It boggles my mind that conservatives have neglected to highlight to black Americans the history of Muslims enslaving Africans for far longer than anyone else. This could help further splinter the Left, which is already losing some of its voter base of black Americans over economic and illegal immigration issues..
It's mainly a prison thing that provides group solidarity and defense against other prison factions. Also, the fact that Africa is mainly Muslim has some attraction.
It just occurs to me that adopting Islam is a way for people to become culturally conservative under the cover of a religious conversion, thus avoiding criticism and alienation from the left, which tends to romanticize anything anti-Western.
It makes sense that a way of life that is exotic to Americans would attract African Americans, who may never have truly felt at ease in the once-predominant culture. Surely churches provided some sanctuary but Islam is one step removed and has what we understand to be rigid purity codes, unlike the fates of Christian preachers who 'fall' more often than one might be comfortable with.
My observations have been of the number of women who seem drawn to Islam. I think it has a lot to do with no longer being expected to walk the streets like...well, like a street walker.
I agree. My sense is that that Islam can fill in for the now-absent influence of the conservative black Baptist churches that once played so large a part in the black American's experience.
I would see this as a positive development were it not for the problems associated with the more militant (that is to say most) Muslims, of the sort we're seeing in England.
What is more amazing is that the American black population continues to vote democrat even with all the democrat history of slavery and to the present with Biden history in his voting record of segregation and busing. In his words “ you ain’t black if you don’t vote for me” how does he get way with that crap?
I agree. Thomas Sowell has been made to carry that particular ball. I can think of no other popular black figure who has a national audience with that sort of reach. Larry Elder is good but hasn't been able to avoid leftist denunciation like Sowell, who has the gravitas of age and multiple degrees. Candace Owens is fantastic but some on the right claim she is a leftist in conservative drag for her former politics, which she has renounced, but there's no appeasing some fanatics who demand ideological purity and consistency. (I have never understood this. Why not welcome converts, especially popular ones?)
Anyway, I sense that the black community (to generalize) is beginning to come around to the decades-long gaslighting by the DP on race and civil rights. This revelation has been largely inspired by the simple realization that life was better for the working class under Trump, even improving. Black people for Trump will be a major factor in November, if he can remain alive or out of prison for that long. They sympathize with his persecution by the political establishment.
The left has very recently discovered Sowell, and have gone into a spittle-flecked frenzy of denouncing and deboonking him of late. Had to happen, I suppose.
I find it somewhat encouraging that few other than the ideologically aligned or the chattering class care one way or another about such deboonking and denunciation. The more bad noise the left makes, the less patience normal folks have with them.
The white slavers didn't capture black slaves, they bought them at Muslim Arab slave markets. And white slavery was quite prevalent with the Barbary pirates. In the Marine hymn, the line "...to the shores of Tripoli" refers to one of the new US Marines' first tasks; eliminate the white slaving of the MUSLIM Barbary pirates. And slavery STILL exists in Africa. And it is generally still Muslims enslaving Christians.
unfortunately hate and violence has no special religion, race or culture... it is across the board, a problem for humanity... i will also say hamas was a creation of israel as well.. netanyahu was supportive of it up until very recently... one has to dig below the surface to get a clearer picture of what is happening here..
"netanyahu was supportive of it..." please park your NDS (Netanyahu Derangement Syndrome) to the side. Do not equate tolerance with support - and implying some sort of responsibility of the victim is just sick.
"One has to dig deeper." Really? You espouse some sort of deep understanding. Hamas, it is not that complicated. No enlightenment needed. You suggest hate like Hamas is also on the Israeli side. Not at all. Everyone is not like you or I. The culture of terrorism is evil. Period. No excuses. It is evil to Israelis, Christians, Americans arabs, other muslims, and people in Gaza and America. It is not that complicated.
This in fact somewhat complicated. Netanyahu did in fact support Hamas as an alternative enemy. Didn’t mean he liked them, just that he thought he could control them better than other opponents. He was obviously wrong. I believe Netanyahu and the Zionists want Gaza, so it really isn’t simple. Innocent Jews suffer from the ambitions of their leaders just as the Palestinians do. Both sides’ leadership wants to wipe the other side completely out. This is imo why it’s so difficult to create a solution. Each side wants total victory.
It is not that complicated but there are a lot of side-issues. For example, Hamas teaches their young to hate. The Israelis value peace. Hamas cannot accept non jihadists and discent. Israel includes 1 million arab israelis and teaches peace. It traded the Sinai penensula for peace with Egypt. And they have good relations with Jordan and other arab countries. Even if not publicly. Saying it is complicated is a bit of a cop-out. The future of the middle east is with those who want peace and prosperity. Hamas is the enemy of everyone against Islamic jihad and extremism, including arabs, not just Israel. It is good vs evil at the end of the day. Which is simple, although, at the same time, a very difficult thing to understand for many in the Western world.
divide and conquer.... set up an alternative to the plo and proceed..
as for the rape allegations - phony as a 2 dollar bill... same deal with the bullshit about the agency bringing relief having terrorists within the ranks.. more manufactured bullshit that has been proven wrong.. i have to hand it to israel with the 24/7 hasbara...
HAMAS literally recorded themselves raping children, beheading pretty young children and babies, and even baking babies in ovens. Those accusations are not phoney at all, but the cold hard facts.
You'll find intersectional leftists and liberals have are very selective when it comes to a history of oppression. If that would work why doesn't highlighting the history of the Holocaust make them support Zionism? Personally I choose to reject racialist nonsense because it's just a distraction from class.
Scrub The term “pro Palestinian” in regards to the protesters. There is nothing helpful or “pro“ for the Arabs in Gaza or anywhere in leaving Hamas in control. They are anti- Israel to the core.
They are what happens when you teach hate and intolerance. The same is being done in this country by the left -- to hate conservatives - but it has just not yet elevated itself to the same level of vile.
So far, these Hamas protests have been disruptive but not burning and looting the campuses. This is in contrast to the Floyd riots, that this is the home turf of the students and teachers,the home turf of the rioters, they are respecting the property this time, unlike their scorched earth chaos for the Floyd riots, in poor city locations. Also, if the campus crowds turn to a chaotic violence, it weakens the current narrative that only J6 conservatives commit violent riots. Yes, follow Rufo's strategy! Our overreaction is almost always the goal of the left! Let our opponents commit their own mistakes against themselves!
If we ignore them, they will escalate, because they cannot control themselves. If they escalate, they will set off the tripwires so carefully laid for us. They will become the villains in their own overwrought morality play, and they won't know what to do in this novel situation, where we fail to play along, because all they have is tactics without ethics.
Excellent plan. And fingers crossed that the “right” will take their cue from DeSantis and move forward effectively as he has demonstrated his insightful vision. Thank you, Christopher Rufo.
I think you need to stop being in denial about the genocidal Zionist’s who are putting the world at risk. You can be conservative and also anti genocide.
Is it moral to call a war a genocide? Is it moral to side with those who raped and slaughtered 1,000 innocents? Is it moral to take the lies of Hamas terrorists as truths? Is it moral to call the killing of terrorists the same as the rape and murder of innocents? Someone's compass is broken.
Sorry who’s killing 30,000 innocents starving and maiming the rest and destroying their homes and businesses? Even if the 7/10 wasn’t a false flag : which it was- the retribution is psychotic and unacceptable illegal immoral and frankly supporting such atrocities makes you culpable too.
HAMAS are the ones that deliberately target civilians including Gazan civilians, and also steals the aid meant for citizens. HAMAS is perfectly fine with gunning down Gazan civilians. HAMAS deliberately targets evacuation routes they discover. There is nothing innocent about Genocidal terrorists known as HAMAS. HAMAS deliberately targets civilians on both sides. HAMAS fights in civilian clothing. HAMAS uses civilians to shield their weapons and personal. The IDF targets HAMAS, not civilians, in spite of what HAMAS lies are.
Ok I’m not sure what you call murdering 30,000 civilians maiming and starving countless other and destroying homes businesses killing pets and much more- but it’s a stain on humanity and we’ll all pay for it for a long time to come. Glad you think it’s great how comforting.
Why does Hamas put all of its military and intelligence infrastructure in the midst of civilian areas? When people had standards, that would have rightly been seen as beneath contempt.
Why do the IDF wait for suspected Hamas members to go home and be with their families before bombing them? Oh yes I know coz you want to kill all Palestinians. We all know that. The world knows that. You all murderers.
I’d call them non combatants. And Jessica. Don’t get your stats from rapists and murderers. It’s a bad look. Also according to the rapists and murderers, not one Hamas terrorist has died. So honestly you’re full of crap.
Ok I’m not sure what you call murdering 30,000 civilians maiming and starving countless other and destroying homes businesses killing pets and forced exodus of a people of a certain nationality -but according to the dictionary it’s genocide; and btw it’s a stain on humanity and we’ll all pay for it for a long time to come. Glad you think it’s great -how comforting.
Their chosen representatives declared war on Israel. Israel has given them a chance to return the hostages but Hamas chooses to use them as human shields and steal from it's people instead. 70% of the "innocent Palestinians", who probably gladly built those terror tunnels or collected intelligence for Hamas pre-Oct. 7, approve of Hamas's actions. This is the cost of war. Yes, innocents are dying, but the blame is on the terrorists you're shielding from scrutiny, not the IDF.
Zionist’s stole a country and are hell bent on taking much much more. It was evidently a false flag where Israelis were sacrificed in order to advance the Zionist land grabs and fulfil their blood lust. Everyone know it except the brainwashed into psychopathy known as you and your ilk.
Zionists can't steal a land they're indigenous to. Many of the Arabs in Gaza were migrants from Egypt that settled there long after (as late at 1940s) Jews started resettling in their homeland, often by purchasing land from the Arabs. Hamas's charter literally says Israel will exist until Islam eliminates it, so stop pretending this is a political issue. 70% of Palestinians approve of Hamas so don't tell me they don't know about this. The reason the Arab Muslims hate the Jews is because the Jews are their unfinished business. Islamists have deleted entire civilizations from the time of their prophet because the others didn't believe in their God. The Palestinian Islamists are no different than ISIS, Boko Haram, Al Quaeda, Jamaat e Islami, or any of the other bigots that came before them.
N.S. Lyons' Substack has a free - for - the reading analysis of exactly how October 7 could have happened.
It was not a false flag. It was that Israel's border security was too complex, not too lax. Hamas must be given credit for the ingenuity it brought to realizing this, and to coming to grasp how foiling the system could be done rather simply.
I'm fully serious when I say that I admire it as a feat of war, though at a moral level, I'm made uncomfortable by that admiration. I suppose it's an example of giving the Devil his due.
I mean you people must be really gullible after the con vid bs where you were cattle tagged and injected you still swallow their BS? 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ beyond broken.
No it was a false flag - the evidence is overwhelming- (let’s not forget; for phizer your government sold you all out quite significantly )and you probably would support the death of fellow Israelis as an excuse /sacrifice to kill maim and remove Palestinians from their land and start your holy WW3- That’s the kind of damaged people you are.
This is not true. It is Hamas propaganda. A statistician analyzed their data and found it was not true. For example, the number of deaths in Gaza claimed to be caused by Israel was the same for each of the days in the first month after the Hamas terrorist attack. That is impossible.
Another example, there is no correlation between the number of deaths of women in the Hamas reports and the number of deaths of children. That cannot be true.
Israel is not trying to force anyone out of Gaza except the terrorist organization Hamas. Getting rid of Hamas will liberate the people of Gaza from the terrible problems they now have. Hamas places all its military and war equipment in apartment buildings and hospitals, endangering the lives of the civilians. Israel's military notifies the civilians when an attack on the Hamas military is planned.
Finally, and most importantly, Israel is not trying to eliminate Muslims or Arabs. There are more than a million Muslims who are citizens of Israel, with full rights. So they are not in any way committing genocide. But Hamas and the other Iran-controlled terrorist groups want to get rid of the Jewish people, which is genocide. The slogan they have "From the river to the sea" is exactly genocide.
really is tying up the hands of civilians and mass murdering them at a hospital and burying them in a mass grave trying not to harm civilians? My God you need help.
I never believe that people like you don't know what you're doing. There have been quite a few genocides in the last 125 years, and the Jews have been the objects of the worst of them. Don't pretend you don't know that.
Why doesn't Hamas have the manliness to stop hiding behind women and children? Men at war can be driven to all sorts of extremities, but no honest person has ever believed that Israel wanted to wipe out "the Palestinians." ( It always strikes me as bizarre that inasmuch as there never was a Kingdom of Palestine, there could be "a Palestinian people." I'm much attached to legends of a nation - state which there is as much evidence for as there is for a Kingdom of Palestine, the lost continent of Atlantis. ***damn it, I want justice for the long oppressed Atlantean people! )
Tell me, sweetie, why didn't the Gazans take that beautiful, long beach the Israelis gave them in 2005 and make an Arab Singapore of it? Could it be that they tend to be the least constructive people on Earth? Is it just possible that their undying mad dog propensity for violence is what makes the Saudis, the Egyptians, and the Jordanians unwilling to offer them refuge?
Tell me sweetie- what’s killing all the native Americans? Aboriginals? Central and South American? Etc. It’s called colonialidm it’s been going on a while. I think there have been far bigger cases of murder than Jews. Zionists were given permission to steal a country and now we’re going to have a world war thanks to the painfully brainwashed mental health cases that have been raised through generations of insane hate mongering . You’ll probably enjoy it so great for you .
No scholar of any repute anywhere in the world doesn't believe that Israel was the land of the Jewish people for thousands of years.
Also, it's tough to make a case for somebody's stealing a wasteland, which is what it was when Israel declared its existence in 1948. Almost everything which makes Israel enviable was accomplished by Jews.
But you have absorbed the programming well. A good little student you are, I have no doubt.
It’s ridiculous and anyone with any sense wouldn’t give their house or land to someone who said btw 3000 years ago my ancestors lived here -now -do one !- it’s actually laughable that such a claim has validity in the eyes of anyone. It’s utter BS and you know it and we all know it -if the world functioned like that we’d all be fukked- oh yes -we are -thanks to this absolute nonsensical insane land claim.
You no doubt consider it ridiculous, but whether you do or not, the land was given to them by God.
Even if I believed that it wasn't, I would still support Israel if only because of its achievements with the land. There was nothing in the way of a government or an economy or even a country of the Arab imagination when the Jews of Europe got back there. They took the desert and made it bloom. They made a country.
Here's one observation, which I make delicately: there have been more than a few Israeli Nobel laureates. Has there ever been an Arab laureate?
Israel is America's foremost ally in the world, and you must live in denial if you believe otherwise. You may have noticed that the Israelis were helped by the Saudis and the Jordanians in foiling the Iranian strike of a couple of weeks ago. Why do you think that was? That war that you're so afraid will happen would be far likelier to happen if Israel failed to do what it needs to do in Gaza.
Hamas and Hezbollah are Iranian tools. It's Iran that funds Islamic terrorism. Do you think the Iranians want nuclear weapons to defend against the possibility of an Israeli nuclear strike?
Wow. How great it is for you. Native American = Good. European = Bad. Black man = Good. White man = Bad. Muslim = Good. Jew = Bad. Gay or Woman = Good. White Hetero Man = Bad.
Except, "sweetie," that would be stupid and shallow. No?
What about the black-on-black genocides in Africa?
Black-on-black crime? The brutal sacrifices of the Aztex? The Indian gangs in El Salvador. And how about all the authoritarian women during COVID? And what about the accomplishments of the west. Of great white men. Science. Math. Mostly men. And who does the dirty and dangerous jobs? Mostly men. Does all of that fit into your model?
Or do you pick and choose what to look at so it fits into your model.
Do you really think all gays are good? All women virtuous? That blacks cannot be racists?
Do you not think we are all human - each with our capabilities to do good and bad.
I think you cane here to teach us a thing or two. But maybe you need to drop the slogans and biases you have and learn more about humanity before you try to sell us your garbage.
Totally off the point. the Zionists are busy murdering a bunch of indigenous people whose land they want. An act of genocide and you support it wholeheartedly that’s the difference between you and me- I love God and try to be as much like God as I can be which means seeing the awful truth and recognising when the powers play us attempting to be the arbiters of truth.. You are the doing the devils work by supporting the mass killing of innocents. In the name of virtue. Wake up they’re all pawns in a bigger game and you’re just providing dumb flesh support.
I abhor mob mentality, group think, and cultish behavior, and brainwashed malleable young adults demanding their way because it makes them feel enlightened and important.
The administration and faculty of these universities created this behavior and now don’t know how to deal with it.
They are all telling us who they are. I only hope someone is writing down their names so we don’t forget. We are living through a glaring explanation of what happened in Germany.
Some of us have kids at these schools Chris, because it is very challenging to figure out where to put one's very intelligent children (as you will learn) -- and because many conservatives also live in the Northeast and California. Conservatives should be helping EVERYONE, and standing against ALL top universities teaching leading to this. Do something MORAL -- not POLITICAL.
I think that’s what Chris has been doing for years. His point is “don’t screw this up conservatives; work for order and if the left shoots itself in the foot during these protests, point the camera toward the ground where they’re standing.” You come across somewhat patronizing and pretty self-righteous in this comment.
As a parent too I understand your appeal and sympathize. However, my impression is that conservatives don't have the power to help, let alone put a stop to the current ugliness raging in "captured" campuses and states. Please God, your kids will witness the ideological contagion and be disgusted by it.
In few words , let the blue areas continue to move towards violence and Red areas put a early stop to such actions . I look forward to the demo,s convention in Chitown this summer. I am sure their plans are in full swing at this very moment to do as much destruction as possible . Sad I do think there will be lost of life. That is what the radicals will try to bring about.
But we do have to deal with the fact that there is a genocide going on at the hands of the IDF. 28,000 killed, mostly innocent civilians. And the Israeli leadership has said brutal things about Gaza in general.
Legitimate? I guess any protest can be legitimate, I mean it's not that you can't. But what's the point at this point? A bunch of rowdy young adults throwing tantrums and howling at their fellow students isn't really helping... are they REALLY going to affect foreign policy half way across the world and here at home, really? Additionally, what's the student and faculty sentiment at these colleges from people who aren't protesting? do they feel that their campus has been usurped? I'd be pissed if my commencement was shut down, or if I was told I couldn't go to class because the college couldn't put some boundaries up against students who were being a nuisance. I think it's gone past legitimate based on what I've seen.. now it's more along the lines of provocation.
100% Since the 1960s, college demonstrations have become a sort of rite of passage and a way to display publicly one's moral rectitude ("virtue signalling"). I would not be surprised if the contemporary breed of activist critical studies or political science professor offers "course credit" for participation.
"Making your voice heard" does not "scale" as Elon Musk might say. After a while it becomes noise, especially when taking social media into consideration.
While I have no doubt some of the demonstrators are genuinely moved by some moral outrage to take to the streets, and extremely large, nonviolent demonstrations can have some impact on governmental policy, by and large it is virtue signaling.
It's beyond leftists "condemning genocide". It's creating a nuisance in colleges and disrupting the places where students have come to focus on their studies, while paying lots of money to do so. Not to mention, campus leadership turning a blind eye to verbal hostility directed at Jewish students, while pretending it's not really THAT hostile. Any other group doing so would be ushered away immediately.
If anyone redirected the kind of "verbal hostility" that is currently being aimed at Jews towards black people, the perpetrators would immediately be denounced as racists, and there would be riots and looting. Double standard.
To any sane person, yes.. it is a double standard! But it's allowed and permissible under the most-high tenants of intersectionality, as we've seen with these Ivy league schools. Where the worshipers of identity politics gather to enshrine their sacred beliefs and bestow upon each other an unshakable identity of righteous victimhood.. the cost to entry is race and class suicide.. and if you are white, there's double penance due at the gates.
It's shocking that any parent would waste tuition $ on schools where the curriculum has been so watered down as to make "intersectionality" the most important element of every course, even the hard sciences.
Quality-oriented employers are concerned about how uncivilized attitudes and behaviors can poison a workforce. Surely they must be labeling the graduates from those failed universities as "Not employable. Do not accept applications."
It doesn't seem that Israel is trying to wipe out a race or a religious group (commit genocide...) Israel is trying to destroy a terrorist movement that has imbedded itself in a civilian population that borders Israel and was able to easily lunch a brutal massacre into Israel.
I used to think this way too until I learned about the history and the Palestinian culture surrounding this situation. You must watch this video https://youtu.be/I5VPFw0vI6U?si=vd3V1FvHswoDMr4I of Jordan Peterson interviewing Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of one of the co-founders of Hamas.
Their culture does not value women and children's lives as we do. Their children are used, not protected. The hate for Israel is far deeper than just wanting some land. If Hamas is not annihilated, and its support snuffed out, these kinds of wars will continue forever.
I have a close friend who is Jewish and politically conservative. He was raised supporting Israel his entire childhood. Then he went out into the world, met some Palestinians, learned the truth. He's leading campus protests for divestment now
It’s strange. I’m both pro Jew and anti Zionist. Zionism is as much a political project to preserve and protect power as Hamas is. Jews have a more advanced civilization but they also only extend full rights to their own group members.
Murdering people's innocent families tends to make them more supportive of terror, not less. When an entire people is denied the freedom to live, it is only natural that they would turn toward death.
Though of course the exact number of victims is known only to God, the UN and international organizations consider the Gaza Health Ministry's figures to be credible.
I try to avoid blaming one side or the other for what we are hearing about the war, since I have no way of knowing whether or not I am being lied to and have no way of knowing what the real situation is.
All I know is that my President and his Congress are providing billions of dollars to Israel and Ukraine and no citizens were consulted about it.
To me and others on the far side of the world from this mayhem, your number claim is an abstraction, and I will not pretend sympathy with one faction or the other when I have none.
You are free to chastise me for this attitude, but I suspect it is shared by more people than are willing to admit it, since one can score social credit by giving lip service to one side or the other.
Earlier, you stated 28,000 (okay yeah that is 20,000+). Also have heard 31,000, and 38,000. So how many have been killed? Why believe one number over another? Why believe any number at all? Even one is too many? Well yeah, so is 1,200 (Oct 7).
Thank you. The Israeli government is willing to wipe out the entire population of Gaza to get rid of Hamas. Hamas is terrible too, and they wish to wipe out Israeli. The leaders on both sides are genocidal.
Democrats have formed a coalition with the Marxist left. The antisemitic, pro-terrorist decolonization protests are just another mutation of Marxism, which constantly changes to different forms to disguise itself. The same leftist elites who planned and organized the BLM riots are also organizing the current protests and planning for riots if Biden or his replacement is defeated in the 2024 election. It's all part of the Marxist masterplan to destroy the U.S. Constitution and replace it with totalitarian rule.
The question is whether the Marxist faction of this - and I agree there is one, but not everyone is hardcore because socialism is always fashionable among the young - whether the hardcore Marxists can use these protests to leverage themselves into power. That’s what they really want. But they don’t have the numbers. The Marxist wannabes also need an elite faction willing to back them. They’ve got Soros and the globalists, but those guys are playing their own game. Obama and his minions love power, but they prefer to operate in the shadows and pull the strings off stage. Biden is beholden to powerbrokers behind the scenes too, many of who are Jewish. So he has to support Israel but pretend he cares about Gaza for the youth vote. And even with cheating, he still needs votes to make it look legit. To me it looks like the Dems are in a pickle. But their secret weapon is the willingness to do just about anything to keep the current arrangements intact. Another wedge for them is when the campus radicals figure out that old Joe the greasy pol isn’t going to take them where they want to go.
There are Marxists, Marxist supporters and Marxist dupes. That covers just about everyone on the Left today except for a few classically liberal Democrats.
Much of Gov. DeSantis' success is that his admin.'s policies and consistent practices have demoralized the Left - they hardly bother to attempt to establish campus protests. He is not obliged to react, but merely to remind everyone of consequences.
So, Gov. Abbot bulldozed the protests on UT's campus and instead of claiming it was for law and order, he claimed that antisemitism won't be tolerated in Texas. Given that the protection of the right of free speech is the Right's responsibility at this point, Abbot stepped on a rake. Still, he basically did what you prescribe above and it might benefit the Right as a contrast to what people are seeing and hearing from Columbia, NYU, etc. where real antisemitism is on continual and full display.
It has been attributed to Winston Churchill that, "If you are in your twenties and are not a liberal, you have no heart. If you are in your fifties and are not a conservative, you have no brain." These children are so gullible, so indoctrinated by Marxist (therefore brainless) teachers and professors - some of whom are barely out of their twenties themselves, and were indoctrinated in their teacher's colleges and liberal universities. Few have ever been taught logic, critical analysis, the scientific method, how to think for themselves rather than swallow the emotional, illogical cant of those who have (gag me)"educated" them. Unfortunately, the Left (especially the far-Left which the Biden/Obama regime is following, insisting upon supporting, to our detriment) finds such ignorance and immaturity so useful that they work very hard to keep them in that state.
In the sixties (yes, I was of age at that time), mostly foreign Marxist agitators fired up young college students into rioting and taking over campuses. Now, we have our own home-grown Marxists who openly fire up and make ignorant rabble of our young. That simply must change.
The long march through the institutions. If you've never seen that term, check it out. It has been proceeding quietly since the 1960s. Now, they run things.
Don't make the pointless quest for responsible, civilized adults on university faculties.
Because socialism is sold as a compassionate system. The system that cares about the poor etc. in practice it doesn’t work out this way, but we don’t have professors teaching reality, only theory. But the main point that conservatives have got to grasp is that the left, and the democrats by extension, are assumed to be the “caring” ones. Steal that from them and the young will follow.
Democrats prefer to use other people's money (usually not even their own) to solve what they see as problems. Conservatives use our own money in donations and assistance, preferring that over being forced by the state to let them use our money to FAIL to solve the problem.
Socialism has always been an unworkable farce, the same as it's fraternal twin, communism, and deranged brother, fascism.
It boggles my mind that conservatives have neglected to highlight to black Americans the history of Muslims enslaving Africans for far longer than anyone else. This could help further splinter the Left, which is already losing some of its voter base of black Americans over economic and illegal immigration issues..
It has always struck me as strange when Blacks convert to Islam, since African slave markets were often run by Muslims.
It's mainly a prison thing that provides group solidarity and defense against other prison factions. Also, the fact that Africa is mainly Muslim has some attraction.
It just occurs to me that adopting Islam is a way for people to become culturally conservative under the cover of a religious conversion, thus avoiding criticism and alienation from the left, which tends to romanticize anything anti-Western.
It makes sense that a way of life that is exotic to Americans would attract African Americans, who may never have truly felt at ease in the once-predominant culture. Surely churches provided some sanctuary but Islam is one step removed and has what we understand to be rigid purity codes, unlike the fates of Christian preachers who 'fall' more often than one might be comfortable with.
My observations have been of the number of women who seem drawn to Islam. I think it has a lot to do with no longer being expected to walk the streets like...well, like a street walker.
Great reply, thanks.
I agree. My sense is that that Islam can fill in for the now-absent influence of the conservative black Baptist churches that once played so large a part in the black American's experience.
I would see this as a positive development were it not for the problems associated with the more militant (that is to say most) Muslims, of the sort we're seeing in England.
What is more amazing is that the American black population continues to vote democrat even with all the democrat history of slavery and to the present with Biden history in his voting record of segregation and busing. In his words “ you ain’t black if you don’t vote for me” how does he get way with that crap?
Not often always
Sorry, slave trade was dominated by Jews/google it.
I agree. Thomas Sowell has been made to carry that particular ball. I can think of no other popular black figure who has a national audience with that sort of reach. Larry Elder is good but hasn't been able to avoid leftist denunciation like Sowell, who has the gravitas of age and multiple degrees. Candace Owens is fantastic but some on the right claim she is a leftist in conservative drag for her former politics, which she has renounced, but there's no appeasing some fanatics who demand ideological purity and consistency. (I have never understood this. Why not welcome converts, especially popular ones?)
Anyway, I sense that the black community (to generalize) is beginning to come around to the decades-long gaslighting by the DP on race and civil rights. This revelation has been largely inspired by the simple realization that life was better for the working class under Trump, even improving. Black people for Trump will be a major factor in November, if he can remain alive or out of prison for that long. They sympathize with his persecution by the political establishment.
The left has very recently discovered Sowell, and have gone into a spittle-flecked frenzy of denouncing and deboonking him of late. Had to happen, I suppose.
I find it somewhat encouraging that few other than the ideologically aligned or the chattering class care one way or another about such deboonking and denunciation. The more bad noise the left makes, the less patience normal folks have with them.
The white slavers didn't capture black slaves, they bought them at Muslim Arab slave markets. And white slavery was quite prevalent with the Barbary pirates. In the Marine hymn, the line "...to the shores of Tripoli" refers to one of the new US Marines' first tasks; eliminate the white slaving of the MUSLIM Barbary pirates. And slavery STILL exists in Africa. And it is generally still Muslims enslaving Christians.
Good point. And there is a promising movement to address the slavery in Muslim countries https://africanjewishalliance.org/
Thank you for this lead. It's more useful than you know!
Activism against Jihad. It's about time!
you know things are bad when the top comment is misdirection...
justified indignation and venting.. but yes, the topic is "How the Right can turn the pro-Palestine encampments into a disaster for Democrats"
Perhaps we need to ask cities to make declarations against Hamas and the teaching of hate in islamic jihadist states --
taking a cue from the
https://africanjewishalliance.org/ folks.
unfortunately hate and violence has no special religion, race or culture... it is across the board, a problem for humanity... i will also say hamas was a creation of israel as well.. netanyahu was supportive of it up until very recently... one has to dig below the surface to get a clearer picture of what is happening here..
So much to unpack.
"netanyahu was supportive of it..." please park your NDS (Netanyahu Derangement Syndrome) to the side. Do not equate tolerance with support - and implying some sort of responsibility of the victim is just sick.
"One has to dig deeper." Really? You espouse some sort of deep understanding. Hamas, it is not that complicated. No enlightenment needed. You suggest hate like Hamas is also on the Israeli side. Not at all. Everyone is not like you or I. The culture of terrorism is evil. Period. No excuses. It is evil to Israelis, Christians, Americans arabs, other muslims, and people in Gaza and America. It is not that complicated.
This in fact somewhat complicated. Netanyahu did in fact support Hamas as an alternative enemy. Didn’t mean he liked them, just that he thought he could control them better than other opponents. He was obviously wrong. I believe Netanyahu and the Zionists want Gaza, so it really isn’t simple. Innocent Jews suffer from the ambitions of their leaders just as the Palestinians do. Both sides’ leadership wants to wipe the other side completely out. This is imo why it’s so difficult to create a solution. Each side wants total victory.
It is not that complicated but there are a lot of side-issues. For example, Hamas teaches their young to hate. The Israelis value peace. Hamas cannot accept non jihadists and discent. Israel includes 1 million arab israelis and teaches peace. It traded the Sinai penensula for peace with Egypt. And they have good relations with Jordan and other arab countries. Even if not publicly. Saying it is complicated is a bit of a cop-out. The future of the middle east is with those who want peace and prosperity. Hamas is the enemy of everyone against Islamic jihad and extremism, including arabs, not just Israel. It is good vs evil at the end of the day. Which is simple, although, at the same time, a very difficult thing to understand for many in the Western world.
divide and conquer.... set up an alternative to the plo and proceed..
as for the rape allegations - phony as a 2 dollar bill... same deal with the bullshit about the agency bringing relief having terrorists within the ranks.. more manufactured bullshit that has been proven wrong.. i have to hand it to israel with the 24/7 hasbara...
24/7 hamas taqiya, you mean, don't you abdul
HAMAS literally recorded themselves raping children, beheading pretty young children and babies, and even baking babies in ovens. Those accusations are not phoney at all, but the cold hard facts.
You'll find intersectional leftists and liberals have are very selective when it comes to a history of oppression. If that would work why doesn't highlighting the history of the Holocaust make them support Zionism? Personally I choose to reject racialist nonsense because it's just a distraction from class.
spot on
Scrub The term “pro Palestinian” in regards to the protesters. There is nothing helpful or “pro“ for the Arabs in Gaza or anywhere in leaving Hamas in control. They are anti- Israel to the core.
Hamas also hopes for maximum Palestinian dead and wounded.
Ordinary Gazans are just dispensable camera fodder to Hamas. More dead babies in aisle three, ASAP!
I wish more young Americans understood that.
They are what happens when you teach hate and intolerance. The same is being done in this country by the left -- to hate conservatives - but it has just not yet elevated itself to the same level of vile.
So far, these Hamas protests have been disruptive but not burning and looting the campuses. This is in contrast to the Floyd riots, that this is the home turf of the students and teachers,the home turf of the rioters, they are respecting the property this time, unlike their scorched earth chaos for the Floyd riots, in poor city locations. Also, if the campus crowds turn to a chaotic violence, it weakens the current narrative that only J6 conservatives commit violent riots. Yes, follow Rufo's strategy! Our overreaction is almost always the goal of the left! Let our opponents commit their own mistakes against themselves!
If we ignore them, they will escalate, because they cannot control themselves. If they escalate, they will set off the tripwires so carefully laid for us. They will become the villains in their own overwrought morality play, and they won't know what to do in this novel situation, where we fail to play along, because all they have is tactics without ethics.
I think they are test running this for the fall
I do not think inaction is sufficient. Yes, the woke will dig their own grave, but it is our duty to expose every American to their folly.
Great points.
Excellent plan. And fingers crossed that the “right” will take their cue from DeSantis and move forward effectively as he has demonstrated his insightful vision. Thank you, Christopher Rufo.
I think you need to stop being in denial about the genocidal Zionist’s who are putting the world at risk. You can be conservative and also anti genocide.
I think you need a good dictionary and encyclopedia.
I’ve got one thank you - what you need is a moral compass.
Is it moral to call a war a genocide? Is it moral to side with those who raped and slaughtered 1,000 innocents? Is it moral to take the lies of Hamas terrorists as truths? Is it moral to call the killing of terrorists the same as the rape and murder of innocents? Someone's compass is broken.
Sorry who’s killing 30,000 innocents starving and maiming the rest and destroying their homes and businesses? Even if the 7/10 wasn’t a false flag : which it was- the retribution is psychotic and unacceptable illegal immoral and frankly supporting such atrocities makes you culpable too.
Who cares? Hamas/Gaza started this war and Israel is honor-bound to finish it however they see fit.
Your’s points to Hamas.
There is evil on both sides. Israel isn’t innocent
Hamas look like angels compared to the IDF
🤣🤣. You are Exhibit A of the article.
In my interactions with Jessica today, I have not ceased to be somewhat admiring of her parrot - like reliability.
You are sadly lacking in humanity.
HAMAS are the ones that deliberately target civilians including Gazan civilians, and also steals the aid meant for citizens. HAMAS is perfectly fine with gunning down Gazan civilians. HAMAS deliberately targets evacuation routes they discover. There is nothing innocent about Genocidal terrorists known as HAMAS. HAMAS deliberately targets civilians on both sides. HAMAS fights in civilian clothing. HAMAS uses civilians to shield their weapons and personal. The IDF targets HAMAS, not civilians, in spite of what HAMAS lies are.
Your comment demonstrates a person who loves a good killing of innocents and enjoys psychotic violence. You must be a delight to be around.
You need a moral compass and a brain. And some history lessons.
Just take your phizer booster it’s ready 😀
What you need to do is stop abusing your goat 🐐 Achmed
Are you being racist?
The only genocide in world history that has resulted in an increase the population and obesity rates of the supposed victims.
Hamas certainly never missed any meals. They are accurately named!
Ok I’m not sure what you call murdering 30,000 civilians maiming and starving countless other and destroying homes businesses killing pets and much more- but it’s a stain on humanity and we’ll all pay for it for a long time to come. Glad you think it’s great how comforting.
Why does Hamas put all of its military and intelligence infrastructure in the midst of civilian areas? When people had standards, that would have rightly been seen as beneath contempt.
Why do the IDF wait for suspected Hamas members to go home and be with their families before bombing them? Oh yes I know coz you want to kill all Palestinians. We all know that. The world knows that. You all murderers.
Instead of deflecting, perhaps you can answer the question?
I’d call them non combatants. And Jessica. Don’t get your stats from rapists and murderers. It’s a bad look. Also according to the rapists and murderers, not one Hamas terrorist has died. So honestly you’re full of crap.
This is widely reported and there are videos. You are should take off the blindfold.
Ok I’m not sure what you call murdering 30,000 civilians maiming and starving countless other and destroying homes businesses killing pets and forced exodus of a people of a certain nationality -but according to the dictionary it’s genocide; and btw it’s a stain on humanity and we’ll all pay for it for a long time to come. Glad you think it’s great -how comforting.
Their chosen representatives declared war on Israel. Israel has given them a chance to return the hostages but Hamas chooses to use them as human shields and steal from it's people instead. 70% of the "innocent Palestinians", who probably gladly built those terror tunnels or collected intelligence for Hamas pre-Oct. 7, approve of Hamas's actions. This is the cost of war. Yes, innocents are dying, but the blame is on the terrorists you're shielding from scrutiny, not the IDF.
Zionist’s stole a country and are hell bent on taking much much more. It was evidently a false flag where Israelis were sacrificed in order to advance the Zionist land grabs and fulfil their blood lust. Everyone know it except the brainwashed into psychopathy known as you and your ilk.
Zionists can't steal a land they're indigenous to. Many of the Arabs in Gaza were migrants from Egypt that settled there long after (as late at 1940s) Jews started resettling in their homeland, often by purchasing land from the Arabs. Hamas's charter literally says Israel will exist until Islam eliminates it, so stop pretending this is a political issue. 70% of Palestinians approve of Hamas so don't tell me they don't know about this. The reason the Arab Muslims hate the Jews is because the Jews are their unfinished business. Islamists have deleted entire civilizations from the time of their prophet because the others didn't believe in their God. The Palestinian Islamists are no different than ISIS, Boko Haram, Al Quaeda, Jamaat e Islami, or any of the other bigots that came before them.
Heavy fire, man, and very well done. I have been dealing with this pestiferous woman too much today.
This is ridiculous and you know it. 3000 year old land deeds don’t exist for a reason.
The jews took the arabs land? I guess you drank the cool-aid. Not even close.
Do you really believe the jews are the colonialists? You are much more ignorant than I ever ever imagined. Lol.
N.S. Lyons' Substack has a free - for - the reading analysis of exactly how October 7 could have happened.
It was not a false flag. It was that Israel's border security was too complex, not too lax. Hamas must be given credit for the ingenuity it brought to realizing this, and to coming to grasp how foiling the system could be done rather simply.
I'm fully serious when I say that I admire it as a feat of war, though at a moral level, I'm made uncomfortable by that admiration. I suppose it's an example of giving the Devil his due.
I mean you people must be really gullible after the con vid bs where you were cattle tagged and injected you still swallow their BS? 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ beyond broken.
No it was a false flag - the evidence is overwhelming- (let’s not forget; for phizer your government sold you all out quite significantly )and you probably would support the death of fellow Israelis as an excuse /sacrifice to kill maim and remove Palestinians from their land and start your holy WW3- That’s the kind of damaged people you are.
This is not true. It is Hamas propaganda. A statistician analyzed their data and found it was not true. For example, the number of deaths in Gaza claimed to be caused by Israel was the same for each of the days in the first month after the Hamas terrorist attack. That is impossible.
Another example, there is no correlation between the number of deaths of women in the Hamas reports and the number of deaths of children. That cannot be true.
Israel is not trying to force anyone out of Gaza except the terrorist organization Hamas. Getting rid of Hamas will liberate the people of Gaza from the terrible problems they now have. Hamas places all its military and war equipment in apartment buildings and hospitals, endangering the lives of the civilians. Israel's military notifies the civilians when an attack on the Hamas military is planned.
Finally, and most importantly, Israel is not trying to eliminate Muslims or Arabs. There are more than a million Muslims who are citizens of Israel, with full rights. So they are not in any way committing genocide. But Hamas and the other Iran-controlled terrorist groups want to get rid of the Jewish people, which is genocide. The slogan they have "From the river to the sea" is exactly genocide.
I can see what Israel is doing as there is ample is video evidence. The abstract evidence you are rattling on about is the propaganda.
Thanks for your comment. Indeed there is much video evidence that Israel's military does its very best to avoid harming civilians!
really is tying up the hands of civilians and mass murdering them at a hospital and burying them in a mass grave trying not to harm civilians? My God you need help.
I never believe that people like you don't know what you're doing. There have been quite a few genocides in the last 125 years, and the Jews have been the objects of the worst of them. Don't pretend you don't know that.
Why doesn't Hamas have the manliness to stop hiding behind women and children? Men at war can be driven to all sorts of extremities, but no honest person has ever believed that Israel wanted to wipe out "the Palestinians." ( It always strikes me as bizarre that inasmuch as there never was a Kingdom of Palestine, there could be "a Palestinian people." I'm much attached to legends of a nation - state which there is as much evidence for as there is for a Kingdom of Palestine, the lost continent of Atlantis. ***damn it, I want justice for the long oppressed Atlantean people! )
Tell me, sweetie, why didn't the Gazans take that beautiful, long beach the Israelis gave them in 2005 and make an Arab Singapore of it? Could it be that they tend to be the least constructive people on Earth? Is it just possible that their undying mad dog propensity for violence is what makes the Saudis, the Egyptians, and the Jordanians unwilling to offer them refuge?
Tell me sweetie- what’s killing all the native Americans? Aboriginals? Central and South American? Etc. It’s called colonialidm it’s been going on a while. I think there have been far bigger cases of murder than Jews. Zionists were given permission to steal a country and now we’re going to have a world war thanks to the painfully brainwashed mental health cases that have been raised through generations of insane hate mongering . You’ll probably enjoy it so great for you .
No scholar of any repute anywhere in the world doesn't believe that Israel was the land of the Jewish people for thousands of years.
Also, it's tough to make a case for somebody's stealing a wasteland, which is what it was when Israel declared its existence in 1948. Almost everything which makes Israel enviable was accomplished by Jews.
But you have absorbed the programming well. A good little student you are, I have no doubt.
It’s ridiculous and anyone with any sense wouldn’t give their house or land to someone who said btw 3000 years ago my ancestors lived here -now -do one !- it’s actually laughable that such a claim has validity in the eyes of anyone. It’s utter BS and you know it and we all know it -if the world functioned like that we’d all be fukked- oh yes -we are -thanks to this absolute nonsensical insane land claim.
You no doubt consider it ridiculous, but whether you do or not, the land was given to them by God.
Even if I believed that it wasn't, I would still support Israel if only because of its achievements with the land. There was nothing in the way of a government or an economy or even a country of the Arab imagination when the Jews of Europe got back there. They took the desert and made it bloom. They made a country.
Here's one observation, which I make delicately: there have been more than a few Israeli Nobel laureates. Has there ever been an Arab laureate?
Israel is America's foremost ally in the world, and you must live in denial if you believe otherwise. You may have noticed that the Israelis were helped by the Saudis and the Jordanians in foiling the Iranian strike of a couple of weeks ago. Why do you think that was? That war that you're so afraid will happen would be far likelier to happen if Israel failed to do what it needs to do in Gaza.
Hamas and Hezbollah are Iranian tools. It's Iran that funds Islamic terrorism. Do you think the Iranians want nuclear weapons to defend against the possibility of an Israeli nuclear strike?
The God I know never supported mass murder. Your god is the devil himself.
Wow. How great it is for you. Native American = Good. European = Bad. Black man = Good. White man = Bad. Muslim = Good. Jew = Bad. Gay or Woman = Good. White Hetero Man = Bad.
Except, "sweetie," that would be stupid and shallow. No?
What about the black-on-black genocides in Africa?
Black-on-black crime? The brutal sacrifices of the Aztex? The Indian gangs in El Salvador. And how about all the authoritarian women during COVID? And what about the accomplishments of the west. Of great white men. Science. Math. Mostly men. And who does the dirty and dangerous jobs? Mostly men. Does all of that fit into your model?
Or do you pick and choose what to look at so it fits into your model.
Do you really think all gays are good? All women virtuous? That blacks cannot be racists?
Do you not think we are all human - each with our capabilities to do good and bad.
I think you cane here to teach us a thing or two. But maybe you need to drop the slogans and biases you have and learn more about humanity before you try to sell us your garbage.
Totally off the point. the Zionists are busy murdering a bunch of indigenous people whose land they want. An act of genocide and you support it wholeheartedly that’s the difference between you and me- I love God and try to be as much like God as I can be which means seeing the awful truth and recognising when the powers play us attempting to be the arbiters of truth.. You are the doing the devils work by supporting the mass killing of innocents. In the name of virtue. Wake up they’re all pawns in a bigger game and you’re just providing dumb flesh support.
Not if you are unable to separate fact from fiction - or is it wishful thinking?
Thank you, Jessica! Many of us can walk and chew gum at the same time.
And support mass murder for a land and resource grab also - I didn’t doubt it.
I abhor mob mentality, group think, and cultish behavior, and brainwashed malleable young adults demanding their way because it makes them feel enlightened and important.
The administration and faculty of these universities created this behavior and now don’t know how to deal with it.
They are all telling us who they are. I only hope someone is writing down their names so we don’t forget. We are living through a glaring explanation of what happened in Germany.
Some of us have kids at these schools Chris, because it is very challenging to figure out where to put one's very intelligent children (as you will learn) -- and because many conservatives also live in the Northeast and California. Conservatives should be helping EVERYONE, and standing against ALL top universities teaching leading to this. Do something MORAL -- not POLITICAL.
I think that’s what Chris has been doing for years. His point is “don’t screw this up conservatives; work for order and if the left shoots itself in the foot during these protests, point the camera toward the ground where they’re standing.” You come across somewhat patronizing and pretty self-righteous in this comment.
As a parent too I understand your appeal and sympathize. However, my impression is that conservatives don't have the power to help, let alone put a stop to the current ugliness raging in "captured" campuses and states. Please God, your kids will witness the ideological contagion and be disgusted by it.
In few words , let the blue areas continue to move towards violence and Red areas put a early stop to such actions . I look forward to the demo,s convention in Chitown this summer. I am sure their plans are in full swing at this very moment to do as much destruction as possible . Sad I do think there will be lost of life. That is what the radicals will try to bring about.
But we do have to deal with the fact that there is a genocide going on at the hands of the IDF. 28,000 killed, mostly innocent civilians. And the Israeli leadership has said brutal things about Gaza in general.
Some of these protests may be legitimate.
Legitimate? I guess any protest can be legitimate, I mean it's not that you can't. But what's the point at this point? A bunch of rowdy young adults throwing tantrums and howling at their fellow students isn't really helping... are they REALLY going to affect foreign policy half way across the world and here at home, really? Additionally, what's the student and faculty sentiment at these colleges from people who aren't protesting? do they feel that their campus has been usurped? I'd be pissed if my commencement was shut down, or if I was told I couldn't go to class because the college couldn't put some boundaries up against students who were being a nuisance. I think it's gone past legitimate based on what I've seen.. now it's more along the lines of provocation.
100% Since the 1960s, college demonstrations have become a sort of rite of passage and a way to display publicly one's moral rectitude ("virtue signalling"). I would not be surprised if the contemporary breed of activist critical studies or political science professor offers "course credit" for participation.
"Making your voice heard" does not "scale" as Elon Musk might say. After a while it becomes noise, especially when taking social media into consideration.
While I have no doubt some of the demonstrators are genuinely moved by some moral outrage to take to the streets, and extremely large, nonviolent demonstrations can have some impact on governmental policy, by and large it is virtue signaling.
A shit show for sure… leftists condemning genocide, dementia patient Biden and dispensationalist evangelicals supporting it… very strange.
It's beyond leftists "condemning genocide". It's creating a nuisance in colleges and disrupting the places where students have come to focus on their studies, while paying lots of money to do so. Not to mention, campus leadership turning a blind eye to verbal hostility directed at Jewish students, while pretending it's not really THAT hostile. Any other group doing so would be ushered away immediately.
If anyone redirected the kind of "verbal hostility" that is currently being aimed at Jews towards black people, the perpetrators would immediately be denounced as racists, and there would be riots and looting. Double standard.
To any sane person, yes.. it is a double standard! But it's allowed and permissible under the most-high tenants of intersectionality, as we've seen with these Ivy league schools. Where the worshipers of identity politics gather to enshrine their sacred beliefs and bestow upon each other an unshakable identity of righteous victimhood.. the cost to entry is race and class suicide.. and if you are white, there's double penance due at the gates.
It's shocking that any parent would waste tuition $ on schools where the curriculum has been so watered down as to make "intersectionality" the most important element of every course, even the hard sciences.
Quality-oriented employers are concerned about how uncivilized attitudes and behaviors can poison a workforce. Surely they must be labeling the graduates from those failed universities as "Not employable. Do not accept applications."
It doesn't seem that Israel is trying to wipe out a race or a religious group (commit genocide...) Israel is trying to destroy a terrorist movement that has imbedded itself in a civilian population that borders Israel and was able to easily lunch a brutal massacre into Israel.
The zionists have openly expressed interest in occupying Gaza.
Is Ham-Ass a gene pool? I get tired of the term "genocide" being tossed around like a dud hand grenade.
Yah, right… what is 20,000 + innocent civilians dead, in addition to the injured?
I used to think this way too until I learned about the history and the Palestinian culture surrounding this situation. You must watch this video https://youtu.be/I5VPFw0vI6U?si=vd3V1FvHswoDMr4I of Jordan Peterson interviewing Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of one of the co-founders of Hamas.
Their culture does not value women and children's lives as we do. Their children are used, not protected. The hate for Israel is far deeper than just wanting some land. If Hamas is not annihilated, and its support snuffed out, these kinds of wars will continue forever.
Funny… I used to be very pro Israel, as a nation and what they did, until I looked at what is happening now.
I don't believe you. Palestine is a fetish for the left, and such people never supported Israel.
I have a close friend who is Jewish and politically conservative. He was raised supporting Israel his entire childhood. Then he went out into the world, met some Palestinians, learned the truth. He's leading campus protests for divestment now
It’s strange. I’m both pro Jew and anti Zionist. Zionism is as much a political project to preserve and protect power as Hamas is. Jews have a more advanced civilization but they also only extend full rights to their own group members.
Murdering people's innocent families tends to make them more supportive of terror, not less. When an entire people is denied the freedom to live, it is only natural that they would turn toward death.
Nice job reporting Hamas "statistics"
Though of course the exact number of victims is known only to God, the UN and international organizations consider the Gaza Health Ministry's figures to be credible.
I try to avoid blaming one side or the other for what we are hearing about the war, since I have no way of knowing whether or not I am being lied to and have no way of knowing what the real situation is.
All I know is that my President and his Congress are providing billions of dollars to Israel and Ukraine and no citizens were consulted about it.
To me and others on the far side of the world from this mayhem, your number claim is an abstraction, and I will not pretend sympathy with one faction or the other when I have none.
You are free to chastise me for this attitude, but I suspect it is shared by more people than are willing to admit it, since one can score social credit by giving lip service to one side or the other.
Hear you. What to say when neither side deserves support? I feel for the Jews and Palestinians who just want to live their lives.
Truth about money to Ukraine and Israel… bad deal.
Earlier, you stated 28,000 (okay yeah that is 20,000+). Also have heard 31,000, and 38,000. So how many have been killed? Why believe one number over another? Why believe any number at all? Even one is too many? Well yeah, so is 1,200 (Oct 7).
Thank you. The Israeli government is willing to wipe out the entire population of Gaza to get rid of Hamas. Hamas is terrible too, and they wish to wipe out Israeli. The leaders on both sides are genocidal.
Thank you for being fair to the topic, John.
I think I agree. But I also agree with the no nonsense approach taken in Austin, Texas.
Republicans must avoid being too passive also.
Democrats have formed a coalition with the Marxist left. The antisemitic, pro-terrorist decolonization protests are just another mutation of Marxism, which constantly changes to different forms to disguise itself. The same leftist elites who planned and organized the BLM riots are also organizing the current protests and planning for riots if Biden or his replacement is defeated in the 2024 election. It's all part of the Marxist masterplan to destroy the U.S. Constitution and replace it with totalitarian rule.
The question is whether the Marxist faction of this - and I agree there is one, but not everyone is hardcore because socialism is always fashionable among the young - whether the hardcore Marxists can use these protests to leverage themselves into power. That’s what they really want. But they don’t have the numbers. The Marxist wannabes also need an elite faction willing to back them. They’ve got Soros and the globalists, but those guys are playing their own game. Obama and his minions love power, but they prefer to operate in the shadows and pull the strings off stage. Biden is beholden to powerbrokers behind the scenes too, many of who are Jewish. So he has to support Israel but pretend he cares about Gaza for the youth vote. And even with cheating, he still needs votes to make it look legit. To me it looks like the Dems are in a pickle. But their secret weapon is the willingness to do just about anything to keep the current arrangements intact. Another wedge for them is when the campus radicals figure out that old Joe the greasy pol isn’t going to take them where they want to go.
There are Marxists, Marxist supporters and Marxist dupes. That covers just about everyone on the Left today except for a few classically liberal Democrats.
Marxism is now identitarian and corporatist.
Marxism keeps changing to adapt to the current society. Karl Marx advocated doing so in "The Communist Manifesto."
Yes, and the goal is always revolution and dictatorship.
Much of Gov. DeSantis' success is that his admin.'s policies and consistent practices have demoralized the Left - they hardly bother to attempt to establish campus protests. He is not obliged to react, but merely to remind everyone of consequences.
They believe him.
So, Gov. Abbot bulldozed the protests on UT's campus and instead of claiming it was for law and order, he claimed that antisemitism won't be tolerated in Texas. Given that the protection of the right of free speech is the Right's responsibility at this point, Abbot stepped on a rake. Still, he basically did what you prescribe above and it might benefit the Right as a contrast to what people are seeing and hearing from Columbia, NYU, etc. where real antisemitism is on continual and full display.
If the right does anything, and it is helpful, it will be luck, not competence.
Too bad it is so difficult to get the Right to do anything this clever--or so likely to work!
It has been attributed to Winston Churchill that, "If you are in your twenties and are not a liberal, you have no heart. If you are in your fifties and are not a conservative, you have no brain." These children are so gullible, so indoctrinated by Marxist (therefore brainless) teachers and professors - some of whom are barely out of their twenties themselves, and were indoctrinated in their teacher's colleges and liberal universities. Few have ever been taught logic, critical analysis, the scientific method, how to think for themselves rather than swallow the emotional, illogical cant of those who have (gag me)"educated" them. Unfortunately, the Left (especially the far-Left which the Biden/Obama regime is following, insisting upon supporting, to our detriment) finds such ignorance and immaturity so useful that they work very hard to keep them in that state.
In the sixties (yes, I was of age at that time), mostly foreign Marxist agitators fired up young college students into rioting and taking over campuses. Now, we have our own home-grown Marxists who openly fire up and make ignorant rabble of our young. That simply must change.
Why are these clowns teaching in universities in the first place? Where is the pons asinorum that once excluded those incapable of rational thought?
The long march through the institutions. If you've never seen that term, check it out. It has been proceeding quietly since the 1960s. Now, they run things.
Don't make the pointless quest for responsible, civilized adults on university faculties.
Read Rufo's book, FGS...
Because socialism is sold as a compassionate system. The system that cares about the poor etc. in practice it doesn’t work out this way, but we don’t have professors teaching reality, only theory. But the main point that conservatives have got to grasp is that the left, and the democrats by extension, are assumed to be the “caring” ones. Steal that from them and the young will follow.
Democrats prefer to use other people's money (usually not even their own) to solve what they see as problems. Conservatives use our own money in donations and assistance, preferring that over being forced by the state to let them use our money to FAIL to solve the problem.
Socialism has always been an unworkable farce, the same as it's fraternal twin, communism, and deranged brother, fascism.