Notre Dame College Democrats Accuse Republican Debater of Using ‘Hateful and Dangerous’ Rhetoric

Speech Police

This is just so typical. It has become a reflex for Democrats.

The College Fix reports:

Notre Dame College Democrats condemn GOP debater’s alleged ‘hateful,’ ‘dangerous’ rhetoricIn the latest example of self-proclaimed free speech progressives showing they’re anything but, board members of the Notre Dame College Democrats used the student paper to rip a College Republican debater’s language as “hateful” and “dangerous.”A week before Election Day, the Notre Dame College Republicans’ Shri Thakur took on the College Democrats’ Blake Ziegler on topics such as immigration, the economy and crime.The Observer’s account of the debate is fairly thorough; both debaters offered up many of the same talking points we heard from politicians and talking heads throughout the 2022 campaign season.Things got a bit heated on the issues of abortion, education and crime with Ziegler claiming that, as a Jew, he doesn’t want “have to listen to Christianity to tell [him] when life begins.”Ziegler also accused Republicans of being “transphobic” and “homophobic” due to their efforts regarding age-appropriate school curricula. He claimed current high crime rates are a result of people being poorer (for which Democrats are not to blame, of course), not the (Democrat-promoted) defunding of police forces, sentence reductions and abolition of cash bail.Among other things, Thakur countered with “We are going to defend our culture and put Americans first in the name of God, family and country and we are going to make America great again.”Given that Notre Dame is a private Catholic institution, such a statement isn’t exactly out of the mainstream.For the seven board members of the College Democrats, however, Thakur’s debate performance was “a display of racist, transphobic and antisemitic rhetoric” for which he “must be held accountable.”“[Thakur’s] election denial, promotion of QAnon conspiracies about Jan. 6, transphobic characterization of deeply personal experiences for trans children, comparison of Judaism’s position on abortion with Aztec child sacrifice, dogwhistles on race when discussing DEI and promotion of nationalism are not just factually inaccurate and problematic, [they are] unacceptable and harmful to our community at Notre Dame,” wrote Alexandra Conley, Riya Shah, Anna Guzmán, Benjamín Gracia, Katie Werner, Megan Keenan and Sydney Dittmar.

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