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I’m rooting for the protesters
The Aspen Beat ^ | April 29, 2024 | Glenn K, Beaton

Posted on 04/29/2024 8:24:47 PM PDT by chickenlips

At places we used to call institutions of higher learning, ignorant kids who don’t know any better and their ignorant professors who should, but also don’t, are trespassing in support of the raping, beheading, kidnapping, burning alive hostage takers of Hamas.

It’s a revolting scene. Even in Nazi Germany they tried to hide their atrocities. In contrast, Hamas posts them on the internet, and their sympathizers at American universities embrace both the terrorists and their terror like the latest hula hoop fad. (Watch out, trannies, you’re so-o-o-o 2023. And watch out, BLM, you’re so-o-o-o 2021.)

Much as these terror-sympathizers disgust me, and much as I’m rooting against the terrorists with whom they sympathize, and much as I’m rooting for the Israelis in their existential struggle to survive, I hope the university protests continue.

Here’s why.

Because the protests are revealing the rot in American universities. The system that used to be the envy of the world – the best and brightest everywhere came here to learn – has strangled under the stultifying, anti-intellectual yoke of DEI, wokeism, anti-merit, one-party rule that is delivered by greedy, wasteful, heavy-handed, over-numerous, group-thinking bureaucrats.

College tuition has gone up at double the rate of inflation for as long as I can remember. Students pay far more than ever before, even after adjusting for inflation, and get far less. At Columbia, tuition alone is $67,000 a year. Nobody gets charged the sticker price, of course, except the Jews.

American parents and their kids can now plainly see what many of us have known for years. Unless you want to be a doctor or lawyer, college is a monumental waste of time and money. It’s a scam.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chat; dei; domesticenemies; education; glennbeaton; glennkbeaton; hamas; idioticheadline; israel; protests; unfocused; universities
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I think a lot of people probably hold the same opinion.
1 posted on 04/29/2024 8:24:47 PM PDT by chickenlips
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>>>Because the protests are revealing the rot in American universities. The system that used to be the envy of the world – the best and brightest everywhere came here to learn – has strangled under the stultifying, anti-intellectual yoke of DEI, wokeism, anti-merit, one-party rule that is delivered by greedy, wasteful, heavy-handed, over-numerous, group-thinking bureaucrats.<<<

This sums it up perfectly.


2 posted on 04/29/2024 8:32:31 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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taxpayer funded pure rot. “tresspassing in support of the raping, beheading, kidnapping, burning alive hostage takers of Hamas” and their socialist allies.


3 posted on 04/29/2024 8:33:12 PM PDT by alrea
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Because the protests are revealing the rot in American universities.

They are...

I sure hope the protestors don't burn these universities to the ground.

4 posted on 04/29/2024 8:33:51 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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i for one have been hoping the campus insurrectionists have the staying power to permanently bring the whole lot of these marxist factories to their knees once and for all ...


5 posted on 04/29/2024 8:34:30 PM PDT by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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I question his premise that it’s revealing the rot in any meaningful way. Of course, many of us know The things that are going on in educational institutions, but that doesn’t mean that anything’s going to come of it.


6 posted on 04/29/2024 8:37:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Sad thing is that these ignorant savages have fallen prey to paid agents provocateurs funded by foreigners like Soros and/or the GRU and/or China. Just as my generation was in the '60s and '70s.
7 posted on 04/29/2024 8:39:41 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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It’s a scam.

A scam, and a cult.

8 posted on 04/29/2024 8:43:10 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: chickenlips

I so agree. Maximum chaos helps Trump win and obviously we need him to. Before you refund me of 2020 this is different. Biden is toast.


9 posted on 04/29/2024 8:43:41 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2024)
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To: chickenlips

10 posted on 04/29/2024 8:51:39 PM PDT by Angelino97
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where is?

BLM
occupy wall street

etc


11 posted on 04/29/2024 9:10:48 PM PDT by RockyTx
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If you support terrorists you are with the terrorists.
If you are with the terrorists you are a terrorist.

The appropriate measures should be applied.


12 posted on 04/29/2024 9:31:13 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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I'm rooting against the terrorists with whom they sympathize, and much as I'm rooting for the Israelis in their existential struggle to survive, I hope the university protests continue... Because the protests are revealing the rot in American universities.

13 posted on 04/29/2024 9:53:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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People mistakenly believe that college studies are for them when college studies are for korporations, governments, and the globalists behind them.

...and they've been that way for centuries.

14 posted on 04/29/2024 10:03:28 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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i for one have been hoping the campus insurrectionists have the staying power to permanently bring the whole lot of these marxist factories to their knees once and for all

They have billion of dollars in their endowments. They can have 0 students next year and it won't hurt them a bit.

15 posted on 04/29/2024 10:10:37 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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These protests are also practice for a major protest at the DNC.

It will be such a wonderful trip down memory lane to replicate the great DNC convention in Chicago. It should be even better now, as the police will most likely be asked to stand down by the libtard mayor and may actually get into the convention hall.

They can subdue the Superdelegates and make Jill Stein the Dem candidate.

Wouldn't that be a hoot?

16 posted on 04/29/2024 11:04:27 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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They have billion of dollars in their endowments. They can have 0 students next year and it won't hurt them a bit.

There is also some billions in federal research monies in support of STEM research that go annually to the Universities. Maybe it is time for a change in how scientific research support is spent in order to move the violent, racist and anti-Semitic Universities away from an important national endeavor.

17 posted on 04/29/2024 11:21:22 PM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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There is also some billions in federal research monies in support of STEM research that go annually to the Universities.

It's federal spending. They're not going to do anything about it.

It's no big deal if no one goes to Harvard for the next 20 years or so, in the long run, they'll rebuild their reputation and students will return to that university (no matter how woke it is).

18 posted on 04/29/2024 11:37:04 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: chickenlips

Yep, let it burn, you reap what you sow


19 posted on 04/30/2024 2:25:00 AM PDT by baclava
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Everything’s out in the open as it should be so we can see what we are dealing with


20 posted on 04/30/2024 2:53:30 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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