Dear President Smith,
Thank you for your “Reflections on Yesterday’s Verdict,” which you sent to Swarthmore students, alumni, faculty, and staff on April 21 and posted on the college’s website. Prompted by the announcement that Derek Chauvin had been found guilty of murdering George Floyd, you offered brief thoughts on the connection between liberal education and racial justice, social movements, and political change. As a Swarthmore graduate grateful for the long-ago introduction that the college provided me to liberal education, and as an observer of American politics troubled by the nation’s widening schisms, I read your message with great interest.
anything. there is no national movement to get bank of america or citibank to punish people for violating liberal orthodoxy. this is not about the left or the right. this is about common sense. if washington, d.c., dysfunctional city, does not stop up to the plate and do what needs to be done in this country, i commend corporations for having a corporate responsibility to do things. tucker: you have to break a few eggs i understand. i want to take what you just said and extended in the future. when companies decide that black lives matter has incited riots and said racist things, which it has paired all of a sudden, if you are affiliated with black
anything. there is no national movement to get to bank of america or citibank to punish people for violating liberal orthodoxy on guns. this is a result of lobbying. tucker, this is not about to the left or the right, this is about common sense, this is about common sense gun reform measures. in washington, d.c., dysfunctional city, it does not step up to the plate and do what needs to be done in this country, i commend corporations for having a corporate responsibility to do things tucker: oh, i get it. i understand. tucker tucker: let me ask you this. i want to take what you just said and extended to the future. when companies decide that black lives matter has incited riots and said racist things, which it has, all has, all of a sudden if you are affiliated
hanging over the head of scott pruitt or no? i don t think it is at all. i think the president and i think a lot of people in the white house, a lot more republicans than those speaking out against him are proud of the work he is doing. it s the most difficult work when you are opposing liberal orthodoxy. probably number two target in this administration after president trump is scott pruitt because he is doing things that are very effective at the epa like cutting the budget by about 30%. that triggers the cookiest leftists. science would be his main opponent when it comes to positions. that is why he is so controversial. he was fighting against it. there were things suggested that had come out about a rejection of climate science. now he is the head of the epa. that is all politics and policy. he has a string of ethical considerations several of which could have been seen as fatal by
you think as a conservative woman, it s harder for you, because i was looking at this new york times article, this is the quote. it s so weird, this is somebody who watched the last debate. she looks like one of us, but she s not. this is some woman who doesn t like your stance on planned parenthood. i mean, the media, they don t exactly love conservative women. well, exactly. that is the point, megyn. look, we know that most of the media is very liberal and we know that liberal women have trouble accepting that there are many, many women who don t agree with them. and in fact, it s liberal women unfortunately who believe that unless you follow their orthodoxy, rachel maddow is one. but hillary clinton is one, as well. she s the one who said about joni ernst when she was running for the senate, she said well, it s not enough to be a woman, you have to be a woman that believes. then she went through her litany of liberal orthodoxy. note to democrat party, we re