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bell hooks Spews Anti-American Tirade in Commencement Speech at Southwestern University in Georgetown

Feminist professor and author bell hooks (sic), who rejects capitalization as an invalid social construct, condemned many members of her audience, urged them to disregard the future because caring about the future is a capitalist construct, bemoaned the so-called patriarchy, slammed the war on terrorism, described the U.S. as "imperialist, patriarchal, and white supremacist," and equated conservatism with murder. As a result, she was widely and repeatedly booed by a stunned audience of parents and graduates.

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hooks then bizarrely equated terrorism and overeating, stating, "There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism." At this point, graduates and the parents must have had a truly uplifting feeling on this momentous occasion.

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hooks, who chooses not to capitalize her name as a form of protest against (presumably patriarchal, imperialist, white supremacist) grammatical conventions

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