Mackenzie Andrysiak is a 17-year-old student at an Episcopal boarding school in Virginia facing potential expulsion for sharing conservative content on her own private social media accounts.
She recently shared her opinion in opposition to the school’s decision to invite Ibram X. Kendi, an author and vocal supporter of the Black Lives Matter organization, to speak to students and share the tenants of the BLM platform.
Quickly, Mackenzie began facing harassment from fellow students and even one of her teachers on social media for sharing her perspective. In an Instagram direct message, her teacher claims was meant for someone else to gossip about her; rather than send to her directly, Mackenzie was called a “little sh-t.”
Instead of confronting the harassment of one of their students, Mackenzie claims the school has instead been actively encouraging her to leave the school. As she progresses with formal disciplinary hearings for her private social media post, Mackenzie cannot allow any outside counsel or advocates to attend her upcoming hearings and must instead face her school’s leadership alone.
Today, we are in a terrifying time, where even private posts on social media are determinants of one’s apparent moral code. If you don’t keep your head down and follow the leftist mob, you’re targeted with harassment and even expulsion from your school, friends, job, etc.
Make no mistake about it–high schools have become just as intensely leftist as college campuses have been in the United States, and minors in America are the next group of people who will have to fight for their First Amendment rights and freedom of speech.
I’ll be anxiously awaiting the results of Mackenzie’s disciplinary hearing, and I’m sure you will be too!
