Posted on 11/13/2015 6:40:56 AM PST by rktman
Universities can’t withstand mobs, as countless assaults have proven. I’ve lived through two: at Washington University in St. Louis, in 1968, and then about a decade later at the University of Rome. In the summer of ’68 I saw a good deal of the French “Revolution,†which took over most of Paris for a week or so. Its headquarters were at the Sorbonne.
It’s in the nature of campus revolts that the leaders aren’t going to be satisfied with limited reforms to the school; they are inspired by inflated rhetoric, and they see themselves at the center of a great moment in world history. They have, after all, been told that they are the Next Big Thing, the new elite, those destined to govern. Or rule, as the case may be. So they must constantly demonstrate their power versus the hated “Establishment.†That the Establishment gave them these misguided notions is beside the point, it’s part and parcel of the phenomenon, as several professors are being reminded.
So the purge is on, and my guess is that it will get a lot worse before the inevitable reaction sets in. When I was at Rome U, it was routine for “fascist†professors to be beaten, or locked in elevators, or worse. One morning a law professor who sat on Italy’s Supreme Court was gunned down in the middle of the campus. Thereafter, on exam days, the sidewalks were lined with armed police, and rightly so: some of the student “activists†were real terrorists, they were in the Red Brigades or Potere Operaio or some such.
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First, they came for the “intellectuals”. /s
Of course they are going to get worse. History demands it.
The difference between the 60s and now is back then there was a government in place to oppose them.
Good. Maybe now the smart people will become plumbers, electricians, and such. Universities can just become public housing projects with a good library and meals served by Mexicans.
They can no longer control the monsters they created.
But back then, just as now, the college administrators were scared senseless to take on the student agitators ... probably moreso today since the current administrators have been complicit in teaching the student agitators how to effectively carry out their misdemeanors which are devolving into criminal behavior.
I agree with the author up to the point that the pendulum will swing the other way. It more or less did already in the late 1970’s and under Reagan, but it won’t this time.
The purge and game is now on. The summer of riots has given way to the campus revolution.
We may have our own cultural revolution brewing on campuses across the country. And the first to be destroyed are the old like liberals who created this monster. Too bad, no sympathy here.
It will eventually be replaced by the internet anyway, with an array of exams used to certify and prove proficiency.
The Liberals in academia have brought about their own demise.
Good riddance.
Who is going to hire anyone from one of these schools?
Charlea.... what happens when they finally decide to fight back?
I don’t think the US has ever seen racism of the scale and intensity as with these folks.
When corporate America figures out how worthless a college degree is, what will happen next? Well it’s actually pretty easy to figure out.
I agree.
Hillsdale is already here.
This is a needed thing in my opinion. The lefts implosion in their own Petri dish may set the stage for a wider confrontation that has been simmering for years now, and there’s a lot of the country who has been left out of the conversation - people who will put it down with a vengeance.
It won’t work out well for you, girlfriend.
The Left Wing Students are now at war with the Left Wing College Professors. And all this race stuff, this is out of hand. I couldn’t afford to go to a university and instead attended a community college. I also worked PT, lived in a house with 3 other students, lived on ramen rice and beans, we had one phone for the house, a push lawnmower for the lawns, no video games, and no time for silly protests like this. Sounds like college today has too much free time for students, not enough education (too liberal) and even the professors are joining in on this (They must have too little to do also)
So why does college cost so much more then when I went, as the students and professors have nothing to do and no educational value is coming out of it?
Because university is no longer it.
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