{"id":906863,"date":"2021-10-21T17:14:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T21:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=906863"},"modified":"2021-10-21T17:14:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T21:14:19","slug":"university-of-virginia-students-vandalize-thomas-jefferson-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/university-of-virginia-students-vandalize-thomas-jefferson-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Virginia Students Vandalize Thomas Jefferson Posters"},"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\">16<\/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-virginia-students-vandalize-thomas-jefferson-posters%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=906863&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 readability=\"30.929889298893\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/\">Campus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Rep. Chip Roy, National Review editor smeared as &#8216;racists defending rapists&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Close_view_of_Statue_and_Rotunda_at_University_of_Virginia_736x514-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Close_view_of_Statue_and_Rotunda_at_University_of_Virginia_736x514.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Close_view_of_Statue_and_Rotunda_at_University_of_Virginia_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Close_view_of_Statue_and_Rotunda_at_University_of_Virginia_736x514-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tThomas Jefferson statue at the University of Virginia \/ Wikimedia Commons\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/alex-nester\/\" title=\"Posts by Alex Nester\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Alex Nester<\/a> \u2022 October 21, 2021 5:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"116.75018982536\">\n<p>Students at the University of Virginia vandalized posters that advertised an upcoming event to celebrate the school&#8217;s founder, President Thomas Jefferson.<\/p>\n<p>The school&#8217;s chapter of the Young America&#8217;s Foundation on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YAFatUVA\/status\/1451226861271404547\/photo\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> images of several posters for their &#8220;Defending Mr. Jefferson&#8221; event that had been scribbled over with permanent marker calling the former president a &#8220;rapist&#8221; and his defenders &#8220;racists.&#8221; Texas representative Chip Roy (R.) and <em>National Review<\/em> editor Rich Lowry, both alumni of the university, are set to discuss Jefferson&#8217;s legacy.<\/p>\n<p>Roy told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>&nbsp;that the school has slid into the &#8220;leftist cabal&#8221; of elite learning institutions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s no surprise that students at my alma mater are trashing things that great Americans like the Young America\u2019s Foundation are doing, like flags for 9\/11 or banners in defense of Justice Amy Coney Barrett,&#8221; Roy said. &#8220;You&#8217;ll have the university defend them to the hilt, but they&#8217;re not going to stand up and allow us to have a free exchange of ideas at Mr. Jefferson&#8217;s university? It&#8217;s slouching into the leftist cabal of the Ivy Leagues, unfortunately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives at the University of Virginia continue to face intimidation and pressure from progressive peers. Earlier this semester, students <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/article?id=18156\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">destroyed<\/a> the Young America&#8217;s Foundation&#8217;s memorial for the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The university&#8217;s College Democrats chapter in 2017&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/article?id=9604\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smeared<\/a> College Republicans as racist and falsely accused its members of attending the white supremacist &#8220;Unite the Right&#8221; Rally in Charlottesville. And alumni, students, and staff were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/07\/19\/marc-short-university-virginia-trump-protest-700348\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outraged<\/a> in 2018 when the university hired Marc Short, an aide to former president Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>A message left on one poster read &#8220;racists defending rapists&#8221; underneath the name of the event, which was crossed out. Other posters were covered up with fliers that advertise a student-led campus movement to divest from fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of the group&#8217;s posters were drawn on or covered up, the Young America&#8217;s Foundation said in its tweet. A spokeswoman for the university did not respond to a <em>Free Beacon<\/em> request for comment in time for publication.<\/p>\n<p>While only a handful of students could have responsible for the vandalization, Roy said the actions still represent a pattern of anti-conservative sentiment at the university.<\/p>\n<p>Nicklaus Cabrera, the chairman of the Young America&#8217;s Foundation at the University of Virginia, said left-wing students are focused on &#8220;reframing&#8221; Thomas Jefferson\u2014and the school&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re against this indoctrination and against reframing our university&#8217;s history around hate. That&#8217;s what the left is focused on here at the University of Virginia,&#8221; Cabrera, a junior, told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;We&#8217;re standing up for conservative values and the freedom of speech, regardless of who you are. That&#8217;s very important, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re fighting for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cabrera told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> he thinks Divest UVA, a group that promotes divestment from fossil fuels, and Brown Residential College, a living community, are behind the vandalism, as their fliers covered the Young America&#8217;s Foundation posters.<\/p>\n<p>Divest UVA denies the charge.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Virginia was accused of violating state law when in December 2017 it initially refused the Young America&#8217;s Foundation application for chapter status. The organization was approved weeks later after the school faced pressure from the Alliance Defending Freedom, a nonprofit legal advocacy firm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is why it is more important than ever to Preserve Mr. Jefferson&#8217;s Legacy,&#8221; the Young America&#8217;s Foundation said in its Thursday tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson has in recent years faced an increasing number of attacks from the left. New York City Hall announced Tuesday that it will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/10\/19\/1047258467\/thomas-jefferson-statue-removal-new-york-city-council-chamber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remove<\/a> a statue of the third president following a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/thomas-jefferson-statue-be-removed-new-york-city-council-chamber-2021-10-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reassessment<\/a>&#8221; of his legacy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus Rep. 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