Stockton Univ. Student Faces Suspension for Zoom Background of President Trump

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How is this different than Communist China or Soviet Russia?

The left has destroyed our freedoms. They most certainly have destroyed academia. Defund these publicly funded universities. Our taxpayer dollars are funding this putsch. Time to get real.

Stockton U. Student Faces Suspension for Zoom Background of President Trump

By: Alana Mastrangelo, Breitbart, 9 Aug 2020:

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A student at Stockton University is facing a possible suspension and other disciplinary charges for making his Zoom background a photo of President Donald Trump and for a subsequent political Facebook post defending his freedom of expression, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). According to the university, the image of President Trump caused students “to feel offended, disrespected, and taunted.”

Doctoral student Robert Dailyda is facing six charges by Stockton University, including harassment and cyberbullying, and may have to take a “social justice workshop” if found guilty by administrators, announced FIRE in a statement on Friday.

Dailyda had used a photo of President Trump as his Zoom background image during a July virtual class which offended fellow students, who subsequently filed complaints. Dailyda later removed himself from the chat in order to “avoid continued conflict,” Stockton acknowledged.

Administrators at the publicly-funded university wrote in an incident report that the image of the president had caused students “to feel offended, disrespected, and taunted” during class.

The conservative student is also facing violations for publishing a subsequent “intolerant” political Facebook post defending his expression, according to FIRE.

In his post, Dailyda wrote, in part, “I’m ready to fight to the death for our county and against those that want to take it down.”

FIRE added that on July 10, administrators at Stockton University asked Dailyda to explain his political views, and that six days later, the school charged Dailyda with violating the code of conduct for “disruptive behavior, discrimination, harassment, creating a hostile environment, causing harm, and cyberbullying.”

On July 31 at a pre-hearing interview, a university administrator listed potential sanctions for the charges, which included: “[s]uspension, $50 fine, community service project, social justice workshop, and decision making workshop.”

“Like its Atlantic City neighbor, Stockton is doubling down and gambling with students’ constitutional rights — a risky bet when FIRE is involved,” said FIRE Legal Fellow Zach Greenberg to Stockton President Harvey Kesselman.

FIRE sent a letter to the university outlining Stockton’s obligation as a publicly-funded institution to respect its students’ First Amendment rights, reminding school administrators that the First Amendment also protects offensive expression, and that Dailyda’s expression is not considered discriminatory harassment.

“Stockton’s organizational leadership program claims to focus on the integrity of leadership, however from my experience they do not associate integrity with free speech and open debate,” said Dailyda. “They have created a deeply embedded and systematic environment that squelches the free speech of those who disagree with their radical agenda.”

“I never thought I would see this from a public university that should be facilitating a marketplace for the full spectrum of ideas, not a monopoly,” he added.

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Bill
Bill
3 years ago

” caused students “to feel offended, disrespected, and taunted.””
That is a much overused excuse for censorship in schools. Anyone can claim that.

Michelle
Michelle
3 years ago
Reply to  Bill

You wait until they make “pulling a face” a “hate” crime then we will all be in trouble, that is we are white and conservative.

Anthony Silvio
Anthony Silvio
3 years ago

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Andrew
Andrew
3 years ago

The federal government funds all colleges public and private through the student loan program There is no private or commercial bank student loan system. It is illegal to compete with the federal student loan program much like it is illegal to compete with the us post office in the delivery business. Both government monopolies need to be cancelled.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  Andrew

Black Total Trump Approval = 36%: Rasmussen Reports
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/trump_approval_index_aug07
Job Approval of Trump, National Likely Voter poll for full month of July:
Job Approval of Trump = 47%
Men = 49%
Women = 44%
GOP = 79%
Dems = 23%
Independents = 41%
White = 48%
Black = 36% [!]
Other Non-White = 51% [!]

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

And note that about 15% of conservatives won’t answer phone polls.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

These data help explain why the Dems mobilized the BLM riots, to regain black support. Hispanics are already a lost cause for Dems.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

These data help explain why the Dems mobilized the BLM riots, to regain black support. Hispanics are already a lost cause for Dems.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

We don’t either unless we recognize the ring tone. So we get bombed with text messages that are promptly deleted.

Amit Kumar
Amit Kumar
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

sue them out of existence everytime they take down Trump supporters , shut down conservative free speech and promote Left/.islam agenda.

This is how patriots fightback and win
http://offtrade.net/cnmnews/infidel-win-against-islamonazis/

corrupt Left/liberal media will not talk about it lest it wake up the masses to fightback !

But most conservatives won’t fund, support but prefer someone else fight their battle , while they prefer to be internet “warriers”. That is why the Left/Jihadis win.

They are united and will use all fair and foul means to destroy American law for their benefit/power grab

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

That’s encouraging!
Hope it continues. We can’t have Biden in there.

Robert Kahlcke
Robert Kahlcke
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

DEMOCRATS = COMMUNISTS.
Better Dead Than Red.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  Andrew

We need to hand that back to private sector banks – ALL OF IT! Let them explain how they need money to major in Queer Ideology or African Studies. As tax payers we PAY for that crap! Let banks set up loans for them. Give poor kids a lower interest rate – just stop soaking tax payers with this nonsense.
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camigra
camigra
3 years ago

Covington school boys come to mind. He should sue the establishment.

R
R
3 years ago

Another higher institution taken over by the looney the left that needs adult supervision.

Fount
Fount
3 years ago

I am offended by the very existence of Leftists. They need to be sent to conservative re-education camps.

Suzette
Suzette
3 years ago
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Joseph
Joseph
3 years ago
Reply to  Fount

I think that they need to be sent to Communism Re-education in China!
Of course, without the possibility of returning to the United States…

Sweetp Holt
Sweetp Holt
3 years ago
Reply to  Joseph

I second the motion – all in favor raise both hands.

Karl Elshoff
Karl Elshoff
3 years ago
Reply to  Fount

Just kick them out of their parents homes and send them to the college of hard knocks and you have your conservative education camp.

geirsmith
geirsmith
3 years ago

Radical Group Calls For 50 Day “Siege” of White House & For a New World Order

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Reveal Obama’s real name is Barry Parks. Destroy Antifa. Join me in spreading this fast. Save the USA/whole world from these Islamic-Leftists.

Laddyboy
Laddyboy
3 years ago
Reply to  geirsmith

I heard the 0b0z0 has used about SIX (6) different last names during its life-time.

geirsmith
geirsmith
3 years ago
Reply to  Laddyboy

Yes. Isn’t it strange that no one will touch the name Barry Parks? All the other names are out there and talked about. But they’re hiding the name Barry Parks and that’s strange as hell, (so maybe that’s the right one).

Laddyboy
Laddyboy
3 years ago
Reply to  geirsmith

I heard of the “parks” name about 4 years ago. Since then nothing. This is why I put the ZEROS in the name of 0b0z0. Have you heard the comment these two GRIFTERS made at the Flag Ceremony? It was captured on an open mike. I have not heard it played since the first time. These two GRIFTERS were at the Ceremony and 0b0z0’s mate came up to it and said; ” all this over a F#!@*NG Flag”. Then they both laughed. At that second —- ALL RESPECT for these two DISAPPEARED FOREVER!!!!

geirsmith
geirsmith
3 years ago
Reply to  Laddyboy

Parks is Rosa Parks’ name.
Obama’s real name is Barry Parks. He’s Rosa Parks’ nephew.
His father Jim T. Parks was lynched by Kansas KKK-types that are related to Obama’s own family and the family wants to cover it up.

geirsmith
geirsmith
3 years ago
Reply to  Laddyboy

All info about Obama’s real past and Barry Parks name comes from Obama’s own Kansas cousin Linda Joy Adams.
She’s got a blog, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, etc…but no one wants to hear the truth about Obama’s past. He’s the Golden Calf. Nobody will touch him because he’s a poisoned evil.

But we better speak up or Obama’ll torch the White House with the Antifa and turn the Oval Office into a battleground.

The Siege of the White House activists are gearing up for warfare.

Democrat Supported Marxist Group Plans Siege on White House Starting September 17 for 50 Days Until the 2020 Election

Alert: Marxist Group Planning A Political Coup In November In Preparation to Forcibly Remove A Victorious President Trump From Office
Monday, August 10, 2020

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The Russian collusion hoax was the most blatant attempt to remove a duly-elected president from office in the history of our country.

Granted, the criminal investigation into the alleged co-conspirators of that coup attempt is still ongoing, but few Americans really expect anything to come from U.S. Attorney John Durham’s probe anyway except more wrist slaps and a report detailing all of the uncharged criminality that occurred.

Kind of like when then-FBI Director James Comey read through a list of classified info violations Hillary Clinton ‘allegedly’ committed for which she was never charged (because, we would later find out, Comey wanted her to win the 2016 election, not Donald Trump).

https://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2020/08/alert-marxist-group-planning-a-political-coup-in-november-in-preparation-to-forcibly-remove-a-victorious-president-trump-from-office-3537410.html

Our secret Kryptonite against SuperObama is his real name: BARRY PARKS!!!!!!!!!!!

geirsmith
geirsmith
3 years ago
Reply to  Laddyboy

Unmask the usurper Obama by revealing his real name: Barry Parks is his name.
Obama’s got the signs of the greatest criminal in all history. Trump said so. We’ve got to reveal this horror, we’re on a mission to do this. Stand up and shoulder your duty. Soldier up! Rise to the challenge!!!!!!

Jay
Jay
3 years ago
Reply to  Laddyboy

To date: Not one person has come forward who actually saw Obama (Barry Soetoro) on a college campus. Nor have we seen a legit birth certificate.

Enturbulated Masterbator
Enturbulated Masterbator
3 years ago

So can a conservative group of students claim the same against a Leftist and get the same results? And excuse me, “…explain your political beliefs…” ?!! I would tell them to f¥ck off.

Michael Garfinkel
Michael Garfinkel
3 years ago

So, Stockton college, named after Richard Stockton, a signer of the American Declaration of Independence, is now a decaying husk, run by a pusillanimous nobody named Harvey Kesselman.

Kesselman, who caters to hysterical “students” who “complain” that the image of president Trump causes them to feel “offended, disrespected, and taunted”, has threatened the young man who posted the image with “[s]uspension, $50 fine, community service project, social justice workshop, and decision making workshop.”

Presumably at the conclusion of such proceedings, the young perpetrator will have developed the same slug-like qualities that have served Stockton president Harvey Kesselman so well.

We can only hope that FIRE sues this school for damages – and wins.

You just can’t make this stuff up.

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joe blow
joe blow
3 years ago

“…the school charged Dailyda with violating the code of conduct for “disruptive behavior, discrimination, harassment, creating a hostile environment, causing harm, and cyberbullying.”

Naturally, for The Left or Socialists, every accusation they make against this man are the VERY things they themselves are doing and, as usual, the accused is doing none of them: he’s just stating, showing his opinions; stopping no one; criticising no one; harassing no one; causing no one harm and keeping no one from doing the same.

Unless, of course, you’re someone whose personal self-worth is bruised, painfully so, if you are unable to force everyone to spout your opinions by rote.

thushjz
thushjz
3 years ago

I’m so glad my son went to and got his degree from a really solid conservative Christian University…

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
3 years ago

In the spirit of the First Amendment and freedom of expression, f*ck Stockton!

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

Jesse W. Brogan
Jesse W. Brogan
3 years ago

I find students who take such offense at the very image of people who disagree with their understanding to be an offense against students who are there to learn.
If they are not focused on what they are there to learn, they should be invited to leave.

Commissioner Gordon
Commissioner Gordon
3 years ago

Just wait until these communist college administrators become public bureaucrats, what fun.

Last Puff
Last Puff
3 years ago

When I was in college a LONG time ago, students who whined and got hurt over things like this would have been soundly ridiculed by other students and ignored by the university. What a long way we have traveled in the wrong direction.

Joseph111
Joseph111
3 years ago

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“Administrators at the publicly-funded university wrote in an incident report that the image of the president had caused students “to feel offended, disrespected, and taunted” during class.”
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huh?? is this what we have evolved into? A picture of the president of the United States is considered offensive??
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time to shut down this institution of higher indoctrination to marxist and facist ideology …
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jkm49
jkm49
3 years ago
Reply to  Joseph111

institution of LOWER LEARNING also.

Liberalism_IS_INSANITY
Liberalism_IS_INSANITY
3 years ago

“social justice workshop”?????????????????????????????????

SO, now our kids are learning how to INTIMIDATE AND DESTROY EVERYONE WHO OPPOSES THEM in our colleges.

TIME TO SEND YOUR KIDS TO OTHER COLLEGES WHO ACTUALLY BELIEVE IN OUR CONSTITUTION.

Glen Benjamin
Glen Benjamin
3 years ago

Sue the school for harassment and intentional infliction of emotional distress, they built a campus near the casinos. Now close it and pay this guy millions for your frivolous nonsense.
Where is the ACLU? I guess they only defend liberal rights. Plus the federal government and state government need to withhold funds. I doubt the state will because NJ is liberal.

Robert Kahlcke
Robert Kahlcke
3 years ago

Robert wouldn’t make a PIMPLE on a Doctor’s ASS.

Andrew Blackadder
Andrew Blackadder
3 years ago

I wonder if the kid had used a photo of Osama Bin Laden, maybe that wouldnt offend the snowflakes.

jkm49
jkm49
3 years ago

Public school in essence a government affiliated institution. The government has no right to suppress anyone’s Free Speech, it says so in the Constitution. “Golly Gee Wilikers” I thought everyone knew that. Damn where is the ACLU when a conservative’s Constitutional rights are step on. Oh that’s right they don’t defend anyone but those that want to topple the country, how foolish of me.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

Public universities are nothing but cesspools of leftist, atheist indoctrination and propaganda.

volksnut
volksnut
3 years ago

Welcome to the world we now live in – Was it Thomas Jefferson that said you have a Republic – if – you can keep it .. This is why i support Hillsdale College they take no funds from the Government and teach a strict Constitutionally based curriculum – They also publish a free monthly newsletter – Imprimus – which is great ..

Merchantseamen
Merchantseamen
3 years ago

They need to sue each one on the board for big $$$$. Also ask for Alumni donators names with the hint they are on the sue list also.

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