General Motors CEO Mary Barra is scheduled to deliver a commencement address to graduates at the University of Michigan today, but two groups have now publicly spoken out against her presence at the ceremony.
According to The Detroit Free Press, the Graduate Employees Organization passed a resolution which asks the Ann Arbor-based school to revoke Barra’s invitation to the event. The group is citing her involvement in the recall of 2.6 million GM vehicles for faulty ignition switches which have been tied to 13 deaths as their reasoning. The resolution has also been supported by the Student Union of Michigan.
The Free Press reached out to GM spokesman Jim Cain in regards to the matter, who said the automaker had no comment.
School spokesman Rick Fitzgerald said U of M is “honored to have Mary Barra” and looks “forward to hearing her remarks on Saturday.” It has no plans to revoke Barra’s invitation.
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It has gotten with so many of these Universities that unless you are way out far left member or some slack kneed comedian someone protests the person coming.
It is to the point anymore I would tell them to FO.
I just saw Condi Rice got slammed by groups at Rutgers.
I say: Tell the worthless liberal idiots to blow it out their backsides. 🙂
Well said..
Ever notice the conservatives will sit through a liberal speaker but the liberals will never hear a voice from the other side. For a group that preaches inclusiveness you would think that would include hearing both sides.
I just went to see Charles Krauthammer speak and he said he was once a liberal but got over it. If you have the time to see him speak it is well worth it. Kudos to the University of Akron for inviting him. Not all universities are totally lost.
If I were Mary I would go speak and then tell those who appreciate her Go Blue and those opposed her Go Blow LOL!
I say tell them to FO! This has nothing to do with liberals or conservatives. It deals with ignorant people, she inherited this.
That’s something I can’t understand. Does EVERYTHING in the US have to boiled down to far left/far right politics? “Don’t buy that car in blue, that’s a Dem color!” or “Don’t buy that car, it was built in a red state”.
No offense, but to me it makes you guys come off as high strung.
High strung? Here? Naaaa
It’s actually quite bearable, as long as you agree with every single thing GM does, says, and builds. Just don’t start growing a brain and you’ll be fine.
No, not just GMA, but everywhere where US politics gets mentioned. Like you have to wear your political affiliation on your sleeve as a badge of honor and make it something that you build your whole life around. That it’s “impossible” that an American can make up their own mind about an issue, you have to go with whatever is the polar opposite of what “The Left” or “The Right” is doing and stick to that position forever; that you can never change you mind on a matter.
When I say “high strung”, I mean that I’m under the impression that every red-faced shouting match that has ever occurred between two Americans with differing political opinions is only a hairs-width away from becoming a fist fight. Both of them don’t want to admit to reevaluating their political opinions and would rather verbally beat their opponent into submission and declare victory.
Surely there has to be much more calmer minded Americans. I know they’re out there and they don’t have a hair-trigger sensitivity to political opinions that they disagree with. It’s because they aren’t high-strung that they are perceived as rather boring and too central to be worth their opinions.
I dunno. The whole “left vs. right” narrative seems overblown in the US, and taking up positions at the extreme ends of the spectrum seems to be more divisive rather than helpful to the political process. It’s not the kind of thing that should manifest itself at the public level, because the second I see any mass home burning because the political opinions of the occupants were different than that of the arsonist, I’ll be done with critiquing and studying America. I’ll grab whatever bourbon is unspoiled and won’t look back.
okay, Havin lived in michigan for all my life i can tell you the students at u of m have a very stuck up attitude, they really do belive theyre better then everyone else. To most of the students there they belive the only way to live your life is blindley worshipping Macbooks, Starbucks, and the prius. On top of that all the girls there are lesbians. So i really dont value what they have to say about anything sense it’s pretty much mindless bullshit that comes out of their mouths nearly all the time.
TLDR: it’s uofm, there all lesbians(the ugly fat ones too) who hate you unless you drive a prius.