Commencement Season And Conservatives
Every spring around this time I pen a column with the same basic question: Why would any conservative agree to be a college commencement speaker?
It’s asking for trouble.
Inevitably, the mere announcement that a non-Marxist will be venturing on campus is enough to cause the students to grab their masks and keffiyehs and head to the quad. (Unless it’s raining. During inclement weather they occupy the library).
If they aren’t able to scare the invitee away with their behavior the brats usually stage a protest during commencement to ruin the event for the normal kids.
In 2014 former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice graciously decided against speaking at Rutgers University after the mid-wits there made it clear they’d rather stick their fingers in their ears than hear from a brilliant, conservative black woman.
“Commencement should be a time of joyous celebration for the graduates and their families,” Rice wrote, declining the invite. “Rutgers’ invitation to me to speak has become a distraction for the university community at this very special time.”
Classy lady. Although she did deprive the Garden State morons from making a spectacle of themselves.
Last spring Gov. Glenn Youngkin was treated to a hat trick of rude behavior at Old Dominion , George Mason and Virginia Commonwealth Universities.
VCU’s protest was led by a member of the faculty, Kay Coghill, who - according to her official bio - goes by they/them and is part of the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Department. Following her like little lemmings, dozens of graduates stomped out of ceremonies rather than listen to the governor.
Their parents must have been so proud!
Looks like Youngkin learned his lesson. On Saturday he delivered a well-received address at Liberty University’s commencement exercises, where the largest graduating class in the school’s 52 year history received degrees. Total number of grads from this Christian college: 32,000.
Luckily, the governor did not have to read all the names.
Are all 32,000 Liberty graduates Republicans? No. Do they all support the positions taken by Glenn Youngkin? Doubtful.
Yet by all accounts they were polite and welcoming,
Youngkin also delivered the keynote address at the University of Virginia Wise.
Located 290 miles away from the painfully woke enclave of Charlottesville, Youngkin’s address was reportedly upbeat and well received by the sane branch of the University of Virginia. I can’t find any reports of rudeness.
So, congrats to all graduates who managed to act like adults this spring.
