Posted on 06/08/2024 12:15:01 PM PDT by karpov
The student unrest that roiled the nation’s campuses in the first half of this year was most often associated with the “encampment,” a visible tent-manifestation of scruffy, keffiyeh-swaddled support for the governing of Gaza by the terrorist group Hamas, as well as many other expressions of rank anti-Semitism.
But was it really “student” unrest?
niversity administrators might be surprised (or perhaps not) that much of today’s campus chaos originates, as it always has, with the employees. Both faculty and staff have for decades mobilized students for protest, activism, and, at times, illegal activity. Today’s pro-Hamas student movement, as with so many past movements, is not organic in any reasonably understood sense of the word. Between sympathizing employee agitators and the vagabond non-student crowds-for-hire that trespass onto campuses, actual students often constitute a minority of the players at any given protest, and a not-very-well-informed minority at that.
Let’s take this occasion to assess how university employees use their power and access to students to engage in malfeasance—mobilizing students to risk their futures in the name of a cause the students dimly understand, on behalf of the pet projects of faculty and staff who risk little to nothing.
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Trump can do something about it on Jan. 20. Tell H.S. seniors to reconsider 4 year colleges. Go to a community college for one year to see if they really want to continue while encouraging them to not go ahead.
ACTIVISTS are the ones that set and drive the agenda the world over.
The left has armies of of them. We instead are made up of PASSIVISTS.
Or maybe "workivists."
When I started college in 1989 my father gave me a warning.
In his day and shortly after they had huge riots on college campuses in OH and elsewhere.
(he used slightly different words - it was a long time ago, but this is what he tried to teach me)
—He said if you observe carefully, you’ll notice that some of the folks that are behind these protests are not college students. These are folks brought in from the outside. These folks intend to mobilize people, to get them stirred up and willing to go on the streets.
—If you jump on that bandwagon you’re more or less a “useful idiot.”
To this day I remember his words when I think about what happens on college campuses: BLM (2019), free Palestine (2024), Bush lied people died (2005)...
Much of Hackademia needs to be canceled.
Reminds me of the old Li’l Abner comic strip from 1968 in which the Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything (S.W.I.N.E.) take over the campus.
The terrified University Regents decide to sell the University! The only buyers were the Mafia who brings in the mob enforcers.
Here come the SWINE protesting!
I still get a thrill remembering how the leader of the S.W.I.N.E. used his front teeth to assault the brass knuckles of the mob enforcers. Who says brass won’t make a spark! These did. Big ones at that!
Anyone else remember that old comic strip? Could easily be reprinted today with no changes.
Al Capp who created the Li’l Abner comic strip became conservative when he got older. Because of it the Cambridge ‘elites’ shunned him just like they began to shun Alan Dershowitz when he criticized the legal attacks on Trump.
Many faculty seem to believe that it’s okay for students to be arrested but that their status as faculty should somehow protect them. “I’m a professor!” squealed Emory economics professor Caroline Fohlin as she was wrestled to the ground after approaching an officer from behind while he was in the midst of a forcible arrest, tapping him on the back of his head while his pistol in its holster was clearly visible.
How could trump stop the whole thing cold?
Kill loans and grants to non stem disciplines? Withdraw
College certifications until certain conditions are met
What levers does the federal government have on secondary education
Yeah, they are paid, too!
Wonder who funds these outrageous “protests?”
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