Queer Theory Jeopardy!!! with Professor Derrick Jensen (Video)

Professor Derrick Jensen exposes the facts - no conjecture here - about how Queer Theory's founders (i.e. Foucault) and contemporaries (i.e. Judith Butler) are all advocates of pedophilia as just another sexual orientation.

Not only are the facts that he presents here shocking, but the students' reactions are also shocking. See how many neurotic, unhinged students yell over him, calling him a "homophobe," "transphobe," and "fascist."

She looks a few years too young to be original SDS (is it possible you’re thinking of DSA?), but may be NACLA. Her books quote NACLA and are quoted by NACLA, someone with the same name was involved with NACLA in the early 80s in connection with Janet Shenk (then with DSA, now with ARCA), and more recently NACLA has done stories on her activity in Latin America. Need more info to confirm.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Butler

Judith Pamela Butler[3] (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminism, queer theory,[4] and literary theory.[5] In 1993, Butler began teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, where they[a] have served, beginning in 1998, as the Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory. They are also the Hannah Arendt Chair at the European Graduate School.[8]. ..

Early life and education
Judith Butler was born on February 24, 1956, in Cleveland, Ohio,[3] to a family of Hungarian-Jewish and Russian-Jewish descent.[12] Most of their maternal grandmother’s family perished in the Holocaust.[13] Butler’s parents were practicing Reform Jews. Their mother was raised Orthodox, eventually becoming Conservative and then Reform, while their father was raised Reform. As a child and teenager, Butler attended both Hebrew school and special classes on Jewish ethics, where they received their “first training in philosophy”. Butler stated in a 2010 interview with Haaretz that they began the ethics classes at the age of 14 and that they were created as a form of punishment by Butler’s Hebrew school’s Rabbi because they were “too talkative in class”.[13] Butler also stated that they were “thrilled” by the idea of these tutorials, and when asked what they wanted to study in these special sessions, they responded with three questions preoccupying them at the time: “Why was Spinoza excommunicated from the synagogue? Could German Idealism be held accountable for Nazism? And how was one to understand existential theology, including the work of Martin Buber?”[14]

Butler attended Bennington College before transferring to Yale University, where they studied philosophy and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1978 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1984.[15] They spent one academic year at Heidelberg University as a Fulbright Scholar.[16] Butler taught at Wesleyan University, George Washington University, and Johns Hopkins University before joining University of California, Berkeley, in 1993.[17] In 2002, they held the Spinoza Chair of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.[18] In addition, they joined the department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University as Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Visiting Professor of the Humanities in the spring semesters of 2012, 2013 and 2014 with the option of remaining as full-time faculty.[19][20][21][22]

Butler serves on the editorial board or advisory board of several academic journals, including Janus Unbound: Journal of Critical Studies,[23] JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, and Politics and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.[24][25]. . .

Political activism
Much of Butler’s early political activism centered around queer and feminist issues, and they served, for a period of time, as the chair of the board of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.[73] Over the years, Butler has been particularly active in the gay and lesbian rights, feminist, and anti-war movements.[10] They have also written and spoken out on issues ranging from affirmative action and gay marriage to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay. More recently, Butler has been active in the Occupy movement and has publicly expressed support for a version of the 2005 BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) campaign against Israel.[citation needed] They emphasize that Israel does not and should not be taken to represent all Jews or Jewish opinion, and has criticized the weaponization of the figure of the victim by zionism, which risks banalization of antisemitism.[74][75][76][77]

On September 7, 2006, Butler participated in a faculty-organized teach-in against the 2006 Lebanon War at the University of California, Berkeley.[78] Another widely publicized moment occurred in June 2010, when Butler refused the Civil Courage Award (Zivilcouragepreis) of the Christopher Street Day (CSD) Parade in Berlin, Germany at the award ceremony. They cited racist comments on the part of organizers and a general failure of CSD organizations to distance themselves from racism in general and from anti-Muslim excuses for war more specifically. Criticizing the event’s commercialism, Butler went on to name several groups that they commended as stronger opponents of “homophobia, transphobia, sexism, racism, and militarism”.[79]

In October 2011, Butler attended Occupy Wall Street and, in reference to calls for clarification of the protesters’ demands, they said:

People have asked, so what are the demands? What are the demands all of these people are making? Either they say there are no demands and that leaves your critics confused, or they say that the demands for social equality and economic justice are impossible demands. And the impossible demands, they say, are just not practical. If hope is an impossible demand, then we demand the impossible – that the right to shelter, food and employment are impossible demands, then we demand the impossible. If it is impossible to demand that those who profit from the recession redistribute their wealth and cease their greed, then yes, we demand the impossible.[80]

Butler is an executive member of FFIPP – Educational Network for Human Rights in Israel/Palestine.[81] They are also a member of the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace.[81] In mainstream US politics, they expressed support for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.[82]

Adorno Prize affair
When Butler received the 2012 Adorno Prize, the prize committee came under attack from Israel’s Ambassador to Germany Yakov Hadas-Handelsman; the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s office in Jerusalem, Efraim Zuroff;[83] and the German Central Council of Jews. They were upset at Butler’s selection because of Butler’s remarks about Israel and specifically Butler’s “calls for a boycott against Israel”.[84] Butler responded saying that “[Butler] did not take attacks from German Jewish leaders personally”.[85] Rather, they wrote, the attacks are “directed against everyone who is critical against Israel and its current policies”.[85]

In a letter to the Mondoweiss website, Butler asserted that they developed strong ethical views on the basis of Jewish philosophical thought and that it is “blatantly untrue, absurd, and painful for anyone to argue that those who formulate a criticism of the State of Israel is anti-Semitic or, if Jewish, self-hating”.[81]

Comments on Hamas and Hezbollah
Butler was criticized for statements they had made about Hamas and Hezbollah. Butler was accused of describing them as “social movements that are progressive, that are on the Left, that are part of a global Left.”[86] They were accused of defending “Hezbollah and Hamas as progressive organizations” and supporting their tactics.[87][88]

Butler responded to these criticisms by stating that their remarks on Hamas and Hezbollah were taken completely out of context and, in so doing, their established views on non-violence were contradicted and misrepresented. . . .

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10714839.2018.1525834

NACLA, 1967-2002
Longtime editor Fred Rosen’s reflections on NACLA’s history for our 35th Anniversary Report (Volume 36, Issue 3, 2002) became a seminal text and resource on the meanings and challenges of doing solidarity work with a critical edge. It has informed activists and scholars ever since. Here, we present an abridged version.

. . .My next encounter was more straightforward and self-affirming. Nancy and I signed up for a Christmas 1980 NACLA tour to Nicaragua. The trip was led by Judy Butler and Janet Shenk and in every sense provided a fascinating education. It was a year-and-a-half after the Sandinista triumph, the Revolution was attempting to consolidate itself, and so was the opposition. Butler and Shenk arranged for us see most of war- and-earthquake-ravaged Managua and to talk with people from all sides in virtually all parts of the country. We prepared for the trip by reading the recent NACLA Reports on Nicaragua and some contrary material as well. It was a model of an honest, informative fact-finding tour, and brought me close to NACLA for the first time. . .

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https://www.influencewatch.org/person/janet-shenk/

Janet Shenk is a board member and former executive director of the Arca Foundation, one of several left-of-center funding entities associated with the R.J. Reynolds tobacco fortune. Shenk is a former editor of the San Francisco-based social-democratic magazine Mother Jones.

She has also been active in labor union causes, working as a former special assistant to former AFL-CIO president John Sweeney. She also worked as executive director of Wal-Mart Watch, a labor union campaign against the retailer.

In the 1980s she was a supporter of a suspected communist insurrection against the government of El Salvador. She was also a speaker at Democratic Socialists of America event. [1] . . .

1980s Radicalism
Janet Shenk focused on reporting about the civil war in El Salvador for the North American Congress on Latin America. She also led tours of activists to witness the impact of U.S. support for El Salvador’s government and alleged human rights abuses. [2]

In 1982, she co-wrote a book with Robert Armstrong, who was a Peace Corps member in El Salvador, called El Salvador: The Face of Revolution. The book argued for support of Soviet-backed rebels in El Salvador, claiming that the rebels enjoyed popular support of the people of El Salvador. It also criticized the U.S. backed government as a right-wing dictatorship. [3]

In 1983, the far-left pressure group Democratic Socialists of America held a conference called “Radical Alternatives for the 1980s: Conference on Education and Strategy for Progressives,” at which Shenk spoke. At the time, she was part of the “Socialist Scholars Conference.” [4]

Arca Foundation
Among the groups she took on a tour to El Salvador was the Arca Foundation’s board of directors. One of the projects of the Arca Foundation is opposition to U.S. foreign policy and support for communist regimes. [5]

In 1989, Shenk became executive director of the Arca Foundation. For Arca, Shenk worked to normalize relations with and end the U.S. trade embargo of Communist-ruled Cuba. She pushed for an on that country as well. She also worked to end U.S. intervention in Central America, despite the fact that other nations continued to promote their interests in that region. Finally, she worked to promote restrictions on campaign finance that became liberal-left crusade in the 1990s. [6]

In 1999, Shenk stepped down as executive director of the Arca Foundation; she sits on the board of directors for the organization to this day. [7]. . .
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Brown_(political_theorist)

. . .Brown is a native of California and lives in Berkeley with her partner Judith Butler and son Isaac.[76]. . .

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