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Today’s blacklisted American: High school group canceled by Democratic Party for criticizing Chinese government

Blacklists are back and the Dem’s got ’em: A conservative club at an Illinois high school was forced to disband after two local Democratic Party politicians demanded the school silence the club for putting up a poster that criticized the Chinese government.

The political attack, by state senator Lauren Fine and state representative Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, caused the club’s sponsor to back out, forcing the club to disband.

“Upon learning of the context of the poster that Glenbrook South’s chapter of Turning Point USA submitted it was taken down, recognizing that it wasn’t in compliance with our policies and guidelines,” District 225 administrators told The College Fix via email through a media representative when asked about the Glenbrook South High School situation. “During the course of that investigation, the sponsor elected to discontinue his sponsorship and the District’s policies require there be a sponsor for all active clubs,” the school officials said.

When asked specifically what policies or guidelines were broken, the district said it took down the poster while there was an investigation and then the sponsor quit, meaning the group had to be disbanded.

The poster, at the link, is incredibly mild, but that’s not acceptable because these bigoted Democrats, Fine and Gong-Gershowitz, see everything through a racial lens. The population of China is almost all Chinese, and if you dare criticize them you must be a bigot, according to the modern Democratic Party.

And if they, on their sainted opinion, think you are a bigot they have the right to get you blacklisted, blackballed, cancelled, fired, and silenced.

Do you vote for such people? Then you believe in blacklisting and oppression and tyranny. Congratulations! You have proved to all that you are not an American.

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On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

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"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

6 comments

  • China is the name of a NATION. A nation that is ruled by a totalitarian regime.

    But these female McCarthy’s see a racist under every rock, it appears.

    And I’d wager that these political busybodies would raise the same accusation, if “China” was replaced by “CCP” to make it crystal-clear that this was directed at the regime … OTOH if the CCP posted the same thing about Americans, these busybodies would simply say … “we deserve it”.

    In their eyes, we are an uppity nation that needs to be put in its place.

  • Gary in Transit

    Many states are beyond repair. If it is possible, move your family to a free state. A mask can’t protect your family from the wrath of the deep blue states.

  • James Street

    Young skulls full of mush must only think happy thought’s about the godless Chicom commies.

    And Taiwan IS a country.*

    “John Cena ‘very sorry’ for saying Taiwan is a country
    Fast & Furious actor and wrestler apologises profusely on social media for offending Chinese fans”
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/26/john-cena-very-sorry-for-saying-taiwan-is-a-country

    * Tibet WAS a country, but is unavailable for comment.

  • wayne

    James-
    Good stuff.

    ————————

    The Beatles
    “Piggies”
    https://youtu.be/RhY1x8CpWeI
    2:04

    “Have you seen the bigger piggies
    In their starched white shirts?
    You will find the bigger piggies
    Stirring up the dirt.
    Always have clean shirts to play around in.
    In their sties with all their backing,
    They don’t care what goes on around.
    In their eyes there’s something lacking,
    What they need’s a [expletive] good whacking.”

  • Cotour

    NYT CONFIRMED: COVID 19 FROM CHINESE LAB?

    For the New York Times to finally come around to seriously considering a scenario like this:

    “If it turns out that the Covid pandemic was caused by a leak from a lab in Wuhan, China, it will rank among the greatest scientific scandals in history”

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/31/opinion/media-lab-leak-theory.html

    For the clearly extremely Left leaning and politically partisan “Progressive” New York Times to come out and allow an article like this to be printed is IMO an indicator that this can only mean two things:

    1. A majority of the American people have come or will soon come to reasonably believe that the Covid 19 virus is likely to have come from a Communist Chinese research lab. Funded in some degree by our own money through doctor, Anthony Fauci and his efforts.

    And, 2. Their sources now indicate that there is credible evidence that already exists or will soon exist and will be released to the public that supports the proposal that the Covid 19 virus was modified and developed by the Communist Chinese government in a Wuhan bio lab and was likely released as a function at the minimum of human error. Or worse.

    The New York Times IMO is clearly covering their political “Assets” here and they clearly understand that in the coming midterm elections this issue, among several other key issues, will play a major part in whether the current administration retains their slim majorities in the House and the Senate. Its all about retaining political power and control, PERIOD.

    And millions have died because of this kind of fake political “Asset” covering manipulation and fake journalism .

  • wayne

    Cotour–
    If the NYT’s told me the sky was blue, I’d wonder what sort of lie they were pushing.
    That being said:
    I have no doubt it was an intentionally engineered bio-weapon. It preferentially kills the old, that’s about all I need.
    As to how it got out into the wild, they don’t get the benefit of any doubt I might ordinarily have.

    [tangentially– “gain of function” research, sounds sorta innocuous, like what you expect from physical therapy after you broke your leg. Very Orwellian. I call it bio-weapon research, and we paid for it, in every sense of the word.]

    “Carthage, must be Destroyed.”

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