From the Bursar to the Dorm, Shouting We’ll Perform

During the Summer of George riots back in 2020 I tried to think of a silver lining to go along with that cloud of violence and chaos.  I wondered if there was a way to get Antifa and BLM to burn down the Ivy League colleges.  Imagining Harvard, Yale and Columbia engulfed in flames and the merry arsonists roasting the students and faculty for being white supremacists warmed my heart.

But no such luck.  They only burned down the homes and businesses of hard-working people.

Currently, these same august, ivy-covered halls are embroiled in a scandal.  The various student organizations that advocate for social justice have become spun-up over the Gaza war.  After Hamas’s October 7^th massacre in southern Israel, these lunatics appeared on the campuses of many colleges and proudly declared that the Palestinians were completely justified in raping, maiming, slaughtering and mutilating women, children and elderly people because of colonization.  In fact, many student groups went so far as to say that Israel was solely responsible for the bloodshed.

Now, that’s an interesting claim.  Apparently, the infants and children who were brutalized and killed had it coming.  Even Vlad the Impaler would have blushed.

During the ensuing weeks after the attack and the start of the Gaza War, demonstrations on campus became quite heated and at times the pro-Palestinian crowd became abusive and threatening toward Jewish students or any organization that had a relationship to Jews or Israel.  Finally, Jewish groups and others across the country became outraged at the harassment and the lack of response by college administrations.  Congressional investigations were convened and complaints were sent to the boards of trustees of the various colleges.  And at least one $100,000,000 donation was cancelled to one of these august seats of learning.  Ouch!

During the hearings, the college presidents were grilled, and to a woman, they declared that calls for the clearing out of Israelis “from the river to the sea” was not necessarily actionable speech on their ivy-league campuses.  Of course, after being pummeled in the pages of every newspaper and with calls for them to be fired by many prominent donors they walked back every line of it.  And so, we see what a tangled web we have when questions of free speech and harassment are in play on a college campus.

But what are we to make of it?  Usually, colleges don’t reprimand their leftist students.  Three factors need to be examined.  The first is the egregiousness of the case.  The crowds were completely unconcerned with the horrific nature of the October 7^th attack.  Even people who normally are unsympathetic toward Israel might be unwilling to overlook the deranged violence that Hamas perpetrated.  This alone prevents the full-fledged support that many left-wing Americans might feel for the Palestinians.  Secondly, antisemitism is a very taboo behavior in Western societies after the Holocaust.  And so, the targeting of Jews quickly becomes a news headline.  Also, there are many Jewish philanthropists in America that are responsible for large college endowments.  Accordingly, they have a great deal of clout with these colleges.  Putting these things together you can see how the normal leftist slant on campus toward “people of color” could run into opposition from even the left of center parts of the population and the powers that be.

But now that this bias in the way that free speech and harassment are doled out on campus has been showcased surely it can be the basis for a more general reform of these practices as they relate to other groups on campus.  I mean, now that the colleges have admitted their poor judgement in defining acceptable and unacceptable discourse why should we not demand the same objectivity from these colleges for conservatives?

Think of innumerable examples of harassment of conservatives on campus and the complete lack of free speech that they operate under.  When a conservative is invited on campus by a student group or faculty member, the crazy leftists not only show up to shout him down during his speech but in some cases violent mobs literally chase him off campus in fear of life and limb before he even has the chance to speak.

And what is the administration’s position on this situation?  In some cases, there is an unofficial approval for it.  In other case they pretend to be upset by it.  But there is never any attempt to prevent it and absolutely no punishment for the perpetrators.

And this does not even begin to cover the almost total disparagement of the rights of white male students by faculty, student groups and administration.  Every facet of college life including admission is slanted to disadvantage and disrespect white men whenever possible.

So, what are we to think about the consistency of the policies surrounding free speech and harassment on college campuses?  I’d say that the rules for determining what was and wasn’t free speech or harassment is completely subjective and based on a point of view powerfully eschewed to the left.

Well, if I were the President of the United States and I was handing out money to colleges, I sure as hell would have my Education Department head reviewing the records of how enforcement of free speech and harassment was handled by each of these colleges and I’d shut off the funding to any of them that wanted to play these sorts of games.  And colleges in red states should be (and some already are) cracking down on this leftist discrimination.

College has become unbelievably expensive.  And the value of the education is becoming highly suspect.  And these problems are tied to this leftist tilt.  The case of leftist psychopaths attempting to extend the Gaza War battlefield onto college campuses is a good point at which to awaken Americans to the radical leftist indoctrination camps that are the colleges of this nation.

Maybe burning them down would be the best option.  What are BLM’s rates?