The University of California at Davis is embroiled in a controversy involving one of its faculty threatening “zionist journalists” in a violent tirade on X. UC Davis Professor (and undergraduate adviser) Jemma Decristo posted the screed on October 10th referencing the homes and family of those who support Israel as possible targets. The university is investigating the matter, but Decristo’s embrace of violence is nothing new for faculty around the country. For years, faculty members have engaged in violent rhetoric directed toward conservatives and Republicans with little response from universities.
“one group of ppl we have easy access to in the US is all these zionist journalists who spread propaganda and misinformation … they have houses w addresses, kids in school, they can fear their bosses, but they should fear us more.”
At the bottom, you can see a knife emoji, an ax emoji, and three red drops of blood after saying “they should fear us more.”
That strikes me as a rather direct and obvious threat.
Decristo is an assistant professor of American Studies at the public school with a “focus … on the interplay between sound, race, gender and embodiment.”
In a statement, a UC Davis spokesperson said campus leaders “reject all forms of violence and discrimination, as they are antithetical to the values of our university. We strive to foster a climate of equity and justice built on mutual understanding and respect for all members of the community.”
The University of California system has a long history of violence and violent rhetoric from the left.
At the University of California, Santa Barbara, feminist studies associate professor Mireille Miller-Young physically assaulted pro-life advocates and tore down their display.
She pleaded guilty to criminal assault, but the university refused to fire her. Instead, some faculty and students defended her, including claiming that pro-life displays constitute terrorism. The University of Oregon later honored Miller-Young as a model for women advocates.
Around the country, faculty routinely use violent rhetoric with little push back in the media or on campus.
We have discussed professors advocating “detonating white people,” denouncing police, calling for Republicans to suffer, strangling police officers, celebrating the death of conservatives, calling for the killing of Trump supporters, supporting the murder of conservative protesters, and other outrageous statements.
University of Rhode Island professor Erik Loomis defended the murder of a conservative protester and said he saw “nothing wrong” with such acts of violence.
One of the most recent violent professors was Hunter College Professor Shellyne Rodríguez who was only fired after being arrested for holding a machete to the neck of a New York Post reporter and threatened to “chop you up.”
Yet, she was not fired after she destroyed the pro-life display of a group of students.
Since her machete attack, Rodríguez has now been hired by Cooper Union to teach its students.
These faculty members have long been part of the radical chic of academia, including a professor recently at Cornell expressing his “exhilaration” after watching the Hamas attack on Israel.
The response to conservatives accused of racist or insensitive comments has been quite different. We discussed how St. Joseph’s University refused to renew a contract for a professor who actually prevailed in such a free speech fight. A conservative North Carolina professor faced calls for termination over controversial tweets and was pushed to retire. Dr. Mike Adams, a professor of sociology and criminology, had long been a lightning rod of controversy. In 2014, we discussed his prevailing in a lawsuit that alleged discrimination due to his conservative views. He was then targeted again after an inflammatory tweet calling North Carolina a “slave state.” That led to his being pressured to resign with a settlement. He then committed suicide just days before his last day as a professor.
For years, conservative and Republican faculty and students have been subjected to such violent acts or rhetoric with little support from most faculty or the media. Indeed, figures like Jennifer Rubin and Laurence Tribe recently came under fire for their comments after the massacre despite years of such attacks and false claims directed at the right.
Universities are now facing pressure from donors to address such violent rhetoric. I continue to oppose any form of censorship for faculty or students. However, the real problem is the academic echo chamber created from decades of bias in hiring and promotion. That is unlikely to change the lack of viewpoint diversity on faculties or the purging of conservative or libertarian professors. There is no evidence that universities are prepared to take real action to address the hostile environment for many on our campuses in espousing dissenting views or values.
“In the Air Tonight”
Phil Collins, 1981
I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
And I’ve been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight? oh Lord, oh Lord
This perfidious Jamaican turncoat and U.S. affirmative action project has no capacity to obtain or cognitively assimilate the clear meaning and intent of the American Founders and Framers, being of the not dissimilar perspective of third-world, banana republic, foreign allegiances as her political benefactor, the totally ineligible son of an anti-American, anti-Colonialist, jailed-for-six months-by-the-British activist extremist, and foreign citizen, Barack Hussein “Barry-I-Have-A-Statue-In-Jakarta-Soetoro” Obama.
This criminal of high office must be impeached and convicted for denying constitutional rights, subversion of the United States government, subversion of the Constitution, abuse of power, usurpation of power, treachery, corruption, failure to fulfill a constitutionally required sworn oath et al.
“Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“This anonymous person is not intelligent enough to distinguish the nature of different types of threats. ”
No Republicans threatened the others with violence. Whoever you are, you sound dumb.
This anonymous person is not intelligent enough to distinguish the nature of different types of threats.
No Republicans threatened the others with violence. Whoever you are, you sound dumb.
I guess the blog recognized this anonymous person’s unbalanced nature because one look back and he is gone.
This communist (liberal, progressive, socialist, democrat, RINO, AINO) is pleased with the victory of the global communist Deep Deep State “Swamp.”
This communist (liberal, progressive, socialist, democrat, RINO, AINO) is a direct and mortal enemy of the American thesis of freedom and self-reliance, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, actual Americans, and America.
This communist (liberal, progressive, socialist, democrat, RINO, AINO) is pleased with the absolute de facto dominion in America of the unconstitutional principles of communism: Central planning, control of the means of production (i.e. unconstitutional regulation), redistribution of wealth, and social engineering.
This communist (liberal, progressive, socialist, democrat, RINO, AINO) is pleased with the absolute de facto dominion in America of Karl Marx’s motto, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
This communist (liberal, progressive, socialist, democrat, RINO, AINO) is pleased with the absolute de facto dominion in America of Karl Marx’s “Dictatorship of the Hired Help.”
The spineless and craven American sheeple say, “Baa, baa, baa.”
George, Why the switch to Anonymous? Are you embarrassed by your views? 😀
That is an excellent question that I have asked Darren and WordPress.
WordPress eliminated the “remember me” box, and “reply” in the new format is anonymous.
Perhaps you could be persuasive in your inimitable way and have the Turley blog WordPress improved or reset to the previous mode.
And thank you for your concern, comrade (who ever said that communists were inhospitable?).
Seriously? Have you calculated the ratio of anonymous to known commenters lately?
Have you not noticed that the Turley Blog is a veritable miasma of anonymity?
I thought the good professor and staff preferred it that way; I thought they preferred a bubbling cauldron of amorphous anonymity spawning uninhibited opinions and free speech.
Oh, and thanks for reading so frequently and with such a deep level of comprehension that your familiarity approaches that of a cryptographer or faithful, loyal retainer.
I do so appreciate it.
Have you noticed the changes on the Turley blog?
The post referenced on this particular thread, incidentally, was taken down; it is simply gone and not available as background and perspective for readers.
“threatening”
This anonymous person is not intelligent enough to distinguish the nature of different types of threats.
No Republicans threatened the others with violence. Whoever you are, you sound dumb.
I guess the blog recognized this anonymous person’s unbalanced nature because one look back and he is gone.
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Jonathan: Your complaints against professor Decristo at UC Davis pale in comparison to what is happening on other campuses. Take what happened at Arizona State University last week.
An LGBTQ+ professor was walking across the AZ campus when he was followed and confronted by 2 Turning Point USA Reps (one a cameraman who was filming the professor). Video apparently shows the professor reaching toward the cameraman in an attempt to stop the filming. He said later he was fearful the encounter would lead to harassment and threats against him. The TP USA reps then attacked the professor and threw him to the ground suffering injuries.
Now why would TP USA be on a university campus filming queer professors? TP USA is a right-wing AZ group founded by Charlie Kirk. He has a “professor watchlist” that he describes as consisting of “professors who discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom”. Sounds eerily familiar to your frequent complaints.
TP USA pushes a right-wing agenda that falsely accuses LGBTQ+ people of “grooming” young people for sexual abuse. In another incident earlier this year TP USA filmed another professor of LGBTQ+ studies at the AZ State University. AZ Board of Regents Chair Fred Duval spoke out: “Turning Point USA should be ashamed for its targeted intimidation campaign against university professors. This organization needs to stop putting people at risk”.
There is one person who came to TP USA’s defense. It was conservative MAGA Republican AZ Senator Tony Kern. He accused the University of “misrepresenting” the incident. Kern is in good company with TP USA. He was one of 11 AZ Republicans who posed as fake Trump electors in the 2020 election.
In your columns you claim only conservatives are being targeted on university campuses. The recent incident in AZ belies your claims. Now, I won’t say you are in bed with Charlie Kirk and TP USA. But, then, birds of a feather….
Dennis McIntyre, whose attempts at moral equivalency are used to both advance the agenda of his fellow anti-Semitic neo-Nazis like Hamas, Omar, Tlaib, etc – continues with this attempt to establish a moral equivalency exists between his fellow anti-Semitic neo-Nazis, the one who’s the subject to this column, and “a right wing group” (the opposite of a police state fascist Soviet Democrat communist group). Somehow or other he just can’t find where that non-left wing police state fascist Soviet Democrat communist group celebrated the deliberate targeting of unarmed and defenseless babies in their cradles. Where did the similar slaughter of the babes in cradles, the elderly, the mass rape of women happen to the families of anti-Semitic neo-Nazis like Dennis McIntyre?
And how did it happen and escape the attention of Obama/Biden’s equivalent to Stalin’s Lavarentiy Beria – Merrick Garland? Because Merrick Garland claims he’s one of those Filthy Jews that Dennis has a visceral hatred of?
Or maybe videoing Alphabet Sex activist professors, and going hands on in response to them initiating hands on you, is the equivalent of the targeted slaughter of defenseless Jews two weeks ago? I had assumed that when you were a radical left Alphabet Sex activist publicly flexing and posing your agenda on campus, you WANTED all the public attention you could get? You WANTED to be filmed as you publicly demanded that Gender Blender men cosplaying as women had a right to hang their junk out in front of little girls, putting it on display in little girls’ change rooms? So what’s the moral equivalency that Dennis McIntyre hopes he can establish between radical left anti-Semitic neo-Nazis like himself, and those who protest Alphabet Sex Activist protesters?
The film will be used to plot the wholesale slaughter of Dennis McIntyre and the rest of the anti-Semitic neo-Nazis in their beds, just as was done to Jews in Israel just two weeks ago? Seriously?
I appreciate Dennis McIntyre taking so much of his valuable time to demonstrate how extreme far left anti-Semitic neo-Nazis think like while justifying their fascism. And serving as an example of how Hitler did not find it hard to recruit people who presented as good people to happily work in his Jew extermination camps. Thank you for the lesson, Dennis.
Pity today’s students, denied as they are of the great benefits that come from having educators who dress, conduct themselves, and promote critical thinking in a disciplined and professional manner. Today’s educators, far more committed to their narcissistic needs than the education of their students, are indistinguishable in the sloppiness of their dress, behavior, and academic discipline from the Jeff Spicoli’s in their classrooms.
The Constitution of 1789
The Bill of Rights of 1789
The Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798, 1802
Voila!!!
The United States of America
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Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798 and 1802 (four iterations)
United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof…
The Babylon Bee? No, this is real: Oregon Department of Education won’t require high school students to demonstrate mastery of reading, writing, and math because that would harm students of color. Really, so they’re better off not having those basic skills? This really is clown world. BTW did this low-IQ commie prof attend high school in Oregon?
https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2023/10/oregon-again-says-students-dont-need-to-prove-mastery-of-reading-writing-or-math-to-graduate-citing-harm-to-students-of-color.html
Why should that upset anyone. Think of the money we could save. We could end the entire public school system and according to Oregon nothing would change. Just look at the intelligent people who makes decisions of this kind. What type of education made them this stupid?
Notice the hammer and sickle on her name line, so she’s a literal commie. A commie inciting violence, imagine that.
Jemma Decristo is a direct and mortal enemy of the American thesis of freedom and self-reliance, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, actual Americans and America.
Time to decolonize the universities.
Imagine working hard and getting your kid into college, a first for your family maybe, and finding out you’re paying that clown to teach your kid.
Imagine being white not a jew or semite and Christian instead and actually born in the USA with parents and grandparents and so on born in the USA, and half the nation says on the regular you need to be exterminated, and the borders are wide open and you’re this close (one percent) to being a minority, all the Christian Holidays have been abrogated and replaced with hate days and hate months against you, the doj the fbi the cdc the fda and every other the irs are aligned against you, and you’re male, also a strike against you.
Imagine that. You have no homeland to run to. Worse than that, NO ONE DENOUNCES THE OPEN GENOCIDE AGAINST YOU.
If you say it’s time to decolonize the USA … well … then YOU turn against the white man as well.
No need to imagine, the nightmare is real.
And once again Shakdi, Ilhan Omar and Rashid Tlaib’s fellow anti-Semite and neo-Nazi, pops up to express his horror that there are Jews and semites still alive. In this case, worse – right here in America!
He lays out a case for Americans – excluding Jews and Semites who like him are also “actually born in the USA with parents and grandparents and so on born in the USA” as victims. Just a different class of victims than his fellow anti-Semitic neo-Nazis Omar and Tlaib claim to be members of – but also victims at the hands of Jews and Semites.
Oh, isn’t it wonderful witnessing Shakdi’s intersectionality with Omar and Tlaib, not pure white Christians who can’t claim everybody in their lineage was born in America. All they share is their mutual anti-Semitic neo-Nazi hatred of Jews and Semites.
He claims that there is OPEN GENOCIDE right here in the USA against a specific kind of American. Specifically: white, provably not Jewish or Semite (white Christian Aryan is acceptable), both parents and all grandparents borne in the USA. No mixed marriages or a Scot in your direct family line (as Trump’s mother was) to dirty your racial/cultural/religious lineage… or save you from OPEN GENOCIDE.
What are the chances Shakdi can actually produce examples of regular acts of genocide against His Chosen People? Genocidal murderers going from White Christians Only homes, home after home, murdering the babies in their cradles, murdering the elderly, raping the women to dirty them before murdering them, tying their victims up before burning them alive in their homes, livestreaming the slaughter while doing so, etc? You know – EXACTLY like happened in Israel a short two weeks ago? And repeatedly, on a lesser scale over and over again before that?
When did his fellow Nazi, Hitler that pure white allegedly Christian of pure blood, inflict that identical genocide on Shakdi’s Pure Blood White Christians Only people?
Got pictures of that genocide of Your Tribe right here in America, Shakdi?
Our US Citizen men and women have been in war zones for CENTURIES, and the very same has happened to us MORE OFTEN.
We just happen to have a brain and keep a defense up against what ?
THE PEOPLE THAT CLAIM THEY WANT TO SLAUGHTER US.
FOR OVER TWO DECADES STRAIGHT WE SLAUGHTERED YOUR ENEMIES IN ALL THE LANDS OF THE MIDDLE EAST.
That includes your half brothers and sisters, your family dispute, Isaac the jews and Ishmael the arabs, sons and daughters of Abraham, the first of the wife the second of the concubine, since we have been defending you, well, since before 1948 but we’ll take 1948 as the current pertinent “official” date, AND 2001 AS THE ABSOLUTE, which occured because we were over there DEFENDING YOU, YOU UNGRATEFUL IGNORAMOUS.
What did you do after you publicly agreed with us on 911 ?
YOU KEPT TAKING LAND AND ABUSING THE GAZANS – YOU KEPT TELLING US ALL ALONG THEY ALL WANT TO SLAUGHTER EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU, THAT IS NOTHING NEW, WE’VE HEARD IT SINCE 1948, AND IT SURE LOOKS LIKE YOU DON’T BELIEVE IT AT ALL !
So you left your border to those, with such blooodthirst your genocide was always seconds away, WIDE OPEN UNPROTECTED.
Now in this nation the slaughter of MY PEOPLE is not in the news, it is not reported, it occurs on the daily, and everyone keeps their mouth shut. Except those constantly calling for the genocides of the whites.
OURS CANNOT BE STREAMED TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, THAT IS NOT ALLOWED.
You of course lied about me, because you have nothing, but I have something further !
We have a word, for hating the dark races, it is called racism, or hitler, or anti-semite, or KKK, ALL SPECIFICALLY MEAN TO ALL OF YOU WHITE PEOPLE HATING EVERYONE ELSE.
What words is missing from this language ?
Any word that describes the non white who hate the whites – there isn’t even a word for it ! GOOGLE HAS NO WORD FOR IT !
Okay, so as they and you say, the haters of whites, what you do “is not possible”, thus no word can be assigned to it.
( yes I do have pictures and videos, but they are not allowed to be displayed )
Just turn on the news, the absence is everywhere, you the hater of all white people, you the one who can’t stop screaming hitler for the past 80 plus years.
Did you mean to say “decolonization” or “colonization?”
If “colonization,” you would be in the distinguished company of Abraham Lincoln.
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The “American Colonization Society”
In December 1816, a group of distinguished Americans met in Washington, DC, to establish an organization to promote the cause of black resettlement. The “American Colonization Society” soon won backing from some of the young nation’s most prominent citizens. Henry Clay, Francis Scott Key, John Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Bushrod Washington, Charles Carroll, Millard Fillmore, John Marshall, Roger B. Taney, Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster, Stephen A. Douglas, and Abraham Lincoln were members. Clay presided at the group’s first meeting.8
Measures to resettle blacks in Africa were soon undertaken. Society member Charles Fenton Mercer played an important role in getting Congress to pass the Anti-Slave Trading Act of March 1819, which appropriated $100,000 to transport blacks to Africa. In enforcing the Act, Mercer suggested to President James Monroe that if blacks were simply returned to the coast of Africa and released, they would probably be re-enslaved, and possibly some returned to the United States. Accordingly, and in cooperation with the Society, Monroe sent agents to acquire territory on Africa’s West coast — a step that led to the founding of the country now known as Liberia. Its capital city was named Monrovia in honor of the American President.9
– Robert Morgan http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v13/v13n5p-4_Morgan.html
The University supports safe spaces by employing professors who advocate and threaten violence.
That should be their mission statement
In universities Speech (conservative) is Actual Violence but true, physical violence (against conservatives or Jews of any stripe) is only speech.
Many university departments, professors, TAs and students, need to be abolished and removed from universities.
Federal funding including student loans should be cut off to all universities who allow threatening speech, posts, and conduct and who do not terminate the guilty employees and prosecute those who actually engage in harmful conduct.
Congress has no power to tax for student loans per Article 1, Section 8.
Where the —- is the Supreme Court which has enjoyed the power of Judicial Review of all completed acts of Federal, State and Local legislatures since 1803.
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“The Power of Judicial Review” https://www.justia.com/constitutional-law/the-us-supreme-court-and-judicial-review/
The Supreme Court can strike down any law or other action by the legislative or executive branch that violates the Constitution. This power of judicial review applies to federal, state, and local legislative and executive actions. The Constitution does not specifically provide for the power of judicial review. It arises instead from an 1803 decision known as Marbury v. Madison.
– Justia
It’s not surprising that American Jews are arming themselves. “Never again.”
https://thereload.com/jewish-americans-arm-themselves-in-wake-of-horror-in-israel/
What took you so long ?
Oh, I know, you haven’t been vocally attacked in the USA like that before, though white people have been for some time now.
What would happen if a white professor said the same thing about BLM activists?
What would happen if someone not a leftist said something like this to school board members?
What if something like this was conveyed to jurors in the Chauvin trial?
Young– I agree. And, if we look at the media involvement in protecting Hamas and condemning Jews, a terrible irony emerges. During WWII, unrelenting and targeted propaganda was used to convince an otherwise Christian German nation that extermination of Jews was acceptable. Today, we are seeing our own media use the same propaganda techniques to convince Americans that the mass murder of Jews by Hamas is acceptable. To be fair, I doubt that the students demonstrating at our elite universities know much about WWII since it is unrelated to what is between their legs or what they wish was between their legs. It is even more ironic that “progressive” black leaders in this country, who were able to become leaders because of American civil rights laws, have been strangely silent about the 20,000 murdered Jews when those laws would have had a much more difficult time coming into being but for the active and frequently heroic actions of American Jews.
Honest-
Too true. Schools don’t actually school anymore. Recent interviews of UCLA students showed they didn’t know what ocean is off our east coast and didn’t know what or where Washington, DC is. They did know all of the Kardashians and I admit they have me beat there.
I think the NAACP was created by Jews but they, blacks, probably think that is best forgotten just as Hitler’s Iron Cross for valor in WW1 was on the recommendation of a Jewish officer–best forgotten in the Third Reich.
Dave Reuben had an X post asking of the Israeli/Hamas conflict, “Which side would Hitler be on?”
I imagine the same side as NYT, CNN, WaPo, Harvard, Yale, etc
I am old but still wonder if I am going to outlast this country–perhaps I already have.
Quoting from Popol Vuh: Part 3 ‘Victory over the Underworld’
“Their ancient day was not a great one,
These ancient people only wanted conflict,
Their ancient names are not really divine,
But fearful is the ancient evil of their faces.
They are makers of enemies, user of owls,
They are inciters to wrongs and violence,
They are master of hidden intentions as well
They are black and white,
Masters of stupidity, master of perplexity.”
(note: Owls were used as messengers)
The academic establishment has digressed into a pit of vipers full of hate, having never grown up from playground bullies. Their illusion and conceit thinking they alone know the pathway to a perfect union is absurd.
One last quote from Mark Twain: ‘A Curious Dream’
“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.”
From George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, 18 August 1790
To the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island
[Newport, R.I., 18 August 1790]
Gentlemen.
While I receive, with much satisfaction, your Address1 replete with expressions of affection and esteem; I rejoice in the opportunity of assuring you, that I shall always retain a grateful remembrance of the cordial welcome I experienced in my visit to Newport,2 from all classes of Citizens.
The reflection on the days of difficulty and danger which are past is rendered the more sweet, from a consciousness that they are succeeded by days of uncommon prosperity and security. If we have wisdom to make the best use of the advantages with which we are now favored, we cannot fail, under the just administration of a good Government, to become a great and a happy people.
The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.
It would be inconsistent with the frankness of my character not to avow that I am pleased with your favorable opinion of my Administration, and fervent wishes for my felicity. May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree, and there shall be none to make him afraid. May the father of all mercies scatter light and not darkness in our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy.
Go: Washington
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
– Declaration of Independence, 1776
The warnings have been long and loud.
Who’s nation is America?
Not We the People’s.
Who engineered the anti American movement we see now?
It’s not rocket surgery.
America is the white Christian’s nation.
America is a nation of Christians, and the most diverse nation on Earth.
That wasn’t the question.
The question that was posed , is answered in the US Constitution, your buddy George the long time regular posts it plenty.
What we can say now is it won’t be long until that is not true, and it may be that it is not true already. It is difficult to judge with the extreme lies of the government.
“Rocket Surgery!”
I LIKE it!
Gross, but so typical.
Personally, I think the recent examples of alma mater pulling funding that some point out are actually more of a knee-jerk temper tantrum, not a trend.
These schools can only be prevented from spreading their poison if there are no kids to spread it too, yet people continue to enroll them. This is either negligence/ignorance or magical thinking that anything that happens in a classroom is by proxy or that kids ripen like bananas – and whichever, or both, it is profoundly common.
Parents can’t have it both ways: thinking primary school is supposed to provide moral education that used to be the province of home (i.e. glorified nannying), then getting pissed their kids have been indoctrinated and other people feel it is their right to raise them when that is, during grade school, precisely what a whole lot of parents ask for (I hear some saying, ‘But not me!’, and perhaps not, but in the current climate that is rarer than a diamond). Blame needs to be assigned across the board for our current devaluing of education, and none of the parties involved will even start to question themselves. I do not know how we catch those up who have turned their heads the other way for nigh on 30 years or more.
What we see in colleges and the modern workplace are effects, not causes. Nobody wants to talk about causation because no matter who you are, there’s going to be some self-recrimination attached, and likely a hard choice or two.
We might start by expecting people to grow-up. College students are not “kids” or children. They’re young adults. I suppose it’s a class difference. Wealthy Americans have the privilege of being “kids” well into their 20s. I don’t recall any of the soldiers who died in Vietnam at 17, 18 or 19 being referred to as “kids.”
How about instead we first start by stopping the Identity Politics where, for political purposes, we present that all college students believe and act exactly the same as those college media whores the “news media” propagandists who sold the world the Russia Dossier and Russian Election Deception Laptop stories wants to focus on.
Can start there first?
The Identity Politics of claiming those in the news are representative of college students, is no different than the Identity Politics of claiming America is systemically racist based on carefully chosen events or people. And how is THAT working out for America?