Only one thing can save US universities, that is full introduction of merit based admissions and abolishing of legacy and any other non performance based admissions. This way universities would become place where people go to further their knowledge and not brainwashing factories they are now.
Also add to this, we need to put focus on STEM regarding finding and education. Any of "studies" such as gender and similar brainwashing programs need to be phased out from higer education, since they are clearly modern versions party education in Soviet Union
“It began with Bill Ackman, the hedge fund billionaire, who had been doomscrolling since news of the attacks first broke. On Tuesday, he came across an open letter, signed by over thirty student groups from Harvard—his alma mater—which blamed Israelis for their own murders……….Ackman and his friends exchanged incredulous texts.”
—————————————————
I’d like to remind everyone that Ackman was also the guy who was watching the Rittenhouse trial with his wife and tweeted something like
“Oh shit turns out this guy is innocent and our media is fake.”
So I guess this is red pill number two for Mr. Ackman? Everyone just look up Gell-Mann Amnesia if you want to understand how this happens to someone as smart as Bill.
Just try to remember, the media is fake and Democrats lie about everything because they are possessed by Satan. Get some post-it notes or a tattoo if necessary.
More great news in a week when Australians emphatically told the woke elite to get stuffed and NZ voted an anti-woke government in with a landslide. My belief in the suicidal West is beginning to revive.
I don’t believe it. Progressivism is a religious cult. The egos of those who have gone all-in will not suddenly admit how devastating and disempowering their ideology has been to the very people they claim to help. These nihilistic narcissists took a hit, but they are regrouping and going through the mental gymnastics required to save face. They will re-write history and redefine words to justify their cause. They are already doing it by pretending to stand behind free speech, yet they will not denounce censorship. I will believe change is coming when these narcissists admit they were wrong about COVID, they were wrong about masks, they were wrong about BLM, they were wrong about anti-racism, they were wrong about micro-aggressions, they were wrong about men being women.... they are FACTUALLY wrong! Until then, this is cover so they can survive.
“Maybe, just maybe, a new equilibrium can be reached. Maybe we can agree that political litmus tests for employment are bad, that requiring DEI statements is bad”
———————————————————
I think a DEI statement would be fine if DEI just stood for ‘Don’t Exterminate Israel’ and people used it to make sure they aren’t hiring pro-Palestine terrorists.
The political correctness, and “wokeness“ didn’t begin with George Floyd’s death, but that single event served to propel it. The glorification of a man who had been a career criminal, who was not representative of the vast majority of hard-working, conscientious, Black people, is a travesty and an allegory for our times. Unfortunately, it’s served as fuel for the fire. that is now consuming college campuses. it is quite simple either you deplore the killing of other human beings, or you don’t. And if you don’t, what exactly are you?
“None of these institutions are solvent without the support of their alumni,” Ackman said of the brewing donor revolt. “Perhaps this is the beginning of a catalyst for change.”
————————————————————
Yeah they also really really really aren’t solvent if the federal government would stop stealing my money and using it to back loans for useless people to study Pansexual Literature.
But of course DeSantis will cut loans for bullshit studies and David French will write a piece about
“This is vindictive punitive targeting of political opponents which is illegal because conservatives are not allowed to use the government for anything!!!”
I agree 100% with Douglas Murray, who said that "any supporter of Hamas and their atrocities should be given the same treatment as that given to ISIS and their supporters"
We need to know who signed that list supporting Hamas
Remember after Jan 6, the pictures of the "mob" going around social media with the caption "we never knew how many truly horrible people lived amongst us"
Well now with the Left's support of terrorism and Hamas, the truth has come out - it is amongst the LEFT where the truly horrible people are living amongst us.
Excellent piece here. Thanks to Bari and TFP. It might interest others here to know that the pro-Palestinian demo at Harvard three days ago led the student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, to restrict (and it seems pretty much shut down entirely) all comments. I participate regularly in discussions there. I and most others keep it focused on substance, though it does result at times in the venting of strong feelings. The Crimson's current shutdown of debate is one instance of what has been a long, ongoing process of thought control and utter insecurity in the face of dissent.
Today, the Crimson has an editorial ("Don’t Bully Students With Dissenting Views. Protect Them") claiming the PSC demonstration was, while ill-advised, not antisemitic. I posted a response that disappeared awaiting "moderation," which so far has meant almost entirely complete elimination. So, if I may indulge, here is what I wrote today in response to that editorial:
MY COMMENT:
This is a big diversion. The issue of doxing is a big diversion. Doxing is wrong, and it is nice this particular outbreak of it has aroused such concern, since it has become a regular tool of the left, to no great concern expressed by Harvard before this event.
It is false to claim the PSC statement merely displayed "a troubling lack of empathy and compassion." It was in fact also antisemitic. In that, it not merely failed to condemn the violence Hamas inflicted, but in blaming Israel as primarily responsible, it failed to identify the very nature of the ideas motivating the barbaric pogrom. Those ideas are purely and simply a hatred and disgust at Jews. All Jews, not merely those living in Israel.
Hence, the PSC statement was NOT "seeking a deeper discussion of the roots of Israeli-Palestinian violence." Those roots lie within the ideology Hamas embraces. Hamas is not motivated by any nonsense about Palestinian rights or a two-state solution. Those have never been its concern. No one violates Palestinian rights more than it does. As for a separate Palestinian state, Hamas is a purely genocidal group. Its charter makes clear, slaughtering Jews (ultimately ALL Jews) is its aim, not a means to any other aim. It was shaped by the Nazi-Islamist fusion fashioned by the Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas' progenitor) and the Mufti of Jerusalem and his accolades in the fires of World War II. Its purpose was and is Hitler's, plain and simple. This historical background needs to be far better understood than it is now - due in part to the duplicity of our media and our own leaders always seeking to accommodate these fanatics, in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Iran.
I am sure many of the PSC demonstrators harbor no ill feelings toward Jews they know. That is not the form of modern antisemitism. An inordinate and totally double standard hostility to Israel is the form it takes now. The demonstrators participated in that fully.
Excellent strategy. But I cannot agree with "We need neutral institutions". Should Harvard have been neutral at the height of the Holocaust or any of the regimes responsible for 100 million genocidal murders over the past century? Universities need to teach the moral compass that has made Western capitalist democracies the most successful and tolerant societies this planet has ever seen, albeit far from perfect. Moral equivalency that equates the values of Islam to the values of the West are a formula for turning successful Western democracies into impoverished, violent, sadistic, primitive hell-holes, like most nations where Islamic values are dominant.
“So when Hamas brutally murdered babies, raped women, and took the disabled as hostages, it was business as usual, at least on America’s college campuses”
———————————————————
Donald Trump being sued and forced to pay millions of dollars because Trump University wasn’t really all that he said it was, continues to be the most preposterously unjust banana republic shit we have ever done as a country.
It’s like arresting the one guy who steps outside of the crosswalk for jaywalking, while everyone else is shitting and masturbating all over the crosswalk.
If you look at what is happening at all of our other universities, you could argue that, in terms of net cost/benefit to society, Trump University was the best university in the United States; and it was a total scam.
Whatever you want to call the movement that believes mothers should be called “birthing persons”, or shaming of white people at corporate retreats in to acknowledging white supremacy as a loyalty oath. A push to become aware of the inequities of life. The fact that there have always been inequities between humans seems lost on the people who push for their illiberal behaviors.
The idea what words hurts and therefore should be banned ,is only the least of all the stupidity we have witnessed on college campuses. Looking for safe spaces only to have a college professor scream “get me some muscle over here” at a rally for social justice. Kinda displays their authoritarian methods.
There has been a revolution and it has largely succeeded. The take over of college and universities, media, Hollywood, Silicon Valley....all in lock step with the the political arm of Progressives and the Democrat Party. You often could listen to MSNBC, CNN and read the pages of the NYT and WAPO and see the same language someone at the DNC wrote.
The reason/ It's something that Obama uttered, Joe Biden along with Bernie said. A desire to "fundamentally change America". They don’t like the wage or income gap, they want to guarantee safe spaces for people they consider marginalized. Safe from inequities of life. Bad luck, white supremacy, merit. If they thought the American people would be for it they vote in a basic guaranteed income. The don’t equality, they want equity.... They want equity so much they are willing to discriminate against Asians. In America for centuries now when you were born you got a ticket that said “Admit One”. They now want the ticket to say , Success Guaranteed. As an employer, I wouldn’t want someone that thought the killing, behaving or burning alive of Jews was a good thing. I don’t think they make a good employee. their lack of a moral compass would be a problem.
The fact is we are all complicit. The current nauseating display of support for the wanton slaughter of innocents is just the logical extension of trends that began in America in the 1960’s. This idea that since America is not a perfect place, it has no right to question or challenge anyone who declares America as irredeemable and deserving of destruction. Some white Americans are racists, ergo all white people are racist (in other words, to defeat racism, we must be racists). So to make amends, we donate $millions to a few charlatans who help no one but themselves, buying multi-$million estates and re-writing our history. A tiny minority of police are unfit to wear a badge. “Defund the police” becomes a new goal, turning once-great cities into cesspools. In short, everything that America believes in and does is evil and must be “cancelled”, an aphorism for destroyed. And replaced with what exactly? The totalitarians of the world are ready to show us if, through our indifference and moral sloth, we allow them to do so.
The Jewish people are used to this. It is their history across millennia. This is just the latest iteration. Well, as Americans, we are all Jews now. And, more to the point, if we don’t stand up and say STOP, and do what’s necessary to defend ourselves and our country, we deserve what comes next.
We should all applaud and support those in positions of power who are actually doing something tangible to address this cancer. Penalizing those who are working to destroy Israel is a good starting point. It is actually not that hard to identify them. The extraordinarily brave members of the site “Canary Mission” have for years been identifying and cataloguing the so-called educators and student leaders who have been calling for Jihad in America and spewing anti-Semitism. The second step would be to begin to review all the visas that have been granted to so-called “students” that are leading these demonstrations.
This is a point of inflection in America and we can only hope that we rise to the challenge.
From the NY Post's article: "“We would like to clarify that we stand in solidarity with both Israeli and Palestinian victims and families,” the group wrote."
Sorry, but "both sides-ism" doesn't cut it! That is just a weaselly way of backing down a despicable statement.
Next up: Calls for a cease fire, and charges of disproportionality in Israel's response. In fact, it is already happening! In most news services we are seeing reports of "poor Palestinians" who are suffering at the hands of powerful racist Israelis. Sorry, but this strikes no chord in MY heart! The fact that Gazans are being used as shields for the Hamas terrorists (please do not say "militants") should not deter Israel from prosecuting the war until either the "poor Palestinians" renounce Hamas, or Hamas itself cry "Uncle".
Any entity that calls for the complete destruction of a free nation is itself racist and should be destroyed by their own words.
Only one thing can save US universities, that is full introduction of merit based admissions and abolishing of legacy and any other non performance based admissions. This way universities would become place where people go to further their knowledge and not brainwashing factories they are now.
Also add to this, we need to put focus on STEM regarding finding and education. Any of "studies" such as gender and similar brainwashing programs need to be phased out from higer education, since they are clearly modern versions party education in Soviet Union
“It began with Bill Ackman, the hedge fund billionaire, who had been doomscrolling since news of the attacks first broke. On Tuesday, he came across an open letter, signed by over thirty student groups from Harvard—his alma mater—which blamed Israelis for their own murders……….Ackman and his friends exchanged incredulous texts.”
—————————————————
I’d like to remind everyone that Ackman was also the guy who was watching the Rittenhouse trial with his wife and tweeted something like
“Oh shit turns out this guy is innocent and our media is fake.”
So I guess this is red pill number two for Mr. Ackman? Everyone just look up Gell-Mann Amnesia if you want to understand how this happens to someone as smart as Bill.
Just try to remember, the media is fake and Democrats lie about everything because they are possessed by Satan. Get some post-it notes or a tattoo if necessary.
More great news in a week when Australians emphatically told the woke elite to get stuffed and NZ voted an anti-woke government in with a landslide. My belief in the suicidal West is beginning to revive.
I don’t believe it. Progressivism is a religious cult. The egos of those who have gone all-in will not suddenly admit how devastating and disempowering their ideology has been to the very people they claim to help. These nihilistic narcissists took a hit, but they are regrouping and going through the mental gymnastics required to save face. They will re-write history and redefine words to justify their cause. They are already doing it by pretending to stand behind free speech, yet they will not denounce censorship. I will believe change is coming when these narcissists admit they were wrong about COVID, they were wrong about masks, they were wrong about BLM, they were wrong about anti-racism, they were wrong about micro-aggressions, they were wrong about men being women.... they are FACTUALLY wrong! Until then, this is cover so they can survive.
“Maybe, just maybe, a new equilibrium can be reached. Maybe we can agree that political litmus tests for employment are bad, that requiring DEI statements is bad”
———————————————————
I think a DEI statement would be fine if DEI just stood for ‘Don’t Exterminate Israel’ and people used it to make sure they aren’t hiring pro-Palestine terrorists.
The political correctness, and “wokeness“ didn’t begin with George Floyd’s death, but that single event served to propel it. The glorification of a man who had been a career criminal, who was not representative of the vast majority of hard-working, conscientious, Black people, is a travesty and an allegory for our times. Unfortunately, it’s served as fuel for the fire. that is now consuming college campuses. it is quite simple either you deplore the killing of other human beings, or you don’t. And if you don’t, what exactly are you?
“None of these institutions are solvent without the support of their alumni,” Ackman said of the brewing donor revolt. “Perhaps this is the beginning of a catalyst for change.”
————————————————————
Yeah they also really really really aren’t solvent if the federal government would stop stealing my money and using it to back loans for useless people to study Pansexual Literature.
But of course DeSantis will cut loans for bullshit studies and David French will write a piece about
“This is vindictive punitive targeting of political opponents which is illegal because conservatives are not allowed to use the government for anything!!!”
I agree 100% with Douglas Murray, who said that "any supporter of Hamas and their atrocities should be given the same treatment as that given to ISIS and their supporters"
We need to know who signed that list supporting Hamas
Remember after Jan 6, the pictures of the "mob" going around social media with the caption "we never knew how many truly horrible people lived amongst us"
Well now with the Left's support of terrorism and Hamas, the truth has come out - it is amongst the LEFT where the truly horrible people are living amongst us.
Many on the left are seemingly shocked that the Frankenstein's monster they built could be turned against them.
Excellent piece here. Thanks to Bari and TFP. It might interest others here to know that the pro-Palestinian demo at Harvard three days ago led the student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, to restrict (and it seems pretty much shut down entirely) all comments. I participate regularly in discussions there. I and most others keep it focused on substance, though it does result at times in the venting of strong feelings. The Crimson's current shutdown of debate is one instance of what has been a long, ongoing process of thought control and utter insecurity in the face of dissent.
Today, the Crimson has an editorial ("Don’t Bully Students With Dissenting Views. Protect Them") claiming the PSC demonstration was, while ill-advised, not antisemitic. I posted a response that disappeared awaiting "moderation," which so far has meant almost entirely complete elimination. So, if I may indulge, here is what I wrote today in response to that editorial:
MY COMMENT:
This is a big diversion. The issue of doxing is a big diversion. Doxing is wrong, and it is nice this particular outbreak of it has aroused such concern, since it has become a regular tool of the left, to no great concern expressed by Harvard before this event.
It is false to claim the PSC statement merely displayed "a troubling lack of empathy and compassion." It was in fact also antisemitic. In that, it not merely failed to condemn the violence Hamas inflicted, but in blaming Israel as primarily responsible, it failed to identify the very nature of the ideas motivating the barbaric pogrom. Those ideas are purely and simply a hatred and disgust at Jews. All Jews, not merely those living in Israel.
Hence, the PSC statement was NOT "seeking a deeper discussion of the roots of Israeli-Palestinian violence." Those roots lie within the ideology Hamas embraces. Hamas is not motivated by any nonsense about Palestinian rights or a two-state solution. Those have never been its concern. No one violates Palestinian rights more than it does. As for a separate Palestinian state, Hamas is a purely genocidal group. Its charter makes clear, slaughtering Jews (ultimately ALL Jews) is its aim, not a means to any other aim. It was shaped by the Nazi-Islamist fusion fashioned by the Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas' progenitor) and the Mufti of Jerusalem and his accolades in the fires of World War II. Its purpose was and is Hitler's, plain and simple. This historical background needs to be far better understood than it is now - due in part to the duplicity of our media and our own leaders always seeking to accommodate these fanatics, in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Iran.
I am sure many of the PSC demonstrators harbor no ill feelings toward Jews they know. That is not the form of modern antisemitism. An inordinate and totally double standard hostility to Israel is the form it takes now. The demonstrators participated in that fully.
Excellent strategy. But I cannot agree with "We need neutral institutions". Should Harvard have been neutral at the height of the Holocaust or any of the regimes responsible for 100 million genocidal murders over the past century? Universities need to teach the moral compass that has made Western capitalist democracies the most successful and tolerant societies this planet has ever seen, albeit far from perfect. Moral equivalency that equates the values of Islam to the values of the West are a formula for turning successful Western democracies into impoverished, violent, sadistic, primitive hell-holes, like most nations where Islamic values are dominant.
“So when Hamas brutally murdered babies, raped women, and took the disabled as hostages, it was business as usual, at least on America’s college campuses”
———————————————————
Donald Trump being sued and forced to pay millions of dollars because Trump University wasn’t really all that he said it was, continues to be the most preposterously unjust banana republic shit we have ever done as a country.
It’s like arresting the one guy who steps outside of the crosswalk for jaywalking, while everyone else is shitting and masturbating all over the crosswalk.
If you look at what is happening at all of our other universities, you could argue that, in terms of net cost/benefit to society, Trump University was the best university in the United States; and it was a total scam.
Whatever you want to call the movement that believes mothers should be called “birthing persons”, or shaming of white people at corporate retreats in to acknowledging white supremacy as a loyalty oath. A push to become aware of the inequities of life. The fact that there have always been inequities between humans seems lost on the people who push for their illiberal behaviors.
The idea what words hurts and therefore should be banned ,is only the least of all the stupidity we have witnessed on college campuses. Looking for safe spaces only to have a college professor scream “get me some muscle over here” at a rally for social justice. Kinda displays their authoritarian methods.
There has been a revolution and it has largely succeeded. The take over of college and universities, media, Hollywood, Silicon Valley....all in lock step with the the political arm of Progressives and the Democrat Party. You often could listen to MSNBC, CNN and read the pages of the NYT and WAPO and see the same language someone at the DNC wrote.
The reason/ It's something that Obama uttered, Joe Biden along with Bernie said. A desire to "fundamentally change America". They don’t like the wage or income gap, they want to guarantee safe spaces for people they consider marginalized. Safe from inequities of life. Bad luck, white supremacy, merit. If they thought the American people would be for it they vote in a basic guaranteed income. The don’t equality, they want equity.... They want equity so much they are willing to discriminate against Asians. In America for centuries now when you were born you got a ticket that said “Admit One”. They now want the ticket to say , Success Guaranteed. As an employer, I wouldn’t want someone that thought the killing, behaving or burning alive of Jews was a good thing. I don’t think they make a good employee. their lack of a moral compass would be a problem.
The fact is we are all complicit. The current nauseating display of support for the wanton slaughter of innocents is just the logical extension of trends that began in America in the 1960’s. This idea that since America is not a perfect place, it has no right to question or challenge anyone who declares America as irredeemable and deserving of destruction. Some white Americans are racists, ergo all white people are racist (in other words, to defeat racism, we must be racists). So to make amends, we donate $millions to a few charlatans who help no one but themselves, buying multi-$million estates and re-writing our history. A tiny minority of police are unfit to wear a badge. “Defund the police” becomes a new goal, turning once-great cities into cesspools. In short, everything that America believes in and does is evil and must be “cancelled”, an aphorism for destroyed. And replaced with what exactly? The totalitarians of the world are ready to show us if, through our indifference and moral sloth, we allow them to do so.
The Jewish people are used to this. It is their history across millennia. This is just the latest iteration. Well, as Americans, we are all Jews now. And, more to the point, if we don’t stand up and say STOP, and do what’s necessary to defend ourselves and our country, we deserve what comes next.
We should all applaud and support those in positions of power who are actually doing something tangible to address this cancer. Penalizing those who are working to destroy Israel is a good starting point. It is actually not that hard to identify them. The extraordinarily brave members of the site “Canary Mission” have for years been identifying and cataloguing the so-called educators and student leaders who have been calling for Jihad in America and spewing anti-Semitism. The second step would be to begin to review all the visas that have been granted to so-called “students” that are leading these demonstrations.
This is a point of inflection in America and we can only hope that we rise to the challenge.
From the NY Post's article: "“We would like to clarify that we stand in solidarity with both Israeli and Palestinian victims and families,” the group wrote."
Sorry, but "both sides-ism" doesn't cut it! That is just a weaselly way of backing down a despicable statement.
Next up: Calls for a cease fire, and charges of disproportionality in Israel's response. In fact, it is already happening! In most news services we are seeing reports of "poor Palestinians" who are suffering at the hands of powerful racist Israelis. Sorry, but this strikes no chord in MY heart! The fact that Gazans are being used as shields for the Hamas terrorists (please do not say "militants") should not deter Israel from prosecuting the war until either the "poor Palestinians" renounce Hamas, or Hamas itself cry "Uncle".
Any entity that calls for the complete destruction of a free nation is itself racist and should be destroyed by their own words.