RUSH: The University of Maryland selected top student Yang Shuping to deliver remarks during last Sunday\u2019s commencement ceremony. Her speech created an international uproar.<\/p>\n
She said that people often ask why she chose to come to the University of Maryland. Her response was: \u201cFresh air.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms. Yang revealed that in her hometown in southwest China the air was so polluted that she had to wear a face-mask every day.<\/p>\n
She described her arrival in America as breathing air that was \u201cso sweet and fresh.\u201d She said that she would be forever grateful for the fresh air of free speech that she found at the University because she grew up believing only people in authority could define the truth. The right to free speech on college campus, she said, is a right worth fighting for. It\u2019s amazing she thinks it exists there.<\/p>\n
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Anyway, her remarks went viral. For telling the truth about her experiences in America Ms. Yang was vilified. Millions on Chinese social media denounced her. Some warned her not to come home. She later apologized, saying she hadn\u2019t intended to demean her own country, the ChiComs which she loves.<\/p>\n
Ms. Yang revealed more than she perhaps realized. Radical environmentalists have convinced American kids that our country is wallowing in pollution, but it isn\u2019t. And the \u201cfresh air of free speech\u201d that Ms. Yang is grateful for, it\u2019s under constant attack from the politically correct left.<\/p>\n
And yet it is worth fighting for and she is doing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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