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| Fifth Column |
| This is the way 1968 ends... |
| 2024-04-28 |
| [BENJAMINKERSTEIN] ...The most powerful and influential form of radicalism in the Western world today has no real name in the United States. It does in France, or at least its adherents do: les soixante-huitards, "the ’68ers." Pre-cursed by those from 67... On this day in history, April 28, 1967, Muhammad Ali refuses to serve military at height of Vietnam War Followed by the restful, '69ers'. The term refers to the radicals who took part in the 1968 student riots in Paris, as well as their ideology and the movements that emerged out of it: Third-worldism, environmentalism, anti-Americanism, anti-racism, etc. In many ways, the ethos of this kind of 1968ism defines the modern left. It has rarely achieved outright political power; it rarely wins elections; but it exercises hegemony over culture and higher education, as well as the activist industry. A short background review ...But their greatest success was the long march. Named for the Chinese communists’ legendary trek to northern China that ensured their survival and eventual takeover, the plan was simple: Conquer the universities, install radicals at all levels of faculty and administration, and then consolidate a totalitarian regime, a dictatorship of the professoriate, that would colonize and control the mind of America’s elite. This takeover would be enabled by tactics drawn from the radical movements of the past: They would purge all dissenters by means fair or foul. Those they could not purge, they would ostracize and isolate. They would subject even those who remained neutral to rituals of public repentance and submission in the style of the Chinese Cultural Revolution—Mao’s brutal campaign against "ideological deviationism" that maimed and murdered thousands. If necessary, they would resort to outright violence and terrorism. In other words, they would construct and impose a suicide cult "by any means necessary." Their success was spectacular and we are seeing the results today. As we speak, antisemitic mobs have conquered and colonized many of America’s most elite institutions of higher learning. They advocate terrorism and genocide; brutally intimidate, abuse, and physically attack Jewish students; and call for not just the destruction of Israel but the annihilation of America itself. Even though all of this is a direct violation of these universities’ alleged codes of conduct, as well as numerous local, state, and federal laws, those who have the power to stop them have refused to do so. Many have endorsed the mob and more still are too terrified to take action against what they know to be evil. Sopranos star: "People are afraid to have those conversations, because first of all, you never win with a liberal, you're just never gonna win." They have good reason. They know quite well that if they were to take effective action, if they were to enforce their own codes, laws, and alleged principles, they would have to expel large sections of their student bodies. They would have to fire equally large numbers of faculty. They would have to cleanse their administrations of enablers and collaborators. They would have to break the regime. This, they are utterly unwilling to do. The reason is 1968. Even if they know that the mob is immoral and indeed monstrous, those who should know better—who do know better—are still ’68ers. They believe in the basic tenets of 1968ism: America is corrupted by racism, imperialism, patriarchy, and their attendant evils. Radical action is necessary to change this. There are no enemies to the left. The chickens come home to roost by any means necessary. Ideological deviationism cannot be tolerated. Ideological deviationism is whatever they happen to disapprove of at any given moment. If all else fails, exterminate all the brutes. The result of all this is now clear: The ’68ers and the radical left as a whole have collapsed into something very like Nazism. Whatever their protestations otherwise, the parallels are obvious: Theirs is a minority movement that wields the mob to impose its ideology on the majority. It sees the past as compromised and corrupt and will redeem it by any means necessary. It looks to a glorious future of tyrannical virtue. It takes over institutions of education, government, and culture and uses them to destroy those institutions and impose a totalitarian regime. It is perfectly willing to use horrific violence to achieve this. Its capacity to tolerate dissent is nil. And now, it has embraced racism, antisemitism, and genocide. Exterminate all the brutes. ...In such a situation, however, an enemy must be found, a focus of all the inchoate energies of hate and violence buried deep in every human psyche. There must be someone to blame, a scapegoat for all the ills that the radicals have failed to overcome. And like the Nazis, they have found the ready victim, the eternal villain and the eternal scapegoat. They have found the Jews. And the Jews found E = mc^2. Related: 68ers 04/11/2019 Former Pope Benedict blames church’s scandals partly on the ‘60s 68ers 11/18/2009 Clashes break out at Greek marches, 200 arrested 68ers 05/29/2009 Ghosts of the '60s in Germany - WSJ |
| Posted by:Grom the Reflective |
| #4 The one on the right. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-04-28 13:35 |
| #3 ^When you pick a horse, go to the track and bet on a race, what do you get when the horse loses? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-04-28 05:33 |
| #2 Colleges are now closing at a pace of one a week. What happens to the students? If everyone has a college degree - what's a college degree worth? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-04-28 01:49 |
#1 "Dis bitch gonna toss my salad tonite..."
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| Posted by: Oscar and Tenille5938 2024-04-28 00:25 |