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Margo Beth Flemming
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Guys, Ann Arbor is college town heaven
The Black Sheep Michigan
@blacksheepmichigan
Umich students are more
dedicated to standing 45 min
in line for free ice cream than
literally anything else
Terra Schroeder
@tschroe10
Also for the record, I’m not
mad anyone is leaving Umich
for the NBA I just get sad when
they leave early lol
Ashley Preston
@aprezt0n
In my room, taped above my @UMich
diploma is the rejection letter I recieved
from the same institution my senior year
of high school. It’s my favorite reminder
of Walt’s wiset words: All our dream can
come true if we have the courage to pursue
them. #MondayMotivation
Simone Brixius-Anderko
@Anderkosimone
Very inspiring talk by @UMich professor,
Merck awardee, @jbiolchem editor,
and one of my personal rockstars Ruma
Banerjee about her personal and scientific
journey @expbio! She is a role model
and terrific scientist! Congratulations!
#womeninSTEM
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umich is a whole different school when the
weather is nice and we can actually go outside
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“In
the
age
of
Trump,
(conservatism on campus) is
a huge topic for conservatives
who are trying to figure out
how to be ambassadors for
their point of view and their
movement on college campus
in particular,” French said.
“It sort of boils down to… can
you be civil and decent and
still own the libs? And this is
something that you begin to
see a lot in our hyperpolarized
times — that we live in a world
where it seems as if persuasion
is gone and what we’re doing is
we’re trying to stoke our own
bases as a way to win.”
In response to the Chick-
Fil-A
Bans
controversy,
in
which the chain has been
banned from certain locations
because of a “legacy of anti-
LGBTQ behvior,” French said
the culture war is worsening
as progressive intolerance is
extending to big companies and
corporations.
“The
Chick-fil-A
problem
sums
up
the
issue
that
conservatives are dealing with
in a lot of places, especially
college campuses,” DeSanctis
said.
DeSanctis said she believes
“punching back” is the wrong
approach to the culture war.
“What we should be talking
about is substance,” DeSanctis
said. “We should be talking
about why Chick-Fil-A should
be allowed to be in airports,
why Salvation Army is not a
hateful group, why it’s not
just a problem of just a poor
conservative
group
that
doesn’t make you a hateful
organization.
But
instead,
people
are
fighting
about
whether or not we should be
writing mean tweets or stoking
the flames of the culture war.”
According
to
French,
American
citizens
are
constitutionally freer than ever
before.
“As of right now, you have
more rights to speak and to
freely exercise your religion
that any time ever on free
speech rights and in more
than a generation on religious
liberty,” French said. “And
that’s not secured by 5-4
majorities of the court. The
leading religious liberty case of
the last 20 years was decided
9-0.”
French said the current
issues are based on culture
rather than laws.
“It’s not because of the
government,”
French
said.
“It’s because of your peers. It’s
because of your employers. It’s
because of the Twitter mob.
It’s the shame campaigns. And
that’s not judges, okay, that’s
culture... so, the question
that I’m consistently asking is
what is the mechanism, what
is the plan for conservatives
to be ambassadors to a culture
that is increasingly turning
its back on free exercise, free
speech, and locked in the
enormous battle?”
DeSanctis
tied
this
uncertainty
back
to
conservatism
activism
on
campus.
She
said
young
conservatives often feel they
do not have a voice, especially
when
they
are
the
only
conservative in a classroom.
“You
probably
have
situations where you feel like
in class either the professor
is going to shut you down or
your peers are gonna think
you’re insane if you actually
say what you think,” DeSanctis
said. “The purpose of a college
education in my mind is to
seek the truth and you can’t
do that if you aren’t able to say
what you think is true because
you think you’re going to be
shouted down.”
French said there is constant
and
widespread
confusion
between manner and ideology
among
American
society,
saying Trump was one of the
most centrist candidates put
forward by the GOP since
President Gerald Ford in the
1970s.
“For example, would you call
Trump moderate? Most people
now would say ‘Trump is not
at all moderate,’” French said.
“He is extremely aggressive…
he is extremely contentious in
his manner (and) his demeanor.
But in many ways, he is the least
ideological,
most
moderate
political candidate that the
GOP has nominated since Ford
maybe.”
French
emphasized
the
importance of mainly focusing
on and targeting persuadable
opponents.
“If you aim your expression,
and you dictate your expression
by your communications with
the unpersuadable opposition,
you are going to be more
frustrated and more angry
and often deceived as to the
effectiveness of conservative
communication,” French said.
French provided an example
from when he was in law school
in 1992 and his professor would
not refer to an “unborn child”
or “fetus” but rather a “clump
of cells” or a “biologic product.”
Out of frustration, he raised his
hand and asked why she would
not use a term such as “fetus,”
and he was shocked by the
reaction of his classmates.
See PODCAST, Page 3A