{"id":1663475,"date":"2022-09-29T05:05:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T09:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1663475"},"modified":"2022-09-29T05:06:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T09:06:36","slug":"princeton-university-marks-constitution-day-with-event-deeming-founding-document-a-form-of-geopolitical-gaslighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/princeton-university-marks-constitution-day-with-event-deeming-founding-document-a-form-of-geopolitical-gaslighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Princeton University Marks Constitution Day With Event Deeming Founding Document \u2018A Form of Geopolitical Gaslighting\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fprinceton-university-marks-constitution-day-with-event-deeming-founding-document-a-form-of-geopolitical-gaslighting%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=1663475&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>Princeton University celebrated Constitution Day in mid-September with an event featuring a panel of academics who spent 90 minutes deriding the country\u2019s founding document as &#8220;a tool of geopolitical gaslighting&#8221; that &#8220;furthers a racial crisis and a democratic crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/effroncenter.princeton.edu\/events\/university-constitution-day-lecture#:~:text=Princeton%20University&#039;s%20annual%20Constitution%20Day,law%20to%20the%20present%20day.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">event<\/a>, titled &#8220;Citizenship and Its Discontents in Our Evolving Democratic Republic,&#8221; was billed as &#8220;a public occasion to consider the Constitution and its lived implications throughout United States history&#8221;\u2014almost all of which, according to the panelists assembled, have been negative.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a debate in this country as to whether the Constitution should be abolished,&#8221; said sociology professor Patricia Fern\u00e1ndez-Kelly, who moderated the panel. She went on to argue that &#8220;the Constitution doesn\u2019t provide an aspirational program to fulfill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the university, Michael Hotchkiss, declined to comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fern\u00e1ndez-Kelly was joined by panelists Rhacel Salazar Parre\u00f1as, a professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of Southern California, who described the Constitution as &#8220;a tool of geopolitical gaslighting&#8221;; the political analyst Rich Benjamin, who argued that &#8220;the fact and the dogma of the Constitution&#8221; have caused a &#8220;racial crisis and a democratic crisis&#8221;; and history professor Rosina Lozano, who barely even addressed the Constitution, choosing to focus on how a lack of bilingual ballots caused the &#8220;disenfranchisement and mistreatment&#8221; of the Spanish-speaking community\u2014including undocumented immigrants\u2014in America for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Princeton\u2014like every other university that receives federal funds\u2014is <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/policy\/fund\/guid\/constitutionday.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">required<\/a> to host an annual event marking Constitution Day that includes &#8220;an educational program about the U.S. Constitution for its students,&#8221; according to the Department of Education.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The event was once hosted by Princeton\u2019s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institution, run by prominent conservative legal scholar and public intellectual Robert P. George. The Princeton administration in 2007 transferred responsibility for the event to the Program in American Studies, which was recently folded into the university\u2019s new Effron Center for the Study of America. In the years following the change, the James Madison program cosponsored the event alongside the American Studies Program, but this year the James Madison program declined to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The event was billed as a discussion of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Princeton University celebrated Constitution Day in mid-September with an event featuring a panel of academics who spent 90 minutes deriding the country\u2019s founding document as &#8220;a tool of geopolitical gaslighting&#8221; that &#8220;furthers a racial crisis and a democratic crisis.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe post Princeton University Marks Constitution Day With Event Deeming Founding Document \u2018A Form of Geopolitical Gaslighting\u2019 appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1397,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1663475","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\/1663475","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\/1397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663475\/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=1663475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}