The Bill Ayers-Dinesh D'Souza Debate: Bill Ayers Still Teaching Revolution

Townhall.com ^ | February 5, 2016 | Mary Grabar

[lentulusgracchus]

Reminds me of the G. Gordon Liddy/Timothy Leary dog-and-pony show that was touring in the 80’s.

I can't imagine that Gordon Liddy was ever in the same room as Timothy Leary. For more than about 20 seconds, anyway.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Art.] Bill Ayers sees education as "the motor-force of revolution," as he told the late communist dictator Hugo Chavez at an "education conference" in Venezuela in 2006. Indeed, under Ayers it is, and students are the foot soldiers.

...and Democrats are trying to carry out that revolution.

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When the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) were conspiring to overthrow the old government of South Africa, they pulled millions of schoolchildren out of school to help bulk up their mobs.

ANC actively encouraged students to defer schooling in favor of their revolutionary activities, so that a social problem in South Africa today is that there are millions of black and "colored" (mixed-race) people, two whole generations of them, who are undereducated and have trouble holding their low-paid jobs, if they have them.

ANC hasn't, AFAIK, accepted responsibility for that vast educational gulf or taken measures to backfill the education gap. Their former cadres are personally screwed.

[lentulusgracchus]

The imaginary social construct of "white privilege" was invented by the Ayers group back in the 60's ...

It's a bogus concept, inasmuch as it merely describes, invidiously, the condition of free people in a free society. That outgroups exist whose members do not enjoy the same freedoms (convicts, for example, and black and brown people under populist Jim Crow laws) is inevitable if the major group takes the trouble to define themselves and say "we are a society, and other people are not members".

The Greeks had their perioikoi and other noncitizens, some of whom were Greek and some of whom were non-Greek barbaroi. Every society that ever existed has had outgroups attached to it.

Ayers's intellectual construct exists only to derogate and defame the society he is attacking. It's like a crowbar in the hands of a housebreaker.