Carol Christ's response to the Berkeley riots/attempted pogrom is filled with the kind of boilerplate cliches issued by college/university presidents these days. She should be asked to re-issue the invitation and have the chancellor's office sponsor the event. And she should show up at the talk
Let's, for argument's sake, say the protesters were the big bad Neo-Nazi's were trying to keep a Jewish person from speaking on Campus. What would the media reaction be? (Side note from yesterday's article, is there a group of people who are working to infiltrate the groups that shouted down the speaker in the article?)
We know the answer is no, as the Establishment Press did not have that in its propaganda program for the week. It's obvious that if you are a person of color or a good, well-meaning leftist who is working hard to bend the arc of history and justice toward your way of thinking, you get a pass because you are a good person who happens to break the rules.
There is an obvious solution, as there is everything that the left does. This one is easy: have cops at the event and set a perimeter. Let people protest however they want at a safe distance. But once a line is crossed, arrest them. I would be all for passing a law that would state that these people intimidating others at events is a felony, and the people should go to jail for years.
This type of behavior should not be tolerated. We still hear about the Charlottesville incident eight years later and never a peep about this nonsense. Giving into a mob only emboldens them, and at some point, the law will either settle it or we will be reading about something much worse.
There is a small, recessed ash tray in Sproul Plaza that was intended to serve as a monument to the Free Speech Movement, which started at Berkeley.
Free Speech implies adult responsibility, doesn't it? Mario Savio asked to be treated as an adult, and eventually got it. Most or all restrictions on what could be said were removed. It was a victory.
But it was followed, some decades later, by fascistic repression of EXACTLY the same sort. The same sorts of puerile and authoritarian forces that prevented students in 1963 or thereabouts from speaking their minds now do their best to prevent other students, saying different things, from speaking their minds.
Do we debate, or do we see who is the most effective at waging violence? These are the choices. And the violence can be and in the past century particularly often has been political police arresting political dissidents for disagreeing publicly with views their proponents are unwilling and in most cases unable to defend verbally and publicly.
It should go without saying that political violence in response to views of any sort should result in the expulsion of those responsible. A university cannot tolerate the violently intolerant. But of course this is Berkeley, which is run by articulate and morally and intellectually unhinged imbeciles. I went there, so I have some perspective.
This sort of article is good, coming from a Democrat. But I have decided to start boosting Tucker Carlson and his network. Head over there and listen to a couple of interviews, to find out what is NOT being said, almost anywhere else.
"Pro-Palestine" forces - that would be anti-U.S., anti- Israel, anti-Western, anti-speech, pro- Antifa - --are the Red Guard here and in the UK. Taking over the streets, violence, shutting down speech, intimidating, threatening, bullying politicians. Every time they get away with it, we're one step closer to civil collapse. The biggest, single issue of this election is controlling the forces of crime and intimidation in all their forms. It sure seems as if these forces outnumber the police in affected cities. For every thug apprehended, there's five more to take his place. We are far too soft a target.
Berkeley is ground zero for free speech. We will absolutely hurt or even destroy you in order to protect free speech as defined by the idiots who destroy and contribute nothing to society. Will they get expelled, hell no, as the administration believes in their destruction, intimidations and intolerance all under their free speech banner. Best use for Berkeley would be a homeless shelter.
If you want to see a real free speech catastrophe, you should read Chris Bray's latest piece. He reveals that Canada has introduced a new bill that would hand out life sentences for writing something offensive online. This is not hyperbole, I'm not making this up or exaggerating.
Now whether that bill becomes a law or not is of course an open question, but it's just another indication of where this world is headed.
I have to wonder whether Texas A&M's decision about its Qatar campus is actually a temporary measure designed to cool criticism until a better moment. Rather than shutting down (or at least withdrawing from) the campus immediately, it is merely phasing it out.
Which means that all the nuclear and other research going on there will still benefit the hosts of the Hamas leadership for another three years.
This does not look like an earnest decision to me.
Like all those who don't want to blame Hamas for October 7, Rania (who is Palestinian) is an antisemite. Her husband is the useless brat king, descended from Arabian bedouins, ruling over Jordan-a colonialist imperialist country created by Britain after WW1. You would think that as a Palestinian she would care about the Palestinians in Gaza and expect her husband to grant them refuge from the fighting. But nope. I guess to Rania it's more important to give cover to the Hamas barbarians than to actually help her own People.
I do hope the wise members of SCOTUS read Matt Taibbi's excellent and scary article yesterday when he described asking the new Google Gemini about Matt Taibbi and the result included a publication history of articles Taibbi never wrote. Gemini even included made up quotes of bigoted and racist statements from the fake articles.
Such is the authority of Google. And such is the problem. Because we all know if Google says it, it must be true, right?
Some days, the state of the world is too much to bear, and I can’t make it past the headline. Today is one of those days, with a headline that concludes by informing me of the loss of one man who always managed to make me laugh.
Of course electricity demand is surging under Biden, at the same time as he's doing his level best to undermine the reliability of our grid with the insanity of the Green New Deal. To call him a putz is to elevate his intellect about the mediocrity to which he's always aspired and never quite obtained.
I disagree with Wiseman (now that's a funny name for Ollie) on almost everything but find common ground in the passing of Richard Lewis. He was perfect on Curb and his repartee with Larry David will never be equaled.
Carol Christ's response to the Berkeley riots/attempted pogrom is filled with the kind of boilerplate cliches issued by college/university presidents these days. She should be asked to re-issue the invitation and have the chancellor's office sponsor the event. And she should show up at the talk
Let's, for argument's sake, say the protesters were the big bad Neo-Nazi's were trying to keep a Jewish person from speaking on Campus. What would the media reaction be? (Side note from yesterday's article, is there a group of people who are working to infiltrate the groups that shouted down the speaker in the article?)
We know the answer is no, as the Establishment Press did not have that in its propaganda program for the week. It's obvious that if you are a person of color or a good, well-meaning leftist who is working hard to bend the arc of history and justice toward your way of thinking, you get a pass because you are a good person who happens to break the rules.
There is an obvious solution, as there is everything that the left does. This one is easy: have cops at the event and set a perimeter. Let people protest however they want at a safe distance. But once a line is crossed, arrest them. I would be all for passing a law that would state that these people intimidating others at events is a felony, and the people should go to jail for years.
This type of behavior should not be tolerated. We still hear about the Charlottesville incident eight years later and never a peep about this nonsense. Giving into a mob only emboldens them, and at some point, the law will either settle it or we will be reading about something much worse.
There is a small, recessed ash tray in Sproul Plaza that was intended to serve as a monument to the Free Speech Movement, which started at Berkeley.
Free Speech implies adult responsibility, doesn't it? Mario Savio asked to be treated as an adult, and eventually got it. Most or all restrictions on what could be said were removed. It was a victory.
But it was followed, some decades later, by fascistic repression of EXACTLY the same sort. The same sorts of puerile and authoritarian forces that prevented students in 1963 or thereabouts from speaking their minds now do their best to prevent other students, saying different things, from speaking their minds.
Do we debate, or do we see who is the most effective at waging violence? These are the choices. And the violence can be and in the past century particularly often has been political police arresting political dissidents for disagreeing publicly with views their proponents are unwilling and in most cases unable to defend verbally and publicly.
It should go without saying that political violence in response to views of any sort should result in the expulsion of those responsible. A university cannot tolerate the violently intolerant. But of course this is Berkeley, which is run by articulate and morally and intellectually unhinged imbeciles. I went there, so I have some perspective.
This sort of article is good, coming from a Democrat. But I have decided to start boosting Tucker Carlson and his network. Head over there and listen to a couple of interviews, to find out what is NOT being said, almost anywhere else.
"Pro-Palestine" forces - that would be anti-U.S., anti- Israel, anti-Western, anti-speech, pro- Antifa - --are the Red Guard here and in the UK. Taking over the streets, violence, shutting down speech, intimidating, threatening, bullying politicians. Every time they get away with it, we're one step closer to civil collapse. The biggest, single issue of this election is controlling the forces of crime and intimidation in all their forms. It sure seems as if these forces outnumber the police in affected cities. For every thug apprehended, there's five more to take his place. We are far too soft a target.
Berkeley is ground zero for free speech. We will absolutely hurt or even destroy you in order to protect free speech as defined by the idiots who destroy and contribute nothing to society. Will they get expelled, hell no, as the administration believes in their destruction, intimidations and intolerance all under their free speech banner. Best use for Berkeley would be a homeless shelter.
If you want to see a real free speech catastrophe, you should read Chris Bray's latest piece. He reveals that Canada has introduced a new bill that would hand out life sentences for writing something offensive online. This is not hyperbole, I'm not making this up or exaggerating.
Now whether that bill becomes a law or not is of course an open question, but it's just another indication of where this world is headed.
I have to wonder whether Texas A&M's decision about its Qatar campus is actually a temporary measure designed to cool criticism until a better moment. Rather than shutting down (or at least withdrawing from) the campus immediately, it is merely phasing it out.
Which means that all the nuclear and other research going on there will still benefit the hosts of the Hamas leadership for another three years.
This does not look like an earnest decision to me.
Like all those who don't want to blame Hamas for October 7, Rania (who is Palestinian) is an antisemite. Her husband is the useless brat king, descended from Arabian bedouins, ruling over Jordan-a colonialist imperialist country created by Britain after WW1. You would think that as a Palestinian she would care about the Palestinians in Gaza and expect her husband to grant them refuge from the fighting. But nope. I guess to Rania it's more important to give cover to the Hamas barbarians than to actually help her own People.
A quote from Nikita Khrushchev: "We don't have to invade the United States...we will destroy you from within."
I do hope the wise members of SCOTUS read Matt Taibbi's excellent and scary article yesterday when he described asking the new Google Gemini about Matt Taibbi and the result included a publication history of articles Taibbi never wrote. Gemini even included made up quotes of bigoted and racist statements from the fake articles.
Such is the authority of Google. And such is the problem. Because we all know if Google says it, it must be true, right?
Time for the presidents of Berkeley and Stanford to be on the hot seat before Elise Stefanik
Will Berserkley throw the book at the rioters? Of COURSE NOT! In fact, they won't even identify them, with the result that MORE violence will occur!
Respectfully, a riot is by definition violent, thus “violent rioters” is redundant.
Some days, the state of the world is too much to bear, and I can’t make it past the headline. Today is one of those days, with a headline that concludes by informing me of the loss of one man who always managed to make me laugh.
Of course electricity demand is surging under Biden, at the same time as he's doing his level best to undermine the reliability of our grid with the insanity of the Green New Deal. To call him a putz is to elevate his intellect about the mediocrity to which he's always aspired and never quite obtained.
I disagree with Wiseman (now that's a funny name for Ollie) on almost everything but find common ground in the passing of Richard Lewis. He was perfect on Curb and his repartee with Larry David will never be equaled.
But you need to give Berkeley time to set up study commission...