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It was distressing to see this old fear repackaged in new clothes. What next? Blood libel? It's only a matter of time.
I attended Harvard back in the 50s. It was more than a little skewed then, but there were numerous top faculty.
Then came the cultural revolution, the Vietnam protests, the feminists, the race baiters, and the armies of Political Correctness. Now the departments with which I am familiar contain no one worth studying with. They are nothing but gender benders and brainwashers.
Back in the 50s, they were already trying to persuade us to be good little liberals, but at least they presented us with some basic texts and facts to make up our own minds. No longer. The Ivy colleges are broken, and it's not clear whether they can ever be fixed.
For example, the English Departments at Harvard, Columbia, and Duke were at various times put into receivership under committees brought in from outside, because they had decayed so badly and obviously were incapable of putting themselves in order. But the college administrators chose folks like Stanley Fish, Stephen Greenblatt, and Edward Said to put them back in order. Now they are far worse than they ever were.
It's a pity. Centuries of great alumni and generous donors have been betrayed. Scholarship and truth have been betrayed. And the band plays on.
It wil take a lot of time as, unfortunately, the names Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc still open a lot of doors. With grade inflation and the watering down of the curriculum, the value of an education from these institutions is getting dubious. Even the hard sciences are not immune, as now AA and gender normalization are permeating those disciplines.
Most of us have jobs and can't afford attorneys to fight the b*st*rds in court with their ACLU allies!
Hubby switched to a program last night on TV claiming that Jesus was not resurrected and lived 45 years past the crucifixion. But of course, all of the original papers were destroyed and/or are being hidden by the church. I started laughing hysterically when he said that and told Hubby he should watch the credits to see if Dan Rather produced it.
So this guy is basically an idiot.
Some of the stuff he says might be true, but only by accident.
America's support for Israel (in an otherwise anti-Israel world) has nothing to do with liberal elites (this business should show that once and for all) or "democracy" or "a nation of immigrants" or "Jewish power" or any other such thing. It comes from those [sarcasm]horrible, bigoted, knuckle-dragging, murderous, Bible-thumping neanderthal savages[/sarcasm] who read their Bibles. The rest of the world hates them for it. Most of their fellow chr*stians hate them. The anti-Semites hate them. Most Jews hate them. And the Jews who don't hate them are uncomfortable with them. Yet they have supported Israel since the days of Increase Mather (and especially after the nineteenth century prophecy conferences) with no positive reinforcement whatsoever from any quarter. If they supported Israel for any other reason than their Biblically-based religious beliefs they would have grown tired of the way they've been treated and dumped Israel long ago.
I don't agree with their theology. Their absolute refusal to even consider Noachism (especially considering that their beliefs in chr*stendom are recent and highly idiosyncratic) breaks my heart. But I admire them for their stubborness and their faith in the G-d of Israel.
Their detractors should be ashamed of themselves.