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The semester is almost at a close and the UNC professors seem determined to squeeze as much into these last few weeks as possible. Papers, projects, exams, presentations, all piling up on each other. Yet even amongst this busyness our writers found time to churn out a few articles based on current events, here in Chapel Hill and in America at large.

In this issue you’ll read everything from new staff writer Samuel Mao’s take on the recent Hollywood scandals to Jesse Oliver’s defense of capitalism. It’s the end of the year, and some of us needed to blow of some steam, so a few writers opted to try their hands at satire. Such articles have been noted as such. I wouldn’t want you thinking the Review was having an identity crisis.

Lux et Libertas,

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Editor-in-Chief

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Editor-in-Chief: Alec Dent / Layout and Copy Editor: Matthew McCullers / Associate Editors: Will Rierson, Jesse Oliver / Staff Writers: Chris Antonello, Hinton Carter, Jesse Brooks, Jonathon Beatty, Sami Snellings, Wyatt McNamara, Richard Wheeler, Samuel Mao / Editors Emeriti: Charlton Allen, founder; Nathan Byerly, Bill Heeden III, Scott Rubush, James Bailey, Steve Russell, Matt Rubush, Deb McCown, Adam Herring, Fitz E. Barringer, Brian Sopp, Taylor Stanford, Ashley Wall, Bryan Weynand, Nash Keune, Zach Dexter, Anthony Dent, Alex Macey, Chase McDonough, Kelsey Rupp, David Ortiz.

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Anti-Fascists for Fascism: We Want YOUJesse Oliver

Hollywood: A Cesspool of Liberal PredationSamuel Mao

The Conservative ProvocateurAlec Dent

Art at Its BestWyatt McNamara

OppressonymsChris Antonello

College Students Can’t Learn if They Won’t ListenWill Rierson

Why CapitalismJesse Oliver

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Fascism: a form of radical authoritarian nationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and control of industry and commerce.

Are you a someone with absolutely nothing to do who’s mad that Trump is in office? Do you need a place to misdirect all your pent up anger and aggression towards the Trump administration? Are you willing to do everything in your power to see to it that every citizen who doesn’t agree with you

has no right to help decide the future of the country, or even voice their opinion (totally not like a fascist by the way)? Well don’t throw a temper tantrum just yet, you still have a chance to join ANTIFA! What exactly does ANTIFA do? Well I’m glad you asked!

As a member of ANTIFA, you’ll be able to band together with other

Anti-Fascists for Fascism:We Want YOU!

A satirical pitch for why you should join ANTIFA

members and shut up absolutely anyone who has a differing view or opinion through…. violence! That’s the secret to ANTIFA’s success! Forget the old ways of having an intelligent discussion with your fellow countrymen. That’s just some outdated Founding Fathers’ technique. Why actually have to learn enough to defend your position when you could just forcibly silence your opposition through violence and shouting (lots and lots of shouting). Now you may

be wondering why ANTIFA operates in this way. Well, simply put, because all conservatives, Trump supporters, and everyone else who doesn’t think like ANTIFA are inherently evil. ANTIFA must save you from having your minds infected with conservative mumbo-jumbo like self-reliance and fiscal responsibility! Those pesky conservatives like to mention facts when they

debate, whereas we like to use feelings and emotion. This kind of makes it hard to beat them during debates... but we found another way! Our goal is to reach a point where only a certain group of people who meet our criteria are allowed to speak in public or debate. It’s very much so like an authoritarian dictatorship, but we’re the good people so it’s okay!

Still doubting the effectiveness of ANTIFA? I was hoping you’d say

that so that we could run through a couple of ANTIFA accomplishments. I’d first like to start off with how great ruining Milo Yiannopoulos speech went! We were actually able to get the speech canceled, but not through normal means of protest, because that doesn’t get you anywhere! No, ANTIFA was able to get the speech canceled by violently protesting in the

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“Our goal is to reach a point where only a certain group of people who meet our criteria are allowed to speak in public or

debate.”

JESSE OLIVERSophomoreComputer ScienceLumberton, NCjesseoliver43098@gmail.com

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streets. There’s no need to go inside and put our minds to work by asking Milo questions or debating with him when we can just cause so much property damage to several locally owned businesses that they’re

forced to shut the speech down! Sure, some of those businesses were owned by minorities or members of the Left, but when they see that our actions caused a conservative to not be able to speak, I’m sure they’ll be fine with paying hundreds of thousands in property damage!

My second favorite ANTIFA accomplishment was on August 27th in Berkeley when ANTIFA was able to stop a peaceful march with just the threat of violence. It had to be canceled because of safety concerns, but we still beat up a few Trump supporters. This canceled protest had been labeled as anti-Marxist, and we did not want that viewpoint expressed. What’s our number one rule over at

ANTIFA? If you don’t like it, use weapons and violence to stop it! Many people think this is somehow “terrorism” and a petition was actually made on the White House website to officially label ANTIFA as a terrorist

organization. The petition was signed by over 300,000 people, only actually needing 100,000 to get to its second phase, which is when White House officials have to actually consider the petition. However, this is obviously ridiculous. Terroristsit make use of unlawful violence and intimidation in order to gain political power. ANTIFA is obviously nothing like…. okay well… maybe just a tad bit.

But ANTIFA has to be this way! How else do we plan to end hateful rhetoric and speech? Talking obviously isn’t going to work since every time we try to debate these “hate speakers” they come back with logic, facts, and a plan based on evidence of what has and hasn’t worked

in the past, which is basically an extremely insensitive way to do things since peoples feeling aren’t taken into account. Without feelings and identity politics, it’s impossible to get people to understand what we believe,

which is why it’s absolutely necessary to punch people in the face when they disagree with you! CR.

“It’s very much so like an authoritarian dictatorship, but we’re the good people so it’s okay!”

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In case you’ve been living under a rock over the past month, Hollywood has recently been exposed as a hotbed of sexual assault. Some of the biggest players in the game, including Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Ben Affleck, and Roman Polanski have been accused of downright perverted acts, ranging from seducing minors and groping women all the way to rape. A comprehensive

list of accused sexual predators in Hollywood is available on Breitbart News, and at the time of writing includes 73 prominent stars in this deviant industry. The focus of this article is not to condemn these sex predators for their despicable crimes—that has already been done by the mainstream media—but instead to point out the hypocrisy of these Hollywood liberals regarding the treatment of woman and victims.

Hollywood: A Cesspool of Liberal Sex Predation

Don’t let the Hollywood elite fool you again by claiming their ignorance on the matter. The recently revealed sexual predation in Hollywood has been known by members of the industry and by the political elite for decades. Seth MacFarlane included a joke about Harvey Weinstein forcibly meeting with woman in 2013, and also depicted a naked child running away “from Kevin Spacey’s basement” 12 years

ago. Instead of helping the victims and exposing these perverts, MacFarlane decided to make jokes about these atrocious crimes.

Ashley Judd, who came forward regarding Weinstein’s constant request for sexual favors, kept silent about his harassment for more than a decade. Keep in mind, this is the same lady wearing a pussyhat during last year’s women’s march, screeching about how much Trump supporters hate

woman. Where was the outrage when young women were being violated by the man she then called boss? Is this inactive bystander someone you want to take advice from as to who to vote for?

Kevin Spacey claimed that he was drunk when he made sexual advances toward a fourteen-year-old and grabbed the genitals of an eighteen-year-old.

He was drunk!? Is this not the exact same defense the Stanford swimmer Brock Turner used last year? The public (rightfully) called for his head on a silver platter. In this case, I don’t quite see the same outrage from liberals. Instead, many even championed him as a hero because he came out as gay.

Why don’t I see any feminists marching on Hollywood protesting against sexual assault and harassment? Where are

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“Don’t let the Hollywood elite fool you again by claiming their ignorance on the matter.”

SAMUEL MAOPolitical ScienceJuniorGill, MAsammao@live.unc.edu

The Left’s immoral “high ground”

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the signs and pussyhats calling for these predators to be locked up? I mean, considering that one million of them showed up in protest over some private comments made by Trump to a colleague, you’d expect there to at least be some public showing, right?

In comparison to locker room talk, these are scenarios where actual

people are actually having their bodies violated sexually, as the whole industry basically turns a blind eye to their suffering. This lack of activity on the part of liberals goes to show how they still don’t have their priorities straight, and that the women’s march is more of an anti-Trump march, rather than about accomplishing anything productive for women.

Maybe we conservatives can start a change this time around to actually benefit women and change the culture of the film industry. The most powerful vote we can cast is the vote of our money. I say we stop contributing to this despicable industry by not watching anything produced by Hollywood and not buying/renting any movies from them. By doing so, we can at least do our part in stopping some funding to these sexual deviants and their enablers, for the time being. If you think this may

be too hard, just imagine if it were your kid or loved one who was a victim of these perverts, and how you would feel if the entire industry looked the other way.

I say enough is enough. Hollywood liberals call conservatives backwards for wanting to own guns while being protected by bodyguards with guns. They lecture us on global

warming/climate change, while driving their Lamborghinis and flying on their private planes. These Hollywood elites want to instruct us on how to treat women, while at the same time doing and enabling the most horrendous of crimes against them.

Remember this the next time they tell you who you should hate, and who you should vote for. CR.

“This lack of activity on the part of liberals goes to show how they still don’t have their priorities straight, and that the women’s march is more of an anti-Trump march, rather than about accomplishing

anything productive for women.”

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Well, another year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has begun. And it’s the same old, same old at Carolina. More late nights in Davis, more letdowns in Kenan Stadium, and more “progressive” student protests. This year the movement du jour has been getting Silent Sam taken down, most notably through a campus wide boycott of school stores. Which, of course, provide scholarships to low-income students and provide jobs to low-income workers. Fortunately, the boycott only lasted a month, not enough time to do any damage. Such questionably effective tactics are hardly new additions to the UNC campus progressives’ repertoire. Take, for example, when students shut down Franklin Street to protest House Bill 2, despite the fact that nobody there had anything to do with it. Heck, if anything store owners in Chapel Hill were probably against it too. And who could forget last year

when progressive students proved Ben Shapiro was close-minded by…walking out so they didn’t have to hear his point of view? Not sure what the logic was there, but anyway, mission accomplished for them. Unfortunately, that sort of logic—or lack thereof—is pervasive amongst progressive college students.

Now, before I go any further I should say that there are a good number of conservatives and even some level-headed liberals on campus. Not every, and maybe not even a majority, of students belong to the club of craziness that is the Far-Left. Unfortunately, from the occasional protest to routine lunacy in the classroom, the normal voices are drowned out by louder and more extreme ones.

Progressive students attempt to silence or vilify their opposition, creating a world in which they don’t have to leave their comfort

zones. A world in which everyone agrees with them. What a dull world that would be. An unfortunate side effect of their inane quest for comfort is what it does to their opposition, we conservatives. When faced with the openly hateful and divisive progressives, it’s tempting to respond by doing whatever you can to “trigger” them. And a lot of conservatives do just that. Milo Yiannopoulos has taken this approach and, to his credit, gets a lot of attention for it. It may be a lot easier—and more fun—to send the Social Justice Warriors scurrying to their safe spaces than to attempt to reason with them, but long-term this strategy fails. You don’t win any minds, you give a bad name to conservatism, and ultimately, though ideologically opposed, you become like the SJWs as you choose hateful rhetoric over substance. And even if you have something substantial to offer to the conversation, the divisiveness of your past

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“You don’t win any minds, you give a bad name to conservatism, and ultimately, though ideologically opposed, you become like

the SJWs as you choose hateful rhetoric over substance.”

The Conservative Provocateur Be Socrates, not Milo

ALEC DENTJuniorJournalismLumberton, NCalecmdent@gmail.com

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words will distract from it.

While civil discourse isn’t strictly a conservative concept, more and more frequently over the years it’s fallen to us conservatives to defend it. If conservatives give up on the notion of civil discourse it will fall by the wayside and the behavior of Donald Trump and SJWs will become the norm.

The fact is, adopting the battle plan of the alt-right probably does more damage to the conservative cause than anything a liberal could hope to accomplish. Especially now, with Trump giving the conservative movement a bad name every time he opens his mouth. George W. Bush on the other hand did an excellent job of promoting conservativism. Agree or disagree with him, Bush’s “conservative with a conscience” is precisely what we as conservatives are supposed to be. Not hateful, not bigoted, not reactionary, but calm, proper, and caring. We are supposed to stand for civil discourse, for engaging in actual conversation instead of entering a shouting match. It is the only way to bring out ideological opposites into the fold.

Many disagree with this approach, saying it is tantamount to allowing leftists roll over conservatives. However, being civil doesn’t mean we have to sit and take

the abuse. Rather, we should show the fundamental flaws in modern liberalism in a logical and polite manner. Socrates set a good example for conservatives to follow. He was the self-described gadfly of Athens, biting and annoying the city, provoking it into action instead of allowing it to fall into mediocrity. And he triggered the ancient Athenians by questioning and ultimately disproving many of their ideas. But Socrates’ method of provocation was vastly different from Milo’s. He engaged people in conversation. He talked them through the issues, listening to all points of view and bringing them to a logical conclusion. In doing so he, and his interlocutors, could separate the correct view from all the wrong ones.

Like Socrates was with Athens, we can be the gadfly, provoking so that Chapel Hill can be the best school that it can be, a truly open and diverse environment. We can point out the double standards of protestors, the narrow mindedness of professors, and the silliness of the administration. And we can do so without name calling, microaggressions, or safe spaces. We can do so politely. When you engage in conversation and listen to all sides you can make it clear which ideologies are wrong, which is what a liberal arts

education is ultimately about. And you know what? Getting proven wrong will annoy the progressives even more than anything Milo and Co. could ever say or do. CR.

“But Socrates’ method of provocation was vastly different from Milo’s. He engaged people in conversation. He talked them through the issues, listening to all points of view and bringing them to a

logical conclusion.”

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Looking for a place to come and use the darkroom in peace? Possibly catch up on Edward Hopper and maybe even appreciate some student art? If the answer to this question is a resounding “yes”, come on down to Hanes Art!

Here, all of your efforts to pursue any kind of a-political academic interests will be entirely thwarted when upon walking through the door you are accosted with a massive liberal mural faster than you can say “Vincent Van Gogh.” Unless you’re legally blind (sorry if that was a little 20/20 normative), you’ve probably already noticed this 10 foot x 10 foot masterpiece. To be completely honest it’s stunning and at least rivals some of Picasso’s early etchings; I myself am even thinking of co-opting a few pieces for use as apartment decoration simply due to how much joy they bring to my soul. I think “MAKE UNC A SANCTUARY CAMPUS” would fit nicely next to the American flag in the living room. Unless these are just recycled old Antifa posters tacked up by the janitor merely out of pure boredom, I think I might have some idea of how these deeply thought-provoking art pieces arrived in the building.

From what I can piece together, it must have all

started sometime last fall when upon entering class in Hanes Art, one our many, many notoriously conservative professors here at UNC must have greeted his students and begun class with the following: “Greetings, this is LGBT Culture and Heritage in Art 101 and I, your Professor who always remains politically neutral and never expresses his opinions in class, would just like to state that I have an assignment for you. You’re all to go home and paint something that inspires you. Try to steer away from anything political and just give me something that encapsulates you.” Upon saying this I suspect his students went home, thought long and hard about the assignment, considered the risks and relative benefits of all their various options, and finally decided on something seminal, something truly inspiring, and above all, something clearly with no political motive: “BERNIE 2k16 OR BUST.” “ITS HATE NOT HERITAGE.” “GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS.” Upon receiving the projects back from his students, I assume this professor carefully looked them over, assessed them on technical skill in the various strokes and use of shading in the letters and finally after hours of deliberation, shrugged and said “Alas, exactly what I was

looking for.” Tripping over a life-size cardboard cutout of Karl Marx on the way out the door, this professor then carried the magnificent works of art into the corridor and searched for a place to hang them on the crowded halls of Hanes Art. Coming to a section populated by vintage Michelangelo paintings and a portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright, he looked at these and thought to himself “These seem a little white-male-normative don’t you think?” Striking them down from the wall, his students’ art was erected in its place and thus was likely born the iconic mural of Hanes. At least, this is the legend as I’ve heard it told.

However, I now regretfully inform you that in backlash to this monument of freedom and bastion of equal representation in Hanes, UNC has begrudgingly admitted that, to be fair, there must also be a conservative mural erected somewhere on campus. Thus, beginning January 2018 the entire script of “Capitalism the Unknown Ideal” is being printed on the side of the economics building. Also, every textbook has been replaced quite well-worn copies of Atlas Shrugged. If you don’t believe me you can check the verification of this under section 34b of the student handbook. CR.

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Art at Its BestA satirical guide to the Hanes Art Center

WYATT MCNAMARAJuniorCommunicationsNew Durham, NHwyattmc@live.unc.edu

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Names are oppressive. Two years ago, UNC renamed Saunders Hall because of William L. Saunders’ connection to the Ku Klux Klan. That connection, believe it or not, actually hindered students’ ability to learn inside the building. Renaming it something as dynamic as Carolina Hall really made it a different building and helped erase Mr. Saunders from our collective memory. And this is only the beginning. I am calling on the University to rename every last building on campus because everyone for whom a building is named has quite the sketchy past.

Let’s begin with Phillips Hall. James, Charles and William Battle Phillips were known to patronizingly hold doors open for women, as if women weren’t able to open their own doors. What were they suggesting? I say we rename it Gender Equality Hall to spite those chauvinists.

Hamilton Hall may have been named for Roulhac Hamilton, but who else shared that surname? That’s right, Alexander Hamilton, who was friends with a slaveowner, George Washington. Hamilton also cheated on his wife. Rename it 1972 Hall to commemorate the fact that it was constructed in 1972.

Who was Dudley DeWitt Carroll? Not only is he the namesake for the home of the School of Media and Journalism, but he also shares a first name with Harry Potter’s cousin. I don’t want to be reminded of mean old Dudley Dursley every time I enter Carroll Hall. Rename it Chapel Hill Hall. It is in Chapel Hill, after all.

The English department is housed in Greenlaw Hall, named for Edwin Greenlaw, who was once seen spitting out his gum in the woods. He more than likely contributed to the murder of a small rabbit. To retroactively teach him a lesson, we should rename his building Nature Hall.

One of the biggest atrocities is Manning Hall. How dare they? What if a woman wants to enter a hall with the name “Man” in it? I guess they’ll have to hope for class to be held outdoors. It was named for a man (of course) named Isaac Hall Manning. I think we have two viable options for new names. We can call it Hall Hall for a little comedic relief, or we can call it Down With The Patriarchy Hall.

What about Dey Hall? It’s pronounced “die.” I’m not sure the last time a deceased person was in Dey Hall, so why are we honoring the dead there? What about the

living? Let’s call it something a little more inclusive, like The Building Where Men and Womyn Come If They Have a Pulse.

Are you getting the gist of the proposed remedies to these oppressive buildings? If UNC wants to truly be the “University of the people,” then administration will get its act together and give every last building a much more generic name so that buildings stop oppressing our students. CR.

OpressonymsThe satirical case for renaming everything

CHRIS ANTONELLOSeniorJournalismRaleigh, NCcpa18@live.unc.edu

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The First Amendment is in a state of emergency on the college campus. Destruc-tive protests in opposition to free speech have broken out nationwide in the last few years, threatening a right and principle that students once championed.

In fact, the First Amend-ment emergency is so severe that the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing June 10 to receive input from experts on the issue.

A Pew poll released July 10

shows the majority of Repub-licans think colleges have a negative impact on America. I value my college experi-ence, but I understand how people can feel left out and betrayed by academia.

I have witnessed it first-hand. I helped host Ben Shapiro, a conservative com-mentator, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill through the College Republicans in the spring of 2016. While sitting on the

College Students Can’t Learn if They Won’t Listen

The First Amendment emergency on the college campus

front row of his public lec-ture, I videotaped a protest against free speech that is all too typical on college cam-puses today.

About a third of the 400-person auditorium was composed of left wing stu-dents dressed in black. These students staged a walk-out about a minute into Shap-iro’s opening remarks, refus-ing to heed his calls to learn a new yet controversial per-spective.

Shapiro made the argu-

ment that parenting, not race, is the dominant fac-tor in setting up young people for success in life. He claimed the political left uses race as a wedge issue, while the right attempts to judge people by the content of their character. I tend to agree.

The protesters went out-side the lecture hall to hold a rally against perceived rac-ism and bigotry while dozens of tolerant conservative and

liberal students poured into their empty seats to hear Shapiro.

I sent the video into Cam-pus Reform, a website dedi-cated to covering left wing intolerance in higher educa-tion. Later that year, I in-terned as a correspondent for the outlet and covered similar stories.

Through the Shapiro walk-out and Campus Reform internship, the scope of the college free speech crisis became clear to me. Many

of the country’s brightest young minds cannot bear to hear opinions different from their own, and they will go to extreme lengths to shut out diverse thought.

This should alarm citizens concerned about the state of free speech in society, as pos-itive societal advancements are driven by constructive dialogue and criticism. Op-position to free speech in the nation’s top academic en-claves threatens to stall the

WILL RIERSONSeniorPublic Relations, Political ScienceWinston-Salem, NCwrierson@live.unc.edu

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“Many of the country’s brightest young minds cannot bear to hear opinions different from their own.”

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progress of American pros-perity.

Speech codes, safe spaces, protests against minority opinions––often those held by conservatives––and at-tempts at keeping politically incorrect speakers off cam-pus have made colleges some of the most intolerant places in America.

In the fall of 2015, stu-dents at Yale University hysterically confronted Nicholas and Erika Christa-kis, two married professors serving as residential direc-tors. The students were upset after Mrs. Christakis called into question the illiberal condemnation of culturally appropriate Halloween cos-tumes.

The professor eventu-ally resigned because her students could not live and learn with someone who refused to cloak them in an intellectual and emotional bubble––leftist intolerance has claimed victims.

A protest at the University of California, Berkeley ap-proached the definition of a riot this spring. There, a black-clad mob effectively shut down a speech sched-uled by Milo Yiannopoulos, an outlandish free speech provocateur of the alt-right.

The protest against Yi-annopoulos drew national media attention, and sub-sequent speaking attempts made by other right wing figures were met with threats

of violence and dissuading letters from university ad-ministrators.

In the 1960s, Berkeley students protested when administrators prevented communist speakers from addressing the campus. Now they shut out speakers whom they deem deplorable. The original home of the college free speech movement of the 1960s became the epicenter of the anti-free speech move-ment of today.

College students should test their beliefs through ex-posure to new ideas and de-bate. Learning from diverse perspectives can strengthen their intellectual growth. You can find another opin-ion repulsive, but still accept its right to be spoken.

By welcoming all forms of free speech on the college campus, students and admin-trators may grow in empathy and knowledge. This will add value to the college degree and help prepare America’s future leaders for a diverse world.

I wish that the protest-ers at the Shapiro lecture had stayed to hear what an intelligent stranger had to say and engaged in debate. Leaders from student gov-ernment, ethnic groups, and social justice coalitions were among the crowd that re-fused.

We need voices for toler-trators may grow in empathy and knowledge. This will add

value to the college degree and help prepare America’s future leaders for a diverse world.

I wish that the protest-ers at the Shapiro lecture had stayed to hear what an intelligent stranger had to say and engaged in debate. Leaders from student gov-ernment, ethnic groups, and social justice coalitions were among the crowd that re-fused.

We need voices for toler-ance and free speech at all levels of the education and public policy communi-ties. Opinion leaders should stand up and speak out for the rights of everyone to be heard. CR.

“College students should test their beliefs through exposure to new ideas.”

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Socialism in America is reaching the height of its popularity with the recent emergence of Bernie Sanders and college snowflakes everywhere. People can chalk up this surge of popularity to many things. I attribute this socialist surge in America to short memories and misinformation provided to the American people by the media. I’m here to remind you exactly why America is a capitalist society, and to show why socialism and communism will always be worse for the consumers and the workers.

To start, it’s obvious socialism and communism have failed many times over the past century. Discussing this fact with American socialists however, always results in the same response; “Oh, that wasn’t real/correctly implemented socialism.” This is why bringing up socialism’s past failures isn’t enough. You have to attack this issue

from a different angle or else debates between socialists and capitalists will never end. This is why the best way to debate against socialism is by using common sense to show how flat out immoral it actually is to its citizens.

A socialist society is supposed to make everyone equal through the government redistributing wealth. Individuals don’t really own anything, but instead all people equally own all factors of production. Your paycheck comes from whatever money

the government decides to let you keep based on how many hours you’ve worked. In essence the government steals a large portion (50%+ for middle class) of your potential earnings in order to control all facets of the economy. The government runs the businesses, corporations, restaurants, schools, hospitals, you name

it! Because everything is run by the government, there is no competition. Why would a restaurant care about serving better food when that extra effort does not result in extra pay? Every restaurant is run by the same owners; the government. The government under socialism is going to get the extra revenue from any sales increase, so why would any restaurant manager try to make better food or provide better service for their customers when it doesn’t benefit them? You can take this logic and use it

on everything the government runs under a socialist society. Capitalism is different because different owners of different businesses will compete to attract more customers. They will produce products that consumers want, not those that the government thinks we should have. Did I mention they also have to compete for lower production costs and

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“The fact remains that it’s immoral and evil to tell someone what they can and can’t do with their life. In this sense the

government owns you in part.”

Why CapitalismAnd why not socialism

JESSE OLIVERSophomoreComputer ScienceLumberton, NCjesseoliver43098@gmail.com

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increased efficiency? This results in greater value for the customer. It’s a consumer dream while socialism is a nightmare not only for the consumer, but for the workers as well.

Being a worker in a socialist society means doing what you’re supposed to do with no opportunity to own a business of your own. The ceiling is only about as high as you can jump and workers can hardly make a big difference in their society. It’s impossible to come up with your own business idea and start something that may benefit everyone. Only the very few people at the top of the system can determine whether a new business gets started, and what those new businesses are. This leaves the consumer with a much lower quality product than in places like America where everybody has a chance to make their own business model and product. This makes life not only much better for the person who came up with the product or invention, but for his or her fellow citizens as well. This is why capitalist production will always outpace socialist production.

Even if someone thinks putting all the means of production in the government’s hands is a good idea because of “fairness” or even if they think it’s more efficient (not true), the fact remains that it’s immoral and evil to tell someone what they can and can’t do with their life.

In this sense the government owns you in part. That’s not freedom, that’s not liberty, and that’s certainly not the vision of the American dream the Founding Fathers had in mind when they wrote the Declaration of Independence. The individual in America is meant to be as free as possible and socialism rips away some very important freedoms individuals should have.

Socialism is a bleak, dull, cruel world. Everyone is “equal” not in their sense of opportunity, but more-so in the sense that every member of cattle is equal. The government is there to take care of you and make you feel like you NEED it to live. The socialist government isn’t there to keep its people safe, it’s there to own its people. People are nothing and government is everything. In a capitalist society, people are equal in opportunity, and have greater control of their own destiny, which is what real equality is. CR.

“This is why the best way to debate against socialism is by using common sense to show how flat out immoral it actually is to its

citizens.”