UMass Amherst Students Staged ‘Walkout Against Trump’ After Election
“I know that deep in my soul I feel something’s going to shift if we fight back – if we organize.”
This is all so tiresome. Has no one told these students that Trump won the popular vote?
The College Fix reports:
UMass students hold ‘Walkout Against Trump’
A week ago, University of Massachusetts Amherst students held a “Walkout Against Trump” to “protest the environmental implications of the election.”
The Sunrise Movement UMass demonstration, which eventually met up with students from nearby Amherst High School, was emulated by other institutions including the University of Delaware, the University of North Carolina, and Oberlin College, according to the Daily Collegian.
Brendan Post, the coordinator of the environmental group (which was founded seven years by a UMass graduate) twice told those assembled that “things got a lot worse” with Donald Trump’s November 5 election victory.
“We have six years to get our sh*t together, and our president in [a] few months doesn’t believe the climate is changing,” he said.
Post added “We voted, it didn’t work. Now we organize [and] we strike. We need to be strong for each other. We need to build strong communities to check in on each other and be there for each other.”
UMass Student Government Association President Colin Humphries informed the crowd he was elected to “serve and protect” students, stating “I am not [going to] let no one [sic] come to this campus and tell us what is best for our students.”
Ryan Darbhanga, a sophomore economics major and the attorney general for SGA, also spoke to the crowd.
“I want to tell you that I will fight for every single student’s legal rights on this campus, no matter who you are [or] what political affiliation you are,” Darbhanga said. “This is the people’s war, this is our war … I myself have turned so far left and I’m proud of it … once your rights are taken away, there’s no going back.”
“I’m angry; I’m scared,” Julie Powers, an 18-year-old physics major said. “I have friends who are worried about their parents or their grandparents getting deported […] I am scared I won’t be able to get an abortion one day if I ever need to. I know that deep in my soul I feel something’s going to shift if we fight back – if we organize.”
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We won. They lost.
Now time to run up the score.
The Walkout Against Trump…..
or TWAT for short……🤣
“I want to tell you that I will fight for every single student’s legal rights on this campus, no matter who you are [or] what political affiliation you are,” Darbhanga said. “This is the people’s war, this is our war … I myself have turned so far left and I’m proud of it … once your rights are taken away, there’s no going back.”
How about my right to keep and bear arms? How about my right to self-defense? OOOPS, sorry.
“I know that deep in my soul I feel something’s going to shift if we fight back – if we organize.”
Why spend all that effort?
Just take a page from your transie friends and declare that your side won!
It then magically becomes so, right?
“I am not [going to] let no one [sic] come to this campus and tell us what is best for our students.”
“Thats MY job!”
Hard to believe the War of Independence started in Boston.
I see what goes on in the New England states and believe that moniker should be changed to West England.
Will they protect my rights to wear my Red MAGA hat?
Do they think that poor Trump is shaking in his boots because some dumb, over-privileged students walked out of class?