Nick Sandmann responds to ACLU & diversity prof–you won’t ‘cancel’ him

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An ACLU lawyer and diversity professor at Transylvania University verbally attacked Nicholas Sandmann, who is attending the school as a Freshman this year.

Sandmann is the Covington Catholic School boy who was brutalized by the media after a leftist Native American and a literally insane Black group verbally assaulted him and his school friends. The media then lied and claimed Sandmann was the perpetrator. He has won two settlements so far.

He’s now a victim once again with the ACLU lawyer claiming it’s a disgrace of some kind for Transylvania to have accepted him and a diversity scholar claiming she’ll target him.

SANDMANN RESPONDS

In an op-ed for Fox News, titled “I’m a pro-life conservative Republican college student who won’t let cancel culture silence me,” Sandmann said he refuses to fall victim to “cancel culture.”

“Beginning the college year during the coronavirus pandemic is difficult enough for millions of students,” he wrote. “But the beginning of my freshman year at Transylvania University in Kentucky is being made even more difficult by an unwarranted attack against me by the cancel culture due to my conservative views.”

Sandmann believes enough is enough:

“[U]nbelievably, an official of the American Civil Liberties Union — a liberal group that claims to be dedicated to defending free speech — criticized the university last week for admitting me, saying my admission was a ‘stain’ on the school,” he explained.

The staffer, Samuel Crankshaw, said that Sandmann solely exists to “troll, intimidate, and play victim.” Sandmann, however, said he has never even met Crankshaw.

“Yet still, he tries to cancel me and demand that I be denied admission to college,” he wrote. “Why? Because he seems outraged that my conservative values don’t align with his left-wing ideology.”

He warned, “If you are a conservative like me, watch out. The intolerant left might come for you, too.”

“Jonathan Turley, a scholar known for being a strong advocate of free speech, responded on his blog to defend the need for free speech and defend me from Crankshaw’s attack,” Sandmann noted.

Turley wrote:

I have previously written, as a long supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), about my concern over how the venerable group has changed under its current leadership, including a departure from its long robust defense of free speech. Recently, the ACLU has abandoned its famed neutrality and has not supported some on the right while supporting those on the left.

Turley later added, “[I]t is far more alarming to see an ACLU official rallying people against a young man whose chief offense appears to be that he is publicly (and unapologetically) conservative and pro-life.”

COLLEGES ARE TOXIC

Sandmann said, “Turley is right. Colleges have a reputation of being toxic places for conservative, pro-life ideas like the ones I hold. But an alumni assuming I’ll act in a certain way before even meeting me? Well, that’s a new low.”

“If the threats to students like me don’t come from the left-leaning administrators, the threats come from fellow students who call on campus leadership to cancel events or shut down student organizations that dare challenge their left-wing view of the world,” Sandmann added, blasting the notion of college and university “free speech zones” as “ridiculous.”

“Our entire country is a free speech zone, enshrined by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution,” the young man wrote. “And no one has the right to cancel the Constitution or its First Amendment.”

NOT TO BE CANCELED

He also praised President Donald Trump and Kentucky Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for their strength under pressure.

“Sen. McConnell and President Trump are the exact leaders we need at a time when liberal mobs take glee in destroying our lives and erasing our voices,” Sandmann said.

“Now more than ever, we need more speech, not less. We need to hear new ideas and to learn from others. That is exactly what I and so many students returning to school want to do. I invite Democrats to join us.”

“[T]o those who are inclined to write my future for me, I say let me define myself. I will not be canceled,”  he concluded.

 


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AusLiz
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AusLiz
3 years ago

Wow, what an extremely cohesive and sensible young man. May others have his courage and also speak out. We are losing free speech world wide and young to old need to take a stand. Congratulations Nick Sandman.

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John Vieira
3 years ago
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Over 20 years ago a female “Professor” asked the question in a publication that I read…”Are universities now awarding degrees in stupidity…” it was then relevant to the particular article…but the same question, am afraid, appears to be relevant “across the board”…