Posted on 04/10/2015 7:57:22 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Chapman University vandals defaced the statues of figures such as Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Ayn Rand yesterday.
The student vandals posted “charges for student review” on each of the statues and cited each individual’s “racism,” “homophobia,” and “neo-liberalist ideology.”
From Campus Reform:
“Ronald Reagan is under student review due to Racism, Classism, and Homophobia,” read the poster underneath the bust of the 40th president.
The vandals also defaced a statue of Margaret Thatcher, filing the same charges against her.
The vandals also accused Christian theologian and medical missionary Albert Schweitzer of “Racism and White Savior Complex.”
Charges of “Global Violence and Imperialism” were brought against free-market economist Milton Friedman while objectivist thinker Ayn Rand was accused of “Gender Roles and Homophobia”.
Though the university has identified the students at fault through the use of social media posts, Chapman officials said the school was not planning on reprimanding the perpetrators because the act was within their freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech or not, defacing school statues is unacceptable and should not go unpunished.
Chapman ought to stand up for American historic figures, regardless of what side of the fence the individuals fell on.
The new “Red Guards”
But of course. We can’t have anyone honor anyone who is not liberal. We can’t acknowledge any achievements of anyone who is not a liberal icon. IN fact, we have to rewrite history and the history of what was going on with each of these people. That’s what liberals do.
“Chapman University”
Never heard of it and had to look it up. kalifornia....that explains it.
Chapman is a third tier leftist $hithole.
Ten bucks says there weren’t even actual students.
Neo-blackshirts.
At least it doesn’t look like they actually damaged the statues.
Next time they might.
1: to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details
2: impair
3 obsolete : destroy
When I read the headline I was expecting some violent form of vandalism.
This is more akin to toilet papering someone's house.
Caution tape and a paper sign.
Non-violent civil disobedience is more likely the case here. Of course I am sure if conservative students were to do the same to Bubba Clinton's statue or Che's they would get nothing short of the death penalty.
freedom of speech means that you write an editorial voicing your opinion, or stand in the park and give a speech....it does NOT mean that you damage someone else’s property. Of course you can do that in secret like those proud isis combatants who cover their faces....cowards all.
$100 to 200k in student debt solely to get indoctrinated by the left. If I was college age today I would pass, absolutely. Actually knowing what I know now, I would have passed in the 1970s as well when I went because nothing in my degree has ever been of any use. Everything of use has been self taught. LOL! But this is exactly why government is infested with leftists today. They indoctrinate and graduate these kids and these kids find they can’t make it in the private sector because the indoctrination has caused them permanent brain damage, so they end up in government.
It also means you can't force others to listen to you.
Yes...
And they should be challenged to:
* A "Firingline" style debate in flavor of the W.F. Buckley days on PBS.
* Let them get a panel of 3, we will find 3 for our side.
* A stop watch, the warning lights, all the tools to make it a real debate, and broadcast it on local TV.
* Let them debate the records of those they decry against those that knew them personally, I'd love to see Larry Kudlow on the dais on our side for instance.
* Sell tickets, donate the $ to Cancer or Alzheimer's research.
* I don't think his health is up to it but Buckley's co-host although a liberal was a great moderator and that would be Michael Kinsley, I'd be fine with him on at the Moderator's Podium.
The problem is the moonbat's would disrupt this, and those that did this to the Statues probably wouldn't have the courage step in the arena of ideas and debate their thesis...
Agree faggots at work.
Deface a Martin Luther King or a Nelson Mandela bust or statue it would be a national story, and the media and lefty nutcases would be out there with torches and pitchforks demanding justice, fines, jail time, etc. Deface a conservative politici an or Christian no worries. Just a stern reprimand.
These young people will have excellent futures as commissars when the socialism they strive for is achieved.
Not so sure. This is the school where talk show host Hugh Hewitt teaches and he often brags on the school. I assume these statues were on campus and how many schools anywhere in the US have statues to Reagan, Thatcher and Ian Rand?
I have no first hand knowledge of the school, but there seem to be some signs that it's not a typical, California bastion of leftist nitwittery.
Hey Chapman university that one in OC I wonder if libs taking over that campus come think of it Ronnie was no racist COME ON he was first dude put lot of African AMeircan Latino in his admisation on state level
Marxists are the most intolerant people on the planet.
Pray America is waking
Are these students possibly not acting on their own thinking but showing their indoctrination by a liberal professor?
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