Journalist Elizabeth Economou not afraid to fight for her beliefs

Dori thought that he was the biggest Puget Sound Twitter firebrand, but is looks like he may have met his match in the form of local journalist Elizabeth Economou.

From calling out teen climate activist Greta Thunberg to criticizing the local public schools, Economou — who has written for national news outlets like CNBC and Newsweek, and local publications like The Seattle Times, Seattle magazine, and the Puget Sound Business Journal — is not afraid to make her opinion known and advocate for her political beliefs on Twitter, no matter how controversial they may be in liberal Seattle.

“Parents really need to wake up and realize that [their kids] are no longer being taught things that they should be learning, like reading, writing, arithmetic,” said Economou, a former high school teacher and Seattle University adjunct professor. “How about throwing in the classics in there? We are graduating students who are completely ignorant to the classics — ‘The Iliad,’ ‘The Odyssey’ — foundational works that would benefit them, in college and beyond.”

Instead, she said, Seattle schools direct their focus toward indoctrinating and exploiting students, turning them into advocates for liberal causes. An example of this, she said, is the recent climate walkouts.

Ryan Saavedra talks getting blocked by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter

“Social justice is not about justice at all — it’s justice for one side,” she said.

Economou fears the polarization of society, especially in the Puget Sound, where she said that only one political viewpoint is accepted.

“It’s gotten to the point where, if you favor law and order, or you favor decency, you are automatically labeled a white supremacist,” she said.

The daughter of immigrants from Greece, she is a huge proponent of immigration — as long as it is done legally. Economou said that she has friends from Greece who have waited years to be allowed to come into the country.

“What the Left tends to do, time and time again, is conflate illegal immigration with legal immigration,” she said. “And that’s just a fallacy — it’s just plain wrong. I think that people who have not had the immigrant experience, whether with their parents, their grandparents, they don’t understand that there is a difference.”

Listen to the Dori Monson Show weekday afternoons from 12-3 p.m. on KIRO Radio, 97.3 FM. Subscribe to the podcast here.