If you're not even willing to listen to someone else's perspective, don't call yourself educated. #USC
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1244990599/usc-valedictorian-speech-canceled
@mcfate Have you heard her speech? How can you automatically relate her speech to Nazis if you haven't heard it? You only know what the topic was going to be.
Because she was already being a Nazi on Instagram, and that's why she's not giving a speech.
What do you imagine a "one-state solution" that "abolish[es] the State of Israel" amounts to?
Did you READ the article?
@mcfate I did read the article. Including the next part where she says "both arabs and jews can live together without an ideology that specifically advocates for the ethnic cleansing of one of them."
Doesn't sound like a Nazi to me.
There's one instance of the word "ideology" in the article cited, and that ain't it. It's not there. Maybe you imagined this "next part", but you certainly haven't presented it.
She wants the "complete abolishment of the state of Israel". That IS in there. I screencap'd it for you.
That'd be "ethnic cleansing", a phrase which, likewise, does not appear in the article you cited.
No one has a right to be a valedictorian. She can express her "perspective" wherever ELSE she likes.
@mcfate I literally copy/pasted it from her site.
It's not in the article YOU cited, and I don't have to go beyond what I'm presented with.
You can't call for the abolishment of Israel and then claim you want neither ethnic cleansing nor ideology. That's preposterous.
That's like Richard Spencer claiming he wants everyone who's not white to get out of the country at the same time he claims he opposes violence.
Why would I fall for that?
@mcfate Well then, you've proven my point. If you're not willing to look beyond what is being presented to you, you can't call yourself educated. An educated person knows how to think critically and examine all the evidence before coming to a conclusion.
Honestly, being called uneducated by someone who argues this dishonestly isn't a worry for me.
I've looked at it. You don't like the conclusions I reached, so you're reduced to name-calling.
Troll better.
@mcfate But you only looked at the article. You didn't want to look beyond that. You are choosing to only look at things that support your perspective. I don't see myself as trolling, only pointing out that we can do better by looking at multiple perspectives and more than we are presented with.
No, I'm refusing to be trolled by someone who's so put out by disagreement that they have no other resort than frankly witless insult.
Trust me: you do NOT want to compare educations with me.
You're just mad at being disagreed with, that's pretty clear at this point.
Now, walk away, or I'll walk you away.
@mcfate LOL. Ok, btw, I never called you a name. And I never once said I agreed with her. Only that it's important to understand other perspectives if you want to successfully rebut them. Good day to you.
@RoxieTech
If you're willing to run your mouth about how bad Jews are, don't expect to be allowed to give speeches, maybe.
She can express her (Nazi) perspective all she likes, but not from behind a podium at a commencement.
You'd think a valedictorian would be smarter. She can keep the "participation trophy".