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Chog Morson
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Education, housing and health care should be free

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In 1935, drug store magnate Charles Walgreen, testified that he had to withdraw his niece from the University of Chicago because she was being indoctrinated into a life of free love and Communism by her professors there. The evidence for the claims seemed...well...a little weak.

Alexis.
WALGREEN IN TESTIMONY ON HIS CHARGES
CHICAGO, May 13
-(AP) Charles
R. Walgreen, drug store magnate, today charged before a state senate committee that a University of Chicago professor advocated free love and that Walgreen's niece, 18-year-old Lucille Norton, of Seattle, Wash., was indoctrinated with communist teachings at the uni-versity.*
Appearing before five senators who are investigating the university ag the first of Illinois colleges to determine whether the students ot the state are being influenced by communist propaganda, Walgreen said of his niece:
"I know that neither her earlier education nor training nor her out-aide contacts could have iiven her those (alleged communist) views.
It was the character of the instruction and I infer that she was indoctrinated at the university,
"I am sure that the method subtle and insidious."
Walgreen caused a sensation recently when he withdrew his niece from the university, where she was a freshman, stating that the time she was "
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CMchogmorson.bsky.social

“Loose with the facts” is unnecessarily generous

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CMchogmorson.bsky.social

OK noted that you have poor judgement

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CMchogmorson.bsky.social

The numbers don’t seem even a little bit plausible, as he describes them

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CMchogmorson.bsky.social

They will not

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In three successive votes, SPLC staff used the tools of workplace democracy to express their lack of faith in SPLC leadership. Each time, they gave Margaret Huang and SPLC management a failing grade. That is why we are now calling for the Board to remove Margaret Huang as CEO.

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CMchogmorson.bsky.social

Pretty funny to quote Seth with this, check out his posts about the 70s-80s Oregon GOP embrace of neo-nazis and paranoid conspiracy theories

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CMchogmorson.bsky.social

There must be earlier examples, but David Duke's 1975 campus tour stands out to me as a template that conservatives are still using to promote bigotry while casting themselves as advocates of free speech and law & order

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Chog Morson
@chogmorson.bsky.social
North Carolina
118 followers307 following95 posts