Conservative activist rebukes Virginia Tech's 'leftist' freshman orientation

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Conservative activist rebukes Virginia Tech's 'leftist' freshman orientation

By Sam Wall The Roanoke Times 8 hrs ago

A Northern Virginia political activist took to a conservative website to air her grievances regarding the “leftist propaganda” she says she witnessed at her son’s orientation at Virginia Tech.

Penny Nance, CEO and president of Concerned Women for America, wrote that she can no longer ignore “the indefensible and discriminatory behavior of the liberal campus bullies ” in her opinion piece “My Son’s Freshman Orientation At Virginia Tech Was Full Of Leftist Propaganda,” published Wednesday in the The Federalist, where she is listed as a contributor.

The university pushed back Thursday saying it doesn’t push a political agenda at orientation but rather focuses on providing a well-rounded education in and out of the classroom.

“We have students coming from all walks of life … and we are simply a reflection of that,” Tech spokeswoman Tracy Vosburgh said in Thursday afternoon interview.

Nance’s piece had hundreds of comments, reactions and shares alone on The Federalist Facebook page by Thursday afternoon.
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Tech alumna Aubree Harrington took to her blog at www.adultingkinda.weebly.com to respond to Nance’s opinion on the orientation, stating that Harrington believes Virginia Tech is determined to create an incredibly exciting and joyous orientation experience while also attempting not to be defined by its tragedy.
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According to her work bio, Nance graduated from Liberty University and has appeared on a variety of major television networks “as a commenter on contemporary events and domestic issues.” She did not return multiple requests for comment .
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Harrington said that she doesn’t hold any ill will toward Nance; she just disagrees with her article’s premise. ... “I don’t really relate with the left or the right. So as a Hokie, I just know what it means to be a good human.”

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CAMPUS INSANITY

My Son’s Freshman Orientation At Virginia Tech Was Full Of Leftist Propaganda

Now that I have witnessed college propaganda firsthand, I refuse to ignore the indefensible and discriminatory behavior of the liberal campus bullies anymore.

By Penny Nance
AUGUST 14, 2019

Are taxpayers funding academic institutions to indoctrinate our kids? That disturbing and irresistible question plagued me during the long drive home last week from college orientation. I doubt I am alone in this wake-up call.

Like many other women, I just sent my youngest child to college. I am so proud of him and his decision to join the Army ROTC and study engineering. He will be attending a revered Virginia institution known for its military Corps of Cadets program.

The centerpiece of the campus is the military parade field featuring beautiful pylons bearing the school’s founding principles: words such as “honor,” “duty,” “brotherhood,” and “ut prosim” (that I may serve). The war memorial also bears the names of all known cadets who have given their lives for our nation since World War I.

Established in 1872, Virginia Tech has an honorable and proud tradition in my home state, and its graduates are some of the most accomplished and wonderful people I know. Hokies shine around our nation as leaders and as a great credit to their school. I know many to be people of faith, and many, many are conservative.

The Madness Begins

Because of this, I was shocked to experience what I can only describe as extreme and overtly leftist propaganda spewed at our children’s orientation. The opening “University Welcome” event for students and parents separated families immediately in the auditorium.

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Get Up and Do Something

I have called out Virginia Tech in this op-ed, but other schools in Virginia and around the nation exhibit the identical issue. It is rampant.

Parents, donors, and alumni, if you identify with this experience, it’s up to you. Our institutions have gotten this out of hand because most people are silent, too afraid of the social media harassment and bullying tactics of liberal activists and professors. Speak up.

First, send screen shots, video, or your story to Concerned Women for America at [e-mail]. We won’t disclose your name without permission, but we will tell your story.

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Penny Nance is president and CEO of Concerned Women for America, the nation’s largest public-policy women's organization with a rich history of more than 30 years of helping our members across the country bring Biblical principles into all levels of public policy.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. She needs to get Concerned over her poor snowflake Krisschin ass and take the kid to Liberty U

SIck of these goddamn assholes.

[Va Lefty]

4. Exactly. Another product of Falwell U

[underpants]

6. As you probably know

The Liberty crowd has a Righteousness Privilege that buckles your knees when you get it. It's passive aggressive/ stealth as a mother but once you realize you are in their game it's something to behold. They are al over the public sector here. I've met one ONE who was good at their job and didn't act like they were two steps above their position. As far as performance it's odd that they are right in the middle. Neither really bad or really good. It's like they are lying in wait for something. Just bland.

[Va Lefty]

8. Yeah the ones I have met are very judgemental and hypocritical

They are really cranking them out down in Lynchburg.
Hey Underpants! Hot enough for you?

[underpants]

10. I'm just loving the little rain storms to add humidity

I moved out of Tidewater for a reason.

[Girard442]

2. Oddly enough, if you read the whole article there's not really much there there.

Mostly endless whining about gender labeling.

[hibbing]

3. I encourage people to read her article

Even if you have to go the stupid website, it is pretty funny. The fear these conservatives have is what drives them and their precious tiny handed leader.


Peace

[underpants]

7. I did and you are right.

I really loved this juxtaposition


Nobody expected the event to begin with prayer or the Pledge of Allegiance — heavens, no! But one might expect to remember the names of fallen cadets on the pylons or the 32 dead and 17 injured in the 2007 shooting on Virginia Tech’s campus, the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history. Nope. Instead, the administration made the stunning choice to open orientation by recognizing two Native American tribes on whose land the college was built (with the implication that it was stolen).

Last line of the article
Campus insanity has gone this far because we were silent. When do we say “enough”?

[Kaiserguy]

13. Good Question

" When do we say enough" When do we say enough to your Right-wing BS and to your attempts to pack the courts with Right-Wing Whack jobs or say enough to your attempt to impose your religion on us. The problem in this nation isn't us it you and the hate and dishonesty that you bring to the table.

[underpants]

5. Before I get started let me just say....Liberty 😆

The kid must be smart because it's tough as hell to get into that engineering program.

Sounds like this moron from Liberty expected some sort of quasi military gun humping fest. Look if the kid could get into Va. Tech he could probably have gotten into West Point which was founded primarily as an engineering school.

The pronouns thing - ok that's new to me too (she clearly doesn't understand the Me Too movement) but hey being nice doesn't cost you anything.

Tech must be doing something right. They had to set aside a $1M+ to pay kids NOT to start this fall. They over accepted and it was determined that that size of a freshman class would put way too much strain on the community and even the school's systems.

Shut the F up Peggy.

[underpants]

9. Thanks mahat the comments on the Roanoke Times article are hoot.

Rick Howell
Everyone should know: "Concerned Women for America" is a far-right, religious fanatic, looney-tunes bunch of extremists who want women utterly subjected to the whims and controls of men, walking exactly 2.5 steps behind their proper, GOP, conservative, "Promise Keeper" husbands. It's a backward outfit that wants to take women back to the past, and American women aren't buying it. Funny that she thought she was a victim of "bullies," when she certainly supports the Bully-in-Chief installed in the White House. Good to see the Tech people striking back at this stuff. Hope her son stays at Tech and makes it clear to Mom that he wants nothing to do with freakin' Liberty "University."
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Jane Brown
Virginia Tech is as leftist as Penny Nance is rational. In other words, not.

Scott Whitaker
The lights are on but nobody's home.
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Richard Lovegrove
Poor snowflake.

[Yonnie3]

11. I gotta say it!

Snowflake!


I thought when I went to read her complaints that there might be something arguable, but people voluntarily stating their preferred pronoun and recognizing the Native Americans who were there first don't rise to that level.



Perhaps she needs a safe space far away from Blacksburg.

[mercuryblues]

12. Oh fuck

My kid turned down VT. Glad he is not in a class with her little snowflake. He might of met my kid, who bases his world view on facts. We all know facts have a liberal bias.

Her idea of "liberal indoctrination" is to treat people with respect. She can choose not to pay for his choice in collage. Or risk her son being tolerant of those not exactly like him.