VCU graduates walk out on Youngkin at commencement

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https://nypost.com/2024/05/12/us-news/howard-university-graduation-in-chaos-canceled-mid-ceremony/

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think Youngkin is super great, but he’s still a somewhat popular governor and walk outs like this will make him more popular and have the opposite effect you think it does. Also Youngkin was expecting this and he doesn’t care that they walked out.

The campus shenanigans at VCU, UVA, etc only will help Trump at the polls in November (which depresses me).

How? With whom? For what?

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Anonymous wrote:More people walked out on Glen Youngkin's speech at VCU than walked out of Jerry Seinfeld's speech at Duke.

Guess one is getting breathless coverage on MSM sites?

Seinfeld’s?

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Anonymous wrote:This is a peaceful protest, and something that I support. It doesn’t matter if I agree or disagree with what the protesting however, this beats encampments and the mass destruction of property that you see on the news.

+1. I'm not sure what they were protesting. But they didn't disturb anyone else. There was no yelling and graduation went on for those that remained in the room.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think Youngkin is super great, but he’s still a somewhat popular governor and walk outs like this will make him more popular and have the opposite effect you think it does. Also Youngkin was expecting this and he doesn’t care that they walked out.

The campus shenanigans at VCU, UVA, etc only will help Trump at the polls in November (which depresses me).

How? With whom? For what?

PP here. Look, I don’t have a problem here with their walking out. BUT I do think a lot of people are sick of the theatrics of these protests on college campuses and the chaos that ensued at other campuses (UCLA, Columbia, Harvard, etc) and feel like all the attention is being given to a small but very loud of minority of people. And it turns people off. They may be glad things were broken up at VCU, UVA, etc instead of becoming the next viral story.

And those people aren’t just a handful. People please wake up!!!! I don’t want a republican governor nor Trump as president. But people have their head in the sand if they think this stuff does anything positive and if they think super progressive democrats are the majority.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think Youngkin is super great, but he’s still a somewhat popular governor and walk outs like this will make him more popular and have the opposite effect you think it does. Also Youngkin was expecting this and he doesn’t care that they walked out.

The campus shenanigans at VCU, UVA, etc only will help Trump at the polls in November (which depresses me).

How? With whom? For what?

PP here. Look, I don’t have a problem here with their walking out. BUT I do think a lot of people are sick of the theatrics of these protests on college campuses and the chaos that ensued at other campuses (UCLA, Columbia, Harvard, etc) and feel like all the attention is being given to a small but very loud of minority of people. And it turns people off. They may be glad things were broken up at VCU, UVA, etc instead of becoming the next viral story.

And those people aren’t just a handful. People please wake up!!!! I don’t want a republican governor nor Trump as president. But people have their head in the sand if they think this stuff does anything positive and if they think super progressive democrats are the majority.

People said the exact same things about the civil rights protests.

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All 12 of them!

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Why were they protesting? Don’t you wish we had the ability to find out if these protesters VOTED in the last election?

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Anonymous wrote:Why were they protesting? Don’t you wish we had the ability to find out if these protesters VOTED in the last election?

Why were they protesting? You can Google this.

Don’t you wish we had the ability to find out if these protesters VOTED in the last election? No. I'm more interested in whether they vote in the next election.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think Youngkin is super great, but he’s still a somewhat popular governor and walk outs like this will make him more popular and have the opposite effect you think it does. Also Youngkin was expecting this and he doesn’t care that they walked out.

The campus shenanigans at VCU, UVA, etc only will help Trump at the polls in November (which depresses me).

How? With whom? For what?

PP here. Look, I don’t have a problem here with their walking out. BUT I do think a lot of people are sick of the theatrics of these protests on college campuses and the chaos that ensued at other campuses (UCLA, Columbia, Harvard, etc) and feel like all the attention is being given to a small but very loud of minority of people. And it turns people off. They may be glad things were broken up at VCU, UVA, etc instead of becoming the next viral story.

And those people aren’t just a handful. People please wake up!!!! I don’t want a republican governor nor Trump as president. But people have their head in the sand if they think this stuff does anything positive and if they think super progressive democrats are the majority.

People said the exact same things about the civil rights protests.

How do you think Nixon got elected? Wake up.

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Anonymous wrote:All 12 of them!

It was more than 100 people (I was there - I’m a local)

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think Youngkin is super great, but he’s still a somewhat popular governor and walk outs like this will make him more popular and have the opposite effect you think it does. Also Youngkin was expecting this and he doesn’t care that they walked out.

The campus shenanigans at VCU, UVA, etc only will help Trump at the polls in November (which depresses me).

How? With whom? For what?

PP here. Look, I don’t have a problem here with their walking out. BUT I do think a lot of people are sick of the theatrics of these protests on college campuses and the chaos that ensued at other campuses (UCLA, Columbia, Harvard, etc) and feel like all the attention is being given to a small but very loud of minority of people. And it turns people off. They may be glad things were broken up at VCU, UVA, etc instead of becoming the next viral story.

And those people aren’t just a handful. People please wake up!!!! I don’t want a republican governor nor Trump as president. But people have their head in the sand if they think this stuff does anything positive and if they think super progressive democrats are the majority.

People said the exact same things about the civil rights protests.

How do you think Nixon got elected? Wake up.

How do you think the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 happened? They happened because of the civil rights protests.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All 12 of them!

It was more than 100 people (I was there - I’m a local)

We believe you!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:More people walked out on Glen Youngkin's speech at VCU than walked out of Jerry Seinfeld's speech at Duke.

Guess one is getting breathless coverage on MSM sites?

Seinfeld’s?

Yup. Literally 30 people walked out on Seinfeld out of 7000 grads in a giant football stadium. CNN, WSJ, etc covering it like it was breaking news.

https://www.wsj.com/video/duke-students-walk-out-ahead-of-jerry-seinfeld-commencement-speech/6871BA67-47E0-4C21-9954-00892E679B81

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Fragile crybabies ruin a celebration because they got triggered. Just don’t show up in the first place.