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Victor Davis Hanson: The Sickness of Our Universities—and the Cure
American Greatness ^ | 23 Oct, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 10/23/2023 4:47:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Before graduating, students should demonstrate a minimum competence in math, science, and general knowledge.

The sheer madness that has gripped many elite universities since October 7 and the butchery, rape, torture, and mutilation of some 1,000 Israeli civilians by Hamas murderers have shocked the public at large.

Campus craziness is, of course, nothing new. But quite novel for campuses was the sudden jettisoning of prior campus pretenses. Universities have brazenly dropped their careful two-faced gymnastics to reveal at last–unapologetically, proudly, and defiantly–the moral decay that now characterizes American higher education.

Recent news stories have exposed this rot to the world, and will have grave repercussions for higher education in the next few years.

The Nazis once desecrated the tombstones of dead Jews. Our campuses have updated that hatred. Students now tear down pictures of Jewish captives kidnapped or murdered by Hamas. University presidents do not condemn the hate-filled rallies supporting the killing of Jews in Israel, even though, according to their own safety-first ideology and prior proclamations about systemic hatred, these rallies instill a “climate of fear” in some students.

An instructor at Stanford separated Jewish students from their belongings, ordered them to stand in the corner, boasted about denying the Holocaust, and singled them out for unhinged rantings. Screaming campus activists and professors openly support Hamas even after its brutal killing of hundreds of Israeli women, children, and infants. That for more than two weeks thousands of rockets—barrages initially designed to enhance the surprise mass murdering of October 7—daily continue to shower down upon Israeli cities is of zero concern to loud campus activists.

An even bolder Cornell history faculty member bragged that he was “exhilarated” on news that Jews were butchered on October 7. A UC Davis professor threatened to go after the children of “Zionist journalists.”

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: academia; education; israel; libus; universities; vdh; victordavishanson; waronterror
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To: Elsie
I think we'll need better voters before this could happen.

That's the big problem.

61 posted on 10/23/2023 5:51:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ConservativeInPA

So true; but they must think they’ll be getting paid somewhere north of 90 K a year after graduation, so paying off the debt would be a piece of cake.


62 posted on 10/23/2023 5:53:05 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Savage Beast

“A democracy is always temporary in nature;
it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
A democracy will continue to exist up until the time
that voters discover that they can vote themselves
generous gifts from the public treasury.

Alexander Fraser Tytler


63 posted on 10/23/2023 5:56:12 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Reverend Wright
My suggestion is to force them...

Who - or what - will be doing the FORCING?

64 posted on 10/23/2023 5:57:30 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Savage Beast

65 posted on 10/23/2023 6:00:50 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

The Federal Government. Using the same levers they use to impose everything else they have on the universities.

Start using power on behalf of something other than Leftist Agendas.

Rather than a passive strategy of constant defeat.


66 posted on 10/23/2023 6:52:57 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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