Call me a cranky old cynic, but I just can't figure out exactly how harassing a Jewish professor in Australia and vomiting your rage into his face helps the Palestinian people.
I'm starting to think that maybe our activist class is always sniffing for a cause that will provide a pretext for them to be able to attack and destroy and come away with zero consequences and a clean conscience, much like how their Bolshevik ancestors (who I'm sure they know little about) were able to do so much murdering and excuse it as the first steps on the road to Utopia.
But I always make sure to save all my scorn for the West's liberal class, most esp academics: the people who are rewarded for transmitting our cultural patrimony are too chickenshit to also pass on the idea that Jew hate is a recurring civilizational virus that often presages much uglier things to come. This is because one of the ugliest diseases you can catch on campus (esp now that no one fucks anymore) is WHO/WHOM morality. Once you're infected w WHO/WHOM you do stupid things like deny biological sex or say certain pet victim groups can never have a bruised feeling, but Jews can have people screaming in their face for their elimination. Suddenly the academy cares for free speech!
The problem with Jews (this time) is that they won a few wars and made the unforgivable mistake of building a prosperous capitalist democracy. Only oppressors do things like that! Maybe if they lie back and submit to a few dozen more 10/7s the campus Left will defend them again.
It doesn't... This is principally about establishing who is boss and "owning space" particularly making the campus their turf, just like a gang marking their territory.
The only thing that could help the Palestinians is convince them they made a huge mistake fighting in 48 and surrender as soon as they can still salvage some land.
Activists are gang members. That’s really all that form of collectivism is.
In the U.S., the political scene is coalescing into an existential conflict between collectivists and individualists. Internal migration patterns are following the trend, hence the slowly shrinking geographic pattern of Democratic votes - collectivists are migrating to the cities to be with their tribe, and individualists are departing the cities to escape them.
President Eisenhower warned us of the danger of the corruption of academia in his farewell address. Academics studiously ignored that part. They would rather quote the part about the military-industrial complex.
I read this on board the train down to Melbourne quite sadly. It is also the day 40 years ago i birthed my son. So i will eating birthday cake and pizza and thinking of you and the wonderful Katy and wishing there were two Oct 16ths at 5:30. Best wishes!
Call me a cranky old cynic, but I just can't figure out exactly how harassing a Jewish professor in Australia and vomiting your rage into his face helps the Palestinian people.
I'm starting to think that maybe our activist class is always sniffing for a cause that will provide a pretext for them to be able to attack and destroy and come away with zero consequences and a clean conscience, much like how their Bolshevik ancestors (who I'm sure they know little about) were able to do so much murdering and excuse it as the first steps on the road to Utopia.
But I always make sure to save all my scorn for the West's liberal class, most esp academics: the people who are rewarded for transmitting our cultural patrimony are too chickenshit to also pass on the idea that Jew hate is a recurring civilizational virus that often presages much uglier things to come. This is because one of the ugliest diseases you can catch on campus (esp now that no one fucks anymore) is WHO/WHOM morality. Once you're infected w WHO/WHOM you do stupid things like deny biological sex or say certain pet victim groups can never have a bruised feeling, but Jews can have people screaming in their face for their elimination. Suddenly the academy cares for free speech!
The problem with Jews (this time) is that they won a few wars and made the unforgivable mistake of building a prosperous capitalist democracy. Only oppressors do things like that! Maybe if they lie back and submit to a few dozen more 10/7s the campus Left will defend them again.
Cheers to Helen, good luck from California.
How this helps Palestinian people???
It doesn't... This is principally about establishing who is boss and "owning space" particularly making the campus their turf, just like a gang marking their territory.
The only thing that could help the Palestinians is convince them they made a huge mistake fighting in 48 and surrender as soon as they can still salvage some land.
Activists are gang members. That’s really all that form of collectivism is.
In the U.S., the political scene is coalescing into an existential conflict between collectivists and individualists. Internal migration patterns are following the trend, hence the slowly shrinking geographic pattern of Democratic votes - collectivists are migrating to the cities to be with their tribe, and individualists are departing the cities to escape them.
Good luck tonight Helen! I would have loved to be there to listen to two powerhouses (I am in Melbourne).
Oh no, that’s a shame! Can you hang the kids from skyhooks or something?
Not during exam prep time!
President Eisenhower warned us of the danger of the corruption of academia in his farewell address. Academics studiously ignored that part. They would rather quote the part about the military-industrial complex.
I read this on board the train down to Melbourne quite sadly. It is also the day 40 years ago i birthed my son. So i will eating birthday cake and pizza and thinking of you and the wonderful Katy and wishing there were two Oct 16ths at 5:30. Best wishes!