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ODU Graduation: Snotty Brats In Caps and Gowns

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by Kerry Dougherty

Last month we wrote about snotty brats at George Mason University — a state-supported school — who’d rather stick their fingers in their ears than spend 10 minutes listening to someone who doesn’t share their radical agenda.

That was Gov. Glenn Youngkin who they found so objectionable, incidentally.

Depending on what news source you rely upon, either “about 30” or “many” graduates at Old Dominion’s commencement exercises this weekend were unaware that they, too, had attended a Virginia state institution. So they decided to turn their backs on the governor during his 10-minute commencement address.

Yes, I’m aware they have a First Amendment right to behave badly.

Just as I have a First Amendment right to call them rude brats.

In addition to the children acting out at graduation exercises, about 3,000 of them had earlier signed a petition demanding that the school rescind its invitation to the governor.

Memo to the triggered babies at ODU: your education was bankrolled by Virginia taxpayers. And a majority of those same people elected Glenn Youngkin precisely because he brought back common sense and parental rights to the commonwealth.

If you want to listen to a governor who supports biological boys competing in girls sports, someone who believes that very young school children need to see graphic novels showing gay oral sex IN SCHOOL, who thinks schools should allow children to change their names, pronouns and gender without their parents being notified, may I suggest you look into one of California, Washington or Oregon’s state universities?

Their governors may just be loony enough for you.

Think of how conservative grads must feel each spring as lefties fan out across the nation giving graduation speeches full of Marxist drivel.

Odd, you don’t read much about those students developing a case of the vapors or demanding that lefties be gagged or banned from campus.

Perhaps they’re the ones who really do believe in free speech.

Republished with permission from Kerry: Unemployed and Unedited.

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57 responses to “ODU Graduation: Snotty Brats In Caps and Gowns”

  1. Kathleen Smith Avatar
    Kathleen Smith

    The rude brats should have boycotted the graduation and partied at home.

    1. VaNavVet Avatar
      VaNavVet

      They partied after they made their point.

  2. VaNavVet Avatar
    VaNavVet

    Talk about drivel! Kerry acknowledges their first amendment right but wants to deprive them of it.

    1. RKW Avatar
      RKW

      I think Kerry wanted the students to show some respect for the leader of the state that helped pay for a good portion of their education. I am pretty sure these “brats” don’t treat their parents this way.

      1. Eric the half a troll Avatar
        Eric the half a troll

        “I am pretty sure these “brats” don’t treat their parents this way.”

        You mean ignore what they say…? Do you have any kids…?

        1. RKW Avatar
          RKW

          Yes I do. My youngest is still in college in Virginia. All three know that that sort of behavior is not appropriate and they would have more to worry about than looking bad if they pulled that stunt. Do you have kids? Would they participate in that rude behavior?

          1. Eric the half a troll Avatar
            Eric the half a troll

            Was a joke but since you asked, if they can justify why they are making the statements/protests they are making, I would support them regardless of whether I agree with them or not.

          2. RKW Avatar
            RKW

            Understand it was a joke, but I was trying to make the point with my reply is that I raised my children better than that. More parents need to raise their children rather than letting schools and social media do the work. That’s what is wrong with our society. Protests are fine, they are our right. However, there is a time and a place for it and using better judgement will get your point across better. Kerry isn’t the only one that thought these kids were brats and because of that they lose some credibility. Same goes for GMU.

          3. Eric the half a troll Avatar
            Eric the half a troll

            “However, there is a time and a place for it and using better judgement will get your point across better.”

            This may very well be true. The counter is that often protests are (and should be) inconvenient or uncomfortable for the person being protested. Honestly, I find turning one’s back to be a pretty innocuous action.

          4. Eric the half a troll Avatar
            Eric the half a troll

            “However, there is a time and a place for it and using better judgement will get your point across better.”

            This may very well be true. The counter is that often protests are (and should be) inconvenient or uncomfortable for the person being protested. Honestly, I find turning one’s back to be a pretty innocuous action.

          5. Tom B Avatar
            Tom B

            If protests should be inconvenient for the person, they should be allowed in front of abortion centers and not kept at a distance.

          6. Eric the half a troll Avatar
            Eric the half a troll

            They are allowed in front of abortion centers. Trust me, they can be very uncomfortable and inconvenient in their harassment. Now if they were to simply turn their backs on them…

          7. kls Avatar
            kls

            Can’t wait for these ‘kids’ to try that at the office….

      2. VaNavVet Avatar
        VaNavVet

        Perhaps you have heard of the idea of “good trouble”!

    2. Tom B Avatar
      Tom B

      Kerry criticized them for wanting to deprive the Governor of his first amendment rights. The question is whether they should be allowed to graduate when they display such a lack of understanding of Western Civ and such a commmitment to fascism and marxism and totaltarian principles. Is that what VA is paying for?

      1. Eric the half a troll Avatar
        Eric the half a troll

        “The question is whether they should be allowed to graduate when they display such a lack of understanding of Western Civ and such a commmitment to fascism and marxism and totaltarian principles.”

        Is that REALLY the question you are struggling with here…?

        1. Tom B Avatar
          Tom B

          I’m not struggling with it at all.

          1. Eric the half a troll Avatar
            Eric the half a troll

            You can’t seem to provide an answer to your question….

          2. Tom B Avatar
            Tom B

            It may seem that way to you, but, as usual, you are wrong.

          3. Eric the half a troll Avatar
            Eric the half a troll

            Another claim made sans evidence to support it…

          4. Lefty665 Avatar
            Lefty665

            That is something you know a lot about. It’s your stock in trade.

          5. Tom B Avatar
            Tom B

            Comparing your posts to reality is all the proof needed.
            FYI – Tucker Carlson just announced that he is starting on Twitter. Looks like there will be more free speech for you to worry about.

          6. Eric the half a troll Avatar
            Eric the half a troll

            Twitter…🤣😂🤣. Oh, how the mighty have fallen…

          7. Tom B Avatar
            Tom B

            Define fallen. His nightly on Fox had 3.5 million viewers. His announcement on Twitter had 34 million in 4 hours.

            Eric, throw off the chains of your monkish ignorance. After 90 years of failure, liberalism is falling apart, its center cannnot hold. Join the ranks of free men. It’s worth the effort.

          8. Eric the half a troll Avatar
            Eric the half a troll

            The guy only has 7.3 million “followers”. Rachel Maddow has 10.4 million… so there you go… free yourself, Tom! Follow Rachel!! 😂🤣😂🤣

          9. Tom B Avatar
            Tom B

            Rachel is a siren. She leads you to destruction with her sweet song. Resist – save yourself, resist. Michelle Malkin can save you.

      2. VaNavVet Avatar
        VaNavVet

        You have no evidence to support any of your comments and you know what opinions are like as everyone has one.

    3. WayneS Avatar
      WayneS

      To be fair, she did not state anywhere in her screed/diatribe that she wants to deprive the students of their first amendment rights.

      1. VaNavVet Avatar
        VaNavVet

        She pretty clearly indicated that she did not want them to be able to stand and turn theirs backs to the speaker.

        1. WayneS Avatar
          WayneS

          No, she didn’t.

          I consider the article a whining and complaining rant, but one thing the author did not do was state, or even imply, that she wanted the students to be prevented from protesting.

          1. VaNavVet Avatar
            VaNavVet

            Per Dave Mason: we’ll set it aside as we don’t see eye to eye. There ain’t no bad guys, ain’t no good guys only the two of us and we just disagree.

  3. Carter Melton Avatar
    Carter Melton

    Doubt he’ll be treated that way in Lexington.

    1. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      Is he going to Lexington? Will they keep him?

      Isn’t Lexington the town that sent Sarah Huckabee Sanders away without her dinner?

      1. Carter Melton Avatar
        Carter Melton

        I don’t think he is going to The Little Red Hen.

        1. Nancy Naive Avatar
          Nancy Naive

          They reserve the right… to not reserve for the Right.

          “No Shirt, No Sense, No Service”

        2. Nancy Naive Avatar
          Nancy Naive

          They reserve the right… to not reserve for the Right.

          “No Shirt, No Sense, No Service”

          1. WayneS Avatar
            WayneS

            They reserve the right… to not reserve for the Right.

            That cuts both ways – or at any rate it should.

  4. VaPragamtist Avatar
    VaPragamtist

    “Your education was bankrolled by Virginia taxpayers. And a majority of those same people elected Glenn Youngkin ”

    There are roughly 8.642 million people in Virginia. About 2.7 million taxpayers. Roughly 1.66 million voted for Youngkin while 1.6 million voted for T-Mac.

    I don’t think you can make the claim that “a majority of taxpayers voted for Glenn Youngkin.”

    1. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      Was this an “official gubernatorial function”?

    2. WayneS Avatar
      WayneS

      I don’t think you can make the claim that “a majority of taxpayers voted for Glenn Youngkin.”

      The claim I don’t think you can make is that a high percentage of voters who don’t pay taxes voted for Glenn Youngkin. After all, he didn’t promise anywhere near enough free stuff to capture their interest.

      And somebody voted for him.

  5. James Wyatt Whitehead Avatar
    James Wyatt Whitehead

    Next year mail the diplomas and charge shipping/handling.

    1. Monica Wright Avatar
      Monica Wright

      They already do that. Students just receive a diploma cover for show.

      1. James Wyatt Whitehead Avatar
        James Wyatt Whitehead

        Just cancel the whole thing. Graduation is the most anti climatic day.

        1. Monica Wright Avatar
          Monica Wright

          Absolutely NOT. As a mom and parent of a graduate, I want my moment to make every.last.jerk. EAT CROW.

        2. Monica Wright Avatar
          Monica Wright

          Nope. I WILL have my day to celebrate my kids’ conquering the voices of doom and gloom that shadowed them from birth through high school and (prayerfully) college graduation. Every low-brow relative, ignorant commenter, abusive divorced/remarried coot… graduations rebuke them all.

          1. James Wyatt Whitehead Avatar
            James Wyatt Whitehead

            And congratulations when that day comes.

          2. Monica Wright Avatar
            Monica Wright

            three weeks and counting down.

  6. DJRippert Avatar
    DJRippert

    If those snowflake, wokesters at GMU find Glenn Youngkin intolerable, they will likely struggle in their lives post-GMU.

    Youngkin is hardly a radical. He may be “right of center” but he’s about as radical as Steny Hoyer. Or Joe Manchin. Or Mark Warner.

    The protesting students are probably those indoctrinated souls who always lacked the intellect to understand the indoctrination to which they were exposed or the courage to resist it. They are among those whose partisan inbreeding has them frothing at the mouth when anybody with an (R) after their names dares to speak.

    Pity that George Mason is graduating such people.

  7. Eric the half a troll Avatar
    Eric the half a troll

    “Just as I have a First Amendment right to call them rude brats.”

    And you have a right to say that here as a (sort of) contributor… but if you were a commenter, not so much…

    1. James Wyatt Whitehead Avatar
      James Wyatt Whitehead

      https://www.zingerbug.com/Comments/glitter_graphics/deepest_sympathy_angel_with_candle.gif

  8. Eric the half a troll Avatar
    Eric the half a troll

    So… liberal ODU “snotty brats” had a better sense of decorum and offered more respect to Youngkins than mainstream Republicans did to Biden during his SOTU speech. Gosh, Kerry must have been really ticked when that happened… why didn’t BR promote that piece, pray tell…?

  9. Eric the half a troll Avatar
    Eric the half a troll

    So… liberal ODU “snotty brats” had a better sense of decorum and offered more respect to Youngkins than mainstream Republicans did to Biden during his SOTU speech. Gosh, Kerry must have been really ticked when that happened… why didn’t BR promote that piece, pray tell…?

  10. Nancy Naive Avatar
    Nancy Naive

    Were they quiet? Then, you should try it.

    Perfectly valid way to display dissatisfaction. Silent, so those who would like to listen can, and yet sends the message — not to Youngkin, but to the college administrators .

    BTW, did I, as a Va. taxpayer, pay for Youngkin’s travel, food, and lodging for this boondoggle?

  11. WayneS Avatar
    WayneS

    Get off my lawn!!

  12. Bubba1855 Avatar
    Bubba1855

    Folks…why all the ‘outrage’? How many of you were around during the 60’s when college campuses were demonstrating the Vietnam War and everything else…Remember the sit ins at Berkley. This is, in my opinion ‘tame’. Let it go… Hey they’re graduating and now trying to find a job in an economy that appears to be headed to some sort of recession. Shortly, they will be trying to deal with paying off their student loans, etc. I hope they are smart enough to ‘scrub’ their social media posts or it will be even more difficult for them to find jobs.

    1. WayneS Avatar
      WayneS

      Everybody has a right to peacefully protest about anything – and this was clearly a peaceful demonstration.

      With that said, when I read Shortly, they will be trying to deal with paying off their student loans, etc., I could not help but think:

      Yes, and many of them will “deal” with it by whining that the “government” (i.e. taxpayers) should pay off those loans for them.

  13. Teddy007 Avatar
    Teddy007

    Kerry Dougherty needs to list at least 10 marxist who spoke at college graduations this year or he should admit he has no idea what he is writing about.

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