That’s the approach taken by university administrators these days. On campuses across the country, "safety first" has birthed a whole new moral framework—one that treats rhetorical "microaggressions" as acts of violence.
It’s safety first when it comes to edgy Halloween costumes. It’s safety first when a professor writes an email in which she says, "Black Lives Matter but also, Everyone’s Life Matters." And it’s safety first when a professor fails too many students in his class.
But when it comes to threats and calls for genocide against the Jews, it’s a different story. Not safety first, but anything goes.
Here at The Free Press, we’ve been reporting on the ways in which college leaders have failed their Jewish students in the weeks since October 7—and pointing out the flagrantly uneven enforcement of their "safety first" approach.
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These people have spent so much time on imaginary slights against politically fashionable groups that they have lost contact with reality and can't recognize actualy hatred and persecution when it happens on their campus. Of course, Jews aren't a politically fashionable group, so it's even harder for them to see it.
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These are some dangerous lunatics. Hitler's Nazis had nothing on these people.
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I mean, these people are supposed to be pillars of enlightenment, custodians of Western Civilization, and yet they are ignorant, arrogant, hateful totalitarians. Alas, Babylon.
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[Townhall] After October 7, the public was shocked at what they saw and heard on America's campuses.
Americans knew previously they were intolerant, leftwing, and increasingly non-meritocratic.
But immediately after October 7 -- and even before the response of the Israeli Defense Forces -- the sheer student delight on news of the mass murdering of Israeli victims seemed akin more to 1930s Germany than contemporary America.
Indeed, not a day goes by when a university professor or student group has not spouted antisemitic hatred. Often, they threaten and attack Jewish students, or engage in mass demonstrations calling for the extinction of Israel.
Why and how did purportedly enlightened universities become incubators of such primordial hatred?
After the George Floyd riots in 2020, reparatory admissions -- the effort to admit diverse students beyond their numbers in the general population -- increased.
Elite universities like Stanford and Yale boasted that their so-called "white" incoming student numbers had plunged to between 20 and 40 percent, despite whites making up 68-70% of the general population.
The abolition of the SAT requirement, and often the comparative ranking of high school grade point averages, have ended the ancient and time-proven idea of meritocracy. Brilliant high school transcripts and test scores no longer warrant admissions to so-called elite schools.
One result was that the number of Jews has nosedived from 20-30% of Ivy League student bodies during the 1970s and 1980s to 10-15%.
Jewish students are also currently stereotyped as "white" and "privileged" -- and thus considered as fair game on campus.
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When the wall came down, there should have been a hard reckoning in this country with the allies of communism. The universities should have been among the first institutions subject to accountability.
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Elite universities like Stanford and Yale boasted that their so-called "white" incoming student numbers had plunged to between 20 and 40 percent, despite whites making up 68-70% of the general population.
Maybe that's a good thing. Spare the white kids from worthless liberal arts degrees that will saddle them with debt.
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Some start w/ Descartes and then trace his subsequent influence on Western thought.
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Were Islamophobes wary of sharks,
They could say so in schools and in parks,
And terrified women
Could freely go swimming
With dogfish and fear only barks.
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[BehindTheBlack] For more than two decades conservatives have been reporting the growing immoral and depraved culture on the campuses of America’s most prestigious colleges, all to no avail.
These colleges instituted bigoted and racist policies of hiring, admissions, and funding that favored some races over others, so much so that today there are so few conservatives on their campuses that debate is impossible. The right has documented this repeatedly. Nothing was done.
These colleges worked to censor and silence the few conservatives that remained or came to speak as a guest, sometimes even allowing riots by leftist students to make sure such speech was prevented. The right has documented this repeatedly. Nothing was done.
These colleges further acted to remove and fire anyone, whether they were conservatives or not, who dared criticize any of the above actions. Often the terminations were done with no due process, and in direct violation of law and the colleges’ own rules. The right has documented this repeatedly. Nothing was done.
These colleges have steadily reshaped their curriculums so as to indoctrinate students into Marxism, "safe spaces", and close-mindedness, instead of teaching the values of Western Civilization, liberty, the rule of law, personal responsibility, and most important, the requirement that an educated adult must be able to think critically. Students now come out of these colleges hostile to any debate, their minds closed to thinking because such thinking makes them uncomfortable.
The right has documented this repeatedly. Nothing was done.
As was the case in the early years of World War II, before the attack of Pearl Harbor (which occurred 82 years ago today), Americans were asleep. Then, Americans didn’t want to face the evil that was growing in Europe and threatened to engulf the world in war, and inevitably did so. Now, Americans have done everything they could to avoid facing the evil that has been growing in their own backyard. The result is the chaos we see today, with a younger generation that ignorantly believes America is the root of all evil, and that the best policies for the future should be censorship, socialism, and racial discrimination.
The situation has gotten desperate, and threatens to engulf us in another world war, potentially far more deadly than World War II. Worse, that war will be fought here, in America, from the start, because the enemies of Western Civilization have been deeply impregnated in our society by these corrupt colleges.
And as happened on December 7, 1941 when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, it appears that something has finally happened that has at last maybe wakened Americans up. Our Pearl Harbor today might simply be the bankrupt clueless testimony of three college presidents in front of Congress on December 5, 2023. Using n-word is a supercrime, calling for Juden-frei world is free speech.
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[The Answer is Not Science] Briggs editorial note: When I was young it was still common for old men to ask where you were on "that day." I always flummoxed them by saying I wasn’t even born yet. Back then you also weren’t allowed to question the official government explanation, not without seeming like a kook. All that has changed within recent years, at least because we have all learned the difficulty our government has with the truth. Whether Mr Watt has deduced the correct theory of what happened, I leave for you to judge.
I recently read a pretty good article on The Big Rub Out (a.k.a. JFK, Nov. 1963), which sums things up pretty well. Except it needs a little more awareness that the CIA/Mossad creature is a singular/dual entity, like a pair of Siamese twins. Which allows either of them to always claim ’it wasn’t me!’
As I, and Michael Collins Piper, see it, the?re were five basic reason?s Jack had to go (and who wanted it to happen; also see Piper’s Final Judgment):
1. Jack was gonna end the VietNam War (MIC)
2. Jack was gonna dismantle the Langley complex (CIA, of course)
3. Jack started issuing currency thru the Treasury instead of the central bank (FED)
4. Jack let his brother Bobby go after the Labor mafia (Teamsters)
5. Finally, Jack was gonna stop Israel from getting The Bomb (Mossad)
That last point was the final straw that broke the camel’s back. When Jack insisted on having the IAEA inspect Israel’s Diamona nuclear reactor in the Negev desert, things came to a final head. What was the first thing LBJ did when he assumed power? Yep, he cancelled the inspection. And began selling Hawk missiles to Israel. It’s all been downhill since then.
Sixty years have now passed since Dallas, and with Gaza and Ukraine aflame, there was hardly a ripple of interest on this latest anniversary.
But there is one guy who may have figured it all out, going forward. RFK, Jr. Not that he doesn’t know what actually happened. He certainly does. He’s even spoken of it, publicly. But it appears he’s not gonna make the same mistake Jack and Bobby Sr. made—and which Donald also made, but without the actual physical death that accompanies such mistakes.
I think Bobby Jr. has figured this all out. Which is why he sounds like Donald on most things. But Donald made the further mistake of confusing nation and empire. Donald, you see, is actually a patriot. Flawed, surely so.
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I recently read a pretty good article on The Big Rub Out (a.k.a. JFK, Nov. 1963), which sums things up pretty well. Except it needs a little more awareness that the CIA/Mossad creature is a singular/dual entity, like a pair of Siamese twins. Which allows either of them to always claim ’it wasn’t me!’
Hey, that's why terrorist organizations like Hamas always have their little splinter groups. That way they can continue their terrorist activities while letting the splinter groups take the blame.
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Trump is the new Goldstein.
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[HotAir] To their credit, the Associated Press is asking a question that I’ve been pondering myself this week. We have seen multiple missile and drone attacks by the Houthi rebels in Yemen against American naval vessels and civilian shipping in the past few weeks. Our military intelligence can clearly see where the attacks are coming from. So why haven’t we retaliated against them? As the AP points out, we have launched a few strikes against Iranian-backed terrorists in Iraq and Syria after they launched attacks. Why is Joe Biden so reluctant to pull the trigger against the Houthis? And who are the Houthis, anyway? As with many things in the Middle East these days, the answers are... complicated.
When Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen launched missiles and hit three commercial ships in the southern Red Sea last weekend, it triggered an immediate question: Will the U.S. military strike back?
The Houthis have sharply escalated their attacks against ships as they sail toward the narrow Bab el-Mandeb Strait. And U.S. Navy ships have shot down an array of drones headed their way and believed to have been launched by the militant group from territory it controls in Yemen.
But so far, the U.S. has avoided military retaliation — a marked difference from its multiple strikes against Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria that have fired rockets, missiles and drones at bases housing American forces in both countries.
As to who the Houthis are, I covered that last month while discussing the ridiculous debate in Congress over whether or not the group should be put back on the terrorist list. (Of course, they are terrorists by definition.) So you can go back and read that if you missed it if you wish. The linked AP article has some deeper background on them. Basically, they are a Shiite clan from northern Yemen that ousted the Sunni government from Yemen’s capital about ten years ago. They are funded almost entirely by Iran.
In terms of a potential retaliatory strike, we should first keep in mind that Biden’s earlier strikes in Syria and Iraq were rather milquetoast in comparison to the terrorist attacks being launched. He seemed to need to be dragged kicking and screaming into doing anything in response to Iran’s provocations. But at least he was willing to do something eventually. The complete absence of a response to the Houthis must involve something else. Hunter has business interests in Yemen? MAJOR art collectors!
...The White House has thus far defended our lack of a response by saying they don’t want to "upend the shaky truce in Yemen." They are also worried about escalating the war in Gaza by upsetting a fragile ceasefire between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis in Yemen, who attacked the Saudis previously. Neither of these excuses makes much sense. If we were going to be backing anyone in Yemen (not that we should), it would have to be the legitimate government that the Houthis drove out of the capital. Striking the Houthis would help that cause. As for the peace between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia, how is that our problem if we’re not hitting any targets in Suadi territory?
I’ll offer an alternate explanation that the AP likely steered away from for obvious reasons. The Houthis are backed by Iran and work with Iran’s Republican Guard. Joe Biden has been trying to cozy up to Iran since he took office, hoping to tempt them back into Obama’s disastrous nuclear deal. He doesn’t like to tick off Iran, no matter how awful they are and he’s clearly already nervous about backing Israel too strongly in the current war, likely at least partially for the same reason. While he’ll probably never say it out loud, that’s probably the main reason we haven’t hit the Houthis yet. Or at least that’s my hot take on the subject.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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