{"id":1439157,"date":"2022-04-14T21:30:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T01:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1439157"},"modified":"2022-04-14T21:30:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T01:30:29","slug":"exclusive-mike-pence-campus-leftists-are-threatened-by-conservatives-because-theyre-not-used-to-being-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-mike-pence-campus-leftists-are-threatened-by-conservatives-because-theyre-not-used-to-being-challenged\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 Mike Pence: Campus Leftists Are Threatened by Conservatives Because They\u2019re \u2018Not Used to Being Challenged\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-mike-pence-campus-leftists-are-threatened-by-conservatives-because-theyre-not-used-to-being-challenged%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1439157&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia \u2014 Former Vice President Mike Pence spoke about the importance of an active conservative movement in America\u2019s education systems, telling Breitbart News, \u201cOne of the most important battlefields for the future is\u00a0on the campuses of our colleges and universities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News sat down with Pence in Pavilion IV on the Lawn at the University of Virginia, part of Thomas Jefferson\u2019s historic Academical Village, which he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virginia.edu\/visit\/grounds\">designed<\/a> to be the physical representation of the \u201cintellectual frontiers that lay open to discovery\u201d \u2014 an apt location given the topics he was set to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/04\/13\/mike-pence-speaks-at-university-of-virginia-the-antidote-to-woke-america-is-freedom\/\">address<\/a> later in the evening to an auditorium packed with students.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Pence was optimistic about the future of education in America, as more and more conservatives are getting involved and changing institutions to be more liberty-centric after decades of leftist control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe antidote to cancel culture is freedom. The antidote to woke America is freedom,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I really believe that because of the work that conservatives are doing of traveling around the country, going on to campuses, bringing our message\u00a0and our\u00a0agenda of freedom. Freedom starting to win back ground on\u00a0college and university campuses around the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leftists\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/04\/12\/exclusive-after-cancellation-attempt-mike-pences-u-of-virginia-speech-will-prove-the-value-of-the-first-amendment\/\">attempted<\/a> to force the school\u2019s administration to ban Pence from speaking, but some administrators and faculty at the university stood up for the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI was not surprised by the initial opposition to me coming here,\u201d Pence told Breitbart News. \u201cBut I was pleasantly surprised by the willingness of the administration and prominent members of the faculty to stand up for freedom of speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked what he thought the left was afraid of in hearing his point of view, he said that college campuses had been largely ideologically monolithic for decades, and intellectual confrontation \u2014 once the cornerstone of a college education \u2014 was an affront to the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone\u00a0that has\u00a0looked to higher education in the last 40 years\u00a0has seen the increasing dominance of left-wing politics, whether it be Marxist economics or socialist policies,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019ve really dominated on the college campuses and really become the\u00a0central guiding philosophy on many campuses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think conservatives being willing to take our case to the campuses and challenge that liberal\u00a0orthodoxy is very threatening to some who are not used to being challenged, because the truth of the matter is\u00a0they\u2019re out of practice defending their agenda,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to speaking with Pence, Breitbart News received an email from a Virginia father whose daughter is a high school senior who wants to attend UVA.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The father was concerned by the controversy surrounding Pence\u2019s visit and said that free expression is \u201csomething very meaningful to me and my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur family is potentially looking at a significant financial investment, where we\u2019re going to have to sacrifice, to send her to a place where she\u2019s going to feel stifled and restricted from expressing her viewpoints,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>When asked how he would respond to the father, Pence said, \u201cI would say to that father\u00a0that I think freedom is winning\u00a0on campuses around America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pence said the fact that he is speaking at UVA is proof-positive of this, and brought up another recent controversy surrounding his ability to speak at Stanford University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke at Stanford recently, and the\u00a0Young America\u2019s\u00a0Foundation group at Stanford had to appeal three and four different times to get the student senate to approve my opportunity to speak on campus, and we had protesters both inside and outside,\u201d he explained, saying there could just as easily be protesters at his speech to UVA that was only hours away.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>For Pence, though, \u201cthat\u2019s what freedom sounds like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe deafening silence of liberal orthodoxy on campuses has stifled open debate for decades, but it\u2019s opening up now,\u201d he concluded. \u201cI think the more that we can have conservative students on campus, the more that we can have conservative speakers on campus, and frankly, the more that we can see people pursue careers in academia and come on to the campus bringing a conservative worldview, it\u2019s going to be the better for America and the better for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Active and involved conservatives are not just required for the future of colleges and universities, Pence said, but for K\u201312 schools as well.<\/p>\n<p>School choice is paramount to fixing America\u2019s education system, he explained, pointing to the nationwide, grassroots parents movement to reform school boards, remove their members, and elect new ones as a response to the indoctrination taking place in their children\u2019s schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think there\u2019s always been \u2014 and let me let me say this as the husband of a school teacher, Karen spent 35 years in public and private classrooms \u2014\u00a0I think there\u2019s always been among the American public a\u00a0certain deference to school teachers, a certain respect for school teachers, and support for public education is reflective of that,\u201d he said, referencing Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), who rode the education issue to victory last November.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18559858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1350682674.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18559858\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1350682674.jpg\" alt=\"RICHMOND, VIRGINIA - NOVEMBER 01: Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin and his wife Suzanne Youngkin arrive to a campaign rally at the Chesterfield County Airport November 01, 2021 in Richmond, Virginia. The Virginia gubernatorial election, pitting Youngkin against Democratic candidate, former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, is tomorrow. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin and his wife Suzanne arrive to a campaign rally at the Chesterfield County Airport, November 1, 2021, in Richmond, Virginia. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cBut I think what you saw in Glenn Youngkin\u2019s election here in Virginia \u2014\u00a0which you\u2019ve seen in school board elections around the country\u00a0in the last year and I think you\u2019ll continue to see \u2014 is that is that parents are embracing an agenda of education freedom, and in a very real sense\u00a0taking back our schools and taking back ownership of our schools,\u201d Pence added.<\/p>\n<p>Pence said the stage has been set for significant changes in education, which is largely an unintended result of the coronavirus pandemic and its heavy restrictions on children.<\/p>\n<p>Parents started to take notice of what their children were really learning at school because many of them were required to attend class on a computer, Pence said, \u201cand they weren\u2019t happy about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The issues that made headlines out of Loudoun County, Virginia, were the issues that defined this new national movement for conservatives, which \u201cturned out\u00a0a Democrat administration and elected Governor Glenn Youngkin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the issue does not stop at the borders of the Old Dominion.<\/p>\n<p>Parents around the country witnessed \u201cheavy pressure from the teachers\u2019 unions\u201d to force school closures \u201cwhile many private schools around America opened up and so many parents were asking the question why they couldn\u2019t choose to send their children to the\u00a0private, Christian, parochial school down the street that was open as opposed to having them study at home at the kitchen table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is why it is important for conservatives to empower \u201cparents to take back our schools and choose where their children go to school, and to recognize the importance of parental rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pence said he believes that right now is a historical \u201cmoment for education freedom and school choice as never before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Breccan F. Thies<\/em>\u00a0<em>is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter\u00a0<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreccanFThies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BreccanFThies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia \u2014 Former Vice President Mike Pence spoke about the importance of an active conservative movement in America\u2019s education systems, telling Breitbart News, \u201cOne of the most important battlefields<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}