhaps…. but Yung-Kin definitely sounds Chinese to me…

https://nypost.com/2022/11/11/trump-turns-rage-on-va-gov-youngkin-says-name-sounds-chinese/

30 posted on 05/13/2024 3:13:41 AM PDT by rhinohunter (Elections have consequences. Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.)
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To: j.havenfarm

Why are we even reading about it?

The lsm is paying attention to the sorts of percentage that would be going to the bathroom


31 posted on 05/13/2024 3:30:28 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: MinorityRepublican

I would have more respect for em if they went to Gaza and pulled a Rachel Corrie


32 posted on 05/13/2024 4:18:39 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: MinorityRepublican

I walked out of my son’s graduation when the previous Va governor spoke.

My son had beer back to his house.


33 posted on 05/13/2024 4:22:18 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Hildy

When my daughter graduated in 1993,Bob Dole was the commencement speaker.
Many of the students had a picture of a pineapple on their gowns with a black mark through it. No one walked out.


34 posted on 05/13/2024 6:08:13 AM PDT by surrey
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To: Clutch Martin

I had one class to complete which I took at a college near home. That made my graduation the year after it was supposed to be. I wasn’t planning to attend anyway so this just solidified it.

My life is no less full for not going to graduation. It is far fuller for having gone to college. I married a girl that I met there.


35 posted on 05/13/2024 6:12:36 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Cancel their diplomas.


36 posted on 05/13/2024 6:15:00 AM PDT by DownInFlames (p)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Closed minds never listen they make things up as the go alone the way.


37 posted on 05/13/2024 6:29:27 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Nervous Tick

We are graduating more students than ever, with 7,835 degrees and certificates awarded last year. According to IPEDS, our 6-year graduation rates soar above the national average of 63.1%

https://annualreports.vcu.edu/university/facts-and-figures.html

The doom and gloom cult loves accenting the negative, so they can run around in circles like chickens with their heads cut off.


38 posted on 05/13/2024 8:11:11 AM PDT by sergeantdave (AI training involves stealing content from creators and not paying them a penny)
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To: ronnie raygun
Send them to Gaza and let the women live under Hamas.... literally
39 posted on 05/13/2024 8:21:17 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: Hildy
a 1.5 hour speech by Mario Cuomo

That would be a good way to interrogate prisoners of war ...

40 posted on 05/13/2024 8:25:17 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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