Liberal Faculty Ad in last weeks Reveille rebuffed by student

I graduated after last semester, but for kicks I picked up a copy of last week's Reveille this morning. As you may know, they have gone from a daily publication to a weekly one, citing budgetary issues.

If you recall, I made a thread towards the end of last semester about a student penned Letter to the Editor that, for lack of better terms, called out the Reveille and liberals's progressive tactics.

I was thumbing through the pages when I come across this heaping pile of dog shite on page 6.

IN SUPPORT OF OUR STUDENTS

In short, it is an ad taken out by the progressive liberal arts faculty in the student newspaper letting the "oppressed" on campus know that they are there for them because of the hate that newly "emboldened" students and readers of the paper feel free to express.

In what world is it acceptable for faculty to isolate the students who they are "there for"? What if a conservative student is victimized by a hateful progressive - are they not welcome to express concern to you because they are not LGBTQIA, Latinx, transgender, or whatever?

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Thankfully, I came across a recently posted article by the same author of the previously mentioned Letter to the Editor. Again, I served with him in 3ID on active duty and could not be more happy that students like him are firmly in place at academic institutions to combat regressive tactics. He posted in the other thread, and hopefully its posting here gets to him again.

Here is a snippet from the article:

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Every political figure has a group of overzealous followers who push the envelope and cross the fine line between morality and immorality. The methods that these followers use to show support for their candidate often undermine the credibility and integrity of the individual they support. To those hateful few from all political parties, let it be known that I — that we — condemn you for your expressions of prejudice, bigotry and outright hate.

It must be understood, however, that this is a few. Most people are reasonable, kindhearted individuals, no matter their political allegiance. Issues arise when we lose sight of this and let bias begin to show its head with the creation and persistence of narratives that turn “few” into “many” into “all.”

In last week’s edition of The Daily Reveille, a group of University faculty took out a full page advertisement decrying the “increase in verbal and physical threats” since the election. Data from an article by the Southern Poverty Law Center was provided that largely — not exclusively — regurgitated a slew of unverified first-person narratives. It should be known that the SPLC — by its own admission — is “not really set up” to cover far-left extremism, as if it simply doesn’t exist.

Preluding the data referenced, the SPLC article identified the arson of Hopewell Baptist Church in Greenville, Mississippi, that had been vandalized with “Vote Trump” graffiti, as “a harbinger of what has become a national outbreak of hate, as white supremacists celebrate Donald Trump’s victory.”

The church, which is situated in a community that is 78 percent black, was allegedly set ablaze by longtime parishioner Andrew McClinton, a 45-year-old black male who has since been arrested and charged.

Perhaps the faculty would have been better served by using verified accounts instead of quantitative research from a biased source that not only takes word of mouth at face value, but also projects guilt toward innocent parties.

Further, the SPLC has a history of self-censoring results that dispute its narrative, as it did in its report titled “The Trump Effect: The Impact of the 2016 Presidential Election on Our Nation’s Schools.” In that report, the organization neglected to include at least 2,000 incidents of hate directed toward white students in what former civil rights attorney Hans Bader claimed the SPLC saw as an “inconvenient truth.”

The faux hate at Hopewell was added to the ever-growing list of Trump-inspired hate crime hoaxes. It is fitting, nonetheless, that the quintessential example provided in the advertisement by the aforementioned faculty is nothing more than “fake news.”

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