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.\u00a0 I wondered if there was a way to get Antifa and BLM to burn down the Ivy League colleges.\u00a0 Imagining Harvard, Yale and Columbia engulfed in flames and the merry arsonists roasting the students and faculty for being white supremacists warmed my heart.<\/p>\n
But no such luck.\u00a0 They only burned down the homes and businesses of hard-working people.<\/p>\n
Currently, these same august, ivy-covered halls are embroiled in a scandal.\u00a0 The various student organizations that advocate for social justice have become spun-up over the Gaza war.\u00a0 After Hamas\u2019s October 7th<\/sup> 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.\u00a0 In fact, many student groups went so far as to say that Israel was solely responsible for the bloodshed.<\/p>\n Now, that\u2019s an interesting claim.\u00a0 Apparently, the infants and children who were brutalized and killed had it coming.\u00a0 Even Vlad the Impaler would have blushed.<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0 Finally, Jewish groups and others across the country became outraged at the harassment and the lack of response by college administrations.\u00a0 Congressional investigations were convened and complaints were sent to the boards of trustees of the various colleges.\u00a0 And at least one $100,000,000 donation was cancelled to one of these august seats of learning.\u00a0 Ouch!<\/p>\n During the hearings, the college presidents were grilled, and to a woman, they declared that calls for the clearing out of Israelis \u201cfrom the river to the sea\u201d was not necessarily actionable speech on their ivy-league campuses.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 And so, we see what a tangled web we have when questions of free speech and harassment are in play on a college campus.<\/p>\n But what are we to make of it?\u00a0 Usually, colleges don\u2019t reprimand their leftist students.\u00a0 Three factors need to be examined.\u00a0 The first is the egregiousness of the case.\u00a0 The crowds were completely unconcerned with the horrific nature of the October 7th<\/sup> attack.\u00a0 Even people who normally are unsympathetic toward Israel might be unwilling to overlook the deranged violence that Hamas perpetrated.\u00a0 This alone prevents the full-fledged support that many left-wing Americans might feel for the Palestinians.\u00a0 Secondly, antisemitism is a very taboo behavior in Western societies after the Holocaust.\u00a0 And so, the targeting of Jews quickly becomes a news headline.\u00a0 Also, there are many Jewish philanthropists in America that are responsible for large college endowments.\u00a0 Accordingly, they have a great deal of clout with these colleges.\u00a0 Putting these things together you can see how the normal leftist slant on campus toward \u201cpeople of color\u201d could run into opposition from even the left of center parts of the population and the powers that be.<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0 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?<\/p>\n Think of innumerable examples of harassment of conservatives on campus and the complete lack of free speech that they operate under.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n And what is the administration\u2019s position on this situation?\u00a0 In some cases, there is an unofficial approval for it.\u00a0 In other case they pretend to be upset by it.\u00a0 But there is never any attempt to prevent it and absolutely no punishment for the perpetrators.<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0 Every facet of college life including admission is slanted to disadvantage and disrespect white men whenever possible.<\/p>\n So, what are we to think about the consistency of the policies surrounding free speech and harassment on college campuses?\u00a0 I\u2019d say that the rules for determining what was and wasn\u2019t free speech or harassment is completely subjective and based on a point of view powerfully eschewed to the left.<\/p>\n 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\u2019d shut off the funding to any of them that wanted to play these sorts of games.\u00a0 And colleges in red states should be (and some already are) cracking down on this leftist discrimination.<\/p>\n College has become unbelievably expensive.\u00a0 And the value of the education is becoming highly suspect.\u00a0 And these problems are tied to this leftist tilt.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n Maybe burning them down would be the best option.\u00a0 What are BLM\u2019s rates?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" During the Summer of George riots back in 2020 I tried to think of a silver lining to go along with 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