Roosevelt University President Apologizes for Insulting Trump Voters in Email
“I received feedback from some members of our community that my last communique regarding the election made them feel unwelcome”
Why have so many people on the left made this same mistake and had to walk it back?
The College Fix reports:
Roosevelt University president apologizes for his email ripping Trump voters
The president of Chicago’s Roosevelt University has backtracked after sending a campus-wide email ripping Donald Trump voters as “divisive” and “romanticizing the past.”
Following Trump’s election on November 5, Ali Malekzadeh wrote “Like many of you, I am discouraged by the final results and disheartened that many voters selected a candidate who casts aside unity and empathy in favor of divisiveness and fear,” Campus Reform reports.
Malekzadeh (pictured) decried the “alarming trend” of not “welcom[ing] new immigrants,” “romanticizing the past” instead of “look[ing] forward,” and moving away from “reinforc[ing] democratic norms.”
He added Roosevelt will remain committed to social justice, the “worth of every individual,” and “American democracy.”
However, after Campus Reform asked Malekzadeh for comment about his message, Roosevelt staff and students got another email from the president apologizing for the first one.
“I received feedback from some members of our community that my last communique regarding the election made them feel unwelcome,” Malekzadeh wrote. “I deeply apologize.”
Malekzadeh added “Our University’s commitment to social justice and diversity remains unwavering, and it’s essential that all members feel valued and respected, regardless of differing views. Let me reaffirm my personal commitment to practice our cherished values and urge all of us to do the same.”
Following Trump’s victory, Roosevelt offered a “Post-Election Calm Space” at the Gender Justice Center’s “Diversity and Inclusion Lounge” where “coloring pages, crafts, snacks, and stim toys” were available to help students “stay grounded.”
The Calm Space event summary reads “No matter the outcome everyone has feelings about the election. Whether you want to debrief in groups or step away to a quiet place, your feelings are valid. Roosevelt staff will support you.”
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“I received feedback from some members of our community that my last communique regarding the election made them feel unwelcome,” Malekzadeh wrote. “I deeply apologize.”
You made your opinion of those who don’t share your political ideology abundantly clear with your previous message, and your “apology” is rejected as insincere at best, and outright B.S. at worst, seeking only to walk-back your sentiments before the backlash becomes unbearable and the calls for you to step down began in earnest.
BTW – Where were the post-election coddling and swaddling spaces to help conservative students “stay grounded” after the 2020 election? Asking for a friend.
I used Ben Avery, but depending where you live, there’s Whittington Center, Camp Perry, Knob Creek, Oak Ridge, Lock & Load Miami, Machine Guns Vegas, and even the NRA Range in Fairfax.
Gravel pit in the Oregon Coast Range works for me.
He would have gotten little or no negative feedback for this at an Ivy League university. Elite students have swallowed the Kool-Aid that Wokeness is brilliance, so view adhering to Wokeness as mandatory confirmation of their brilliance. It is a myth that brilliant students are less inclined to groupthink. Groupthink confirms their belonging to the brilliant crowd.
Roosevelt students are not so elite, so are less inclined to Wokeness, in spite of the efforts of administration to make them so.
So calling voters “deplorable” and “garbage,” or telling a group of blacks that “Republicans want to put you in chains” is NOT divisive?
“Stim toys?”
Those things that used to be sold for “personal massage purposes only?”
I weep for the future of this nation with college-age students needing safe spaces because of the results of an election. Maybe they should return to kindergarten until they develop the requisite maturity required for adulthood.
It makes sense for “safe spaces” to be provided in a $35,000 a year day care.