I am more pessimistic. The initial response (on the 7-th) of the university heads was very revealing. The moral backbone is gone, even they don't know which way is up. The fish is rotting from the head. The course corrections after that is just triangulation, money worries and the like - they don't matter that much.
I am more pessimistic. The initial response (on the 7-th) of the university heads was very revealing. The moral backbone is gone, even they don't know which way is up. The fish is rotting from the head. The course corrections after that is just triangulation, money worries and the like - they don't matter that much.
We cannot afford to focus just focus on universities. Graduates from these fell sociology disciplines are infiltrating public schools for children and trojan horsing their ideology into the curriculum. The current trojan horse in places like California and Minnesota is "Ethnic Studies:" https://education.mn.gov/MDE/dse/stds/EthnicStudies/index.htm
I would argue that it's even more important to make public school K-12 the Normandy Beach then treat academia like it's an isolated Berlin, not leaving out Ed Schools. (No violence implied here, just how to turn the tide on the left wing identitarians.)
Yes! This is critical too. ThereтАЩs a NYC pre school teacher teaching the 4 year old public school students to hate.
From the NY post- Siriana Abboud is teaching 4 year-olds to hate Israel. Pure indoctrination in public schools. "I is for intifada, J is for jihad." And she's won the 2023-24 early childhood Big Apple Award which puts her on an advisory council to spread her ideas to other teachers.
"Siriana Abboud, 29, a city Department of Education teacher at PS 59 in Midtown, offers social-media guides on how to talk to 4-year-olds about тАЬland theft, displacement and ethnic cleansing.тАЭ
She encourages parents to take them to pro-Palestinian protests тАФ while blasting Israel as a тАЬfascist ethnostateтАЭ in her Instagram stories, even in the wake of the Oct. 7 terror attacks by Hamas terrorists."
Yes, very revealing. But the rot has been progressing steadily with dystopian "thinking" becoming standard in media, education, government, and especially social media.
Everyone is thinking selfishly in one-dimensional tunnels. No one is thinking about the PROCESS of America: The Golden Rule, Constitution, Bill of Rights, Rule of Law, controlled international relations, careful policing, efficient government services, internationally competitive education of knowledge (history, civics, sciences,...) and ESSENTIAL SKILLS (3Rs, heading below #25 in world).
A main roadblock to a pivot toward democratic culture may be the self-serving collaboration between legislators and media. Legislators have limited energy for "the people's common interests" when they have no term limits and are spending over 50% of their time working the phones and media to get reelected for life. Not sure what the solution is for that, but it's certainly a roadblock to quality consensus thinking and productive working in Congress.
Term limits would be a great start. Politics should never be a career, but rather a temporary call to service. However, Congress itself would have to vote in term limits. WhatтАЩs the over/under on THAT happening?
They are just a bit out of water and unsure of a leadership game plan. U Chicago has it right. Stay out of the opinion business and let your professors and students freely (and civilly) talk and research it through.
Many of the most high-profile incidents marking the progress of the Cult of True Victimhood in academia seem to come from two sources: 1) lower-level administrators who are Adepts in the Cult who take over student affairs and diversity offices, and 2) upper-level administrators who lead with their finger in the wind - hyper-alert to anything that might affect the flow of money from alumni - who were taken by surprise by the power of social media to ruin reputations in a matter of hours.
All of this allows a small number of hard-core Cultists to exert outsized influence on even large and prestigious institutions, sometimes abetted by relatively small cadres of Cultish faculty and students, who happily join in the social-media and - in the worst cases - in-person mobbing.
I can only imagine how confusing the post-10/7 "donor revolt" must have been to the presidents of elite schools, who thought that siding with the Cult would always protect the flow of money into the endowment!
Saving academia may be a matter of stiffening the spines of faculty and students who are not adherents to the Cult, and finding ways to ensure upper-level administrators are not so easily spooked by what's trending on TikTok.
Yes, once they reveal themselves, the rest is just positioning.
They revealed, and when attacked for it they backtracked a bit but there was no shame.
Now they are actively trying to normalize their obvious hate as free speech even though they have spent years repeating the nonsensical тАЬsilence is violenceтАЭ and тАЬwords are violenceтАЭ.
But actual violence is fine if itтАЩs used against the evil Jew.
I am more pessimistic. The initial response (on the 7-th) of the university heads was very revealing. The moral backbone is gone, even they don't know which way is up. The fish is rotting from the head. The course corrections after that is just triangulation, money worries and the like - they don't matter that much.
They do matter, because they are training (indoctrinating) the people who will populate and eventually control all the institutions that govern us.
They start very early in some places. For example, in my home city of Minneapolis, there is a magnet school for "humanities" which teaches Critical Theory, Pre-K-8: https://exploremps.org/School/ella_baker_global_studies_and_humanities_school
We cannot afford to focus just focus on universities. Graduates from these fell sociology disciplines are infiltrating public schools for children and trojan horsing their ideology into the curriculum. The current trojan horse in places like California and Minnesota is "Ethnic Studies:" https://education.mn.gov/MDE/dse/stds/EthnicStudies/index.htm
I would argue that it's even more important to make public school K-12 the Normandy Beach then treat academia like it's an isolated Berlin, not leaving out Ed Schools. (No violence implied here, just how to turn the tide on the left wing identitarians.)
Yes! This is critical too. ThereтАЩs a NYC pre school teacher teaching the 4 year old public school students to hate.
From the NY post- Siriana Abboud is teaching 4 year-olds to hate Israel. Pure indoctrination in public schools. "I is for intifada, J is for jihad." And she's won the 2023-24 early childhood Big Apple Award which puts her on an advisory council to spread her ideas to other teachers.
"Siriana Abboud, 29, a city Department of Education teacher at PS 59 in Midtown, offers social-media guides on how to talk to 4-year-olds about тАЬland theft, displacement and ethnic cleansing.тАЭ
She encourages parents to take them to pro-Palestinian protests тАФ while blasting Israel as a тАЬfascist ethnostateтАЭ in her Instagram stories, even in the wake of the Oct. 7 terror attacks by Hamas terrorists."
https://nypost.com/2023/11/04/metro/a-manhattan-pre-k-teacher-is-spreading-anti-israel-hate-to-the-citys-youngest-learners-and-offering-parents-and-teachers-tips-to-indoctrinate-kids-to-her-left-wing-agenda-educators-and-insiders-told/
Was this curriculum developed by Islamic Jihad and approved by Hamas?
My god. ItтАЩs like Jesus Camp but for Wokies.
Yes, very revealing. But the rot has been progressing steadily with dystopian "thinking" becoming standard in media, education, government, and especially social media.
Everyone is thinking selfishly in one-dimensional tunnels. No one is thinking about the PROCESS of America: The Golden Rule, Constitution, Bill of Rights, Rule of Law, controlled international relations, careful policing, efficient government services, internationally competitive education of knowledge (history, civics, sciences,...) and ESSENTIAL SKILLS (3Rs, heading below #25 in world).
A main roadblock to a pivot toward democratic culture may be the self-serving collaboration between legislators and media. Legislators have limited energy for "the people's common interests" when they have no term limits and are spending over 50% of their time working the phones and media to get reelected for life. Not sure what the solution is for that, but it's certainly a roadblock to quality consensus thinking and productive working in Congress.
Term limits would be a great start. Politics should never be a career, but rather a temporary call to service. However, Congress itself would have to vote in term limits. WhatтАЩs the over/under on THAT happening?
LOL. I wouldn't make that bet.
They are just a bit out of water and unsure of a leadership game plan. U Chicago has it right. Stay out of the opinion business and let your professors and students freely (and civilly) talk and research it through.
St Johns in Annapolis and Santa Fe!! Wonderful тАЬgreat booksтАЭ institution that DOES NOT indoctrinate.
Many of the most high-profile incidents marking the progress of the Cult of True Victimhood in academia seem to come from two sources: 1) lower-level administrators who are Adepts in the Cult who take over student affairs and diversity offices, and 2) upper-level administrators who lead with their finger in the wind - hyper-alert to anything that might affect the flow of money from alumni - who were taken by surprise by the power of social media to ruin reputations in a matter of hours.
All of this allows a small number of hard-core Cultists to exert outsized influence on even large and prestigious institutions, sometimes abetted by relatively small cadres of Cultish faculty and students, who happily join in the social-media and - in the worst cases - in-person mobbing.
I can only imagine how confusing the post-10/7 "donor revolt" must have been to the presidents of elite schools, who thought that siding with the Cult would always protect the flow of money into the endowment!
Saving academia may be a matter of stiffening the spines of faculty and students who are not adherents to the Cult, and finding ways to ensure upper-level administrators are not so easily spooked by what's trending on TikTok.
IsnтАЩt that the mistake all revolutionaries make? тАЬBurn it all down! WeтАЩll come up with something better to replace it! We promise!тАЭ
Seems to me some chap named Burke kept going on about what a terrible mistake that was for the French after 1789 . . .
I could not agree more! I think the current universities are not salvageable ЁЯШм
Yes, once they reveal themselves, the rest is just positioning.
They revealed, and when attacked for it they backtracked a bit but there was no shame.
Now they are actively trying to normalize their obvious hate as free speech even though they have spent years repeating the nonsensical тАЬsilence is violenceтАЭ and тАЬwords are violenceтАЭ.
But actual violence is fine if itтАЩs used against the evil Jew.
Pat, they тАЬbacktrackedтАЭ a bit, but only AFTER some of their powerful donors began to complain!
You are correct, тАЬthey have no shameтАЭ and theyтАЩve indoctrinated thousands of students to have none, either, and no moral compass!