Diversity and tolerance to the Left are code words for conformity and obedience to the party line, whatever the party line it decides is the party line of the moment.
Stepping out of bounds brings about swift reprisal and immediate punishment. As long as you agree with the Left on its definition of diversity and tolerance, you’re safe. But if that should change for them, you’ll be reminded that you need re-education.
Our cultural Red Guards are as ignorant, nihilist and destructive as Mao’s Red Guards. The old order must be overturned with no thought to what should take its place. Chaos, anarchy and upheaval are literally the order of the day. Their presence is destroying the classical liberal foundation of America in front of our very own eyes.
In the long run, the backlash arising out of it will result not in a return of freedom but in greater repression. I fully understand why the Chinese Communist leadership is afraid of freedom. They reason that if they loosen the reins, all the ghosts of the past will return that brought unimaginable suffering to China.
Our campus revolutionaries should be aware that you don’t always get you want. And should they have it their way, all of us - and America will be the losers. What is happening today on our campuses does not bode well for the future of our country.
——Our cultural Red Guards are as ignorant, nihilist and destructive as Mao’s Red Guards.——
That is a brilliant comparison.
Yet, after 75 years of Soviet domination, the cultures of Eastern Europe sprang back up just fine. That’s the only thing that gives me any hope.