{"id":651604,"date":"2021-08-16T15:37:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T19:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=651604"},"modified":"2021-08-16T15:37:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T19:37:11","slug":"university-of-texas-hires-commie-cadet-who-posted-photos-praising-cuban-revolution-communism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/university-of-texas-hires-commie-cadet-who-posted-photos-praising-cuban-revolution-communism\/","title":{"rendered":"University Of Texas Hires \u2018Commie Cadet\u2019 Who Posted Photos Praising Cuban Revolution, Communism"},"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\">26<\/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%2Funiversity-of-texas-hires-commie-cadet-who-posted-photos-praising-cuban-revolution-communism%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=651604&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/University-of-Texas.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The University of Texas hired a man known as the \u201ccommie cadet\u201d to teach at the university\u2019s New School for Social Research within its history department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Professor <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.utexas.edu\/history\/graduate\/gradstudents\/profile.php?id=sr49877\"><span>Spenser Rapone<\/span><\/a><span>, also known as the \u201ccommie cadet,\u201d was removed from the U.S. Army on an \u201cother-than-honorable\u201d discharge after he posted photos praising communism during a West Point graduation ceremony. Rapone has since been hired by the University of Texas.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During a May 2016 graduation ceremony, Rapone was photographed opening his dress uniform to show a T-shirt with a red image of socialist icon Che Guevara. Guevara is a Marxist revolutionary who played a major role in the Cuban Revolution. In a second image, Rapone is seen raising his fist and showcasing the inside of his hate which reads, \u201cCommunism will win.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rapone echoed this sentiment on Twitter.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.695652173913\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Communism will win<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Spenser Rapone (@SpenserRapone) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpenserRapone\/status\/815720490799132672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2018\/06\/19\/commie-cadet-sends-vulgar-message-on-his-way-out-of-the-army\/\"><span>Army Times<\/span><\/a><span>, an investigation into Rapone\u2019s online behavior uncovered that the former cadet used his online presence to advocate for a socialist revolution and disparage high-ranking military officers. Rapone was reprimanded for \u201cconduct unbecoming of an officer.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>West Point released a statement after Rapone\u2019s photos caused an uproar on social media. \u201cIn no way [do Rapone\u2019s actions] reflect the values of the U.S. Military Academy or the U.S. Army.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Speaking to the Associated Press, Rapone said that he considers himself a \u201crevolutionary socialist.\u201d He encouraged members of the armed forces to stop fighting on behalf of the United States, or as he calls the country, \u201cthe agents of imperialism.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI consider myself a revolutionary socialist,\u201d Rapone said. \u201cI would encourage all soldiers who have a conscience to lay down their arms and join me and so many others who are willing to stop serving the agents of imperialism and join us in a revolutionary movement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In an interview with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2018\/10\/spenser-rapone-interview-communist-army\"><span>Jacobin<\/span><\/a><span>, Rapone said that he does not believe that the U.S. military fights for \u201cfreedom,\u201d \u201ctruth,\u201d or \u201cjustice.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI was always told growing up that the U.S. military protects the innocent, that we fight for freedom, truth, and justice,\u201d Rapone said. \u201cIt didn\u2019t take me long to realize that my experiences did not reflect that in the slightest\u2026 We were just persecuting and terrorizing some of the most exploited people on Earth with one of the most technologically advanced militaries in history.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rapone\u2019s University of Texas biography states that he has a continued interest in socialism and conducts research on the subject. In particular, he researches \u201cBa\u2019thism,\u201d which is a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/4324510\"><span>fusion<\/span><\/a><span> of socialism and Arab nationalism.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c[Rapone\u2019s] research is primarily concerned with the question of the spirit and soul in modern thought,\u201d the professor\u2019s biography reads. \u201cSpecifically, he seeks to reconstruct and historically situate politico-theological ideologies such as Ba\u2019thism and similar thought-forms in the Arab World and beyond.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>His biography fails to mention his military service or his \u201cother-than-honorable\u201d discharge.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rapone teaches courses on the topics of \u201cModern Arab intellectual history, Modern Middle East and North Africa, metaphysics, consciousness, political theology, decolonization, [and] violence.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Texas hired a man known as the \u201ccommie cadet\u201d to teach at the university\u2019s New School for Social Research within its history department.Professor Spenser Rapone, also known &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651604","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\/651604","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651604\/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=651604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}