‘Steve Bannon Accepts Invitation to Speak at the University of Chicago’
HUMAN 0
This is bullshit.I’m calling the administration to register my displeasure, and I suggest you do too if you’re an alumni.
I’m not going to ask the University to block the invitation, but I at least want a statement that he does not represent the University’s views.
If you’re an elite foreign student, someone who’d create a successful business but aren’t white, Bannon doesn’t want you in the United States.
“A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society.”
The exact quote starts around 17:40, but the link starts earlier than that for full context.
HUMAN 1
You should listen to the whole context. It’s a much more narrow scope than you are representing it to be:“What do you think about this situation where you have American companies, particularly technology companies, that are letting go highly-trained American IT workers, blowing them out, having them train their replacements and hiring foreign workers. Just generally what’s your sense of that?”
That being said, I still disagree with his comment, but I don’t think you are being fair to it either.
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