Ivanka Trump complains of 'cancel culture' after university cancels her speech

[turbinetree]

WSU Tech stops first daughter’s commencement speech amid criticism of Donald Trump’s response to George Floyd protests

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/ivanka-trump-cancel-culture-kansas-speech#img-1


Ivanka Trump has hit out at “cancel culture and viewpoint discrimination” after plans for her to give a virtual commencement speech to students in Kansas were canceled amid criticism of Donald Trump’s response to anti-police brutality protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.

Administrators at Wichita State University and WSU Tech announced their decision just hours after they had said the US president’s daughter would be speaking to WSU Tech graduates. Administrators of both universities, which are affiliated, said Saturday’s graduation for the technical university would be “refocused” on students, with a nursing graduate as the only speaker

The move clearly angered Ivanka Trump, who is a top adviser in the White House and whose husband, Jared Kushner, is one of the most influential figures in the Trump administration.

She responded in a tweet, saying: “Our nation’s campuses should be bastions of free speech. Cancel culture and viewpoint discrimination are antithetical to academia. Listening to one another is important now more than ever!”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/ivanka-trump-cancel-culture-kansas-speech

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Why a University would even bring this to even speak at the University is beyond me, she has no moral authority or principles, and people wonder why the country is going to hell in a hand basket.................this is prime example of / was going to give a bullshitter a platform to well................ speak more bullshit............unf***ing believable ..................

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. "Viewpoint discrimination" bwahhahahahahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

*inhale*

Bwaaaaaaahhahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Zoonart]

7. Yes... that's right Vonkers...

You're the victim.

[Dream Girl]

2. Maybe she can speak at the Devry Institute graduation

[jrthin]

14. And then there is trump university.

[dalton99a]

3. The plastic vacuous grifter learns a new word

a new buzzword

[sop]

4. Is that why your father wants to cancel the RNC convention in North Carolina?

[Ohiogal]

5. She can always teach

Grifting 101

[11 Bravo]

6. Fuck off, princess.

[grumpyduck]

8. My heart bleeds for you.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

9. Yes, she is a "cancer." n/t

[sakabatou]

10. So whiney, just like her father.

[Yonnie3]

11. Trump University would love to have you speak.

Oh sorry, they're gone.

[agingdem]

12. why the hell did they invite her to speak in the first place?

and tell the vapid siliconed blonde twit bringing a white $1500 handbag to a "for the people" march to St Johns Church was as classless and her depraved daddy waving a bible in the air like he was brandishing a gun...detestable people all of them!

[magicarpet]

13. Princess Botox says what ?

[oasis]

15. "Antithetical to academia". And her dad's 18,000+ lies should be ignored.

[Baked Potato]

16. Sorry Princess, Daddy has soiled your crown. Please consider exile.

[Brother Buzz]

17. A canned speech delivered electronically by a pseudo princess penned by an uncredited wordsmith

"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

[Frustratedlady]

22. Good one!

I'm SO frustrated that the Little Princess has been shunned, it will ruin the rest of my day. She probably had a new dress, and everything.

[CottonBear]

18. Fuck her. Go to hell. N/T

[Tarheel_Dem]

19. Don't worry Ivanka, there's always Falwell University.

[louis-t]

20. Yes, you fool, because it's always about you.

And you have nothing important to say. Shut up and stay home.

[Gothmog]

21. Boo hoo

[Paladin]

23. Shall we all shed bitter tears re Ivanka's plight?

"Fuck no" is the correct response.

[Blasphemer]

24. "Viewpoint discrimination" aka rejection of racism, hate, and civil liberties violations...

Lots of republicans have spoken at university commencements. University students have diverse perspectives. Barbara Bush spoke at Wellesley. This is not about reasonable minds disagreeing. This is about rejecting an administration that is a menace to civil society.

[dameatball]

25. I've always felt a little guilty that I abhor graduations. I did not attend mine in college but did

attend each of my three children's. Usually the speakers just seem to go on forever as well as do the long lines. Having said that, who in the name of god would willingly sit through all that hoopla and then subject themselves to an Ivanka speech??

[KY_EnviroGuy]

26. Someone please tell Ivanka this is a practice run for next January.

Lots of Trump family cancellations next January........

Guarantee yaw'll this was originally done for political reasons and phone calls were made. Rethug legislature funds state system of higher education. Of course, no one would ever admit to it.

KY........

[erronis]

27. This quote: "the daughter of a New York real estate billionaire opined:...". Substitute "loser" x2

Seeking to reassure students now facing mass unemployment triggered by widespread shutdowns to curb the virus, the daughter of a New York real estate billionaire opined: “In my own life, I have found that my greatest personal growth has arisen from times of discomfort and uncertainty.”

[struggle4progress]

28. "It's so hard for me to get the attention I crave!"