Posted on 10/28/2023 2:38:30 PM PDT by Libloather
Has wokeism jumped the shark? In other words, have the radical Leftists who for years have exercised increasing power in our universities finally gone too far?
I dare to hope so. The recent disgraceful responses to the attacks on Israel that we have seen — from American university campuses to the streets of London and Sydney — have dramatically increased awareness that something is rotten in the state of higher education in the English-speaking world.
Some of us have been battling against the ideological takeover of academia for close to a decade. Each year, we have been getting better organised. But we have struggled to convince people in the real world just how bad things are.
The past three weeks may finally have changed that.
The expression 'jump the shark' was coined in 1977 when the scriptwriters of long-running comedy series Happy Days — into their fifth series and getting short of ideas — tried to pep up the storyline by having the main character, Fonzie, preposterously jump over a shark while on water-skis.
The campus Left's response to the attacks of October 7 was equally far-fetched and over-the-top — but immeasurably more offensive.
Let's remind ourselves what happened three weeks ago. Two Gaza-based terrorist groups inspired by Islamist ideology, committed to the destruction of the state of Israel and backed by at least one government, staged a trailer for a second Holocaust. In their savagery, they exceeded even the horrors perpetrated by the Russian butchers of Bucha in Ukraine.
More than 1,400 Israelis were killed, including children and even babies. More than 200 were kidnapped.
The idea Israel should do nothing in response to this outrage — other than ensure the flow of aid into Gaza — defies both human emotion and strategic sense. Only those wearing ideological blindfolds...
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Doubtful. The Marxists will likely have to be crushed with force.
Richard Pryor in Stir Crazy as Gene Hackman enters the prison and finally realizes they have been framed, convicted by a jury and are going to prison despite being totally innocent.
“Welcome to the real world. And not a moment too soon.”
And yet American Jews will unwaveringly remain committed to the US Hamas Democrats and continue to shower them with love, money, and votes. Doesn’t matter if American Jews have to lock themselves in library closets or if Israeli flags are burned in their neighborhoods, they will slowly but surely get into the Democrat’s boxcars rather than turn their support away from Democrats.
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Blood
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Paintballs,
thousands!
Everyone else is appalled by what's happening in Israel. But the Gen Z is woke and they think Hamas is justified in what they did and that the Israelis are the bad guys.
The poster child of the left is the LGBTQ+ community, where in Gaza, the punishment for being LGBTQ+ is 10 years in prison or worse.
Actually, this rebellion will probably militarize wokism.
That's because they are socialists first and Jewish second.
“Some of us have been battling against the ideological takeover of academia for close to a decade.”
Where has this guy been ?
Even someone as clueless as George H W Bush was making speeches in 1990 on the academic destructive effect of political correctness on campus.
” The Marxists will likely have to be crushed with force.”
Yep, it’ll take trials and hangings right there on the campus commons.
When Acedinachab spoke to a campus audience and seated “There are no gays in Iran”
Well maybe not after they were thrown from roof tops.
Yet still college morons support Iran.
Bookmark.
I’m not sure about that. There are many big donors at Harvard who are very unhappy. Harvard has lost millions, if not billions, this past month. If the new president survives this loss of $$, I doubt it.
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