VCU graduates walk out on Youngkin at commencement

[Anonymous]

These people are the very definition of "snowflakes."

The thought that you might need to actually listen to someone that you don't agree with is so abhorrent to these children that they cannot tolerate hearing the views of someone else....... that, my friends is a snowflake.

I imagine they are going to have a tough time in the real working world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Nobody is "sick" of it -- it doesn't affect anyone except people on campus. This idea that there's some widespread outrage over it is just wishful thinking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These people are the very definition of "snowflakes."

The thought that you might need to actually listen to someone that you don't agree with is so abhorrent to these children that they cannot tolerate hearing the views of someone else....... that, my friends is a snowflake.

I imagine they are going to have a tough time in the real working world.

True. They do it to draw attention to themselves, knowing it would be in the news.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These people are the very definition of "snowflakes."

The thought that you might need to actually listen to someone that you don't agree with is so abhorrent to these children that they cannot tolerate hearing the views of someone else....... that, my friends is a snowflake.

I imagine they are going to have a tough time in the real working world.

The thought that you can't tolerate the idea of someone who is not your child engaging in peaceful protest, which doesn't affect you in any way whatsoever*, against a public figure ... that's a snowflake.

*unless you're the governor of Virginia, but I really doubt that you are

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Nobody is "sick" of it -- it doesn't affect anyone except people on campus. This idea that there's some widespread outrage over it is just wishful thinking.

Dream on and grow up. I hate being right about this and I’d be super happy if I don’t have to say I told you so in November. But I’m not delusional.

[Anonymous]

NP. I went to Google to find out what Youngkin did or said that made these students so upset.
TLDR I got was
1. peaceful protest is OK but no encampments because they can intimidate students and interfere with the normal operations of a university.
2. He also did not support forcing students to take a particular racial literacy class in order to graduate.

As a parent who will in a couple of years very likely be paying lots (to us) of tuition to a VA public, it seems reasonable to me. And I am saying this as someone very critical of Israel’s response in Gaza. I also don’t think forcing students to take a such a class is going to make anything better, just as DEI hasn’t really made anything better in agencies and corporations.

Dems need to realize that if they lose the moderates, the only people going to college will be rich kids, because normal Americans are not going to support a system where they are footing the bill for nonsense and that is the way they will vote.

[Anonymous]

Don’t forget his teacher tipline and his attempt to rewrite social studies standards that left out important history and had tons of factual errors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP. I went to Google to find out what Youngkin did or said that made these students so upset.
TLDR I got was
1. peaceful protest is OK but no encampments because they can intimidate students and interfere with the normal operations of a university.
2. He also did not support forcing students to take a particular racial literacy class in order to graduate.

As a parent who will in a couple of years very likely be paying lots (to us) of tuition to a VA public, it seems reasonable to me. And I am saying this as someone very critical of Israel’s response in Gaza. I also don’t think forcing students to take a such a class is going to make anything better, just as DEI hasn’t really made anything better in agencies and corporations.

Dems need to realize that if they lose the moderates, the only people going to college will be rich kids, because normal Americans are not going to support a system where they are footing the bill for nonsense and that is the way they will vote.

That's fine, then you don't have to participate in protests against Youngkin.

If you're flinging the term "DEI" around like this in a post, you are likely not a moderate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These snowflakes are going to have a hard time engaging in professional/corporate world if they cannot tolerate an opposing point of view without throwing a hissy fit.

Again, there's someone throwing a hissy fit, and it's not the people who walked out.

DP
There is nothing in PP’s comment that indicates a hissy fit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These snowflakes are going to have a hard time engaging in professional/corporate world if they cannot tolerate an opposing point of view without throwing a hissy fit.

That’s what they said when we protested the South African apartheid regime and demanded divesture. They were wrong then and you are wrong now.

False analogy logical fallacy, but you are too stupid to even know what that means.

[Anonymous]

Rude of those graduates to walk out on the Governor. I expect their names have been entered in the List.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pathetic crybabies... $200,000 for a degree and then they deny their parents a photo of them walking across the stage for that diploma.

These same exact kids that walked out today probably also didn’t have a high school graduation either, because of the pandemic.

I’m LMAO at how pathetic and fragile they are. As if the Gov or anyone else even gave a sh!t about their little stunt.

Crazy post. Don't people go to college to learn to think for themselves and communicate their views? Seems like you're cackling to yourself and I'm sure the protesters don't care about your opinion either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. I went to Google to find out what Youngkin did or said that made these students so upset.
TLDR I got was
1. peaceful protest is OK but no encampments because they can intimidate students and interfere with the normal operations of a university.
2. He also did not support forcing students to take a particular racial literacy class in order to graduate.

As a parent who will in a couple of years very likely be paying lots (to us) of tuition to a VA public, it seems reasonable to me. And I am saying this as someone very critical of Israel’s response in Gaza. I also don’t think forcing students to take a such a class is going to make anything better, just as DEI hasn’t really made anything better in agencies and corporations.

Dems need to realize that if they lose the moderates, the only people going to college will be rich kids, because normal Americans are not going to support a system where they are footing the bill for nonsense and that is the way they will vote.

That's fine, then you don't have to participate in protests against Youngkin.

If you're flinging the term "DEI" around like this in a post, you are likely not a moderate.

Oh right. Whoops. They are calling it something else now. I must have missed the training.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Nobody is "sick" of it -- it doesn't affect anyone except people on campus. This idea that there's some widespread outrage over it is just wishful thinking.

It affects everyone. These ridiculous protestors - "We Are All Hamas" "Globalize The Intifada"- are the reason people like Youngkin and Trump get elected. Most democrats are appalled by what progressives are doing these days. Healthcare, women's rights, the environment are all things that are getting thrown under the bus because of these morons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These snowflakes are going to have a hard time engaging in professional/corporate world if they cannot tolerate an opposing point of view without throwing a hissy fit.

That’s what they said when we protested the South African apartheid regime and demanded divesture. They were wrong then and you are wrong now.

False analogy logical fallacy, but you are too stupid to even know what that means.

When you have to resort to ad hominine attacks, you've lost the argument sweetie. Bless your dirty heart.