A few years ago, a group of conservative students lamented the lack of conservative voices in our school assemblies. So, through a contact, they wanted to invite Tucker Carlson to come and speak. He's a St. George's grad and his children applied to our school. I interviewed one in Admissions.
There was considerable pushback from students and faculty alike. This was before Carlson dove deep into Trump's arsehole and embraced white nationalism for ratings. He was only about halfway up Trump's anal sphincter when we decided not to pursue him speaking at out school.
Now we have Carlson openly embracing anti-vaxxer nonsense. (Let me tell you, he absolutely has had the vaccine himself.) As Lemieux notes, Fox News demographics suggest that antivaxxer positions will get people killed. At this point, my parents are gone and their remaining friends have been vaccinated. Yes, having a bunch of morons refusing the shot will prolong the pandemic in some ways, but if the only people it kills are OANN addicts...I guess that's fair.
In the end, the decision not to invite Carlson - like every other position adopted by the left and center left in the last 20 years - turned out to be correct. The problem is not that we are trying to indoctrinate our students in a particular political ideology, but that a particular political ideology is incompatible with our school's mission.
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