The Sacramento Bee was marginally credible for the last 20 years. Its’ credibility is now completely gone. Hillsdale responded to the vicious and lie-infested smear by Marcos Breton and Hannah Holzer. (Breton celebrated the smear that Holzer wrote). For a long time, people used to roll their eyes at the likes of Breton and Morain – but both would return to civility and check themselves at times. Holzer has demonstrated that she is a Gen Z communist straight out of UC Davis. Similar to people of that ilk, they print and write what they want and create their own truth to suit their agenda.
At least people in local government can take solace in knowing that the Bee has gone full Beijing on everyone they don’t like, not just them. Your Intrepid Blogger added emphasis in the words of Larry Arnn.
Here is Hillsdale College’s Main Administrator, Dr. Larry Arnn, Responding to The Vicious, Lying Sacramento Bee’s Wholly-Untruthful Attack “Op-Ed” Written by The Wholesale Ignorant: Hannah Holzer~!
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In response to an inaccurate opinion piece in the Sacramento Bee, Dr. Arnn wrote. Today, a very edited version of his response ran as a “Letter to the Editor”. Below, you will find the full response that is not constrained by word limit or editorial prerogative.
In her op-ed attacking Hillsdale College (“A conspiracy-peddling college is coming to Placer County,” 1/23), Hannah Holzer gets a lot of facts wrong. She claims to quote from Hillsdale’s mission statement, but the quote is not from Hillsdale’s mission statement. She says Hillsdale became a private college in the 1970s, by which time Hillsdale had been a private college for 130 years. She describes a list of speech titles from a monthly speech digest Hillsdale publishes as a list of courses in Hillsdale’s curriculum. If the Sac Bee no longer employs fact-checkers, it should demand more care from its’ writers.
Also less smugness. Holzer accuses Hillsdale College of being racist. Her evidence? The fact that Hillsdale “values the merit of each unique individual” and defends “the principle of equality on which America was founded” rather than subscribing to critical race theory, which categorizes people as members of competing racial groups.
Holzer is unaware that Hillsdale College has a long tradition of opposing race-based ideologies like critical race theory. Founded by abolitionist preachers in 1844, Hillsdale’s founding charter prohibited discrimination based on race, sex, or nationality.
Former slave and abolition leader Frederick Douglass gave a speech at Hillsdale in 1863, amid the Civil War, in which he argued that there is “no such thing as new truth. The error might be old or new, but the truth [is] as old as the universe.” Chief among the eternal truths for Douglass was America’s founding principles – that “all men are created equal” and “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,” among which are “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Douglass called these principles “saving principles,” urging Americans of his time to acknowledge that “the Constitution knows no distinction between citizens on account of color.” In rejecting these principles out of hand, as if their foolishness is simply self-evident—indeed, in condemning Hillsdale’s support for these principles as racist!—Holzer’s op-ed is an embarrassment to your newspaper.
President of Hillsdale College
Hillsdale College, 33 East College Street, Hillsdale, MI 49242, USA
Thanks for calling out the hit piece Ms. Holzer on Hillsdale College and Sac Bee unwillingness to print a full response from the College. Hillsdale College deserves the opportunity to have a full response and accurate information about their College presented in the Bee as a down payment on correcting the record.
WOW .. thank you Aaron! Hillsdale is a wonderful college that values the Constitution and offers a FREE course on it. … https://online.hillsdale.edu/landing/constitution-101
What I find strange is how “so called” elites (who should be renamed takers) are selling out to China and loving their police state population controls while attacking Putin, a Christian who tossed out the Communists and replaced them with Christianity, mostly as the Russian Orthodox Church which recognizes Jesus Christ part of the Godhead.
In truth, today’s Communist America is a real threat to Christian Russia. Sadly, most Americans don’t understand 2014 when Obama/Biden, using Victoria (F___ the EU) Nuland and “Color Revolution” George Soros overthrew the Government of Ukraine with the intention of pushing NATO (North Atlantic Terrorist Organization) right up to Russia’s border with offensive nuclear missiles right behind. Do educated people need to ask “why” Putin does not want NATO in Ukraine?
Sadly, to be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. In my opinion, Ukraine is just a distraction from the fact the vaccines don’t only not work, insurance companies are reporting death rates are up 40%. (eyeroll) Today I thank God I decided NOT to be guinea pig for Dr. Fauci’s test mRNA injection.
One last question, when the fraud is exposed, will the drug companies and the MSM who lied for them have unlimited immunity from the damage they’ve done?