Posted on 11/12/2015 6:45:43 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
On the opening segment of Thursday nightâs Kelly File with host Megyn Kelly, author and professor Alan Dershowitz took to task the political correctness culture that has pervaded American college campuses.
On the heels of continuing developments from the University of Missouri â where the student Vice President today argued that the First Amendment incites a âhostile and unsafe learning environmentâ â Dershowitz admitted, âweâre seeing a curtain of McCarthyism descend on many college campuses.â
âIt was the students at universities that first started burning books⦠they donât want to hear diverse views on college campuses,â Dershowitz admitted.
Dershowitz dug in, noting to Kelly that ââ¦it is having a terrible impact on the education of students.â
âItâs the worst kind of hypocrisy!â he declared, continuing:
âIt is free speech for me, but not for thee. Universities should not tolerate this kind of double standard⦠If youâre going to be a college administrator or a professor, if you have tenure, you have to speak back to the students, you have to call these things what they are: double standards, hypocrisy, bigotry, McCarthyism, and the fog of fascism is descending quickly over many American universities.â
Watch the above clip from Fox News.
LOL! First they came for the “intellectuals”. Then they came for the “lawyers”. Run, Alan, run.
Professor D should come down from his Ivory Tower first to launch an assault on the Ebony Tower.
You nailed it.
What we are currently witnessing on college campuses, and for that matter, within the entire Obama administration, is the latest surge of "critical theory" that originated with a collection of college professors from the University of Frankfurt (Germany) right after WWI.
"Critical Theory"/ Cultural Marxism/ political correctness 1st infected the U.S. in 1933 when a group of these college professors from the Sociology-Philosophy Department of the University of Frankfurt (Germany) immigrated/ fled to the U.S. from Nazi Germany to escape the increasingly violent conflict between Adolf Hitler's National Socialists (Nazis) and German communists. They were mostly atheistic Jews from Eastern Europe and Germany and were all dedicated communists. In the study of the history of communism they are referred to as "the Frankfurt School". They landed in the U.S. at Columbia University, Princeton University, University of California-Berkeley, and Brandeis University .
Their influence was 1st notably noticed during the 1960s-70s during the Vietnam War. Their heirs, draft dodgers of the Vietnam War, sought careers in the insular haven of academia after the war and now dominate college administrations across the country (recall Italian communist Antonio Gramsci's (1891-1937) strategy for communist victory - "the long march through the institutions").
Two of the earlier surges during POTUS #44 BHO's watch were 2011's Occupy Wall Street movement and 2014's Black Lives Matters movement. The inmates are taking over the asylum ... and it is spreading.
All those years of leftie crap came back and bit Dershie on the ass. What a shame.
McCarthy was my hero too. That is what the fascists do——and have been doing for decades to control attitudes (emotions) of the children......like destroying the name of McCarhty-—and destroying words like family, marriage, Liberal, Justice-——to destroy Reason and Logic and make Good into Evil.
It is deliberate-—the Postmodernists designed a methodology to “Kill God” (Christianity)-—to destroy all the Wisdom of the Ages—the Worldview which created the Age of Reason——to make our children into useful idiots-—like Dershowitz. He has helped this insanity and promoted satanism (irrationality) for years.
Don’t worry Allen, we’re armed. We won’t let them put your sorry carcass in a concentration camp.
You know, you are right, I remember Joe McCarthy fighting and exposing the very thing that seems to be overtaking the country now and it has been going on for years.
Yep. Same as speaking out against muzzies. Because they know the savages will respond with violence.
The students are not fascists and therefore not promoting fascism which they believe is a right wing ideology. They are LEFTIST supporters of Communism, Marxism, Maoism, Stalin-ism and Leninism.
{”We should pay these college professors that are dumbing down our students the $15 min. wage they want”}
Were I Dictator for a Day (instead of our current Dictator)this would become law.
They want to punish dissidents, but don’t know what Soviet gulags and Chinese “reeducation” camps were like - or that the people who helped the Communists rise to power but weren’t happy with the totalitarian streak were among the first sent.
No they don’t have any understanding of what Communism is. They weren’t alive at anytime it existed. I was 7 years old at the time of The Cuban Missile Crisis. I remember how concerned my parents were at the time but as young kid I didn’t understand the nature of what was going on. I was 33 when Communist Russia collapsed. I remember that very well.
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The Left organized such a propaganda campaign against McCarthy, who was pretty much correct in most of what he had found, that good Americans bought their dissimulation.
McCarthy’s personality was such that they knew how to spin their diversion and in that way they could get a away with it. What it shows is how malleable so much of the American public can be.
It’s taken 60 years for a lot of people to wake up. Many died before they understand how they were manipulated. Younger generations are unarmed and ignorant of history altogether thanks to the very same remakers of historical reality.
Dershowitz is brilliant, but he has been unable to cure that big blind spot syndrome, cognitive dissonance that comes from sitting for years anywhere in the environment of Harvard. Lot of people have acted inconsistently over the course of their lives. Dershowitz the Left are afraid of because they know that they really can’t control him, so they pull out all the stops to try to destroy him. And yet, and yet he voted for Obama. Simply madness.
A must read: Witness, by Whitaker Chambers, the well-written and totally factual memoir of what he went through to escape the Communist net in the U.S. and what he went through to speak up at the McCarthy hearings.
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No they won't, they are too busy playing their XBoxes and Playstations.
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