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| Commencement Speaker Booed in Tucson |
| 2010-05-18 |
| University of Arizona professor Sandra Soto used a podium at the Social and Behavioral Sciences commencement to talk about SB1070 and a recent protest at TUSD. She got booed and jeered. |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #19 Co-coordinator of the Chicana/Latina Studies Concentration, and affiliate faculty of English, Mexican American Studies, and Latin American Studies Nuff said. Without a uni job in these fake fields she's be asking: "do you wanna biggie-size that?" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-05-18 20:26 |
| #18 As a boomer, it is the boomers. Just not all the boomers. They came of age in the liberal era of Camelot followed by liberals Nixon, Ford, and Carter. Nixon not liberal? EPA, wage and price controls, affirmative action, COLAs, fiat currency, OSHA, CPSC, EEOC, ERA, Title IX, and the Comprehensive Health Care Act, which was ironically defeated by Teddy Kennedy because it wasn't liberal enough. And in his year in office Ford gave us the Earned Income Tax Credit and John Paul Stevens. So they grew up in a very strong reality distortion field. And some never escaped. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-05-18 19:00 |
| #17 The graduation papers and diploma are signed. The former students don't have to put up with the friggin PC crap one moment longer and they're communicating that with you. They're also going to remember this day in the future as both a form of liberation and a point to fix if and when they do get the power. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-05-18 18:44 |
| #16 It isn't the boomers, as others have noted. Its what some would call the 'moochers' - who expect to have everything handed to them without having to work for it from houses, cars, food, entertainment, luxury items, etc... And of course what some call the 'looters' who are perfectly willing to loot from the producers to give to the moochers. Ayn Rand, I think, would find our times interesting. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-05-18 18:16 |
| #15 I'm more amazed that this happened in Deep Blue Tucson than I would be if it happened in Phoenix. Wow. |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2010-05-18 17:44 |
| #14 I don't think the Boomers get it. They're leeches and not liked by those following generations who have to pay for their folly and excess. Fred, the owner of this site, is a Boomer. So are several other mods. Fred was career military. So was my Boomer husband. FWIW |
| Posted by: lotp 2010-05-18 16:44 |
| #13 This warms the heart, and almost makes me want to believe that liberty isn't going to die in this country. |
| Posted by: Keeney 2010-05-18 15:34 |
| #12 I'm always amused at how the moronic & deeply hypocritical lefty professors tell their students to question authority, excepting their own of course. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2010-05-18 15:07 |
| #11 In her class she could say this stuff without anyone challenging it for fear of a bad grade. At graduation the students don't have to, or want to, listen to the crap anymore. Even if they agreed with her, making a political speech at graduation seems stupid to me. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2010-05-18 14:10 |
| #10 They should have tarred and feathered this moron. The Colleges adn Universities of this country are the bedrock of the leftist crap we see in the MSM and in Washington. |
| Posted by: James Carville 2010-05-18 12:02 |
| #9 "Every generation blames the one before." Scapegoating is easier than taking responsibility for your own life. Of course, I'm a white male Boomer Republican bureaucrat, so just ignore me. I'm the tip of the Spear of Doom for civilization! |
| Posted by: Gabby 2010-05-18 11:56 |
| #8 What checks? Where do I get them? |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-05-18 11:18 |
| #7 > It's not the Baby Boomers as a group I didn't see many turn down the checks/cheques written in their own childrens names. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-05-18 10:11 |
| #6 The 2010 budget for Arizona is somewhere around $11 billion. The deficit is $4 billion. The state is broke. Revenues are far lower than outgoes. It has been estimated that illegals cost AZ $2.7 billion in 2009 for education, health care, law enforcement and court costs, welfare, and general costs (Fox). This is not sustainable. Approximately 25% of the state budget is going for for illegals. Won't be long before University of Arizona professors and students will see fewer and fewer professors, fewer services to students, larger classes and more and more increases in costs to students. Professor Sandra Soto should be booed. She is preaching resentment and division. She is not a particularly useful idiot. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-05-18 10:10 |
| #5 For many of the best who thanklessly gave all it was too long. For those who've lasted, give thanks and enjoy. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-05-18 09:27 |
| #4 NS for some of us, the wait is almost too long. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2010-05-18 09:21 |
| #3 Turnabout comes every 40 years as the children reject the priorities of their elders. For those boomers who were not that part of the generation represented by Soto it will be a pleasure to end life watching the young reject the values of the establishment their elders created and adopt values more felicitous to those rejected by that establishment. It's been a long wait. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-05-18 09:19 |
| #2 It's not the Baby Boomers as a group, but those who undertook the the long march through the institutions who don't get it -- they may have the institutions, but they've lost the culture and the society. That the kids are emboldened to openly boo the speaker who tried to hijack their graduation demonstrates how badly the speaker's claque has lost. My former sister-in-law, a math professor, and her friends openly bewail to one another on Facebook the conservative thoughts they see expressed on their students' Facebook pages, although of course the kids don't express such things in class. It clearly hasn't occurred to these people that they shouldn't be that intimately involved in their students' lives, and vice versa. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-05-18 08:58 |
| #1 I don't think the Boomers get it. They're leeches and not liked by those following generations who have to pay for their folly and excess. The worst thing is their expectation of deference to their "wisdom". |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-05-18 07:47 |