Disgusted Parents Describe Princeton President’s Graduation Address as a ‘Woke Sermon’
“The primary assault on free speech takes place on every campus in this country – including Princeton.”
Sermon is really the perfect word to use here because ‘woke’ is basically a religion.
The College Fix reports:
‘Rantings of a demagogue’: Parents angered by Princeton president’s graduation address
A large contingent of parents of graduating seniors who sat through Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber’s recent commencement address described it as hypocritical and a “woke sermon” in interviews with The College Fix.
They scoffed at his claim that the Ivy League institution is a bastion of free speech and bristled at his embrace of all kinds of diversity except intellectual diversity.
“President Eisgruber’s commencement speech was a disgrace,” a mother of a graduating senior told The College Fix in an email. “The primary assault on free speech takes place on every campus in this country – including Princeton.”
“It takes the form of blocking and shouting down faculty and invited speakers who dare to stray from the liberal orthodoxy,” she said. “…He chose to use his 2023 commencement address to deliver the rantings of a demagogue.”
Eisgruber told the audience “we must stand up and speak up together for the values of free expression and full inclusivity for people of all identities.”
“There are people who claim, for example, that when colleges and universities endorse the value of diversity and inclusivity or teach about racism and sexism, they are ‘indoctrinating students’ or in some other way endangering free speech,” he said.
Eisgruber also criticized Florida legislation without specifying which bills, suggesting students in Florida are now living in fear. He denounced other newly passed laws across the nation that have reined in illiberalism.
“Some of these bills prohibit discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity. Some prohibit teaching disfavored views about race, racism, and American history. Others seek to undermine the institutional autonomy of colleges and universities or to abolish tenure, thereby enabling politicians to control what professors can teach or publish,” he said.
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If they’re so disgusted, why did they send their kids there? Why should colleges and universities pretend to be anything other than the leftist hellholes that they are if parents keep encouraging and supporting their kids to enroll?
“If they’re so disgusted, why did they send their kids there? ”
Because so few parents are so clairvoyant as to see what the commencement speaker will be saying four years from the day their kid starts classes. THAT’S why.
By now, parents of new entrants should havr figured that out.
Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School? The case for helping them leave, chart their own paths, and prepare for adulthood
Author: Blake Boles
Year: 2020
The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
Author: Bryan Caplan
Year: 2018
The Teenage Liberation Handbook (Third Edition): How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
Author: Grace Llewelyn
Year: 2021
Inside American Education: The Decline, The Deception, The Dogmas
Author: Thomas Sowell
Year: 1992
What the NUDE EMPEROR OF PRINCETON is really saying , in plain English, is:
“I have already gotten you people to fork over hundreds of thousands of dollars. To us. That’s a lot of money that youall could have used in any number of far more productive ways. Any questions? Go f*** yourselves, suckers, until you begin receiving our regular solicitations for more money from you.”
Later that evening I’m pretty sure he was overheard chatting on the phone with old friends: “Another year… and these maroons still fall for it. It’s unbelievable, I still can’t believe these people haven’t woken up to our con.”
Correction: It should have read “tens of thousands” not hundreds of thousands. Sorry.
“suggesting students in Florida are now living in fear.”
He should pay more attention to actual polls, which show that institutions like his are the ones in which students actually live in fear.
I bet more NJ residents go to college in FL than the reverse.
I was considering going to P-ton reunions for my 50th in 2026, but I’ve decided not to bother. The drive to remove the statue of John Witherspoon, the shameful persecution of Joshua Katz and students’ disdain for the First Amendment rights of others were just three of a number of “last straws” for me.