Every one of the Professors who took part at Columbia should be summarily fired. Yes, this will gut the Gender Studies, Sociology and Journalism departments but it will likely leave intact the departments which bestow marketable degrees, math, science (except biology), engineering and finance. I stand foursquare in front of my Jewish friends and neighbors against these Jacobites. I wish you would be there when white, male, southern Christians are targeted.
The word disgusting doesn't fully encapsulate what is happening in these campuses. The I in DEI apparently doesn't include Jews.
The administrations on these campuses are just as far left as the rioters and in their heart of hearts agree with the rioting scum on their campuses. These administrators and professors participating this these racists acts of violence should be fired immediately and ostracized from academia immediately. And the students should be expelled and never allowed on campus again.
Before some hypocritical leftist criticizes me for being a right wing NAZI, let me remind them that is exactly what the left supported, destroying lives with the vicious PC/Woke movement.
Apparently when the left destroys lives it is noble but when the sane want justice and antiracism, it's evil.
"Doesn't include" is putting it mildly. When sentiments like, "whites gotta be wiped out," a polished statement from a Rutgers "gender professor," go completely unchallenged by Rutgers' administration, DEI is racism and deracination incarnate. It's aimed at whites writ large and repeats ancient anti- Jewish tropes and focuses on white men in particular. Education associations called any criticism of the offending racist professor "racist." There is no way to deal with this kind of illiberalism. It has got to be shut down. https://www.thecollegefix.com/rutgers-u-faculty-groups-support-prof-who-said-white-people-gotta-be-taken-out/
Couldn't agree more. We are back to the late 1930's, only now we are dithering over the free speech rights of Nazis to help organize, fund, and direct a group of carefully and methodically manufactured useful idiots to promote and demand the Holocaust. It's worth considering that these "students" will be running things in the not-too-distant future.
I don't think they'll be running much of anything noteworthy, maybe an Army Surplus Store, legalized drugs, Obscene T-shirts Are Us, Used Keffiyehs Inc., or some other useless enterprise.
They've been given everything they have their whole worthless lives, and when they face the real music and have to fend for themselves, well, we'll see soon enough.
They are an extremely small minority of college students, infiltrated by professional protesters, and like the hippies of the 1960's will be forgotten as soon as the next cold winter.
You’re way too sanguine, my friend. These are future Democrat White House officials, congress members, and — most importantly — the executives of Activism, Inc™️ (i.e., the folks who really decide US policy).
Yes, many of politicians in power running our country now are community organizers and have been for a while (Obama). This is is our future. IMO it is naive to expect that faculty will be fired or students expelled for their actions. The rot may have spread too widely and deeply for it to be contained.
Yes but Trump was no community organizer. The petulant protesters who make all the noise get the news headlines, but the Chapel Hill Frat Boys and the Duke Men's LaCrosse Team are the future captains of American industry & know-how.
There are millions more marching under the MSM radar.
Agree completely, Orwell. In fact, they're the grandchildren and great-grands of the so-called hippies, whose damage to this country remains incalculable. They illustrate the prescience of Midge Decter's 1970s book, "Liberal Parents, Radical Children."
" Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, Weather Underground members who, when Boudin was only 14 months old, were both convicted of murder for their participation in the 1981 Brink's robbery in Rockland County, New York.[9] His mother was sentenced to 20 years to life, and his father to 75 years to life, both for the felony murders of two police officers and a security guard.[10][11]
After his parents were incarcerated, Boudin was adopted and raised in Hyde Park, Chicago, by fellow Weather Underground members Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn."
Bill and Bernardine hosted Obama's first political fundraiser in Chicago. When asked why he'd sought out support from violent leftists, Obama claimed that Ayers "was just a guy from my neighborhood." Take a gander at
"It's worth considering that these "students" will be running things in the not-too-distant future." That 's the plan on how to destroy America from within.
In all of this protest and outrage-both sides--I hear no solution based discussion of a way to end the conflict in Gaza. As in all things American these days, hatred, division and the lamented double standard, distorts reality at every turn. Objectivity is a cardinal sin. Unaccounted for tax treasure, produced by the lives and hard work of the Republic's citizens, is flowing away to Israel, the DEI, the Ukraine, airfare to disperse border crashers across the country (add your own) while, business as usual, human beings near and far are dying. Crisis!?! On 9/10/2001 Donald Rumsfeld ("Rummy to his friends) announced that the Pentagon had lost $2,300,000,000,000.00 in tax treasure. "We the people" still live with (FISA) what happened the next day. Now the "skull and bones" shadow boys are promising a catastrophic American collapse of immense proportion just in time for the election of our new President. ("Be afraid!! Only a dictatorship can save you now!!) Well, my advice, don't be afraid.
I'm an Abigail Shrier fan and respect the hard and truthful work she continues to bring to the American conversation. But long before TFP (one of the first to speak out), or Abigail, we all suffered and witnessed the poisonous unobstructed decades long assault on free speech, western values and the nuclear family by the misandrist Marxist faux feminists, who developed and applied the core techniques of today's ascending fascism: Trial by press. Anonymous accusation and rumor. The selective ideological destruction of worthy lives and careers. The social media pile on. Trial by kangaroo court opinion. And most importantly, the silencing and distortion of free discourse and the mass imprisonment of the American people inside a self-righteous, profitable and immoral leviathan lie. We all know that the DEI commissariat is the long dreamed of payoff for the elitist feminist faux Marxism of the privileged"left". But if the foxes are in the university henhouse it is because the criminal financiers and their political operatives inside American elected officialdom pay them and want them to be there. What "we the people" want doesn't matter.
Hamas is paid to be unreasonable. By who? Who pays American MSM "legacy" media to distort the American national dialogue? Who is so afraid of you that they must pay big tech to watch you through the electronic window? Why would they fear you? Or, one micro of the macro lie just beginning to enter the American national conversation: Who is funding campus chaos and protest? (Hint: Green on the outside. Marxist red on the inside.) Want Jews, Palestinians, Ukrainians and Americans to be O.K? Stop the fk'n war. But you can't. Why? You know why. --The only legitimate moral engine of human survival left is the American Constitution, the Republic and the free citizen. That sucking sound in the background is, by design, American life going down the toilet and American treasure flowing upward into numbered accounts across the globe. Every horror witnessed on our shores and those beyond is blowback from their psyop.
But they won't be. The University will hope the moment passes and it can be business as usual. And what about all the Marxist indoctrinators who were smart enough to stay out of the fray here? They will continue to teach poison to more generations. It is going to take a serious combined effort of government the courtroom AND wealthy donors to make any difference. The Marxist colleges are betting we don't have the stamina.
Doug, interestingly, when you all catch up, you'll learn it's not Marxist indoctrinations, it's German state socialism. Find on the Internet Herbert Tuttle, Cornell historian, famous essay of 1883 (believe it or not), memorialized by Herbert B. Adams, 1894, and 30 pages of comments by Irwin Collier available on the Internet. Sorry, I don't know how to paste it to you. Just google the names, you'll see. And all the rest of you too. Eye opening.
The problems with our education system certainly *started* with German state socialism (which is indeed an eye-opening subject), promoted in the U.S. by Horace Mann and John Dewey. But there is no denying that Marxists have taken over the system and used its built-in indoctrination features to promote their own agenda.
But it was the German academics, beginning with Johann Gottlieb Fichte, 1762-1814, who instituted "empirical facts" to the Social Sciences "Humanities" -- putting them on a par with STEM. "Individual Liberty is only to be protected when it is means of securing the German Will of the state. And Hegel, "Freedom consists in obedience to the commands of the state." Further, "The real will of each inhabitant is to secure what are in the interest of the state for its interests advance the collective interests of its inhabitants." Luv the word "collective."
I've said before, the difference between Germany & the United States is Germany was a dictatorship run into the ground first by Kaiser Wilhelm then again by Adolf Hitler.
Our constitution & three bodies of government will not allow an administration like Joe Biden's more than one term. Bet on it.
I think you will find "Escape from Freedom," by Erich Fromm, immensely interesting and fascinating. Just read the first review on Amazon. I stumbled on this book 25 years ago, and have never looked back.
The nature of government depends mostly on the character of people who lead and staff it. A constitution and 3 supposedly coequal branches creating checks and balances does not guarantee freedom, security and prosperity for the governed. As we have observed there is no accountability for a president who acts in contempt of SCOTUS. One party openly expresses an intent to pack SCOTUS to ensure its agenda will be rubber stamped. The administration is prosecuting the candidate of the opposition party in multiple venues prior to the election this year while working mightily to exclude a viable 3rd party candidate from the race at all. I could continue, but the point my point is our the structure and institutions of our government will preserve our freedom so long as those in government respect, uphold and adhere to the principles on which this nation was founded. That is quite obviously no longer the case.
But the real threat of fascism in America doesn't come from elected administrations, but from the permanent bureaucracy, which thanks to Wicker v. Filburn and a host of other misbegotten SCOTUS decisions, along with Congress's nearly century-long penchant for handing its legislative powers to unelected bureaucrats. has metastasized beyond the bounds a plain reading of our Constitution would set. The Democrats are first and foremost the party of the permanent bureaucracy: They were when their electoral platform was to look out for the interests of the working class. They are now that they scorn the working class as "deplorables". They, principally in the person of Woodrow Wilson and FDR created it.
The Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) along with the most dangerous of the bureaucratic agencies, the security services, will happily subvert the Constitution and the law to prevent any threat to the bureaucracy's power.
Trump is perceived (I suspect wrongly due to his own lack of ability to focus on anything other than whatever is stoking is ego at the moment) as an existential threat to the bureaucracy. Thus he has to be portrayed as the fascist, even as the Democrats use the union of state and corporate power (Mussolini's definition of fascism) to suppress dissent online by turning "content moderation" by tech platforms into a means of censorship. Thus the FBI director called off the investigation of Hillary Clintons' handling of classified documents by making up a mens rea clause that isn't in the relevant statutes, which criminalize even negligent mishandling. Thus old intelligence operatives from the other side of the Pond are hired to create "dossiers" about supposed Russian influence on Truimp. Thus the content of Hunter Biden's laptop is dismissed as "having the hallmarks of Russian disinformation", when, in fact, it was real and makes a prima facia case for now President Biden being engaged in corrupt dealing with American's primary adversary, China (and on the basis of this using that union of state and corporate power, reporting on it was suppressed on social media platforms).
The Constitution won't save us from a Germany-like fate unless there is the will and competence to push the Federal government back inside the bounds it set, which had better be found and exercised before it is too late.
Bismarck was an incredible savvy guy, adapting the social welfare demands of the socialists to support the monarchy against the political threat of socialism. Socialists who played along were hired by the state; those who refused were gotten rid of.
Germany was thoroughly primed for the National Socialists.
Michael, I am reading the Tuttle essay ACADEMIC SOCIALISM (Atlantic Monthly,
Vol. 52, August 1883), and I am way out of my own field. I keep getting stuck on the use of the term "publicist." I'd be grateful if you can reply to this reply with an explanation of what a "publicist" was in the context of the Tuttle essay. Thank you so much!
"Publicists" jumped off the page to me. I loved it. That's the term I think Tuttle used for academics, specifically the German academics selling "Social Sciences" with "empirical facts." In other words, "hacks." The publicists have ben rampant in American Universities, since Woodrow Wilson.
Thank you. As a psychiatrist, I always used to tell my patients that psychiatry was kind of in the bronze age -- not very scientific yet, but well-intentioned for the most part. I think a lot of social sciences are at a much earlier stage of evolution than the "hard sciences." And I think it's important to acknowledge that, and NOT oversell what we think we know!
Very interesting citation, I had never heard of that before. I just tried to read Tuttle's paper, and my eyeballs calcified. I think he must have been paid by word count. But I'm not entirely surprised. I learned a few years ago that Hitler based his eugenics principles on the ideas of British and American academics from the 19th century. Here's an old article The Guardian forgot to disappear into their memory hole...
I know what you mean, Kibb. but, go slow. What I get is the highlighted parts are from Tuttle's original, some of the rest is Adams, and evidently interspersed with Irwin Collin's comments , the originator of this article on the Internet. Clear? Not totally to me, either, but there it is. I've been aware of the German academics influence on American higher education for 25 years, after becoming familiar with the books of Erich Fromm, and others. It's only recently I've stumbled on Herbert Tuttle. The modern philosopher, Susan Nieman , is pretty interesting too. Oh, there's so much. The kids today are ignorant idiots, as I was my first 40 years. The media hacks, forget it.
Mushrooms? Is that's how it seems? I've never done those -- everything else, in moderation, of course. 86, I'm still here, a little COPD, of course. I loved the way Burt Lancaster said the words, "Of course, Sharon, of course," in "Elmer Gantry."
Bill Ackman, the Jewish hedge fund manager, is the one who donated a bunch of money so that the white, male, southern Christian kids who held up the flag at UNC could have an enormous kegger - love the solidarity :)
Not all were Christian, AEPi was among them. It’s called being grateful to be in America. Something most of us are but few of us defend. Kudos to those men!!
I appreciate the gesture of donation for the party but that is not the same as making a strong, public stance against the human rights abuse of "diversity" hiring, and against the misguided religion of "equity".
Gender studies should not even be a field of study. If one thinks it useful, start a Meetup group to discuss it. It won't leave completely intact the STEM and finance fields. There are woke idiots in every college department. I say purge all the SJWs!
You are correct. I just recall grad school, talking to the Public Policy students who were deciding which wineries they were going to visit that weekend. When they asked me, I said I was going to the computer lab to run simulations. They would have had plenty of time to protest. The Computer Science students did not.
Good for you. One semester I took statistics and research methods, both five credit courses. I had no time t for such things, while all the humanities students seemed to be drinking beer and smoking weed than reading assigned texts.
You are correct. My daughter is premed. I asked her if any of her classmates walked out of class last semester during that day of solidarity and she said with a straight face mom no one is walking out of Bio Chem at UVA for any cause. The head of SJP is a gender woman’s studies major!! Not sure you would find one STEM or business major at one of those encampments and especially during finals week.
“ I wish you would be there when white, male, southern Christians are targeted.”
The current climate has laid bare that one can’t in good conscience identify as both a Jew and as a progressive in the US. Those of us for whom being Jewish is more than an unfortunate accident of birth are on your side and have been all along.
Did you really catch on? You know it’s not Islamophobia to be truly frightened of Islam. The second conquest is on the umma is here they are coming for us all. Wake up read the Quran.
I think the progressive mindset is far more dangerous than Islam. Islam is open about hating Jews and Christians and their plans for them. Progressives think that they actually are helping people.
“Every one of the Professors who took part at Columbia should be summarily fired.”
Not enough. Not even close to enough. Columbia should be closed, their assets seized, and the campus turned into a museum on the evils of antisemitism.
After a decade of debate and division, the San Francisco Unified School District is adding algebra back into its eighth grade curriculum at a third of its middle schools starting next year. The decision to offer algebra to eighth grader reverses a long-standing district policy in which the course was not made available to students until they entered high school -- regardless of interest or aptitude. Critics say delaying algebra until the ninth grade hamstrung students who wanted to take calculus by the time they were seniors or needed advanced math when they were applying to college.
The previous policy allowed SF students who had the family resources to be tutored privately to advance, but discriminated against the child from an income level that could only afford public education. Denying the opportunity for a low to middle income student who has an interest and aptitude to achieve in math is not discriminatory?
May the remaining middle schools also offer advance courses to support, encourage, and inspire all students rather than maintain the low expectations that result in promising and capable students being given an education that continues the poverty track. DEI also promotes poverty!
"After a decade of debate and division, the San Francisco Unified School District is adding algebra back into its eighth grade curriculum at a third of its middle schools "
This is really mixed news: it means that a decades-worth of students had a stunted mathematics experience in middle school and high school, all in the name of equity (that is, concealing that white and Asian kids far outperform their peers in mathematics). Those kids will have missed out on a critical learning experience and may not be aware of it. They will also be delayed learning geometry which, with rigorous proofs, is the closest thing to higher mathematics that they'll encounter before college.
Instead of equity, middle schools would be better off starting the year with brief descriptions of some great mathematical prodigies:
Karl Friederich Gauss, who proved that the sum of integers from 1 to n is n(n+1)/2 ... when he was 5 years old
Freeman Dyson, who never went to college because when he was 14 WW2 broke out and, at that age, he was already a world-famous mathematician so the RAF drafted him into the Operational Analysis group of Bomber Command.
John von Neumann, who spent his Sundays teaching Nobel Prize winners in Physics about transfinite induction. Von Neumann was 8 years old at the time.
When the schools and family have expectations for a child that they will rise to their best. The reverse is also true when there are expectations that achievement is impossible because you are X, then that message will also be incorporated and there will be a higher rate of poor performance. There may be stats that support " white and Asian kids far outperform their peers in mathematics" but this is not due to a biological reason, but more social reasons that are continuing to thrive with the DEI victim mode ideal .
Katherine Johnson and the other women who worked with her would have not had a chance to succeed in today's school because they would not have been offered math since they were woman of color. When math, biology, chemistry, etc. is decided to be too hard for people that are X, then X group loses the ability to achieve as an individuals and make contributions that move our country forward in science. SF school board decision to do away with higher math and only bring it back to 33% of the schools is and has denied all those that could achieve an opportunity and deprived our communities the contributions that they may have made. Whether we lost a good nurse, a skilled engineer, or a Nobel prize winner...these are terrible and unacceptable losses.
It's been over 50 years since racial discrimination in education was outlawed in the US and all courses of study opened to all races.
Whatever the cause for over or under achievement, one clear effort of DEI has been to cover up that Asian kids from low income families in San Francisco and New York significantly outperform their peers in entrance exams to selective public schools, including peers from middle class families with greater advantages.
Whether this was caused by biology, culture, family environment or other factors can't be determined without controlled scientific studies on a large sample of students.
The effects are however clear: white and Asian students are outperforming their peers and the educational establishment is willing to cripple the education of all students in order to cover this up.
"It's been over 50 years since racial discrimination in education was outlawed in the US and all courses of study opened to all races. " DEI is not the discrimination of the past that forbids but it is the discrimination that denies opportunities.
Absolute insanity…..I’m not sure if I’m glad to learn the utter nonsense of politicizing math or not. Again, I’m baffled by the shear lunacy off it all. Wow, looking way back when I was in school, mathematics terrified me. So I figured out what major I could attain to not have to take a math class…. I consider myself lucky with my degree in Political Science ( a degree where I could take classes in Political Science, History and Economics - all fields I loved). Funny that I spent my career as a credit manager dealing with numbers all day long 🤔
Indeed. Though it is a little known fact that as left-wing as the professoriate skews, even before they started hiring an explicitly leftist (such as that word has any meaning anymore) bureaucracy to run DEI programs, university administrators are even further left (before DEI, Offices of Student Life were the worst and may alone have sufficed to skew the average for administrators).
(Can we have the old left that looked out for the working class back? Ideally in its pre-Comintern Wobblies-era incarnation. Someone should look out for the interests of the working class, and since we know Communism and socialism don't work, I think maybe we should have anarcho-syndicalists again. Though I guess if a movement started doing that they'd now be called "right wing" or maybe even "far-right" since it would involve opposing mass immigration and either opposing or not giving a damn about the other enthusiasms of what passes for a Left these days.)
The DEI Administrators, for sure. If the average citizen knew the amount of money expended for that nonsense in our schools and colleges, it would knock their socks off.
Thanks for sharing. Dr. Lee deserves credit for calling out the rot that has infected our institutions. Unfortunately, it is in our elementary and secondary schools as well.
Several years ago, I was working as an ESL program coordinator in a large city with a substantial Black population. Since the program I ran focused on ESL for recent arrivals mostly adults many had children who needed to navigate the public schools. A family of observant Russian Jews came looking for advice. Their 8 year old son was mocked incessantly by classmates for wearing a yarmulke. Most of his classmates were black. When the parents approached their sons teacher about the harassment they were told it was to be expected as Jews were behind the cross Atlantic slave trade to the Americas and felt the Jewish boy needed to admit his peoples responsibility for slavery. This was 15 years ago.
Thank you for sharing this horrible example of how students arrive at college carefully taught to hate. This is so incredibly stupid and wrong on all leveis. My heart breaks for a child and a family that probably struggled to come to America and expected religious freedom. To treat a child as a political symbol rather than a child is disrespectful, inhumane, and unprofessional...hoping that the teacher left teaching!
And the middle schools! Our local MS has a required course called Pathways to Racial Literacy which is taught four days a week for a six week period. For three days, the local LGBTQ center comes in to teach about gender (fine) and one lesson is asking kids to choose where they fit on a wheel of oppression (my name for it). Surprise, surprise, Jews turn out to be “white oppressors” on this wheel.
I'm a gender-critical lesbian, retired journalist and academic. I still believe in the value of a liberal arts education, which good universities used to provide. Eliminating all but "marketable degrees" turns universities into glorified tech schools and STEM employment pipelines. The ability to think and speak critically is valuable in itself and has never been more important to our republic.
I agree many universities -- and not a few faculty -- have lost their way, and loathe that former Women's Studies departments have been captured by gender ideologues bent on erasing the material realty of "female." Yet some of our best critical thinkers, unbeholden to woke ideology, remain on campuses; what they seem to lack is the courage to speak out. Mainstream media, too, have been largely captured by "woke" thinking, which means we need more, not fewer, intelligent, well-trained journalists. This The Free Press itself demonstrates.
Our universities -- especially public institutions -- need rigorous, thoughtful reform, including a good ideological scrubbing, to restore alignment with their original purpose. They also need reliable public funding, so they don't have to depend on politicized, fickle state legislatures, the ideological preferences of wealthy donors and/or big tuition hikes.
We definitely need more intelligent, well-trained journalists, but they won't come from J-schools. I told my journalist sister-in-law when she was in college that she should know something that she can write about instead of learning how to write. She got a degree in finance and has written intelligent financial articles ever since. Had she just gone to J-school, she would have learned the woke crap that they churn out, repeating nice sounding platitudes, with no knowledge of how the world really works.
Women's Studies are not marketable because they are vastly oversubscribed. Their market is the small number of professors required to teach their courses, but the number of graduates is far in excess of that. The size of these programs should be rationalized. But why did they grow so large? Subsidization by student loans given to gullible students and College administrators and instructors whose critical thinking was limited to "if you don't think gender studies should be a major, you're a bigot."
These bloated departments pulled in substandard professors and students to fill their ranks and rewarded professors for how provocative their "research" was, not how rigorous.
Colleges should reassess their programs. I'm all for engineering majors taking philosophy, English, fine arts, history, foreign language to round out their thinking, in fact, I took all those things as an engineering undergrad, but the size of those department should be limited to the number of classes they need to provide a quality education across the college and the number of opportunities there are for their graduates.
I earned a master's in journalism from the University of Michigan in 1984; that two-year intensive program served me well as a critical thinker and reporter for 20 years. Granted, it was a different era, and I've always been an independent thinker. Whether today's J schools are a lost cause, I can't say; part of the answer, I'm sure, depends on the intellectual autonomy of students and how they choose to apply their training.
We agree at least, that colleges and universities should reassess their programs, and I'm glad you see the value in disciplines that can't neatly be monetized.
Well, one NYC has-been, anyway. In L.A. some of the most enthusiastic Trump voters I knew were my dear neighbors, an elderly Jewish couple. I miss them, but I am sure glad they aren't here to see the local news this week.
Many biology departments have given in to the ascientific notion that sex is a spectrum. They were probably out at the protest or at least giving kids credit for attending the protests instead of coming to class.
Without a doubt. The DOJ and Police have a history of targeting white/Christian/men. Mark Houck arrested at gunpoint in his home with his children in bed for an altercation arising from a pro-abortion activist harassing his 12-yo son. DOJ clearly brought Fed charges because he was white/Christian man. Damon Atkins arrested for citing the Bible in protest of an LGBTQ event. Marcus Schroeder arrested for preaching the Gospel near a "Pride in the Park" event. Why do the protected groups get free speech but white/Christians do not? How many times have we been told we don't have a voice in abortion because we are not women, or race relations because we are not Black. Jack Phillips being targeted by the Gov of Colorado for not baking a cake for ceremonies he feels are against his religion. The Free Press repeatedly making fun of Mike Johnson for being evangelical and asking his daughter to not have premarital sex -- even though Mike Johnson is more vocal about his support for Israel than any Dem politician in the Senate. Oh yes, we are targets.
No one could even ask this question unless they have been oblivious to the culture in this country for several decades. I would argue white Christians in general, male and female, are persecuted, but maybe males get the worst of it. They have invented the white Christian bogeyman out of whole cloth. Left-wing director Rob Reiner just made an entire "documentary" film about the threat from so-called Christian nationalists. Nothing about any kind of threat from radicalized Muslim Americans though, even though that faith is infinitely more intolerant of women, gays, and all the things leftists hold dear. (Conservative black Christians, of which there are many, are also not targeted for the same hate, funny thing that.)
Also ignored is all the good that Christian groups do for charities in this country. It's bigotry pure and simple, yet anti-Christian bigotry is rarely called out.
My only hope in all this madness is that people start actually paying attention to what progressive pathology has actually become and this extends far beyond the blatant support of antisemitism on display right now.
I hope you’re right, but I doubt future history will illustrate such.
Despite all the panic and mass delusion surrounding COVID-19, I still had hope that, if nothing else, more people would start washing their hands after using a public restroom. Those hopes didn’t even last a month.
I worked in a place in 1993-94 where the attitude among the guys always seemed to be 'nobody washes hands here.' It was as if they thought, 'I am so fucking busy; I have no time to wash my hands.' My own group was the outlier; we were almost all men, which was odd considering that this was a corporate communications department. We all hated it there and this was one more reason for our profound disgust.
But nobody gets sick despite not washing hands, right? The less you touch in those places, the better. If you're going to handle food after you poop, I can see washing your hands, but not if you're just gonna stick 'em in your pocket, or handle paper money.
People complied with public health orders until they were told they didn't have to anymore. Then they stopped doing them. Isn't this about what you'd expect? Why should handwashing survive?
The Times reports that a number of professors at Columbia took their classes to the "camp" as a lesson plan. One said that his class included two Israelis who chose not to attend. My God, do you have no shame? As a high school teacher, I cannot tell you how often I bend over backward not to reveal my political views no to students. I am here to teach facts, ideas, and HOW to think, not what to think. These putatively elite universities are really revealing themselves to be the very opposite of what education should be. Embarrassing and disturbing.
Requiring Jewish students to attend classes at a location where signs are displayed calling for violence against Jews is a crystal-clear violation of Title VI--it would be difficult to think of a more textbook example. This is not theoretical, attorneys hired by the Jewish students have already filed the lawsuits. The puzzling part is why the university's fancy-pants lawyers are not alerting their bosses that this sort of thing puts the university at risk of becoming ineligible for the tens of millions of dollars of federal funding that they receive every year. I guess the university lawyers are the same geniuses that prepare university presidents for congressional hearings.
The revolution is more important than the university. It is more important than Disney's brand. More important than our system of equal rights and justice.
Everything for the revolution! Glory to the communists and the Democratic Socialists of America!
"As a high school teacher, I cannot tell you how often I bend over backward not to reveal my political views no to students"
Thank you for this, C. McBride. My kids had high school teachers who shared their politics all the time - and it ramped up during the BLM Covid lockdown times. I'd hear it over Zoom and think: When will they get to the subject matter of the class? Isn't this supposed to be a Science class or something? And, forget History...
These "protestors", as well as some prominent political commentators and at least one person who is running for President, don't know or pretend not to know the following:
- The history of the Middle East
- The history of Israel
- The political situation in Gaza and Israel since 2005
- The military situation in Gaza and Israel since 2005
- The context of the current conflict
- The goals of either side in the current conflict
- The consequences of a truce for either side in the current conflict
- The meaning of the word "genocide"
- The meaning of the word "apartheid"
- The meaning of various slogans and rallying cries
Given that they don't know or pretend not to know these things, the only thing left that they could possibly know is this - someone killed a bunch of Jews, and the Jews have responded with force. That's what they are protesting, or editorializing on, or making campaign speeches about.
Of all the people in all the world, only Jews are expected to tolerate genocidal (I do know what that word means) terrorists living next door, lobbing missiles at them, blowing up various public accommodations, and slaughtering civilians while their fanboys cheer them on from college campuses around the world.
Apparently it's the rest of us who don't know what "antisemitism" means, because they swear up and down that this isn't that.
My son has attended programs in Israel four times in so many years. Every time - at least once per visit - I have received this text message "Hey, you might hear on the news that some missiles are coming in today. I'm safe." When I turn on the news it's never reported. If another country was continually peppered with missiles it would be The Story. Israel's population is ~9,000,000. The countries BORDERING Israel contain over 150,000,000 people who would love to see Israel and its people blown up. After Sept 11 I saw a subtle shift. If one dared question Islamic fundamentalists (who radicalized those who led the attacks) they were accused of Islamophobia and told "Islam is a religion of peace and love". Like the emperor's new clothes it was crazymaking. And now things have escalated. A person can proudly state (while covering their face, of course) that they support terrorists, murder, rape, homophobia, the enslavement of women, etc. This isn't about Palestine this is about the resurgence of an evil I thought was culled from modern society: hatred of women, Jews, gays, etc.
Yup. Hysteria over Islamophobia (which is a rational response to Islam) began after 9/11. Although I suppose we shouldn't actually "fear" Islam. Wary and watchful opposition is healthier, I think.
For a bit of encouraging news on the other side of this coin, one could look to how The University of Texas and The University of Florida handled attempts (almost certainly coordinated by the same interests who coordinated the encampments at Columbia, et al.) to occupy and riot ostensibly on behalf of Palestinians. Those attempts were quickly identified for what they were (i.e., riots-to-be having nothing to do with free speech) and dispersed.
All it takes is decisive and common-sense leadership to maintain the university space for its intended purpose. At bottom in all of the examples cited in the article (and more) is leadership that is some combination of incompetent, feeble, rudderless, and morally bankrupt.
Good luck with that. All of this stems from the youth-obsessed, responsibility-avoidant, emotion-based culture of the 60's. The hippies had kids they poorly raised, their kids had kids they didn't bother to raise, and now grown-ups, reason, and consequences are in short supply everywhere.
And yet all over the press and among the true free speech types advocates (who also denounce the former "no-free speech" rules on campus), what UT and UF did was anti-free speech. Go figure. Those policies did not ban free speech, they just regulated speech to what it should be on a college campus, non-disruptive and no violation of Univ policies such as camping on the quad. I am dismayed that these sensible TX and FL policies are being so distorted.
Is it wrong that I really enjoy seeing police break up these terrorism supporters? I think theres a part of me that likes seeing reality strike. The right to protest is not a license to do whatever you want. Willfully breaking the law is civil disobedience not protest. Shouldn’t ivy league college students know these things? I mean i’m just some average guy who went to an unremarkable state college and I know that.
In the civil rights movement they engaged in civil disobedience, intentionally getting arrested to make a point. Notice the difference though. They weren’t screaming “How dare you!” at the police making a scene. They expected to be arrested and acted in an orderly manner to make a larger political point about injustice.
I think thats it. If the thought of actions having consequences makes someone hysterical. I will get the popcorn and watch as those consequences arrive.
That's something that has always caused me to shake my head. Civil Rights protesters, for the most part:
1. Broke only the laws the were objecting to as unjust (the literal meaning of civil disobedience).
2. Did not commit vandalism.
3. Did not violently resist arrest.
The entire point was to show that the laws were unjust and the people asking for those laws to be changed were reasonable, non-violent people, while the authorities arresting them were violent and bigoted.
Today's protestors break laws and destroy property that has nothing to do with what they are protesting. And they feel entitled not to be arrested for doing so.
This is the same crowd that started germinating with Occupied Wall Street, which evolved into Antifa. They were just agitating for something to give them the license to unleash chaos and anarchy. 2020 gave them the perfect excuse with George Floyd. BLM was cool back then. If the record tells us anything, the majority of this bunch of trendy social cause fashionista will move on in 2 years time and anything about Gaza and Palestinian all but forgotten when the next cool cause comes along.
For all their ruckus, what have they ever achieved? Certainly nothing for the people for whom they claim to care about. Has life improved for any black people? No. Even funnier is more and more black men are moving right and even supporting Trump. I'd almost suspect data, polls, and reports are not be trusted except I'm seeing with my own eyes more and more anti-woke young black men writing on Substack and talking on podcasts intelligently, and the funny ones making fun of the wokes on YT. If abortion rights wasn't on the agenda, I suspect more black women would defect too.
Just we wait. Two years from now, nothing these clowns are doing would've had a dent on improving anything for the Palestinians. When the war in Gaza/Israel ends, none of them would personally go to Gaza to help rebuild anything. God forbid they travel anywhere with no gluten-free bread. But hey, they got to cosplay revolutionaries in 2024 until they appoint their next class of victims.
The unfortunate part is their cycle of disruption won't end and the rest of us are stuck with the bedlam of these jackasses.
Quite so. Most of the Activism, Inc.™️ organizations behind all the “protests” you named have, as their modus operandi for achieving their goals, the use of chaos and violence to definitively destroy the current system so that they can bring about the changes they want. (see, for example, George Soros’ Open Society).
Except they have no actual functional plans. All they have are end goals with no modicum of paths how to even get there. “Eliminate Israel!” Ok yeah how to do that? “Go back to Poland!” Have they even consulted Poland why Poland should take in a country of people who aren’t their citizens? “They should all move to the US!” Again, why? What makes them think other Americans want that? Never mind what the Israeli Jewish people want.
Same with “Decolonization!’ How does that work exactly? Disband the USA? Are they gonna move out of their homes and return the land to Native Americans? Where do they think they’ll go after that and who do they think will want a bunch of agitators coming to their countries? Will they kill themselves so they’ll stop occupying the land they say they themselves have no right to own or live in?
They have no plans. They are just like 3 year old babies demanding their toys. They have no idea who makes money or how to buy the toys for them. The just must have their toys. Wwwwwaaaaaahhhhh!
The students are merely the tools. The activist-industrial complex has been changing policy at the federal level for decades, and its influence has really grown and solidified since the Obama administration (essentially, it is replacing the military-industrial complex). The students’ putative “ideas” are merely the motivational tool being used by the activist-industrial complex to foment the chaos necessary to achieve the political power by the plutocracy that is actually behind it all.
That's very true. I'm just very infuriated ATM at the amount of blatant antisemitism these nasty young fools are flaunting. They're acting exactly like the Nazi mobs in the 1930s. It's so disgusting.
"'Violent' leader of Columbia University's anti-Israel protest is unmasked as son of millionaire ad execs who is married to a model and lives in $3.4M Brooklyn brownstone"
I agree with you, QX, only I think the majority will move on to the next "cause" in less than two years. (That doesn't mean we sit around and accept the takeover of campuses.)
And I don't really think that abortion is on the ballot. It is in the hands of the states now. The Democrat party is just trying to hit us over the head with that messaging. I do think that the Gender Cut is on the ballot whether most people realize it or not.
The fact that the White House can't do anything about abortion no matter who's in office isn't getting through. It's not even just the WH. There simply won't be enough of a majority in Congress to pass any law either way about this. But people react to this subject very much on an emotional rather than rational level, and TBF that's true on both sides for those who feel the strongest about it. Aside from that, Trump has done nothing to endear himself to black women. So it is hard to make a case for them to vote for him. Even if they are thoroughly disillusioned by Biden and the Democrats, they don't have any reason to believe the Republicans will do anything better for them. (I'm strictly speaking black women voters here.) From their perspective that neither will do anything for them, they hedge their bets to stick with the devil they know. And Trump makes it too easy for women to feel turned off by him.
I recently heard a podcast with Adam Coleman as the guest. He's on the podcast circus currently talking about getting away from the black victimhood mentality because he just published a book on the subject. He said Republicans never go into any cities where black Americans are. There's no GOP outreach at all and never had been. Black Americans not online don't know any Republicans all their lives and they don't know what Republicans are about. The GOP had given up on those areas and don't even try to introduce themselves to the voters. (He thinks this is really bad for the Republicans.) So there's a huge alienation with black voters having no idea why they should consider voting red, or what the Republicans are even about.
Here we hear some voices asking ad nauseum why anyone would still vote D or Biden. Everyone's always talking about issues, but overlook a lot of problems with the process. Coleman makes a very good point that if voters simply don't know you (you meaning candidates), and you never set foot into their areas and never bother to make a case, and they live in areas where no one promotes your voice, they wouldn't even know anything about you, and all their lives they've been under the impression that they don't matter to you, it's hard to blame them for not giving you their votes.
He's been on some other ones too but this is the one I listened to. It's on Spotify too.
Phetasy also had a on a while back a black woman named Tamika Hamilton who ran as a Republican in a local race in CA. She talked in depth about the challenges of the process and said a lot of the same thing Adam Coleman did, that the Republican party doesn't do a lot of outreach. They like black candidates but also expect all candidates to figure things out themselves including funding. It wasn't a complaint, she was straightforwardly explaining the challenges of the process of running Republican. The YT link's not there anymore, so here's the Spotify link (Episode 249):
Exactly! Even though I vehemently disagree with their position, at least I'd have some respect for them if they were actual willing to deal with the consequences of their actions. If they really cared about this 'cause' they would be willing to pay the consequence for their actions, willing to be arrested, go to jail, risk future careers, etc. without complaining about how unfair it all is. The civil rights movement knew the system was unfair, they knew they would be treated unfairly by the justice system. These punks are not even pointing to a true injustice (in this country or in Palestine) and yet, they aren't willing to take ANY consequence for their actions, even if they believe the injustice to be true. It's really pathetic. They have literally NO idea how to think through the consequences of their actions, and the whining about a lack of food reveals this explicitly (like you couldn't think ahead and plan for your own food when deciding to stage a sit-in?). It is EMBARRASSING to the civil rights movement for these punks to associate what they are doing today with those protests, demonstrations, and sit-ins from the 1960's.
What they are doing is deliberately undermining our system of democratic norms, which exist only as long as we agree they do. The reason they want to commit crimes without consequence is that is how they advance the revolution without being sidelined with jail or expulsion. They also want to demonstrate that the university or the civil authorities have no power over them so it doesn't matter what the law says.
Some of the organizers are doing this yes. I believe you have a valid point. I’m not sure how many students are cognizant of this aim by the organizers and leaders and how many are really, truly, just not adult enough to think about the consequences of their actions. After all, many had helicopter parents that never let them suffer a true consequence of their action a day in their lives.
Civil rights leaders didn't hide their faces to avoid the consequences of their actions. These student radicals are more like the KKK than those who marched for black equality or in opposition to the Vietnam War.
The problem with "civil disobedience", noble and useful as it may often be, is that the purpose of laws is to persuade people to obey them, not to arrest, fine, or jail people who disobey them. Imagine if some white racists "peacefully" protested the integration of a public school by blocking the entrances, hallways, classrooms, etc. with their limp bodies, passively waiting to be arrested (perhaps to be replaced by yet more protestors), but succeeding in preventing or delaying the integration of the school, and thus barring Black students at least temporarily from attending it.
Most protesters are cowardly concealing their identities and refusing to speak to the press.
Essentially anonymous protesting has appeared as a new phenomena few journalists have addressed. This is a significant and notable departure from worthy protests of the past.
Many of these people are essentially virtue signaling to one group while remaining faceless to authority and the public not unlike internet trolls.
The universities must track all individuals on their campuses involved in these protests - students or otherwise. They must mandate that no unaffiliated individuals enter institution property and maximally prosecute any unaffiliated that joins any campus demonstration. Inevitable claims of masking for health or to protect themselves from doxxing cannot be accepted. Universities can issue official serial numbered N95 masks (matched to individuals) to institutional affiliates (students, faculty, staff) upon request to address the health concern loophole requiring that no other masks be worn at demonstrations.
There is a cost to protesting and civil disobedience - cowards unwilling to show their faces or be identified and pay the cost of admission can stay home.
The University’s administration agree, sanction and hire more professors with these beliefs. They have known about it along because they are the root of the problem.
One school is offering full scholarships to Palestinians, and teaching positions for Palestinians in Gaza.
Biden is “ thinking”( we know he doesn’t think , Obama ) of offering to import Gazans to the USA!Not one Arab Muslim country will have them for a reason.
If he put them in concentration camps in the Upper Peninsula could they still vote? They wouldn't be citizens of course but Michigan might pass a special law giving them voting rights.
Have people noticed that the media coverage has gone from Gaza/Ukraine to a few thousand protestors in a country of 330M? Talk about amplifying and running with a narrative..............
All that needs to be done is to have lawyers file giant class action lawsuits, donors cancel huge commitments, Congress tax endowments and force schools to co-sign for student loans and have the Justice Department conduct an exhaustive Title VI investigations.
If these DEI WOKE people are not ousted from power this will only get worse. As their acolytes become lawyers and judges, there will be no possibility of a “ lawsuit”.
This ideology is unAmerican and must be defeated. Like radical Islam it is not compatible with a liberal society.
I wish it were that easy. The problem is the professors, administrators,m and student body so completely are bought into this ideology and they're not going to change their opinions on it.
Getting rid of their funding would be a good start, if for no other reason than our tax money should not be funding an ideological brainwashing plant. It wouldn't change very much, other than perhaps make them signal a bit more externally.
And product liability suits for advertising and selling defective products that ultimately harm the user. How any institution can charge upwards of $80k or $90k per year for a useless degree that will never return the increased income the institutions actively promise to their customers without being targeted for false advertising by the Consumer Protection Agency is beyond me...
Fire all employees involved in these protests that involve “occupying” university grounds, including professors. Expel all students involved. Then charge trespassers who had no business being there.
All just a pathetic clan of losers.
And Jewish patrons of all of these places should be actively encouraged to divest their largesse away from any school run by spineless morons who didn’t stand up to these losers.
Yup. If these children (and I'm including the faculty members) want to play tinpot revolutionaries, let them suffer the consequences. College is supposed to prepare students for the real world. And in the real world, bad decisions come with consequences.
Schadenfreude may not be nice or merited but it is inescapable. If you're a liberal horrified by these idiotic, anti-Semitic demonstrations, don't forget how you swooned and cheered for the equally deceptive and delusional BLM idiocy. And felt so righteous taking a knee to racist bullies. Or thought it was so cool and enlightening to make kids read the execrable trash "Wretched of the Earth." Reaping and sowing, my friends.
"exposed"? BLM openly said on a website for over ten years that they are a communist revolutionary group. It was never hidden in any way. People with their BLM signs just never bothered learning what they were actually supporting.
This will only end when federal funding is pulled from these schools, foreign governments are banned from funding colleges and students with visas who protest are sent home. Oh and parents, stop trying to get your kids into these places.
There are several Title VI investigations occurring at these schools. Many highly respected law firms are organizing class action lawsuits on behalf of Jewish plaintiffs. The evidence of harassment and intimidation is so obvious thanks to the many published videos circulating social media. If the Justice Department and Department of Education don’t start prosecuting these cases soon, we will know that they are taking the side of the Jew hating mob. These actions will be highly influential in determining how Jews vote this November.
Abigail just noticed that universities (and many other institutions) operate under two set of rules. That's been obvious for decades to anyone who's been paying attention. The only news is that Jews have joined the rest of us deplorables in the disfavored class.
As someone with the lived experience of enduring a kangaroo court at my university for making a quip about a feminist work of art -- deemed "racist" -- and not exempting the complainant from my course -- "racist" -- this double-standard makes my blood boil. But the worst part of it is how, even as they see this outrage happening before their eyes, they will still vote for the Democrat party that is fomenting this madness. They will still vote for "gender affirming care" and anti-natalist sentiment and absolving borrowers of student loans.
Yeah, but that's largely because the GOP insists on running the same unpopular candidate three times in a row. Haley or any non-Trump acolyte would completely destroy Biden. (Wasn't she something like 17 points up on King Joe when she withdrew?)
Free stuff wins. The goal of the gender activists is to get all this "care" done for free, on insurance. If someone wants to get her breasts cut off or take T to grow a beard, fine with me, but don't make me pay for it. The grift is getting it paid for. It's expensive and lucrative.
Susan: “The goal of the gender activists is to get all this "care" done for free, on insurance” - not true. Getting the government and insurance to pay for what amounts to mutilation was not the goal, it was simply a means to facilitate the goal of mutilating as many children as possible.
You have a point there, Roberta. I was speaking about adults but part of normalizing it for adults as “health care” is to create the illusion that children “need” it too. So yes I agree with you and thanks for making that observation.
Sadly, most of the "arrests" made will likely result in no charges, at least for those in NY City and LA where they'll be arrested and then sent back to protest some more. The only way to get the universities to clamp down on this antisemitism is to bombard them with class action lawsuits seeking huge compensation and sullying their reputations as much as possible. Also more wealthy alumni need to step up very publicly and withdraw their donations. Those are the only things that will get an administration's attention.
I hear that there is an active campaign for Jewish alumni to send in a donation of $1 to their alma maters, so that their decision to not contribute to these cesspits will be noticed appropriately. It won't be long until the colleges feel the pain - unless the Qataris make up the difference - something which should be prohibited.
Every one of the Professors who took part at Columbia should be summarily fired. Yes, this will gut the Gender Studies, Sociology and Journalism departments but it will likely leave intact the departments which bestow marketable degrees, math, science (except biology), engineering and finance. I stand foursquare in front of my Jewish friends and neighbors against these Jacobites. I wish you would be there when white, male, southern Christians are targeted.
The Demoralized DIEvy League grievance studies departments are red guard grooming factories that must be shut down for our civilization to survive: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/jordan-peterson-struggle-session-episode-3
The word disgusting doesn't fully encapsulate what is happening in these campuses. The I in DEI apparently doesn't include Jews.
The administrations on these campuses are just as far left as the rioters and in their heart of hearts agree with the rioting scum on their campuses. These administrators and professors participating this these racists acts of violence should be fired immediately and ostracized from academia immediately. And the students should be expelled and never allowed on campus again.
Before some hypocritical leftist criticizes me for being a right wing NAZI, let me remind them that is exactly what the left supported, destroying lives with the vicious PC/Woke movement.
Apparently when the left destroys lives it is noble but when the sane want justice and antiracism, it's evil.
Perhaps DEI means "Discredit Every Islamophobe" or something like that; at least judging from how it has played out so far...
It stands for "Didn't Earn It"
...and Division, Exclusion, and Inequity.
My version is Divisiveness, Exclusion and Idiocy
"Doesn't include" is putting it mildly. When sentiments like, "whites gotta be wiped out," a polished statement from a Rutgers "gender professor," go completely unchallenged by Rutgers' administration, DEI is racism and deracination incarnate. It's aimed at whites writ large and repeats ancient anti- Jewish tropes and focuses on white men in particular. Education associations called any criticism of the offending racist professor "racist." There is no way to deal with this kind of illiberalism. It has got to be shut down. https://www.thecollegefix.com/rutgers-u-faculty-groups-support-prof-who-said-white-people-gotta-be-taken-out/
When a leftist loses an argument, the first word out of their mouths is racist.
Well said.
Couldn't agree more. We are back to the late 1930's, only now we are dithering over the free speech rights of Nazis to help organize, fund, and direct a group of carefully and methodically manufactured useful idiots to promote and demand the Holocaust. It's worth considering that these "students" will be running things in the not-too-distant future.
I don't think they'll be running much of anything noteworthy, maybe an Army Surplus Store, legalized drugs, Obscene T-shirts Are Us, Used Keffiyehs Inc., or some other useless enterprise.
They've been given everything they have their whole worthless lives, and when they face the real music and have to fend for themselves, well, we'll see soon enough.
They are an extremely small minority of college students, infiltrated by professional protesters, and like the hippies of the 1960's will be forgotten as soon as the next cold winter.
You’re way too sanguine, my friend. These are future Democrat White House officials, congress members, and — most importantly — the executives of Activism, Inc™️ (i.e., the folks who really decide US policy).
Yes, many of politicians in power running our country now are community organizers and have been for a while (Obama). This is is our future. IMO it is naive to expect that faculty will be fired or students expelled for their actions. The rot may have spread too widely and deeply for it to be contained.
Yes but Trump was no community organizer. The petulant protesters who make all the noise get the news headlines, but the Chapel Hill Frat Boys and the Duke Men's LaCrosse Team are the future captains of American industry & know-how.
There are millions more marching under the MSM radar.
You might consider reading Rufo's American Cultural Revolution.
Agree completely, Orwell. In fact, they're the grandchildren and great-grands of the so-called hippies, whose damage to this country remains incalculable. They illustrate the prescience of Midge Decter's 1970s book, "Liberal Parents, Radical Children."
You’re not wrong!!!!!
Sad but true
Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn were 60s radicals who ended up teaching at universities.
And they raised Chesa Boudin who was the District Attorney in SF for a time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesa_Boudin
" Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, Weather Underground members who, when Boudin was only 14 months old, were both convicted of murder for their participation in the 1981 Brink's robbery in Rockland County, New York.[9] His mother was sentenced to 20 years to life, and his father to 75 years to life, both for the felony murders of two police officers and a security guard.[10][11]
After his parents were incarcerated, Boudin was adopted and raised in Hyde Park, Chicago, by fellow Weather Underground members Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn."
Yup, and good ol' Chesa made San Francisco a lot worse during his tenure as DA. Now it's an even bigger cesspit to fix.
Bill and Bernardine hosted Obama's first political fundraiser in Chicago. When asked why he'd sought out support from violent leftists, Obama claimed that Ayers "was just a guy from my neighborhood." Take a gander at
https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/28339-obama-and-bill-ayers-together-from-the-beginning/ -- just one of many pieces that exposed Obama's leftist benefactors/mentors. Those pieces dried up fast when the very media outlets that had carried them soon began swooning over him.
Thanks for the info.
I hope you are right. That said, have you taken a good look at our current Cabinet?
True! Puppet-boy Biden is completely managed by those screaming leftists.
Spoiler alert: This time the Nazis are brown; perhaps nobody will notice...
So Google's new AI actually had it correct! Mind blown...
Bill, these “students” are the equivalent of Nazi Brown Shirts. When their usefulness is over, they will be processed out, so to say.
Mao eliminated the Red Guard when their usefulness expired. These kids are too stupid to realize they are being used in the same way.
You nailed it.
Hopefully prospective employers will vet any applicants from these universities for the next four years.
You assume the employers have brains and not active DEI departments! Oh, if it were true....
"It's worth considering that these "students" will be running things in the not-too-distant future." That 's the plan on how to destroy America from within.
Just give them all brown shirts and they'll be happy
In all of this protest and outrage-both sides--I hear no solution based discussion of a way to end the conflict in Gaza. As in all things American these days, hatred, division and the lamented double standard, distorts reality at every turn. Objectivity is a cardinal sin. Unaccounted for tax treasure, produced by the lives and hard work of the Republic's citizens, is flowing away to Israel, the DEI, the Ukraine, airfare to disperse border crashers across the country (add your own) while, business as usual, human beings near and far are dying. Crisis!?! On 9/10/2001 Donald Rumsfeld ("Rummy to his friends) announced that the Pentagon had lost $2,300,000,000,000.00 in tax treasure. "We the people" still live with (FISA) what happened the next day. Now the "skull and bones" shadow boys are promising a catastrophic American collapse of immense proportion just in time for the election of our new President. ("Be afraid!! Only a dictatorship can save you now!!) Well, my advice, don't be afraid.
I'm an Abigail Shrier fan and respect the hard and truthful work she continues to bring to the American conversation. But long before TFP (one of the first to speak out), or Abigail, we all suffered and witnessed the poisonous unobstructed decades long assault on free speech, western values and the nuclear family by the misandrist Marxist faux feminists, who developed and applied the core techniques of today's ascending fascism: Trial by press. Anonymous accusation and rumor. The selective ideological destruction of worthy lives and careers. The social media pile on. Trial by kangaroo court opinion. And most importantly, the silencing and distortion of free discourse and the mass imprisonment of the American people inside a self-righteous, profitable and immoral leviathan lie. We all know that the DEI commissariat is the long dreamed of payoff for the elitist feminist faux Marxism of the privileged"left". But if the foxes are in the university henhouse it is because the criminal financiers and their political operatives inside American elected officialdom pay them and want them to be there. What "we the people" want doesn't matter.
Hamas is paid to be unreasonable. By who? Who pays American MSM "legacy" media to distort the American national dialogue? Who is so afraid of you that they must pay big tech to watch you through the electronic window? Why would they fear you? Or, one micro of the macro lie just beginning to enter the American national conversation: Who is funding campus chaos and protest? (Hint: Green on the outside. Marxist red on the inside.) Want Jews, Palestinians, Ukrainians and Americans to be O.K? Stop the fk'n war. But you can't. Why? You know why. --The only legitimate moral engine of human survival left is the American Constitution, the Republic and the free citizen. That sucking sound in the background is, by design, American life going down the toilet and American treasure flowing upward into numbered accounts across the globe. Every horror witnessed on our shores and those beyond is blowback from their psyop.
But they won't be. The University will hope the moment passes and it can be business as usual. And what about all the Marxist indoctrinators who were smart enough to stay out of the fray here? They will continue to teach poison to more generations. It is going to take a serious combined effort of government the courtroom AND wealthy donors to make any difference. The Marxist colleges are betting we don't have the stamina.
Doug, interestingly, when you all catch up, you'll learn it's not Marxist indoctrinations, it's German state socialism. Find on the Internet Herbert Tuttle, Cornell historian, famous essay of 1883 (believe it or not), memorialized by Herbert B. Adams, 1894, and 30 pages of comments by Irwin Collier available on the Internet. Sorry, I don't know how to paste it to you. Just google the names, you'll see. And all the rest of you too. Eye opening.
The problems with our education system certainly *started* with German state socialism (which is indeed an eye-opening subject), promoted in the U.S. by Horace Mann and John Dewey. But there is no denying that Marxists have taken over the system and used its built-in indoctrination features to promote their own agenda.
But it was the German academics, beginning with Johann Gottlieb Fichte, 1762-1814, who instituted "empirical facts" to the Social Sciences "Humanities" -- putting them on a par with STEM. "Individual Liberty is only to be protected when it is means of securing the German Will of the state. And Hegel, "Freedom consists in obedience to the commands of the state." Further, "The real will of each inhabitant is to secure what are in the interest of the state for its interests advance the collective interests of its inhabitants." Luv the word "collective."
I've said before, the difference between Germany & the United States is Germany was a dictatorship run into the ground first by Kaiser Wilhelm then again by Adolf Hitler.
Our constitution & three bodies of government will not allow an administration like Joe Biden's more than one term. Bet on it.
I hope you are correct 234!!
I think you will find "Escape from Freedom," by Erich Fromm, immensely interesting and fascinating. Just read the first review on Amazon. I stumbled on this book 25 years ago, and have never looked back.
The nature of government depends mostly on the character of people who lead and staff it. A constitution and 3 supposedly coequal branches creating checks and balances does not guarantee freedom, security and prosperity for the governed. As we have observed there is no accountability for a president who acts in contempt of SCOTUS. One party openly expresses an intent to pack SCOTUS to ensure its agenda will be rubber stamped. The administration is prosecuting the candidate of the opposition party in multiple venues prior to the election this year while working mightily to exclude a viable 3rd party candidate from the race at all. I could continue, but the point my point is our the structure and institutions of our government will preserve our freedom so long as those in government respect, uphold and adhere to the principles on which this nation was founded. That is quite obviously no longer the case.
Hope you’re right
234, I'd so much like to hear why you think that. If it happened once, what will stop it from happening again?
But the real threat of fascism in America doesn't come from elected administrations, but from the permanent bureaucracy, which thanks to Wicker v. Filburn and a host of other misbegotten SCOTUS decisions, along with Congress's nearly century-long penchant for handing its legislative powers to unelected bureaucrats. has metastasized beyond the bounds a plain reading of our Constitution would set. The Democrats are first and foremost the party of the permanent bureaucracy: They were when their electoral platform was to look out for the interests of the working class. They are now that they scorn the working class as "deplorables". They, principally in the person of Woodrow Wilson and FDR created it.
The Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) along with the most dangerous of the bureaucratic agencies, the security services, will happily subvert the Constitution and the law to prevent any threat to the bureaucracy's power.
Trump is perceived (I suspect wrongly due to his own lack of ability to focus on anything other than whatever is stoking is ego at the moment) as an existential threat to the bureaucracy. Thus he has to be portrayed as the fascist, even as the Democrats use the union of state and corporate power (Mussolini's definition of fascism) to suppress dissent online by turning "content moderation" by tech platforms into a means of censorship. Thus the FBI director called off the investigation of Hillary Clintons' handling of classified documents by making up a mens rea clause that isn't in the relevant statutes, which criminalize even negligent mishandling. Thus old intelligence operatives from the other side of the Pond are hired to create "dossiers" about supposed Russian influence on Truimp. Thus the content of Hunter Biden's laptop is dismissed as "having the hallmarks of Russian disinformation", when, in fact, it was real and makes a prima facia case for now President Biden being engaged in corrupt dealing with American's primary adversary, China (and on the basis of this using that union of state and corporate power, reporting on it was suppressed on social media platforms).
The Constitution won't save us from a Germany-like fate unless there is the will and competence to push the Federal government back inside the bounds it set, which had better be found and exercised before it is too late.
Bismarck was an incredible savvy guy, adapting the social welfare demands of the socialists to support the monarchy against the political threat of socialism. Socialists who played along were hired by the state; those who refused were gotten rid of.
Germany was thoroughly primed for the National Socialists.
Michael, I am reading the Tuttle essay ACADEMIC SOCIALISM (Atlantic Monthly,
Vol. 52, August 1883), and I am way out of my own field. I keep getting stuck on the use of the term "publicist." I'd be grateful if you can reply to this reply with an explanation of what a "publicist" was in the context of the Tuttle essay. Thank you so much!
"Publicists" jumped off the page to me. I loved it. That's the term I think Tuttle used for academics, specifically the German academics selling "Social Sciences" with "empirical facts." In other words, "hacks." The publicists have ben rampant in American Universities, since Woodrow Wilson.
Thank you. As a psychiatrist, I always used to tell my patients that psychiatry was kind of in the bronze age -- not very scientific yet, but well-intentioned for the most part. I think a lot of social sciences are at a much earlier stage of evolution than the "hard sciences." And I think it's important to acknowledge that, and NOT oversell what we think we know!
WOW1 Jody (if that's your real name), I think I'm in love. You must know Dennis Prager.
Very interesting citation, I had never heard of that before. I just tried to read Tuttle's paper, and my eyeballs calcified. I think he must have been paid by word count. But I'm not entirely surprised. I learned a few years ago that Hitler based his eugenics principles on the ideas of British and American academics from the 19th century. Here's an old article The Guardian forgot to disappear into their memory hole...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/from-the-archive-blog/2019/may/01/eugenics-founding-fathers-british-socialism-archive-1997
I know what you mean, Kibb. but, go slow. What I get is the highlighted parts are from Tuttle's original, some of the rest is Adams, and evidently interspersed with Irwin Collin's comments , the originator of this article on the Internet. Clear? Not totally to me, either, but there it is. I've been aware of the German academics influence on American higher education for 25 years, after becoming familiar with the books of Erich Fromm, and others. It's only recently I've stumbled on Herbert Tuttle. The modern philosopher, Susan Nieman , is pretty interesting too. Oh, there's so much. The kids today are ignorant idiots, as I was my first 40 years. The media hacks, forget it.
Alright, I'll take another look; hopefully I can find other writing that's less like Ben Stein on mushrooms 🤓
Mushrooms? Is that's how it seems? I've never done those -- everything else, in moderation, of course. 86, I'm still here, a little COPD, of course. I loved the way Burt Lancaster said the words, "Of course, Sharon, of course," in "Elmer Gantry."
Bill Ackman, the Jewish hedge fund manager, is the one who donated a bunch of money so that the white, male, southern Christian kids who held up the flag at UNC could have an enormous kegger - love the solidarity :)
Not all were Christian, AEPi was among them. It’s called being grateful to be in America. Something most of us are but few of us defend. Kudos to those men!!
I think that’s what Nellie wrote that they were in the Free Press TGIF column, why maybe he called them that.
Point taken, Kelly, but some of those dude bros were Jewish (which only increases the solidarity).
God bless America ...
I appreciate the gesture of donation for the party but that is not the same as making a strong, public stance against the human rights abuse of "diversity" hiring, and against the misguided religion of "equity".
So you’ve met with each and every one of those young men have you Kelly and know that they’re all Christians? If not I’ll file you under ‘bigot’.
That was unnecessary.
True. It pointed out the obvious.
Gender studies should not even be a field of study. If one thinks it useful, start a Meetup group to discuss it. It won't leave completely intact the STEM and finance fields. There are woke idiots in every college department. I say purge all the SJWs!
You are correct. I just recall grad school, talking to the Public Policy students who were deciding which wineries they were going to visit that weekend. When they asked me, I said I was going to the computer lab to run simulations. They would have had plenty of time to protest. The Computer Science students did not.
Good for you. One semester I took statistics and research methods, both five credit courses. I had no time t for such things, while all the humanities students seemed to be drinking beer and smoking weed than reading assigned texts.
You are correct. My daughter is premed. I asked her if any of her classmates walked out of class last semester during that day of solidarity and she said with a straight face mom no one is walking out of Bio Chem at UVA for any cause. The head of SJP is a gender woman’s studies major!! Not sure you would find one STEM or business major at one of those encampments and especially during finals week.
It used to be feminist studies until the trans activists - men - took it over.
“ I wish you would be there when white, male, southern Christians are targeted.”
The current climate has laid bare that one can’t in good conscience identify as both a Jew and as a progressive in the US. Those of us for whom being Jewish is more than an unfortunate accident of birth are on your side and have been all along.
Great to hear. I think many people are waking up to the real threat to Democracy and Civilization.
Did you really catch on? You know it’s not Islamophobia to be truly frightened of Islam. The second conquest is on the umma is here they are coming for us all. Wake up read the Quran.
I think the progressive mindset is far more dangerous than Islam. Islam is open about hating Jews and Christians and their plans for them. Progressives think that they actually are helping people.
Well you certainly have the right to that opinion. When you penetrate the camouflage let me know. I’m rooting for you. Jabotinsky chai kahane chai
“Every one of the Professors who took part at Columbia should be summarily fired.”
Not enough. Not even close to enough. Columbia should be closed, their assets seized, and the campus turned into a museum on the evils of antisemitism.
" leave intact the departments which bestow marketable degrees, math, science (except biology)"
Too late, it seems math is racist, let alone the other disciplines
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9717063/Educators-slam-math-workbook-claims-racist-ask-students-right-answer.html
[ A flood of answers searching for the two terms "mathematics" and "racist"]
There is good and also puzzling news:
After a decade of debate and division, the San Francisco Unified School District is adding algebra back into its eighth grade curriculum at a third of its middle schools starting next year. The decision to offer algebra to eighth grader reverses a long-standing district policy in which the course was not made available to students until they entered high school -- regardless of interest or aptitude. Critics say delaying algebra until the ninth grade hamstrung students who wanted to take calculus by the time they were seniors or needed advanced math when they were applying to college.
The previous policy allowed SF students who had the family resources to be tutored privately to advance, but discriminated against the child from an income level that could only afford public education. Denying the opportunity for a low to middle income student who has an interest and aptitude to achieve in math is not discriminatory?
May the remaining middle schools also offer advance courses to support, encourage, and inspire all students rather than maintain the low expectations that result in promising and capable students being given an education that continues the poverty track. DEI also promotes poverty!
"After a decade of debate and division, the San Francisco Unified School District is adding algebra back into its eighth grade curriculum at a third of its middle schools "
This is really mixed news: it means that a decades-worth of students had a stunted mathematics experience in middle school and high school, all in the name of equity (that is, concealing that white and Asian kids far outperform their peers in mathematics). Those kids will have missed out on a critical learning experience and may not be aware of it. They will also be delayed learning geometry which, with rigorous proofs, is the closest thing to higher mathematics that they'll encounter before college.
Instead of equity, middle schools would be better off starting the year with brief descriptions of some great mathematical prodigies:
Karl Friederich Gauss, who proved that the sum of integers from 1 to n is n(n+1)/2 ... when he was 5 years old
Freeman Dyson, who never went to college because when he was 14 WW2 broke out and, at that age, he was already a world-famous mathematician so the RAF drafted him into the Operational Analysis group of Bomber Command.
John von Neumann, who spent his Sundays teaching Nobel Prize winners in Physics about transfinite induction. Von Neumann was 8 years old at the time.
That's how equity works in mathematics!
When the schools and family have expectations for a child that they will rise to their best. The reverse is also true when there are expectations that achievement is impossible because you are X, then that message will also be incorporated and there will be a higher rate of poor performance. There may be stats that support " white and Asian kids far outperform their peers in mathematics" but this is not due to a biological reason, but more social reasons that are continuing to thrive with the DEI victim mode ideal .
Katherine Johnson and the other women who worked with her would have not had a chance to succeed in today's school because they would not have been offered math since they were woman of color. When math, biology, chemistry, etc. is decided to be too hard for people that are X, then X group loses the ability to achieve as an individuals and make contributions that move our country forward in science. SF school board decision to do away with higher math and only bring it back to 33% of the schools is and has denied all those that could achieve an opportunity and deprived our communities the contributions that they may have made. Whether we lost a good nurse, a skilled engineer, or a Nobel prize winner...these are terrible and unacceptable losses.
It's been over 50 years since racial discrimination in education was outlawed in the US and all courses of study opened to all races.
Whatever the cause for over or under achievement, one clear effort of DEI has been to cover up that Asian kids from low income families in San Francisco and New York significantly outperform their peers in entrance exams to selective public schools, including peers from middle class families with greater advantages.
Whether this was caused by biology, culture, family environment or other factors can't be determined without controlled scientific studies on a large sample of students.
The effects are however clear: white and Asian students are outperforming their peers and the educational establishment is willing to cripple the education of all students in order to cover this up.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/inclusive-scholarship-is-the-latest-justification-for-failed-diversity-efforts
"It's been over 50 years since racial discrimination in education was outlawed in the US and all courses of study opened to all races. " DEI is not the discrimination of the past that forbids but it is the discrimination that denies opportunities.
Absolute insanity…..I’m not sure if I’m glad to learn the utter nonsense of politicizing math or not. Again, I’m baffled by the shear lunacy off it all. Wow, looking way back when I was in school, mathematics terrified me. So I figured out what major I could attain to not have to take a math class…. I consider myself lucky with my degree in Political Science ( a degree where I could take classes in Political Science, History and Economics - all fields I loved). Funny that I spent my career as a credit manager dealing with numbers all day long 🤔
I don't think it is that many professors...I am betting it is ADMINISTRATORS.
It's professors too. I'm in the biz. I know.
Indeed. Though it is a little known fact that as left-wing as the professoriate skews, even before they started hiring an explicitly leftist (such as that word has any meaning anymore) bureaucracy to run DEI programs, university administrators are even further left (before DEI, Offices of Student Life were the worst and may alone have sufficed to skew the average for administrators).
(Can we have the old left that looked out for the working class back? Ideally in its pre-Comintern Wobblies-era incarnation. Someone should look out for the interests of the working class, and since we know Communism and socialism don't work, I think maybe we should have anarcho-syndicalists again. Though I guess if a movement started doing that they'd now be called "right wing" or maybe even "far-right" since it would involve opposing mass immigration and either opposing or not giving a damn about the other enthusiasms of what passes for a Left these days.)
The DEI Administrators, for sure. If the average citizen knew the amount of money expended for that nonsense in our schools and colleges, it would knock their socks off.
Yup...when I see colleges that have a 1:2 or 1:1 ratio of students to admins I am amazed. There is NO way that many positions are needed.
It wouldn't be allowed in the private sector.
It was at Twitter before Elon! Every major left wing organization is packed with useless bureaucrats who are funded, one way or another, by taxpayers.
Dr Tabia Lee a former DEI admin noted that DEI actually promotes antisemistism.
https://nypost.com/2023/10/18/i-was-a-dei-director-dei-drives-campus-antisemitism/
Thanks for sharing. Dr. Lee deserves credit for calling out the rot that has infected our institutions. Unfortunately, it is in our elementary and secondary schools as well.
Agree, students do not arrive at college tabula rasa...it has happened before and the students know the two sets of rules.
Several years ago, I was working as an ESL program coordinator in a large city with a substantial Black population. Since the program I ran focused on ESL for recent arrivals mostly adults many had children who needed to navigate the public schools. A family of observant Russian Jews came looking for advice. Their 8 year old son was mocked incessantly by classmates for wearing a yarmulke. Most of his classmates were black. When the parents approached their sons teacher about the harassment they were told it was to be expected as Jews were behind the cross Atlantic slave trade to the Americas and felt the Jewish boy needed to admit his peoples responsibility for slavery. This was 15 years ago.
That is horrifying!!
Thank you for sharing this horrible example of how students arrive at college carefully taught to hate. This is so incredibly stupid and wrong on all leveis. My heart breaks for a child and a family that probably struggled to come to America and expected religious freedom. To treat a child as a political symbol rather than a child is disrespectful, inhumane, and unprofessional...hoping that the teacher left teaching!
I teach HS. It’s HS teachers too.
And the middle schools! Our local MS has a required course called Pathways to Racial Literacy which is taught four days a week for a six week period. For three days, the local LGBTQ center comes in to teach about gender (fine) and one lesson is asking kids to choose where they fit on a wheel of oppression (my name for it). Surprise, surprise, Jews turn out to be “white oppressors” on this wheel.
Those weren’t administrators linking arms….
I'm a gender-critical lesbian, retired journalist and academic. I still believe in the value of a liberal arts education, which good universities used to provide. Eliminating all but "marketable degrees" turns universities into glorified tech schools and STEM employment pipelines. The ability to think and speak critically is valuable in itself and has never been more important to our republic.
I agree many universities -- and not a few faculty -- have lost their way, and loathe that former Women's Studies departments have been captured by gender ideologues bent on erasing the material realty of "female." Yet some of our best critical thinkers, unbeholden to woke ideology, remain on campuses; what they seem to lack is the courage to speak out. Mainstream media, too, have been largely captured by "woke" thinking, which means we need more, not fewer, intelligent, well-trained journalists. This The Free Press itself demonstrates.
Our universities -- especially public institutions -- need rigorous, thoughtful reform, including a good ideological scrubbing, to restore alignment with their original purpose. They also need reliable public funding, so they don't have to depend on politicized, fickle state legislatures, the ideological preferences of wealthy donors and/or big tuition hikes.
We definitely need more intelligent, well-trained journalists, but they won't come from J-schools. I told my journalist sister-in-law when she was in college that she should know something that she can write about instead of learning how to write. She got a degree in finance and has written intelligent financial articles ever since. Had she just gone to J-school, she would have learned the woke crap that they churn out, repeating nice sounding platitudes, with no knowledge of how the world really works.
Women's Studies are not marketable because they are vastly oversubscribed. Their market is the small number of professors required to teach their courses, but the number of graduates is far in excess of that. The size of these programs should be rationalized. But why did they grow so large? Subsidization by student loans given to gullible students and College administrators and instructors whose critical thinking was limited to "if you don't think gender studies should be a major, you're a bigot."
These bloated departments pulled in substandard professors and students to fill their ranks and rewarded professors for how provocative their "research" was, not how rigorous.
Colleges should reassess their programs. I'm all for engineering majors taking philosophy, English, fine arts, history, foreign language to round out their thinking, in fact, I took all those things as an engineering undergrad, but the size of those department should be limited to the number of classes they need to provide a quality education across the college and the number of opportunities there are for their graduates.
I earned a master's in journalism from the University of Michigan in 1984; that two-year intensive program served me well as a critical thinker and reporter for 20 years. Granted, it was a different era, and I've always been an independent thinker. Whether today's J schools are a lost cause, I can't say; part of the answer, I'm sure, depends on the intellectual autonomy of students and how they choose to apply their training.
We agree at least, that colleges and universities should reassess their programs, and I'm glad you see the value in disciplines that can't neatly be monetized.
"I wish you would be there when white, male, southern Christians are targeted."
Don't you mean the "poor, illiterate, and strung out"?
That's about the way they think of us
Well, one NYC has-been, anyway. In L.A. some of the most enthusiastic Trump voters I knew were my dear neighbors, an elderly Jewish couple. I miss them, but I am sure glad they aren't here to see the local news this week.
- Yes, this will gut the Gender Studies, Sociology and Journalism departments
You say this like it is a bad thing.
Why “except biology” please? Curious. Want to know. Thanks!
Many biology departments have given in to the ascientific notion that sex is a spectrum. They were probably out at the protest or at least giving kids credit for attending the protests instead of coming to class.
I agree. But it’s also hard for me to separate Biology from academia in general. There’s been a decent amount of leftbrainwashing overall
Re: you wish I would be there for you… I 100% am!!
G-d bless!!
"I wish you would be there when white, male, southern Christians are targeted."
You could sell tickets to watch that!!!
Do you feel white Christian males are targeted ? If yes, how so?
Without a doubt. The DOJ and Police have a history of targeting white/Christian/men. Mark Houck arrested at gunpoint in his home with his children in bed for an altercation arising from a pro-abortion activist harassing his 12-yo son. DOJ clearly brought Fed charges because he was white/Christian man. Damon Atkins arrested for citing the Bible in protest of an LGBTQ event. Marcus Schroeder arrested for preaching the Gospel near a "Pride in the Park" event. Why do the protected groups get free speech but white/Christians do not? How many times have we been told we don't have a voice in abortion because we are not women, or race relations because we are not Black. Jack Phillips being targeted by the Gov of Colorado for not baking a cake for ceremonies he feels are against his religion. The Free Press repeatedly making fun of Mike Johnson for being evangelical and asking his daughter to not have premarital sex -- even though Mike Johnson is more vocal about his support for Israel than any Dem politician in the Senate. Oh yes, we are targets.
No one could even ask this question unless they have been oblivious to the culture in this country for several decades. I would argue white Christians in general, male and female, are persecuted, but maybe males get the worst of it. They have invented the white Christian bogeyman out of whole cloth. Left-wing director Rob Reiner just made an entire "documentary" film about the threat from so-called Christian nationalists. Nothing about any kind of threat from radicalized Muslim Americans though, even though that faith is infinitely more intolerant of women, gays, and all the things leftists hold dear. (Conservative black Christians, of which there are many, are also not targeted for the same hate, funny thing that.)
Also ignored is all the good that Christian groups do for charities in this country. It's bigotry pure and simple, yet anti-Christian bigotry is rarely called out.
One word, Tenure
My only hope in all this madness is that people start actually paying attention to what progressive pathology has actually become and this extends far beyond the blatant support of antisemitism on display right now.
Yes! After the Jews they'll pick another group!
Thank you! I couldn't agree more.
I hope you’re right, but I doubt future history will illustrate such.
Despite all the panic and mass delusion surrounding COVID-19, I still had hope that, if nothing else, more people would start washing their hands after using a public restroom. Those hopes didn’t even last a month.
I worked in a place in 1993-94 where the attitude among the guys always seemed to be 'nobody washes hands here.' It was as if they thought, 'I am so fucking busy; I have no time to wash my hands.' My own group was the outlier; we were almost all men, which was odd considering that this was a corporate communications department. We all hated it there and this was one more reason for our profound disgust.
But nobody gets sick despite not washing hands, right? The less you touch in those places, the better. If you're going to handle food after you poop, I can see washing your hands, but not if you're just gonna stick 'em in your pocket, or handle paper money.
People complied with public health orders until they were told they didn't have to anymore. Then they stopped doing them. Isn't this about what you'd expect? Why should handwashing survive?
Sarcasm?
Yes, it is apparent that anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are merely gateway drugs .
The Times reports that a number of professors at Columbia took their classes to the "camp" as a lesson plan. One said that his class included two Israelis who chose not to attend. My God, do you have no shame? As a high school teacher, I cannot tell you how often I bend over backward not to reveal my political views no to students. I am here to teach facts, ideas, and HOW to think, not what to think. These putatively elite universities are really revealing themselves to be the very opposite of what education should be. Embarrassing and disturbing.
At least my uber-progressive NY university sent out an email stating that professors should NOT ASSIGN ATTENDING THE PROTEST. I was quite surprised.
Requiring Jewish students to attend classes at a location where signs are displayed calling for violence against Jews is a crystal-clear violation of Title VI--it would be difficult to think of a more textbook example. This is not theoretical, attorneys hired by the Jewish students have already filed the lawsuits. The puzzling part is why the university's fancy-pants lawyers are not alerting their bosses that this sort of thing puts the university at risk of becoming ineligible for the tens of millions of dollars of federal funding that they receive every year. I guess the university lawyers are the same geniuses that prepare university presidents for congressional hearings.
The revolution is more important than the university. It is more important than Disney's brand. More important than our system of equal rights and justice.
Everything for the revolution! Glory to the communists and the Democratic Socialists of America!
Too bad about the Sullivan act in nyc. Know what I mean eh?
Yisrael Gale: Do you genuinely believe these universities are at risk of losing federal funding?
Even if they do, Qatar, Soros, and the rest of the good doers in the world will make up the difference
Unfortunately your moral compass for teaching is in the minority today- one reason we are in the mess we are in now!
"As a high school teacher, I cannot tell you how often I bend over backward not to reveal my political views no to students"
Thank you for this, C. McBride. My kids had high school teachers who shared their politics all the time - and it ramped up during the BLM Covid lockdown times. I'd hear it over Zoom and think: When will they get to the subject matter of the class? Isn't this supposed to be a Science class or something? And, forget History...
These "protestors", as well as some prominent political commentators and at least one person who is running for President, don't know or pretend not to know the following:
- The history of the Middle East
- The history of Israel
- The political situation in Gaza and Israel since 2005
- The military situation in Gaza and Israel since 2005
- The context of the current conflict
- The goals of either side in the current conflict
- The consequences of a truce for either side in the current conflict
- The meaning of the word "genocide"
- The meaning of the word "apartheid"
- The meaning of various slogans and rallying cries
Given that they don't know or pretend not to know these things, the only thing left that they could possibly know is this - someone killed a bunch of Jews, and the Jews have responded with force. That's what they are protesting, or editorializing on, or making campaign speeches about.
Of all the people in all the world, only Jews are expected to tolerate genocidal (I do know what that word means) terrorists living next door, lobbing missiles at them, blowing up various public accommodations, and slaughtering civilians while their fanboys cheer them on from college campuses around the world.
Apparently it's the rest of us who don't know what "antisemitism" means, because they swear up and down that this isn't that.
My son has attended programs in Israel four times in so many years. Every time - at least once per visit - I have received this text message "Hey, you might hear on the news that some missiles are coming in today. I'm safe." When I turn on the news it's never reported. If another country was continually peppered with missiles it would be The Story. Israel's population is ~9,000,000. The countries BORDERING Israel contain over 150,000,000 people who would love to see Israel and its people blown up. After Sept 11 I saw a subtle shift. If one dared question Islamic fundamentalists (who radicalized those who led the attacks) they were accused of Islamophobia and told "Islam is a religion of peace and love". Like the emperor's new clothes it was crazymaking. And now things have escalated. A person can proudly state (while covering their face, of course) that they support terrorists, murder, rape, homophobia, the enslavement of women, etc. This isn't about Palestine this is about the resurgence of an evil I thought was culled from modern society: hatred of women, Jews, gays, etc.
Yup. Hysteria over Islamophobia (which is a rational response to Islam) began after 9/11. Although I suppose we shouldn't actually "fear" Islam. Wary and watchful opposition is healthier, I think.
Fear seems appropriate to me…
They don’t know, and worse, they don’t care!
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Wonderful article, Abigail.
For a bit of encouraging news on the other side of this coin, one could look to how The University of Texas and The University of Florida handled attempts (almost certainly coordinated by the same interests who coordinated the encampments at Columbia, et al.) to occupy and riot ostensibly on behalf of Palestinians. Those attempts were quickly identified for what they were (i.e., riots-to-be having nothing to do with free speech) and dispersed.
All it takes is decisive and common-sense leadership to maintain the university space for its intended purpose. At bottom in all of the examples cited in the article (and more) is leadership that is some combination of incompetent, feeble, rudderless, and morally bankrupt.
This article needs to be posted everywhere. It is vitally important because it is so beautufully written
Why can’t I post this to X (Twitter)? It doesn’t work.
Worked for me by clicking the "share" button at the top of the article and selecting the little bird.
Thanks
This seems a beautiful opportunity for me to throw in my re-vamped MAGA: Make America Grownup Again!
Where there are still grownups running institutions, there is still reason and order!
Good luck with that. All of this stems from the youth-obsessed, responsibility-avoidant, emotion-based culture of the 60's. The hippies had kids they poorly raised, their kids had kids they didn't bother to raise, and now grown-ups, reason, and consequences are in short supply everywhere.
And yet all over the press and among the true free speech types advocates (who also denounce the former "no-free speech" rules on campus), what UT and UF did was anti-free speech. Go figure. Those policies did not ban free speech, they just regulated speech to what it should be on a college campus, non-disruptive and no violation of Univ policies such as camping on the quad. I am dismayed that these sensible TX and FL policies are being so distorted.
Is it wrong that I really enjoy seeing police break up these terrorism supporters? I think theres a part of me that likes seeing reality strike. The right to protest is not a license to do whatever you want. Willfully breaking the law is civil disobedience not protest. Shouldn’t ivy league college students know these things? I mean i’m just some average guy who went to an unremarkable state college and I know that.
In the civil rights movement they engaged in civil disobedience, intentionally getting arrested to make a point. Notice the difference though. They weren’t screaming “How dare you!” at the police making a scene. They expected to be arrested and acted in an orderly manner to make a larger political point about injustice.
I think thats it. If the thought of actions having consequences makes someone hysterical. I will get the popcorn and watch as those consequences arrive.
That's something that has always caused me to shake my head. Civil Rights protesters, for the most part:
1. Broke only the laws the were objecting to as unjust (the literal meaning of civil disobedience).
2. Did not commit vandalism.
3. Did not violently resist arrest.
The entire point was to show that the laws were unjust and the people asking for those laws to be changed were reasonable, non-violent people, while the authorities arresting them were violent and bigoted.
Today's protestors break laws and destroy property that has nothing to do with what they are protesting. And they feel entitled not to be arrested for doing so.
AND.....they protested against their government, not a specific race, gender, social-economic class, fellow citizens, or religion.
This is the same crowd that started germinating with Occupied Wall Street, which evolved into Antifa. They were just agitating for something to give them the license to unleash chaos and anarchy. 2020 gave them the perfect excuse with George Floyd. BLM was cool back then. If the record tells us anything, the majority of this bunch of trendy social cause fashionista will move on in 2 years time and anything about Gaza and Palestinian all but forgotten when the next cool cause comes along.
For all their ruckus, what have they ever achieved? Certainly nothing for the people for whom they claim to care about. Has life improved for any black people? No. Even funnier is more and more black men are moving right and even supporting Trump. I'd almost suspect data, polls, and reports are not be trusted except I'm seeing with my own eyes more and more anti-woke young black men writing on Substack and talking on podcasts intelligently, and the funny ones making fun of the wokes on YT. If abortion rights wasn't on the agenda, I suspect more black women would defect too.
Just we wait. Two years from now, nothing these clowns are doing would've had a dent on improving anything for the Palestinians. When the war in Gaza/Israel ends, none of them would personally go to Gaza to help rebuild anything. God forbid they travel anywhere with no gluten-free bread. But hey, they got to cosplay revolutionaries in 2024 until they appoint their next class of victims.
The unfortunate part is their cycle of disruption won't end and the rest of us are stuck with the bedlam of these jackasses.
Quite so. Most of the Activism, Inc.™️ organizations behind all the “protests” you named have, as their modus operandi for achieving their goals, the use of chaos and violence to definitively destroy the current system so that they can bring about the changes they want. (see, for example, George Soros’ Open Society).
Except they have no actual functional plans. All they have are end goals with no modicum of paths how to even get there. “Eliminate Israel!” Ok yeah how to do that? “Go back to Poland!” Have they even consulted Poland why Poland should take in a country of people who aren’t their citizens? “They should all move to the US!” Again, why? What makes them think other Americans want that? Never mind what the Israeli Jewish people want.
Same with “Decolonization!’ How does that work exactly? Disband the USA? Are they gonna move out of their homes and return the land to Native Americans? Where do they think they’ll go after that and who do they think will want a bunch of agitators coming to their countries? Will they kill themselves so they’ll stop occupying the land they say they themselves have no right to own or live in?
They have no plans. They are just like 3 year old babies demanding their toys. They have no idea who makes money or how to buy the toys for them. The just must have their toys. Wwwwwaaaaaahhhhh!
The students are merely the tools. The activist-industrial complex has been changing policy at the federal level for decades, and its influence has really grown and solidified since the Obama administration (essentially, it is replacing the military-industrial complex). The students’ putative “ideas” are merely the motivational tool being used by the activist-industrial complex to foment the chaos necessary to achieve the political power by the plutocracy that is actually behind it all.
The students don't have plans, but those leading them do: to collapse Western civilization, so they can build their Marxist utopia on its ashes.
That's very true. I'm just very infuriated ATM at the amount of blatant antisemitism these nasty young fools are flaunting. They're acting exactly like the Nazi mobs in the 1930s. It's so disgusting.
Did you see this "lovely" guy? He's 40 years old.
"'Violent' leader of Columbia University's anti-Israel protest is unmasked as son of millionaire ad execs who is married to a model and lives in $3.4M Brooklyn brownstone"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13383089/Columbia-University-protest-leader-son-millionaire-Brooklyn.html
I agree with you, QX, only I think the majority will move on to the next "cause" in less than two years. (That doesn't mean we sit around and accept the takeover of campuses.)
And I don't really think that abortion is on the ballot. It is in the hands of the states now. The Democrat party is just trying to hit us over the head with that messaging. I do think that the Gender Cut is on the ballot whether most people realize it or not.
https://newdiscourses.com/2024/03/queer-theory-doctrine-sex-based-cult/
The fact that the White House can't do anything about abortion no matter who's in office isn't getting through. It's not even just the WH. There simply won't be enough of a majority in Congress to pass any law either way about this. But people react to this subject very much on an emotional rather than rational level, and TBF that's true on both sides for those who feel the strongest about it. Aside from that, Trump has done nothing to endear himself to black women. So it is hard to make a case for them to vote for him. Even if they are thoroughly disillusioned by Biden and the Democrats, they don't have any reason to believe the Republicans will do anything better for them. (I'm strictly speaking black women voters here.) From their perspective that neither will do anything for them, they hedge their bets to stick with the devil they know. And Trump makes it too easy for women to feel turned off by him.
I recently heard a podcast with Adam Coleman as the guest. He's on the podcast circus currently talking about getting away from the black victimhood mentality because he just published a book on the subject. He said Republicans never go into any cities where black Americans are. There's no GOP outreach at all and never had been. Black Americans not online don't know any Republicans all their lives and they don't know what Republicans are about. The GOP had given up on those areas and don't even try to introduce themselves to the voters. (He thinks this is really bad for the Republicans.) So there's a huge alienation with black voters having no idea why they should consider voting red, or what the Republicans are even about.
Here we hear some voices asking ad nauseum why anyone would still vote D or Biden. Everyone's always talking about issues, but overlook a lot of problems with the process. Coleman makes a very good point that if voters simply don't know you (you meaning candidates), and you never set foot into their areas and never bother to make a case, and they live in areas where no one promotes your voice, they wouldn't even know anything about you, and all their lives they've been under the impression that they don't matter to you, it's hard to blame them for not giving you their votes.
You make a very good point. I'd be interested in a link to the podcast...
Here's YT link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA72WbXKVQw
He's been on some other ones too but this is the one I listened to. It's on Spotify too.
Phetasy also had a on a while back a black woman named Tamika Hamilton who ran as a Republican in a local race in CA. She talked in depth about the challenges of the process and said a lot of the same thing Adam Coleman did, that the Republican party doesn't do a lot of outreach. They like black candidates but also expect all candidates to figure things out themselves including funding. It wasn't a complaint, she was straightforwardly explaining the challenges of the process of running Republican. The YT link's not there anymore, so here's the Spotify link (Episode 249):
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3dr8AwxVQIjYw6dBjKB0LV?
EXACTLY!
It's because most of them today don't even know what they are protesting and have no real stake in the issues.
And they openly say that it isn't actually a protest, it's a slow revolution for communism.
BLM explicitly said this for over a decade. And now moderate Democrats are acting shocked.
Exactly! Even though I vehemently disagree with their position, at least I'd have some respect for them if they were actual willing to deal with the consequences of their actions. If they really cared about this 'cause' they would be willing to pay the consequence for their actions, willing to be arrested, go to jail, risk future careers, etc. without complaining about how unfair it all is. The civil rights movement knew the system was unfair, they knew they would be treated unfairly by the justice system. These punks are not even pointing to a true injustice (in this country or in Palestine) and yet, they aren't willing to take ANY consequence for their actions, even if they believe the injustice to be true. It's really pathetic. They have literally NO idea how to think through the consequences of their actions, and the whining about a lack of food reveals this explicitly (like you couldn't think ahead and plan for your own food when deciding to stage a sit-in?). It is EMBARRASSING to the civil rights movement for these punks to associate what they are doing today with those protests, demonstrations, and sit-ins from the 1960's.
What they are doing is deliberately undermining our system of democratic norms, which exist only as long as we agree they do. The reason they want to commit crimes without consequence is that is how they advance the revolution without being sidelined with jail or expulsion. They also want to demonstrate that the university or the civil authorities have no power over them so it doesn't matter what the law says.
Some of the organizers are doing this yes. I believe you have a valid point. I’m not sure how many students are cognizant of this aim by the organizers and leaders and how many are really, truly, just not adult enough to think about the consequences of their actions. After all, many had helicopter parents that never let them suffer a true consequence of their action a day in their lives.
Civil rights leaders didn't hide their faces to avoid the consequences of their actions. These student radicals are more like the KKK than those who marched for black equality or in opposition to the Vietnam War.
I also don't remember the Vietnam era protesters cheering for North Vietnam.
Well, there was Hanoi Jane....
Lol. Okay, you got me there. I'll change "any" to "many." 🙂
Why would they know anything about that? Thoreau is just some dead white dude, right?
This made me laugh so hard.😂🤣
The problem with "civil disobedience", noble and useful as it may often be, is that the purpose of laws is to persuade people to obey them, not to arrest, fine, or jail people who disobey them. Imagine if some white racists "peacefully" protested the integration of a public school by blocking the entrances, hallways, classrooms, etc. with their limp bodies, passively waiting to be arrested (perhaps to be replaced by yet more protestors), but succeeding in preventing or delaying the integration of the school, and thus barring Black students at least temporarily from attending it.
And they showed their faces.
Most protesters are cowardly concealing their identities and refusing to speak to the press.
Essentially anonymous protesting has appeared as a new phenomena few journalists have addressed. This is a significant and notable departure from worthy protests of the past.
Many of these people are essentially virtue signaling to one group while remaining faceless to authority and the public not unlike internet trolls.
The universities must track all individuals on their campuses involved in these protests - students or otherwise. They must mandate that no unaffiliated individuals enter institution property and maximally prosecute any unaffiliated that joins any campus demonstration. Inevitable claims of masking for health or to protect themselves from doxxing cannot be accepted. Universities can issue official serial numbered N95 masks (matched to individuals) to institutional affiliates (students, faculty, staff) upon request to address the health concern loophole requiring that no other masks be worn at demonstrations.
There is a cost to protesting and civil disobedience - cowards unwilling to show their faces or be identified and pay the cost of admission can stay home.
Are you trying to say that wearing a mask might be a sign that you know you're on the wrong side of something?
The University’s administration agree, sanction and hire more professors with these beliefs. They have known about it along because they are the root of the problem.
One school is offering full scholarships to Palestinians, and teaching positions for Palestinians in Gaza.
Biden is “ thinking”( we know he doesn’t think , Obama ) of offering to import Gazans to the USA!Not one Arab Muslim country will have them for a reason.
Yes. He wants to import more Jew haters to ensure he wins Michigan. .
If he put them in concentration camps in the Upper Peninsula could they still vote? They wouldn't be citizens of course but Michigan might pass a special law giving them voting rights.
And there should be a cost to media companies who profit from amplifying messages intended to recruit violent proxies.
Have people noticed that the media coverage has gone from Gaza/Ukraine to a few thousand protestors in a country of 330M? Talk about amplifying and running with a narrative..............
Great article.
All that needs to be done is to have lawyers file giant class action lawsuits, donors cancel huge commitments, Congress tax endowments and force schools to co-sign for student loans and have the Justice Department conduct an exhaustive Title VI investigations.
If these DEI WOKE people are not ousted from power this will only get worse. As their acolytes become lawyers and judges, there will be no possibility of a “ lawsuit”.
This ideology is unAmerican and must be defeated. Like radical Islam it is not compatible with a liberal society.
I wish it were that easy. The problem is the professors, administrators,m and student body so completely are bought into this ideology and they're not going to change their opinions on it.
Getting rid of their funding would be a good start, if for no other reason than our tax money should not be funding an ideological brainwashing plant. It wouldn't change very much, other than perhaps make them signal a bit more externally.
And product liability suits for advertising and selling defective products that ultimately harm the user. How any institution can charge upwards of $80k or $90k per year for a useless degree that will never return the increased income the institutions actively promise to their customers without being targeted for false advertising by the Consumer Protection Agency is beyond me...
Fire all employees involved in these protests that involve “occupying” university grounds, including professors. Expel all students involved. Then charge trespassers who had no business being there.
All just a pathetic clan of losers.
And Jewish patrons of all of these places should be actively encouraged to divest their largesse away from any school run by spineless morons who didn’t stand up to these losers.
Yup. If these children (and I'm including the faculty members) want to play tinpot revolutionaries, let them suffer the consequences. College is supposed to prepare students for the real world. And in the real world, bad decisions come with consequences.
And deport non citizens who threaten this violence to Jewish students.
Schadenfreude may not be nice or merited but it is inescapable. If you're a liberal horrified by these idiotic, anti-Semitic demonstrations, don't forget how you swooned and cheered for the equally deceptive and delusional BLM idiocy. And felt so righteous taking a knee to racist bullies. Or thought it was so cool and enlightening to make kids read the execrable trash "Wretched of the Earth." Reaping and sowing, my friends.
The people that had BLM signs in their yard are eerily silent now that its been exposed as a scam.
"exposed"? BLM openly said on a website for over ten years that they are a communist revolutionary group. It was never hidden in any way. People with their BLM signs just never bothered learning what they were actually supporting.
And, whenever there was a BLM protest, there were always Palestinian flags being waved and keffiyehs worn by those ignoramuses
There's a lot of these signs in affluent lily-white towns. Virtue signaling for sure. These folks would never live in a diverse area!
That is so true.
This will only end when federal funding is pulled from these schools, foreign governments are banned from funding colleges and students with visas who protest are sent home. Oh and parents, stop trying to get your kids into these places.
The problem isn't so much federal funding but foreign funding.
There are several Title VI investigations occurring at these schools. Many highly respected law firms are organizing class action lawsuits on behalf of Jewish plaintiffs. The evidence of harassment and intimidation is so obvious thanks to the many published videos circulating social media. If the Justice Department and Department of Education don’t start prosecuting these cases soon, we will know that they are taking the side of the Jew hating mob. These actions will be highly influential in determining how Jews vote this November.
Abigail just noticed that universities (and many other institutions) operate under two set of rules. That's been obvious for decades to anyone who's been paying attention. The only news is that Jews have joined the rest of us deplorables in the disfavored class.
I’m sure she noticed long ago. She has just been too focused on other destructive issues to write about it.
BINGO. And whoever put up the "Huzzah for Dixie" decals was a "jerk" and presumably got what he deserved in her view?
As someone with the lived experience of enduring a kangaroo court at my university for making a quip about a feminist work of art -- deemed "racist" -- and not exempting the complainant from my course -- "racist" -- this double-standard makes my blood boil. But the worst part of it is how, even as they see this outrage happening before their eyes, they will still vote for the Democrat party that is fomenting this madness. They will still vote for "gender affirming care" and anti-natalist sentiment and absolving borrowers of student loans.
Yeah, but that's largely because the GOP insists on running the same unpopular candidate three times in a row. Haley or any non-Trump acolyte would completely destroy Biden. (Wasn't she something like 17 points up on King Joe when she withdrew?)
Free stuff wins. The goal of the gender activists is to get all this "care" done for free, on insurance. If someone wants to get her breasts cut off or take T to grow a beard, fine with me, but don't make me pay for it. The grift is getting it paid for. It's expensive and lucrative.
Yeah, let's just call them "Hamas-holes." That'll work. (Sorry, Michael, couldn't resist).
Yes! Hamassholes holding a "keffiyeh klatch".
Susan: “The goal of the gender activists is to get all this "care" done for free, on insurance” - not true. Getting the government and insurance to pay for what amounts to mutilation was not the goal, it was simply a means to facilitate the goal of mutilating as many children as possible.
You have a point there, Roberta. I was speaking about adults but part of normalizing it for adults as “health care” is to create the illusion that children “need” it too. So yes I agree with you and thanks for making that observation.
What a bunch of Hamas-holes!
Sadly, most of the "arrests" made will likely result in no charges, at least for those in NY City and LA where they'll be arrested and then sent back to protest some more. The only way to get the universities to clamp down on this antisemitism is to bombard them with class action lawsuits seeking huge compensation and sullying their reputations as much as possible. Also more wealthy alumni need to step up very publicly and withdraw their donations. Those are the only things that will get an administration's attention.
I hear that there is an active campaign for Jewish alumni to send in a donation of $1 to their alma maters, so that their decision to not contribute to these cesspits will be noticed appropriately. It won't be long until the colleges feel the pain - unless the Qataris make up the difference - something which should be prohibited.