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Campus Curiosities 'Conservatives in the mist.'
Commentary ^ | 30 Nov 2018 | Abe Greenwald

Posted on 12/01/2018 4:45:05 PM PST by Rummyfan

In the current issue of Vanity Fair, there’s an article by Nancy Jo Sales headlined “‘They Say We’re White Supremacists’: Inside the Strange World of Conservative College Women.” Sales profiles conservative young women at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and they’re well worth hearing out.

These women think in interesting and nuanced ways at a time when most political activists are fleeing to the extremes. And the things they say don’t fit neatly on popular platforms that thrive on outrage. On Donald Trump: “Morally, I don’t stand with him,” says 19-year-old Cammie McMahan. “He’s not moral,” says Caitlyn McKinney, also 19. “But what he represents for the Republican Party, I strongly support.”

These female students are pro-life, but they don’t resemble the cartoonish absolutists of progressive nightmares. “I think Plan B is morally permissible because conception can occur anytime in the six days after sex,” says McMahan. “So I think it’s O.K. And Plan B is, like, perfectly accessible—you can get it at Walmart and Target. If I was raped, I would do that.” Sales adds: “Cammie and Caitlyn also felt they were not in a position to judge any woman who decided to have an abortion.”

Gabby Derosier, who’s the same age as the others, is particularly thoughtful on sexual assault, Brett Kavanaugh, and Republicans. “I don’t want anyone to get their lives taken away because of something that wasn’t true—I’m on that side,” she says. “But I also know that rapes happen on this campus all the time, and lots of girls don’t even feel like they can report them because of how no one’s going to believe them or help them for lack of ‘evidence’ or whatever.”

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TOPICS: Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: conservatives; education

To the liberal mainstream, conservatives who are young, female, or part of an ethnic minority are anthropological curiosities. They’re strange because they exist. Every day, newspapers and magazines celebrate young progressive Americans who live their lives as experiments in redefining social, economic, familial, and biological reality. But when you stumble upon a college student like Caitlyn McKinney, who says “I don’t know how it’s liberating for women to let men see them as just another hookup. I want someone to actually think I’m special and love me”—you’ve come across a discovery on par with the mythical giant squid.


1 posted on 12/01/2018 4:45:05 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Progressives are so yesterday. Bold, strong women who are not herd animals are conservative. Not every woman had the courage to stand up and stand out.


2 posted on 12/01/2018 5:00:52 PM PST by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Rummyfan

>>“I don’t know how it’s liberating for women to let men see them as just another hookup. I want someone to actually think I’m special and love me”—you’ve come across a discovery on par with the mythical giant squid.

Blame NOW, the dyke leader wanted to hook up with women and under aged girls. she advocated the promotion of pornography, prostitution, homosexuality, and promiscuity. Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics is probably on a reading list for at least one class at her school.


3 posted on 12/01/2018 5:03:19 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
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To: Rummyfan
To assume anyone other than white cannot be conservative is asinine. This horrifies the left.

The greatest threat to America and the world is the white leftists.

4 posted on 12/01/2018 5:06:31 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Rummyfan

How are the women detailed here conservative?


5 posted on 12/01/2018 6:49:57 PM PST by Celerity
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To: Celerity

That was my question, too. Other than the chick who said she supported the Republican party, but could not articulate why. Though I didn’t read the article; I don’t visit that site.


6 posted on 12/02/2018 6:29:29 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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