"Decolonization" is part of the intellectual sickness created by Marcuse and Zinn that pervades American higher eduction like a mestastatizing tumor and created little Gazas where faculty and students openly engage in anti Semitic rhetoric and physical harm against Jewish students.
Whenever a civilization accumulates sufficient seed corn, you can be sure that people like these Marxcissists will scheme and scam their way into the storehouse and, once inside, gorge themselves until the seed corn is all gone. Before being granted access to seed corn, people must have skin in the game, long term, and be poised to suffer personal loss whenever they consume more than they create. If a system lacks the mechanisms to enforce such penalties, then this pattern is bound to be repeated wherever sufficient stores of seed corn exist.
The mentality of 'Progressive' demonization of Israel is beneath contemptible. It is not truly even primarily about a concern for the Palestinian people. The real driver is to signal that your privileged narcissistic little wonderful self is on the side of the 'oppressed'. To these people 'oppression' is a shallow abstraction that serves to inflate their personal vanity as one of the good guys. This poisonous vanity has been pouring out of Western academia for decades. I still remember the drug-addled anti-Zionist 'sit-in' at my UK university in 1972.
Oh I wouldn’t doubt that some of them wouldn’t want the same barbaric actions here as well.
I still can’t quite process how these “studies” want to destroy the foundations that enables their production in the first place. And then I remember it’s all about power. In a totalitarian regime, who needs a university? Dismal.
Sorry, but just because you and others are ignorant of int'll law doesn't change facts. The fact is that under international law Judea and Samaria are disputed territories not occupied, because they weren't taken from a sovereign entity as Jordan had illegally, BY INTERNATIONAL LAW, annexed the whole of the West Bank in 1948. As such, Israel has AT LEAST the same rights as do the Arabs on that land.
Regardless, this has never been about land, contrary to more than 50 years of propaganda and myth building by Arabs and the Jew hating factions of the west.
If this was truly about land and "Palestinian" sovereignty, a Palestinian State would have come into being at some point during the 19 years that Arabs had complete control over all of the areas that they demand now. For 19 years, '48-'67, what kept Arabs from creating a State that included all of the "west bank", including eastern Jerusalem, all of Gaza, and all of the Golan Heights? A capital in East Jerusalem and all of Gaza and the west bank. But they didn't, because that has NEVER been the goal. The goal is to slaughter Jews, and nothing could have illustrated that better than this last Sabbath.
love your independent work, thinking and writing. Keep sharing it - makes a tremendous difference in being able to sort through and articulate some of this twisted thinking from the "experts".
Quite eye opening. These “professors” teach classes that tell students to eliminate the very institutions that they are teaching at and attending. How can the presidents/administrations at the universities not understand what’s going on? It’s like having a group of arsonists knocking on the front door, yelling that they are going to burn down the house, and the owner opens the door and welcomes them in. Stockholm syndrome anyone.
Maybe, just maybe, these “higher education” institutions staffed by supposedly the best and the brightest, are actually just a mirage, a house of cards with a great marketing department.
The objective of Marxism is to smash all hierarchies in society. Destroying institutions and culture do tend to lead to societal collapse and mass starvation. Yet the Marxist just keep on doing it, hoping it will work this time around.
One of the most puzzling aspects of the “decolonization” mindset is their seeming inability to understand that the “colonizers” will fight back. It’s like the playground bullies who cry and run to tell teacher when one of their targets pops them in the nose. No sympathy here.
Now more than ever, there’s an urgent need to preserve and restore in institutions of higher learning the classic values/studies of freedom, tolerance, diversity of thought and speech, scientific methods, Western and religious philosophies, history of Communism, Nazism and terrorism, economics...
After years of the "straight white male" stuff, it really is infuriating to see prominent Jews on the left whining about the consequences of envy-based identity politics.
Where, exactly, did they think this would end up? Why didn't they care when guys like me were in the role of oppressor, but expect me to care when they get roped into the super awesome and justicey reindeer games?
"Decolonization" is part of the intellectual sickness created by Marcuse and Zinn that pervades American higher eduction like a mestastatizing tumor and created little Gazas where faculty and students openly engage in anti Semitic rhetoric and physical harm against Jewish students.
Whenever a civilization accumulates sufficient seed corn, you can be sure that people like these Marxcissists will scheme and scam their way into the storehouse and, once inside, gorge themselves until the seed corn is all gone. Before being granted access to seed corn, people must have skin in the game, long term, and be poised to suffer personal loss whenever they consume more than they create. If a system lacks the mechanisms to enforce such penalties, then this pattern is bound to be repeated wherever sufficient stores of seed corn exist.
The mentality of 'Progressive' demonization of Israel is beneath contemptible. It is not truly even primarily about a concern for the Palestinian people. The real driver is to signal that your privileged narcissistic little wonderful self is on the side of the 'oppressed'. To these people 'oppression' is a shallow abstraction that serves to inflate their personal vanity as one of the good guys. This poisonous vanity has been pouring out of Western academia for decades. I still remember the drug-addled anti-Zionist 'sit-in' at my UK university in 1972.
Oh I wouldn’t doubt that some of them wouldn’t want the same barbaric actions here as well.
I still can’t quite process how these “studies” want to destroy the foundations that enables their production in the first place. And then I remember it’s all about power. In a totalitarian regime, who needs a university? Dismal.
Sorry, but just because you and others are ignorant of int'll law doesn't change facts. The fact is that under international law Judea and Samaria are disputed territories not occupied, because they weren't taken from a sovereign entity as Jordan had illegally, BY INTERNATIONAL LAW, annexed the whole of the West Bank in 1948. As such, Israel has AT LEAST the same rights as do the Arabs on that land.
Regardless, this has never been about land, contrary to more than 50 years of propaganda and myth building by Arabs and the Jew hating factions of the west.
If this was truly about land and "Palestinian" sovereignty, a Palestinian State would have come into being at some point during the 19 years that Arabs had complete control over all of the areas that they demand now. For 19 years, '48-'67, what kept Arabs from creating a State that included all of the "west bank", including eastern Jerusalem, all of Gaza, and all of the Golan Heights? A capital in East Jerusalem and all of Gaza and the west bank. But they didn't, because that has NEVER been the goal. The goal is to slaughter Jews, and nothing could have illustrated that better than this last Sabbath.
It’s Civilizational Suicide 101. Its prerequisites are Denial of Reality 101, Ignorance of History 101, and Virtue Signaling 101.
love your independent work, thinking and writing. Keep sharing it - makes a tremendous difference in being able to sort through and articulate some of this twisted thinking from the "experts".
In preaching that hate, Harvard should no longer be considered a non-profit entity.
One of our best writers in this dark era of “ civilization “
Quite eye opening. These “professors” teach classes that tell students to eliminate the very institutions that they are teaching at and attending. How can the presidents/administrations at the universities not understand what’s going on? It’s like having a group of arsonists knocking on the front door, yelling that they are going to burn down the house, and the owner opens the door and welcomes them in. Stockholm syndrome anyone.
Maybe, just maybe, these “higher education” institutions staffed by supposedly the best and the brightest, are actually just a mirage, a house of cards with a great marketing department.
How ironic that the students and faculty are so quick to label
people “Nazis“, yet they have no problem with innocent Jews being slaughtered in Israel.
The objective of Marxism is to smash all hierarchies in society. Destroying institutions and culture do tend to lead to societal collapse and mass starvation. Yet the Marxist just keep on doing it, hoping it will work this time around.
One of the most puzzling aspects of the “decolonization” mindset is their seeming inability to understand that the “colonizers” will fight back. It’s like the playground bullies who cry and run to tell teacher when one of their targets pops them in the nose. No sympathy here.
Now more than ever, there’s an urgent need to preserve and restore in institutions of higher learning the classic values/studies of freedom, tolerance, diversity of thought and speech, scientific methods, Western and religious philosophies, history of Communism, Nazism and terrorism, economics...
For the life of me, I cannot understand why alumni donate to any college in the US, with only a few exceptions...
After years of the "straight white male" stuff, it really is infuriating to see prominent Jews on the left whining about the consequences of envy-based identity politics.
Where, exactly, did they think this would end up? Why didn't they care when guys like me were in the role of oppressor, but expect me to care when they get roped into the super awesome and justicey reindeer games?