Meanwhile, our tax dollars are pouring into these incubators of intolerance by the billions in the forms of tax breaks, student loans (and their "forgiveness"), research grants. We're funding and advocating these mindsets, everybody!!!!
and at the same time tens of billions of tax dollars are poured into helping Israel turn Gaza into rubble and palestinians into red mist. You get a billion and you get a billion! Everybody gets a billion!
When you massacre civilians in Israel and, de facto, declare war on that country, don’t be surprised when they attack back and proceed to turn your territory into rubble.
The territory the same Israelis blockaded you in since the mid 2000s, that territory? That's not excusing what Hamas did, but it should make it understandable where the hatred came from.
Which of course those pesky Palestinians started out of nowhere, whilst Israel was minding its own business. The whole thing is a long row of provocations and retaliations. I don't say I know a way out of it, but what Israel is currently doing isn't.
Gaza is not surrounded by Israel; it is on the Mediterranean Sea and also shares a border with Egypt. Build a decent port. Trade by land with Egypt. Stop complaining.
I think people in Gaza are currently rather too busy with trying to survive than to build a port, apart from building a port not being possible everywhere and some of the things to build them are included in the list of things withheld form them. Trading with Egypt, as far as I know happened on a small day-to-day scale but also that is fraught with politics. Still, you can look very much forward to Palestinians in Gaza to stop complaining, 186k already did.
He calls it sharing a border, in fact egypt"shares" a razor wire wall with gaza. Now why in hell would egypt go and erect a razor wire barricade against the so-called palestinians? i'll tell you why, hamas is why. you know, hamas? the peaceful organization elected by the "palestinians" to represent them.
the phrase “civilizational suicide” is spot on. When it comes to the values of science, peace, progress, responsibility, our college youth has been as brainwashed as the Gaza children.
Gad Saad calls it suicidal empathy. Between him and Chris, it puts things in perspective. You realize this is self-inflicted but unlike most suicides, we see this coming and half our country is okay with it.
The spirit of the world is and always will be the spirit of darkness because it is led by the principalities and powers of the fallen angel, Satan who uses his intelligence and hatred of God to try to convince humans there is no God, there is no devil, and there is no hell. All that there is is self. Self without God or without belief there is a higher power than self has always led to destruction of empires, of nations, and of millions of people. It recognizes nothing but pride, power and control. It can do nothing but that which is wrong, evil, and destructive. As the West has incrementally thrown out its Catholic heritage which gave it the spirit of light and goodness who is Christ, and replaced it with the spirit of the devil, it is clearly on the path to suicide. Killing minds, bodies, hearts and souls which it has done can only lead to death.
I think seeing this kind of student 'protest' as "rooted in an ideology" is to credit it with more intellectual substance than it warrants. For the majority of these 'students' their behavior is rooted much more in a PSYCHOLOGY than any ideology. The chief ingredients of the psychology are:
1) groupthink....going with whatever mob fad seems fashionable
2) narcissism....wanting to FEEL more virtuous than thou....the kind that Christopher Lasch warned, decades ago, would engulf and bring ruin to Western Liberalism
"Protest" has evolved into thuggery , violence and destruction. As a small example the loss at UCLA was probably around $50 - $100 MILLION when the cost of interference with the operation of the University is considered ( UCLA runs about $25 million per academic day) , damage to buildings , law enforcement and other costs are considered. The highly organized sponsors and participants should have been assessed damages including parents of minors. For for students their re-enrollment or diplomas would be held until damages paid.
While these violent demonstrations has an apparent purpose it's also very clear that these were also a field test of what the organizers have planned after a Trump victory - essentially an attempt at a civil war in the United States
Imagine if a group of White students had assembled on campus and were denying access to Black students, and the university did nothing. A similar situation was occurring but largely ignored by the press. The mob was preventing Jewish students from entering the campus or buildings, while letting non Jews pass.
The students will be geting their day in court . However, the public should be demanding to know why the University AND THE PRESS were silent about this thuggist, violent discrimination. No apparent discrimination against gays , perhaps because they are to be enrolled in the Islamic flight program....
You’re right in so far as the students are just the zombie foot soldiers of the professors’ decolonizing revolution. And their psychology is the result of a generation who has been taught to place their feelings at the top of their psyches, which allows the professors use them for their own ideological ends.
Yes the professors you are talking about are just the same student groupthink ilk but a generation or so down the line (because the rot in the non-STEM parts of the academy began in earnest over 50 years ago). I've written at length about all this... (like this one for instance: https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/how-diversity-narrows-the-mind)
Agreed. You describe useful idiots. The soldiers. With much smaller numbers of elitist generals. Who subscribe to the hogwash chris talks about. Who mobilize these useful idiots, taking advantage of their angers, discontent, inner-hatreds, and above all, ignorance and inability to think independently.
I think you're largely right, Graham. I certainly hope so.
But don't you think those trillions of petro-dollars might have bought a bit of very professional and competent PR work?
In my undergraduate days, now over 60 years ago, the overlapping democratic and Christian lefts used to think that the Trotskyites, perhaps Trotskyists to you, caused as much trouble as they did through their massive shareholdings of Gillette, the razor company. Plus ca change...
I'm touched by your Blake, but I think of "His Feet in ancient time" as rather more optimistic.
If Trump goes to jail, do you think America might at last get a health insurance scheme which is not a trillion dollar tax give-away to the commercial insurance industry?
Perhaps something with a Canadian flavour, to replace Obamneycare.
I was in Portland, Oregon, shortly after October 7th. I visited the famous Powell bookstore right in the heart of the city. Like most bookstores, they have several displays that highlight books they think are important. They are usually called something like, “Staff Recommendations.”
None of the staff recommendations had anything to do with terrorism or antisemitism. That’s not what they thought we should be thinking about or reading about. Many of the staff recommendations were books on decolonization. This was long before Israel had even started any reaction to the massacres.
"Decolonization" is sacred dogma for the modern Leftist because it is rooted in two of the founding myths of their belief system:
First, Rousseau's Noble Savage, where humans were pure, innocent altruists before these things called Society and Civilization were created, and where the road to Utopia leads back to the future, and if we can only return to some mythical primal state all injustice and suffering will be abolished;
and second of course the Marxist craving for apocalyptic violence, where Good and Evil are assigned according to their belief system (used to be bourgeois vs proletariat but now is the global Oppressed "marginalized" vs the European oppressor and the many sins of his Christian civilization) and where if the Good can at last vanquish the Evil, Utopia is inevitable.
For the modern Leftist, being for "decolonization" is just a way to signal that you're on the side of the angels, that you aren't an Oppressor but love and adore the Oppressed. Just more empty virtue-signaling with the extra thrill of cheering on bloodshed, while knowing you're safe and protected and will never have to make any personal sacrifices.
The problem with “decolonization” is all human settlements in the world are colonies. Everyone human is a colonist and is descendant from colonists, except perhaps for those few humans who live in that area of Kenya where humans originally evolved.
Yes Proton. Plus, you cannot speak of "decolonization" without grouping people into a clash between good-and-evil, which is very ironic since these same people promote extreme levels of relativism on the subject -- when convenient for them, of course.
Makes me wonder whether we should raise the "race" card against the "colonialist-collinized" narrative. Perhaps the manta "don't be a ethno-disunity advocate."
“Multiculturalism is a failure, it has always been a failure. Multiculturalism, the suggestion that all cultures are at root the same, in quality and beauty and truth. It is a lie, that lie is dangerous. That lie leads to moral blindness.” -Ben Shapiro
The professors inciting the narrative need to be named, challenged. They could not completely capture adults here in America, it is blatantly obvious they are brainwashing our children in school, in many aspects.
Matt Walsh did this in his "What Is a Woman" interviews of college professors defending the transgender faction. James Lindsay of New Discourses, in a more general way, has indicted the main university figures advancing neo-Marxism, which he sees as a form of gnosticism. Mr Rufo here has pilloried major university figures like Gay for being faux scholars and plagiarists.
The good work must continue. Good people are on the case.
Lindsay disagrees with your first claim. In a general way, he asserts, "Marxism is not a philosophy. Neither are its derivatives, like 'Wokeness' (Woke Marxism). These are a strain within a broader category of cult religious movements that pose as economics, sociology, and politics. The broad name for these Esoteric cult religions is 'Gnosticism,' but that’s a confusing label for a number of reasons. The first of these reasons is that 'gnosticism' as a term, either as a descriptive or proper noun, means several things at once, which requires clarification. Another is that as economic, social, and political movements, they don’t look at all like the pre-modern spiritualist and mystical movements that go by those names."
Even if we consider them both to be religions Marxism is still diametrically opposed to what gnostics believe. And Gnosticism is arguably closer to Christianity than Marxism since it itself is an offshoot of it.
Easy to say, but tenure is also what is giving voice to the professors who are against the Marxist movement at the universities. Here in Seattle, it's the only reason that Cliff Mass, a tenured atmospheric sciences professor at the University of Washington, can speak out against the encampments and the UW president's coddling of the agitators. Tenure gives him freedom of speech without fear of losing his job.
Thats even more of a reason to eliminate tenure since this professor is using his 1st. amendment right to begin with, which is "freedom of speech" you shouldn't have to be tenured to use the 1st amendment rights. To eliminate tenure, we would need to abolish the various teachers' unions. These unions have bastardized the original intent of a union and now use the enormous amount of money and power for right wing political cover to teach CRT, LGBTQ, Trans Rights, & all the other alphabet propaganda. IMO one would have to be outside their minds to be a member of a union that isn't merit based and everyone gets the same pay regardless of ability.
Well, you and I agree on many things and I certainly would consider eliminating tenure in K-12. The thing is, it's the Colleges of Education that are taking these C- students and indoctrinating them to serve as Marxist thought leaders, so really, I'm in favor of eliminating Colleges of Education in favor of content specialists. Of course I favor school choice. I'm not really on board with eliminating tenure at the college level since it brings security for those who aren't lockstep with whatever ideology of the day. Maybe there's another way to protect them, but I don't know what that is.
Kate your welcome at my campfire anytime. I'm not an educator, I have a huge admiration for the teacher's profession and good teachers, I have elephant size contempt for sub-par teachers who hide behind unions to protect their jobs.
"Public opinion" has shifted because many "reform" (i.e. atheist) Jews, who as a group are massive contributors to and members of the Democratic Party, and who have huge ownership in our media, have been shocked awake by the realization that the importation of millions of Muslims, under the guise of their own "diversity is our strength" ideology, might not be in their best interest. How could they could have forseen the grim reality: the conservative Christians who used to run this country were obviously not as great threat to them as they had imagined, whereas these kumbaya newcomers don't seem to behave as expected. What could have gone wrong?
I'm Conservadox, very pro Israel, and a lifetime R, turned "Never Trump" Centrist. You are surely correct that totally assimilated Jews have had a wakeup call, but I doubt that is the main energy behind the willingness of Centrists and Center Left to engage with what Mr. Rufo is doing.
Speaking for myself I was radicalized on the education issue by 10/7 but not primarily by the anti Semitism. It was more seeing what will be happening as we get several generations in to a majority of people being indoctrinated into...anti Patriotism. Of course I've known it was there, but figured, "they'll grow out of it." Unfortunately we are all limited to the things we can imagine, and if we hit a point where the majority of people, and especially the elite of that society, can't even fathom supporting Western Civ. it's not hyperbole to say that we are doomed.
Yeah, I now understand what time it is. This is, "the mother of all culture war battles." The ides needed will be coming from the right. The institutions and foot soldiers to get it done wil have to come from the Center. Run for school board, but don't act like MTG. Make a non stop ongoing information campaign, about just how terrible a value, students get for their tuition value. Do *not* allow yourselves to be identified with any one political party.
Life offers us few choices, and sometimes we must choose among things we don't like. If you continue your "Never Trump" position, you will assuredly get something much less to your liking.
And finally, lest you fear I am some anti-Semite: my father's father was a Jew who was murdered by the Nazis in April 1942. He was shot trying to escape either from a death camp or from a train traveling to a death camp, according to our best info. So no, I do not fear Jews. The primary result of my family history on me, I imagine, is that I spend an inordinate amount of time studying tyranny and how it relates to people in government and the media.
Your anecdotes are systematic, but mine are random. LOL You absolutely are a stinking anti-Semite. You are a disgrace to your father's father, doing the work of his murderers. I have nothing more to discuss with you.
For a glimmer of an understanding of how influential Jews are in our media, I suggest you watch a cute little video called "Rudoph the Jewish Reindeer" on BitChute, by an author who goes by "Blackpilled" (his real name is Devon Stack). It's one of the most astounding things I've ever watched. Were you aware that essentially our entire secular Chrismas-song catalog was written by Jewish authors? I'd bet that you could not name a single secular Christmas tune whose author was not Jewish. The amazing-ness of this is not lost on Devon, who muses on the incredible fact that in a predominantly Christian nation, the majority of the most popular songs in the catalog of their most popular religious holiday was written by people of another religion. Astounding, to say the least, and we're just talking about the music for just one holiday here.
Rather than throwing out some random anecdotes, you might take a more comprehensive approach. For example, you might look up an article entitled "Here are the 37 Jewish members of Congress" published by the "Jewish Telegraphic Agency", a decidedly pro-Jewish publication. The article details those 37 members (as of 2021), only one of whom is Republican. Together they represent 6% of Congress while Jews represent 2% of the population, by far the greatest over-representation of any ethnic group there. I doubt that the numbers are much different today.
As a society we are culpable of allowing our constitution and country to be hijacked by savages while virtue signaling our “tolerance”. The blame is to be placed on the citizens and here’s hoping that the majority will soon see what they have wrought or our civilization will be destroyed. Thanks again to Christopher Rufo for continually sounding the alarm.
Yes, agreed. The upside of the downside. I am reminded of the Covid crackdown and how, despite the misery produced on every social level, it usefully exposed the state of elementary education and the self-serving decisions of teachers' unions. Parents could see for themselves the crap being served, at their expense, to their kids, and how little their kids mattered when schools shaped policy. As for university-level teaching, we already knew that it had degenerated into propaganda long before the lockdown. Someone rightly notes below that we, as taxpayers, foot the bill for the ignorance and intolerance that now pass as higher education. Those self-righteous students and profs at those elite schools, that's where our money goes.
I think it’s worse than you think. It’s not ‘less brutal’ here. The logic of decolonization on display means exactly the acceptance of the same kind of brutal atrocity. One of my colleagues described October 7 as ‘amazing’ and ‘brilliant’. As a Canadian, I have been called a supporter of “settler colonialism”, the same accusation against Israel used to justify October 7. They deserved to die. And according to that logic, so do I. If the “oppressed” of Canada do rise up and commit atrocities, no doubt my colleague will think it all amazing and brilliant.
You have to understand what this moment means for the modern Leftist: they haven't been able to cheer on a cleansing massacre, where the blood of the Oppressor flows (which is how they define Justice), since the days of Mao, Castro, Pol Pot and Stalin.
This is like a baptism for the 21st century Leftist, at last there is some fresh blood to wallow in, which makes them salivate for the power it may accrue to them and makes them imagine that their apocalyptic fantasies may at last be coming true.
They have been taught that if only the right people are murdered (in bulk), Utopia will arrive, and the mountains of corpses left behind by 20th-century Communism shows that the cast and the pretexts may change, but the longing for Total Revolution still remains one of the strongest modern faiths, especially among our academic priesthood, who imagine themselves as the incarnation of Justice and Equality.
In the end we are seeing rapid destruction of our Constitution and the destruction of the socioeconomic strength of our nation. All within a historically short period of time.
these protests are continuing the same revolutionary narratives as was started in 2020 with manipulated GFloyd riots—anti white, anti American, anti pro gun, anti Christian civilization. Guess what, there was a 2020 election coming up and there is national election in 2024--connect the dots. Same thing Chris!
On January 15, 1987, Jesse Jackson and around 500 protesters marched down Palm Drive, Stanford University’s grand main entrance, chanting “Hey hey, ho ho, Western Civ has got to go.”
They were protesting Stanford University’s introductory humanities program known as “Western Culture.” For Jackson and the protesters, the problem was its lack of “diversity.” The faculty and administration raced to appease the protesters, and “Western Culture” was formally replaced with “Cultures, Ideas, and Values.”
The new program included works on race, class, and gender and works by ethnic minority and women authors. Western culture gave way to multi-culture. The study of Western civilization succumbed to the Left’s new dogma, multiculturalism.
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How far you want to go back? The Port Huron Statement is a 1962 political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society. It was written by SDS members, and completed on June 15, 1962.
"How far you want to go back? The Port Huron Statement is a 1962 political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society. It was written by SDS members, and completed on June 15, 1962."
Good point, although, unless Walter Cronkite or the Plain Dealer was telling us about it, one could effectively stick one's head in sand. Social media has enlarged and quickened the pace of today's crises and can also rally those provocateurs in a moment's notice.
Meanwhile, our tax dollars are pouring into these incubators of intolerance by the billions in the forms of tax breaks, student loans (and their "forgiveness"), research grants. We're funding and advocating these mindsets, everybody!!!!
and at the same time tens of billions of tax dollars are poured into helping Israel turn Gaza into rubble and palestinians into red mist. You get a billion and you get a billion! Everybody gets a billion!
When you massacre civilians in Israel and, de facto, declare war on that country, don’t be surprised when they attack back and proceed to turn your territory into rubble.
The territory the same Israelis blockaded you in since the mid 2000s, that territory? That's not excusing what Hamas did, but it should make it understandable where the hatred came from.
israel had to close the border, blockaded as you call it, because of constant rocket attacks and suicide bombers targeting civilians.
Which of course those pesky Palestinians started out of nowhere, whilst Israel was minding its own business. The whole thing is a long row of provocations and retaliations. I don't say I know a way out of it, but what Israel is currently doing isn't.
Gaza is not surrounded by Israel; it is on the Mediterranean Sea and also shares a border with Egypt. Build a decent port. Trade by land with Egypt. Stop complaining.
I think people in Gaza are currently rather too busy with trying to survive than to build a port, apart from building a port not being possible everywhere and some of the things to build them are included in the list of things withheld form them. Trading with Egypt, as far as I know happened on a small day-to-day scale but also that is fraught with politics. Still, you can look very much forward to Palestinians in Gaza to stop complaining, 186k already did.
He calls it sharing a border, in fact egypt"shares" a razor wire wall with gaza. Now why in hell would egypt go and erect a razor wire barricade against the so-called palestinians? i'll tell you why, hamas is why. you know, hamas? the peaceful organization elected by the "palestinians" to represent them.
That’s a bingo!!
the phrase “civilizational suicide” is spot on. When it comes to the values of science, peace, progress, responsibility, our college youth has been as brainwashed as the Gaza children.
Gad Saad calls it suicidal empathy. Between him and Chris, it puts things in perspective. You realize this is self-inflicted but unlike most suicides, we see this coming and half our country is okay with it.
Lucy I agree with you, actually I think it’s worse because college age CHILDREN should know right from wrong by the time they’re 12 or 13 IMO
THAT is assuming they are taught Right & Wrong?
Right, one thing for certain is they’re easily led.
To paraphrase James Lindsay "The goal of the modern education system is not to produce well educated balanced citizens, it to produce activists."
Well for sure J Lindsay nailed it.
Supporting the killing of 15,000 children isn't right or christian.
The spirit of the world is and always will be the spirit of darkness because it is led by the principalities and powers of the fallen angel, Satan who uses his intelligence and hatred of God to try to convince humans there is no God, there is no devil, and there is no hell. All that there is is self. Self without God or without belief there is a higher power than self has always led to destruction of empires, of nations, and of millions of people. It recognizes nothing but pride, power and control. It can do nothing but that which is wrong, evil, and destructive. As the West has incrementally thrown out its Catholic heritage which gave it the spirit of light and goodness who is Christ, and replaced it with the spirit of the devil, it is clearly on the path to suicide. Killing minds, bodies, hearts and souls which it has done can only lead to death.
I think seeing this kind of student 'protest' as "rooted in an ideology" is to credit it with more intellectual substance than it warrants. For the majority of these 'students' their behavior is rooted much more in a PSYCHOLOGY than any ideology. The chief ingredients of the psychology are:
1) groupthink....going with whatever mob fad seems fashionable
2) narcissism....wanting to FEEL more virtuous than thou....the kind that Christopher Lasch warned, decades ago, would engulf and bring ruin to Western Liberalism
"Protest" has evolved into thuggery , violence and destruction. As a small example the loss at UCLA was probably around $50 - $100 MILLION when the cost of interference with the operation of the University is considered ( UCLA runs about $25 million per academic day) , damage to buildings , law enforcement and other costs are considered. The highly organized sponsors and participants should have been assessed damages including parents of minors. For for students their re-enrollment or diplomas would be held until damages paid.
While these violent demonstrations has an apparent purpose it's also very clear that these were also a field test of what the organizers have planned after a Trump victory - essentially an attempt at a civil war in the United States
Imagine if a group of White students had assembled on campus and were denying access to Black students, and the university did nothing. A similar situation was occurring but largely ignored by the press. The mob was preventing Jewish students from entering the campus or buildings, while letting non Jews pass.
The students will be geting their day in court . However, the public should be demanding to know why the University AND THE PRESS were silent about this thuggist, violent discrimination. No apparent discrimination against gays , perhaps because they are to be enrolled in the Islamic flight program....
You’re right in so far as the students are just the zombie foot soldiers of the professors’ decolonizing revolution. And their psychology is the result of a generation who has been taught to place their feelings at the top of their psyches, which allows the professors use them for their own ideological ends.
Yes the professors you are talking about are just the same student groupthink ilk but a generation or so down the line (because the rot in the non-STEM parts of the academy began in earnest over 50 years ago). I've written at length about all this... (like this one for instance: https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/how-diversity-narrows-the-mind)
Bullseye!
Agreed. You describe useful idiots. The soldiers. With much smaller numbers of elitist generals. Who subscribe to the hogwash chris talks about. Who mobilize these useful idiots, taking advantage of their angers, discontent, inner-hatreds, and above all, ignorance and inability to think independently.
There are two kinds of idiots: 1) useful, and 2) useless.
I think you're largely right, Graham. I certainly hope so.
But don't you think those trillions of petro-dollars might have bought a bit of very professional and competent PR work?
In my undergraduate days, now over 60 years ago, the overlapping democratic and Christian lefts used to think that the Trotskyites, perhaps Trotskyists to you, caused as much trouble as they did through their massive shareholdings of Gillette, the razor company. Plus ca change...
I'm touched by your Blake, but I think of "His Feet in ancient time" as rather more optimistic.
If Trump goes to jail, do you think America might at last get a health insurance scheme which is not a trillion dollar tax give-away to the commercial insurance industry?
Perhaps something with a Canadian flavour, to replace Obamneycare.
Xactly GC🥂
I was in Portland, Oregon, shortly after October 7th. I visited the famous Powell bookstore right in the heart of the city. Like most bookstores, they have several displays that highlight books they think are important. They are usually called something like, “Staff Recommendations.”
None of the staff recommendations had anything to do with terrorism or antisemitism. That’s not what they thought we should be thinking about or reading about. Many of the staff recommendations were books on decolonization. This was long before Israel had even started any reaction to the massacres.
Spot on Chris.
"Decolonization" is sacred dogma for the modern Leftist because it is rooted in two of the founding myths of their belief system:
First, Rousseau's Noble Savage, where humans were pure, innocent altruists before these things called Society and Civilization were created, and where the road to Utopia leads back to the future, and if we can only return to some mythical primal state all injustice and suffering will be abolished;
and second of course the Marxist craving for apocalyptic violence, where Good and Evil are assigned according to their belief system (used to be bourgeois vs proletariat but now is the global Oppressed "marginalized" vs the European oppressor and the many sins of his Christian civilization) and where if the Good can at last vanquish the Evil, Utopia is inevitable.
For the modern Leftist, being for "decolonization" is just a way to signal that you're on the side of the angels, that you aren't an Oppressor but love and adore the Oppressed. Just more empty virtue-signaling with the extra thrill of cheering on bloodshed, while knowing you're safe and protected and will never have to make any personal sacrifices.
The “Oppressed” annoy me. They are losers. And they are not oppressed.
Sadly the elected leadership in Oregon are communist socialists, what is really sad is only 5 or 6 of the 36 counties voted democrat.
The problem with “decolonization” is all human settlements in the world are colonies. Everyone human is a colonist and is descendant from colonists, except perhaps for those few humans who live in that area of Kenya where humans originally evolved.
Yes Proton. Plus, you cannot speak of "decolonization" without grouping people into a clash between good-and-evil, which is very ironic since these same people promote extreme levels of relativism on the subject -- when convenient for them, of course.
Makes me wonder whether we should raise the "race" card against the "colonialist-collinized" narrative. Perhaps the manta "don't be a ethno-disunity advocate."
As always, Chris nails it. Thanks for keeping up the pressure. Praying this is a battle we can win. 🙌🏻🙏🏻
“Multiculturalism is a failure, it has always been a failure. Multiculturalism, the suggestion that all cultures are at root the same, in quality and beauty and truth. It is a lie, that lie is dangerous. That lie leads to moral blindness.” -Ben Shapiro
Indeed. Multicultural and multiethnic are two very different things that get confused a lot.
The professors inciting the narrative need to be named, challenged. They could not completely capture adults here in America, it is blatantly obvious they are brainwashing our children in school, in many aspects.
The is vile.
Matt Walsh did this in his "What Is a Woman" interviews of college professors defending the transgender faction. James Lindsay of New Discourses, in a more general way, has indicted the main university figures advancing neo-Marxism, which he sees as a form of gnosticism. Mr Rufo here has pilloried major university figures like Gay for being faux scholars and plagiarists.
The good work must continue. Good people are on the case.
James Lindsay clearly has no idea what Gnosticism is
I don't suppose you'd like to explain this glib dismissal.
Well Marxism is generally a materialist philosophy while Gnosticism sees the material world as inherently evil and irredeemable.
Lindsay disagrees with your first claim. In a general way, he asserts, "Marxism is not a philosophy. Neither are its derivatives, like 'Wokeness' (Woke Marxism). These are a strain within a broader category of cult religious movements that pose as economics, sociology, and politics. The broad name for these Esoteric cult religions is 'Gnosticism,' but that’s a confusing label for a number of reasons. The first of these reasons is that 'gnosticism' as a term, either as a descriptive or proper noun, means several things at once, which requires clarification. Another is that as economic, social, and political movements, they don’t look at all like the pre-modern spiritualist and mystical movements that go by those names."
If you're interested in hearing his definition and argument about "woke gnosticism," I refer you to this video: https://newdiscourses.com/2023/11/class-identity-gnostic-election/
I think he makes his case quite convincingly.
Even if we consider them both to be religions Marxism is still diametrically opposed to what gnostics believe. And Gnosticism is arguably closer to Christianity than Marxism since it itself is an offshoot of it.
If I had my way “tenure” would be eliminated. Why should these Marxist professors be protected?
Easy to say, but tenure is also what is giving voice to the professors who are against the Marxist movement at the universities. Here in Seattle, it's the only reason that Cliff Mass, a tenured atmospheric sciences professor at the University of Washington, can speak out against the encampments and the UW president's coddling of the agitators. Tenure gives him freedom of speech without fear of losing his job.
Thats even more of a reason to eliminate tenure since this professor is using his 1st. amendment right to begin with, which is "freedom of speech" you shouldn't have to be tenured to use the 1st amendment rights. To eliminate tenure, we would need to abolish the various teachers' unions. These unions have bastardized the original intent of a union and now use the enormous amount of money and power for right wing political cover to teach CRT, LGBTQ, Trans Rights, & all the other alphabet propaganda. IMO one would have to be outside their minds to be a member of a union that isn't merit based and everyone gets the same pay regardless of ability.
Well, you and I agree on many things and I certainly would consider eliminating tenure in K-12. The thing is, it's the Colleges of Education that are taking these C- students and indoctrinating them to serve as Marxist thought leaders, so really, I'm in favor of eliminating Colleges of Education in favor of content specialists. Of course I favor school choice. I'm not really on board with eliminating tenure at the college level since it brings security for those who aren't lockstep with whatever ideology of the day. Maybe there's another way to protect them, but I don't know what that is.
Kate your welcome at my campfire anytime. I'm not an educator, I have a huge admiration for the teacher's profession and good teachers, I have elephant size contempt for sub-par teachers who hide behind unions to protect their jobs.
Kate your welcome at my campfire anytime.
I said a couple weeks ago that defunding ivory towers of superstition will become an essential form of taxpayer revolt now. Slow clap, kids.
Exactly when did our “elite” (and I use the term sarcastically) become madrasas?
When the pagan gods Diversity, Equity and Inclusion were installed in the academic kaabas.
"Public opinion" has shifted because many "reform" (i.e. atheist) Jews, who as a group are massive contributors to and members of the Democratic Party, and who have huge ownership in our media, have been shocked awake by the realization that the importation of millions of Muslims, under the guise of their own "diversity is our strength" ideology, might not be in their best interest. How could they could have forseen the grim reality: the conservative Christians who used to run this country were obviously not as great threat to them as they had imagined, whereas these kumbaya newcomers don't seem to behave as expected. What could have gone wrong?
I'm Conservadox, very pro Israel, and a lifetime R, turned "Never Trump" Centrist. You are surely correct that totally assimilated Jews have had a wakeup call, but I doubt that is the main energy behind the willingness of Centrists and Center Left to engage with what Mr. Rufo is doing.
Speaking for myself I was radicalized on the education issue by 10/7 but not primarily by the anti Semitism. It was more seeing what will be happening as we get several generations in to a majority of people being indoctrinated into...anti Patriotism. Of course I've known it was there, but figured, "they'll grow out of it." Unfortunately we are all limited to the things we can imagine, and if we hit a point where the majority of people, and especially the elite of that society, can't even fathom supporting Western Civ. it's not hyperbole to say that we are doomed.
Yeah, I now understand what time it is. This is, "the mother of all culture war battles." The ides needed will be coming from the right. The institutions and foot soldiers to get it done wil have to come from the Center. Run for school board, but don't act like MTG. Make a non stop ongoing information campaign, about just how terrible a value, students get for their tuition value. Do *not* allow yourselves to be identified with any one political party.
Life offers us few choices, and sometimes we must choose among things we don't like. If you continue your "Never Trump" position, you will assuredly get something much less to your liking.
Are you aware of the ethnic and religious affiliations of the following? Bezos Biden Clinton Dorsey Fauci Gates Hillary 0bama Pelosi Podesta
Do they have any influence in this society? Not a Jew among them.
And finally, lest you fear I am some anti-Semite: my father's father was a Jew who was murdered by the Nazis in April 1942. He was shot trying to escape either from a death camp or from a train traveling to a death camp, according to our best info. So no, I do not fear Jews. The primary result of my family history on me, I imagine, is that I spend an inordinate amount of time studying tyranny and how it relates to people in government and the media.
Your anecdotes are systematic, but mine are random. LOL You absolutely are a stinking anti-Semite. You are a disgrace to your father's father, doing the work of his murderers. I have nothing more to discuss with you.
Glad you know more about me than I do. Your remarks speak for themselves, just as mine speak for me.
For a glimmer of an understanding of how influential Jews are in our media, I suggest you watch a cute little video called "Rudoph the Jewish Reindeer" on BitChute, by an author who goes by "Blackpilled" (his real name is Devon Stack). It's one of the most astounding things I've ever watched. Were you aware that essentially our entire secular Chrismas-song catalog was written by Jewish authors? I'd bet that you could not name a single secular Christmas tune whose author was not Jewish. The amazing-ness of this is not lost on Devon, who muses on the incredible fact that in a predominantly Christian nation, the majority of the most popular songs in the catalog of their most popular religious holiday was written by people of another religion. Astounding, to say the least, and we're just talking about the music for just one holiday here.
Rather than throwing out some random anecdotes, you might take a more comprehensive approach. For example, you might look up an article entitled "Here are the 37 Jewish members of Congress" published by the "Jewish Telegraphic Agency", a decidedly pro-Jewish publication. The article details those 37 members (as of 2021), only one of whom is Republican. Together they represent 6% of Congress while Jews represent 2% of the population, by far the greatest over-representation of any ethnic group there. I doubt that the numbers are much different today.
Sounds like it's time for some good old Affirmative Action in Congress, then.
As a society we are culpable of allowing our constitution and country to be hijacked by savages while virtue signaling our “tolerance”. The blame is to be placed on the citizens and here’s hoping that the majority will soon see what they have wrought or our civilization will be destroyed. Thanks again to Christopher Rufo for continually sounding the alarm.
Yes, agreed. The upside of the downside. I am reminded of the Covid crackdown and how, despite the misery produced on every social level, it usefully exposed the state of elementary education and the self-serving decisions of teachers' unions. Parents could see for themselves the crap being served, at their expense, to their kids, and how little their kids mattered when schools shaped policy. As for university-level teaching, we already knew that it had degenerated into propaganda long before the lockdown. Someone rightly notes below that we, as taxpayers, foot the bill for the ignorance and intolerance that now pass as higher education. Those self-righteous students and profs at those elite schools, that's where our money goes.
Indeed, sometimes darkness can show us the light.
I think it’s worse than you think. It’s not ‘less brutal’ here. The logic of decolonization on display means exactly the acceptance of the same kind of brutal atrocity. One of my colleagues described October 7 as ‘amazing’ and ‘brilliant’. As a Canadian, I have been called a supporter of “settler colonialism”, the same accusation against Israel used to justify October 7. They deserved to die. And according to that logic, so do I. If the “oppressed” of Canada do rise up and commit atrocities, no doubt my colleague will think it all amazing and brilliant.
You have to understand what this moment means for the modern Leftist: they haven't been able to cheer on a cleansing massacre, where the blood of the Oppressor flows (which is how they define Justice), since the days of Mao, Castro, Pol Pot and Stalin.
This is like a baptism for the 21st century Leftist, at last there is some fresh blood to wallow in, which makes them salivate for the power it may accrue to them and makes them imagine that their apocalyptic fantasies may at last be coming true.
They have been taught that if only the right people are murdered (in bulk), Utopia will arrive, and the mountains of corpses left behind by 20th-century Communism shows that the cast and the pretexts may change, but the longing for Total Revolution still remains one of the strongest modern faiths, especially among our academic priesthood, who imagine themselves as the incarnation of Justice and Equality.
Sadly, as a Canadian you’ve no rights to a gun. Better bone up on your knife skills.
Or 3D-print one.
Can one print ammo?
Maybe one day...
Christopher has a great nose for the current pivot point. Connecting the dots between Wokery and Hamas Love will serve to destroy both.
And the irony is that Hamas is anything but woke, and actually HATES wokeness. The woke are useful idiots.
I love “LGBTXYZ for Hamas”. Heads would roll, literally, should they show up there when Hamas was in charge,
In the end we are seeing rapid destruction of our Constitution and the destruction of the socioeconomic strength of our nation. All within a historically short period of time.
HOW SAD!!
these protests are continuing the same revolutionary narratives as was started in 2020 with manipulated GFloyd riots—anti white, anti American, anti pro gun, anti Christian civilization. Guess what, there was a 2020 election coming up and there is national election in 2024--connect the dots. Same thing Chris!
‘Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Western Civ Has Got to Go’
https://intellectualtakeout.org/2019/06/hey-hey-ho-ho-western-civ-has-got-to-go/
On January 15, 1987, Jesse Jackson and around 500 protesters marched down Palm Drive, Stanford University’s grand main entrance, chanting “Hey hey, ho ho, Western Civ has got to go.”
They were protesting Stanford University’s introductory humanities program known as “Western Culture.” For Jackson and the protesters, the problem was its lack of “diversity.” The faculty and administration raced to appease the protesters, and “Western Culture” was formally replaced with “Cultures, Ideas, and Values.”
The new program included works on race, class, and gender and works by ethnic minority and women authors. Western culture gave way to multi-culture. The study of Western civilization succumbed to the Left’s new dogma, multiculturalism.
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How far you want to go back? The Port Huron Statement is a 1962 political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society. It was written by SDS members, and completed on June 15, 1962.
and whats your point?
Point Being
"How far you want to go back? The Port Huron Statement is a 1962 political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society. It was written by SDS members, and completed on June 15, 1962."
This s Not a new phenomena
Good point, although, unless Walter Cronkite or the Plain Dealer was telling us about it, one could effectively stick one's head in sand. Social media has enlarged and quickened the pace of today's crises and can also rally those provocateurs in a moment's notice.
For Better Or Worse That Little Silicon Chip is changing EVERYTHING.