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Students establish rightist book club

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For those who think the University campus is too liberal-leaning, a new student organization can help expand knowledge of ideology. UP FROM LIBERALISMWhat: Conservative book club When: 6 p.m. Sunday Where: SLC by Jittery Joe's Several students have started a conservative book club called "Up from Liberalism," named after the first book being read....

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George Lazenby

posted 8/28/08 @ 6:56 AM EST

What are they going to read? "In Defense of Internment?" "Treason?" "Mein Kampf?"
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jay

posted 8/28/08 @ 8:09 AM EST

Right, George, because being a conservative equals being a Nazi. Get your dailykos.com email a little early today?

Also, you sucked as James Bond. You were entirely too soft and unbelievable as a killer.
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Sports Supplements

posted 12/12/08 @ 3:51 PM EST

Originally posted by

jay

 Right, George, because being a conservative equals being a Nazi. Get your dailykos.com email a little early today?

Also, you sucked as James Bond. You were entirely too soft and unbelievable as a killer.



LOL Thanks for the laugh. Great post
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John C.

posted 8/28/08 @ 9:06 AM EST

I don't know. What does the liberal book club read? "Hypocrisy: A Self-Analysis"? "Flip-Flop: Strategies for People Who Can't Win Elections"? "Abortion For Dummies"?
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Nick White

posted 8/28/08 @ 10:03 AM EST

"cover the underrepresented conservative side on campus?"

Isn't college republicans the largest chapter in the country?

During my time at UGA Conservatives were anything but underrepresented.
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Stacie

posted 8/28/08 @ 10:44 AM EST

Originally posted by

Nick White

 "cover the underrepresented conservative side on campus?"

Isn't college republicans the largest chapter in the country?

During my time at UGA Conservatives were anything but underrepresented.



I agree, but I think the reason that liberals seem to outnumber the conservatives is because most liberals actually step out and are very proactive in being involved and voicing their opinions. Most conservatives are pretty passive about their beliefs, at least that is the impression I get.

Since being liberal in the south seems to be "out of the norm," it is obvious when a liberal is out in the community pushing their ideas through protests, projects, and community service even.
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jeff gungrey

posted 8/28/08 @ 10:45 AM EST

Just because one is a member of the College Republicans doesn't mean one is a conservative. As Mr. McCain has shown with his record, you can be a Republican in name and not a conservative in thought.
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neither republican nor democrat

posted 8/28/08 @ 1:18 PM EST

Originally posted by

jeff gungrey

 Just because one is a member of the College Republicans doesn't mean one is a conservative. As Mr. McCain has shown with his record, you can be a Republican in name and not a conservative in thought.


Exactly. Just as Mr. Bush has shown that you can call yourself a conservative while spending over 500 billion dollars in a frivolous territory struggle. Obviously the line has been drawn between social conservatism and fiscal conservatism.

Oh well. I guess now conservative officially means "hates the gays."
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This is rich.

posted 8/28/08 @ 11:49 AM EST

Thank you Jesus. It's about time that the "underrepresented" conservatives on this campus finally had a voice.

Are you kidding me? Have you ever left this state? UGA is definitely the most conservative public University I have ever seen in my life. Maybe you could transfer to Bob Jones University. Your conservative base would probably be well represented there.

Oh well. At least they're reading now.
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Peter Wallens

posted 8/28/08 @ 12:42 PM EST

Sounds like a great group. Definitely needed at UGA. I can probably count the conservative professors on one hand.
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car games

posted 4/18/09 @ 12:03 PM EST

Originally posted by

Peter Wallens

 Sounds like a great group. Definitely needed at UGA. I can probably count the conservative professors on one hand.


it doesnt mean that one is conservative..thanks a lot for ur post.car games
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zaid

posted 8/28/08 @ 4:28 PM EST

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Gunn said the group is starting with the same idea to "cover the underrepresented conservative side on campus."

This reminds me of the moment in the Simpsons movie when Mr. Burns, sitting triumphantly outside of an isolated Springfield where power has been cut off in his self-generated well-powered mansion declaring, "For once, the rich white man is in control!
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Ste

posted 8/28/08 @ 4:46 PM EST

If liberals establish a similar club, will the headline read "Students Establish Leftist Book Club"?
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Cat

posted 9/27/08 @ 1:11 PM EST

Originally posted by

Ste

 If liberals establish a similar club, will the headline read "Students Establish Leftist Book Club"?


Umm, probably. What's your point?
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UGAChemDawg

posted 10/06/08 @ 7:27 PM EST

Originally posted by

Ste

 If liberals establish a similar club, will the headline read "Students Establish Leftist Book Club"?


Irrelevant. A liberal book club is not as news worthy as a conservative book club, though it would probably still make the paper on purely informative grounds. Still, academia is an inherently liberal environment and the vast majority of clubs on campus besides Greeks that exist for other-than-recreational purposes are liberal. So, reporting on the formation of a conservative book club but not a liberal one in no way indicates bias, at least not anymore than reporting on a hip-hop dance troupe forming in Podunk, Kentucky but not a Square Dance club forming in the same town indicates bias. It's just that one is normal in the area and the other is not.
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Greg

posted 8/29/08 @ 12:31 AM EST

It's refreshing to see that liberals still don't know how to properly make arguments.

This is rich: Mr. Gunn is actually from Louisiana (and thus HAS left the state). Furthermore, the fact that UGA is the most conservative public university you have seen does not mean that it is conservative at all much less is dominantly conservative. While it may be conservative, your opinion of its being the most conservative you know means nothing. I'd say the faculty here is at least majority liberal if not overwhelmingly so. And even if students are conservative, that doesn't mean that there is a proper representation of groups for them. Until this semester, conservatives had UGA College Republicans (I'm pretty sure the UGA Libertarians doesn't exist anymore) and the Guard Dawg (which only comes out once a month). Liberals have Young Democrats, Campus Greens (of which Zaid is a member) Demosthenian, Phi Kappa, The Red and Black. I could go on...

I'm also surprised at Zaid because the Simpsons are all for mocking the Green Party and its movement through ridiculing Lisa.
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Six Deck Blackjack

posted 9/27/08 @ 1:29 AM EST

It's a very good step towards the exchange of views and expressions.The group will surely play an important in enhancing the conversational abilities of the members.
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vegandawg

posted 9/28/08 @ 5:17 AM EST

I wish this were around when I was a student. I would have protested it j/k Ida joined you should add Thomas Sowell to your reading list.
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Rich Jerk

posted 10/06/08 @ 12:00 AM EST

As a rich jerk, I must do my duty and tell all you tree-hugging liberals to stuff it. ;)
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Caution

posted 10/06/08 @ 10:58 AM EST

"For me it's really important that what I believe is backed up by as much reading and research as possible. It gives a 'why' to explain when I say I'm conservative."

Now, look. There are legitimate philosophical differences between conservatism and liberalism. As much as I disagree with the principles of trickle-down economics, for instance, we all must admit that businesses employ people and that struggling businesses employ fewer people. I'm not one to call the average conservative on the street any nasty, Marxist names just because the capitalist employment system is imperfect. My opinion on neo-conservative muddling of "moral" issues is another matter, but I digress.

On the other hand, let's critically analyze this statement by the group's VP. This is not examination taking place. It is rationalization. First belief, then information. I think anybody needs a support group now and then, but I find it disheartening that a university student group would rather immerse itself in dogma than engage in question and discovery.

My advice to the group: don't let this become a place for concocting explanations for the problems facing conservatism. In this safe group, question conservatism and liberalism and allow yourselves to mature as independently thinking young adults.
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Andy

posted 10/06/08 @ 12:37 PM EST

I find it interesting that all of these liberal are complaining about a conservative book club. If it was a LGBT literature club or a book club analyzing the darker history of America they would probably find it enlightening and informing. Yet another example of liberal hypocrisy.

While there are more conservatives than liberals on campus, liberals' voice often dwarf them because of a "progressive" faculty, liberal student newspaper, and the general leftist theories that only exist in college communities that don't exist int he real world.

As a freedom loving conservative, I support peaceful assembly by all groups.
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umm...

posted 10/06/08 @ 5:08 PM EST

i'm sure that these meetings will be very well attended and produce a cornucopia of brilliant talking points. i think it's kinda cute. like the oprah book club or a brownie bake-off. but this is what i want to know. will all the frat children bring their paddles to these meetings? will there be beer pong and a totally cool rock band? are popped collars mandatory...because with this conservatively run economy i don't currently have the money to buy a collar poppable shirt.
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seriously?

posted 7/06/09 @ 12:29 AM EST

Originally posted by

umm...

 i'm sure that these meetings will be very well attended and produce a cornucopia of brilliant talking points. i think it's kinda cute. like the oprah book club or a brownie bake-off. but this is what i want to know. will all the frat children bring their paddles to these meetings? will there be beer pong and a totally cool rock band? are popped collars mandatory...because with this conservatively run economy i don't currently have the money to buy a collar poppable shirt.


if you were even half informed on the makeup of greeks on campus, you know that a large percentage fall in line with democratic thought. guys and lots of girls included. cut the stereotypes. it simply shows you have nothing of value to add to the conversation. p.s. we don't live in the north. if you see someone downtown with a popped collar, theres a very good chance he's a part of your gdi brethren.
just because some don't drink the kool aid (and if you keep up with the news, you'd see many realize they did) doesn't mean you should categorize them as rich white men.
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Assignment

posted 3/18/09 @ 2:50 AM EST

This book club encouraging middle and high school students to discover the power of literacy and reading
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pj

posted 3/18/09 @ 7:58 AM EST

whatever.
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Gillian Kerr

posted 7/03/09 @ 4:38 PM EST

I like articles like this. Great Article! Thanks!
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