The Disappearance of Conservative Commencement Speakers

Re:The Disappearance of Conservative Commencement Speakers by carsongross on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @11:40PM (#7814581)

Condoleezza Rice - Neo-con and socially liberal

Christine Lagarde - Neo-con internationalist banker

Robert Birgeneau - Lifer academic liberal

Conservative... I do not think this word means what you think this word means.

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Re:The Disappearance of Conservative Commencement Speakers by asdfologist on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @11:56PM (#7814634)

Agreed on Birgeneau, but I don't understand your comment regarding the first two. You realize "neo-con" is short for neo-conservative right?

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Re:The Disappearance of Conservative Commencement Speakers by carsongross on Thursday May 29, 2014 @12:06AM (#7814667)

Globalist neo-conservatives are conservative in name only: they are typically socially indifferent, contemptuous of decentralization and tradition, and radically progressivist in international relations.

Russell Kirk was a conservative. Condi Rice is not.

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Re:The Disappearance of Conservative Commencement Speakers by asdfologist on Thursday May 29, 2014 @12:14AM (#7814691)

I'm not sure the author of the article is referring exclusively to social conservatism. There's also fiscal conservatism, which Republicans are associated with.

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Re:The Disappearance of Conservative Commencement Speakers by deciplex on Thursday May 29, 2014 @04:22AM (#7815280)

Yet somehow, they all end up in bed together.

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Re:The Disappearance of Conservative Commencement Speakers by icebraining on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @11:54PM (#7814622)

Yeah, it seemed weird to me the conflation of conservative and Republican. I mean, how is Timothy Dolan not a conservative?

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