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Special snowflake: ‘Make America Great Again’ hat is ‘hate speech’ on college campus

SJW freaks out over a hat
SJW in Canada loses cookies over a hat.

A viral video posted to YouTube on Thursday shows a college student at Canada’s Mount Royal University being berated by a local SJW who thinks the phrase “Make America Great Again” on a hat consists of “hate speech.”

Here’s the video:

According to the CBC:

“You’re not allowed to share hate language in a university,” the woman, later identified as Zoe Slusar, the former vice-president of student life at MRU, is heard saying.

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“I’m not allowed to support a political candidate?” the man, later identified as Matt Linder, replies.

A group soon gathers as an argument ensues over whether it is appropriate for him to wear it.

“Make America Great Again means make America all for white people: no immigrants, no people of different sexual orientation,” the woman says.

Slusar, the CBC added, issued a statement reading:

“He is allowed to wear the hat,” she wrote. “As a student, I disagree with what the hat represents. I have diverse friends (culturally and sexually) who would drop a class if the person wearing the hat was sitting in the room with them, because they would feel unsafe. Given the deeper issues of intolerance and oppression represented by the hat, I disagree with it.”

Unsafe?  Over a hat?

A post at Truth Revolt provided a bit more information about the exchange:

Linder’s friend, who is filming this, jumps in and asks, “What is hate language about this?”

“Make America Great Again means make America all for white people: no immigrants, no people of different sexual orientation,” she explains.

“You just said he doesn’t like immigrants,” the friend argues. “His wife’s an immigrant. It’s illegal immigrants he doesn’t want.”

Slusar is undeterred and demands that she come with him to discuss it with the university President David Docherty.

Other students begin to gather and one is so outraged by the hat that he steals it from Linder, thereby saving the other snowflakes from the piece of dangerous headgear — or to be more precise, the words displayed on it.

What this incident shows is the totalitarianism inherent in liberalism.  It used to be that liberals would say they disagree with a point of view but would defend the right to express it.  Those days are long gone.  Modern liberals (or progressives, or whatever other name one wants to use) have more in common with those who once ran certain dictatorial regimes in 20th century Europe than they do with classic liberals.

The CBC said that university officials are aware of the video but declined to comment on the incident.

“Mount Royal University respects individuals who exercise their constitutionally-protected right to freedom of expression,” the school said in a statement.

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Joe Newby

A 10-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Joe ran for a city council position in Riverside, Calif., in 1991 and managed successful campaigns for the Idaho state legislature. Co-author of "Banned: How Facebook enables militant Islamic jihad," Joe wrote for Examiner.com from 2010 until it closed in 2016 and his work has been published at Newsbusters, Spokane Faith and Values and other sites. He now runs the Conservative Firing Line.

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