Yesterday, I posted the account of one of my children who followed another student at George Washington University as she tore down flyers of the Hamas hostages from poles around campus. The vandalism near our law school is occurring across the country as activists seek to prevent others from expressing their views on the war. When I posted the GWU incident yesterday, I noted that this is behavior that has been reinforced by faculty members who have engaged in violent and destructive conduct for years targeting pro-life and other causes. One such incident involved an adjunct professor at City University of New York. Callen Zimmerman is also accused of shoving a person confronting her on her actions.
The videotape below shows Zimmerman ripping up flyers of the Hamas hostages. When a couple of people object, she tells them to “go colonize somewhere else.” The incident follows videotapes of students ripping down such flyers across the country, including one such incident at George Mason University.
Zimmerman was listed as teaching a course on the Stony Brook University website, where she is studying for a PhD in “Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.” The bio stated that “Callen Zimmerman explores intricacies of material culture and queer experience, as fashion freak, educator and maker.”
As I have previously written, these recent incidents are little surprise for many of us who have been critical of the growing intolerance for opposing viewpoints on campuses for years. Many of these faculty members are part of a radical chic that has been the norm in hiring.
Universities are increasingly awarding degrees in activism, often taught by faculty who blur any distinction between academics and advocacy. Other faculty members have taught by example in destroying displays of opposing views. Universities have often done little to counter such faculty vandalism.
This year, Hunter College Professor Shellyne Rodríguez was shown trashing a pro-life display of students.
She was captured on a videotape telling the students that “you’re not educating s–t […] This is f–king propaganda. What are you going to do, like, anti-trans next? This is bulls–t. This is violent. You’re triggering my students.”
Unlike the professor, the students remained calm and respectful.
One even said “sorry” to the accusation that being pro-life was triggering for her students.
Rodríguez continued to rave, stating, “No you’re not — because you can’t even have a f–king baby. So you don’t even know what that is. Get this s–t the f–k out of here.” In an Instagram post, she is then shown trashing the table.
Hunter College, however, did not consider this unhinged attack to be sufficient to terminate Rodríguez.
It was only after she later chased reporters with a machete that the college fired Rodríguez. She was then hired by another college.
That of course is the point. She is a professor and was teaching these students that they do not have to allow others to speak if they oppose their viewpoints.
This has been going on for years.
Fresno State University public health professor Dr. Gregory Thatcher, recruited students to destroy pro-life messages.
At the University of California Santa Barbara, professors actually rallied around feminist studies associate professor Mireille Miller-Young, who physically assaulted pro-life advocates and tore down their display.
Despite pleading guilty to criminal assault, she was not fired and received overwhelming support from the students and faculty.
She was later honored as a model for women advocates.
Rather than put up their own flyers with their own views, the faculty and students destroying the flyers of Hamas hostages reflect a view that they are entitled to silence others. They view free speech as preventing others from reading or hearing opposing views. That is also a lesson that has been taught by faculty members for years. Academics like former CUNY law dean Mary Lu Bilek even insisted that disrupting a speech on free speech was free speech.
Notably, some of the faculty who are objecting to the intolerance and threats on campuses in these recent incidents have been silent for years as their colleagues have been targeted in such campaigns over conservative, libertarians or dissenting views. These incidents show how such silence has only emboldened and expanded the anti-free speech movement in higher education.
Warning: Foul language
“The videotape below shows Zimmerman ripping up flyers of the Hamas hostages.”
Of course she did.
Embracing genocidal dictators and terrorists is now a Leftist cause celebre. The ends, “de-colonization” (which in reality means eradicating Israel) justifies the means — invasion, rape, murder, kidnapping.
This is not Carter’s or Kennedy’s democratic party. It is morphing into the party of the Anti-Semitic, Terrorist Squad.
10,000 have been bombed and shot to death in gaza, with over 35,000 injured.
Keep flapping your lips hoping someone with sense believes you.
Shooting for that 20 to 1 murder ratio, you’re on your way ! Hip hip hurray !
Hypocrite.
Shak, what you say is idiocy. You are advocating that for every Hitler killed, a righteous man needs to die.
However, we are seeing Murder in Gaza. Hamas terrorists are making sure peaceful citizens die with them. They are afraid to die without companionship. Hamas won’t permit women and children to move from their operational headquarters, where they launch their missiles. They hide behind the skirts of women and the tears of children. If Israel wished to harm citizens, the war would have ended before you awakened on October 8.
Adjuncts are part-time contractual employees. Professorial rank is top of the heap. Why this PhD candidate rates ‘professorial’ status boggles the mind. Another load for the dung heap of ““Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.”, squirreled away in some dark safe space somewhere in academia where this self-styled ‘fashion freak, educator and maker.” will await the shelter of a tenured appointment, for only to generate and propagate more of her ilk.
PhD holders are adjuncts.
At this point shouldn’t it read “Ex-Adjunct Professor” Callen Zimmerman? The university’s should be employing professors instructing Quantum physics and Organic Chemistry, subject matter that will guarantee future employment.
I wonder if Zimmerman is cashing in on student loan forgiveness?
“Sup Nazis?
Been a long time.”
@therealRoseanne
If anyone puts a pride flag or a swastika on their own property they have a right to free speech, but if they put their sign on public property or anyone else’s property for a yard sale, lost pet, election campaign or any other issue, what’s wrong with removing it? It’s a piece of trash littering the neighborhood.
“It’s a piece of trash littering the neighborhood.”
Indeed, she is.
People kidnapped by terrorists are not trash.
If someone worked in retail or industry, they wouldn’t have an expectation that they could post political flyers on walls or other structures at their workplace. But in an academic setting, Prof. Turley thinks this litter needs to remain posted. Why? Until when?
Explain why you believe the photo of a hostage is a political flyer. Again, with your perverted logic, the stories and images of Yazidi hostages at the hands of ISIS was also just politics.
Some sign was put up. I presume it was a message. You say I have “perverted logic” by referring to it as “political”. It does seem controversial. Unless it’s on your own property, putting it up or taking it down is pretty much the same to me. Do you think it needs to remain posted indefinitely and no one else should ever touch it?
Two things: 1. Shouldn’t it be the job of the campus police or custodial services to decide what is trash? 2. Shouldn’t this standard be applied to ALL flyers?
I’m sympathetic to the idea, generally, although in my own campus experience long before social media, I enjoyed seeing what things people posted on bulletin boards. But until and unless such a policy is applied across the board and executed not by partisans of either side but by, say, groundskeeping staff, it’s suppression of some speech by that viewpoint’s enemies (I’ve moved beyond “opponents”).
Using that perverted logic, you would consider the nationwide Amber Alert system as a digital form of trash littering our airwaves.
They’re 100,000 or more alerts behind with the DC jet and buses brigade from the border to the human child trafficker networks all over the USA.
“What a great system !”
The Department’s Guidance on Criteria for Issuing AMBER Alerts is as follows:
There is reasonable belief by law enforcement that an abduction has occurred.
The law enforcement agency believes that the child is in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death.
There is enough descriptive information about the victim and the abduction for law enforcement to issue an AMBER Alert to assist in the recovery of the child.
The abduction is of a child aged 17 years or younger.
The child’s name and other critical data elements, including the Child Abduction flag, have been entered into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) system.
https://amberalert.ojp.gov/about/faqs
You cannot blame the Amber Alert system for not alerting what they haven’t been reported by law enforcement. This is especially true when the government is doing the facilitating of human trafficking.
Well said, Anonymous. Shout down the little cafe communists when they disrupt a presentation and soak them with a Belgian water cannon (they probably need a bath anyway).
OMG! I know, and they have been pull’in up my ‘TRUMP’ Make Pan-Amer-rica Great Again signs to.
I mean to Tell Ya, I’m gonna have to Build-a-Wall around my Front-n-Back Yard. But that won’t stop the Dem Poly-Stinians from launching Turd-Birds onto my porch. Damn – Where’s Hunter Biden & His Daddy when ya need them! Somebody’s gotta buy them off – I’ll need at least $14.5 Billion more just to Stand My Double-Wide’s Ground. What the Hell is Congress Do’en ???
The intro from Callen Zimmerman Master’s degree “capstone project” is predictable. It was written similarly to the “content” the left wing trolls on here post – psychobabble, detached from reality, pure gibberish. For this CUNY awarded her an MA degree. Her career is now toast. Her adjunct faculty page is no longer available.
Callen Zimmerman and many like her are examples of uncontrolled appetites, described as such for centuries by both Judaism and Catholic Church. “Leftwing Progressive” is destructive to the self and their surrounding world
Getting Located: Queer Semiotics in Dress
Callen Zimmerman
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
“A master’s capstone project submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Liberal Studies in partial
fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, The City University of New York”
Much like the fraught, fun and disorienting practice of dressing myself everyday, this project is
decidedly fragmented, and like its accompanying exhibition proposal, employs an almost anti-format. The
pages that serve as a collection of different iterations this project has taken, including but not limited to
historical explorations, theory drawings, a script for a performance, etc. This bricolage, much like the
jumbled pile of clothes that one assembles in the midst of trying to find an outfit for the day, represents
not one solidified idea, but a smattering of different approaches and turns. In my meta-collection process
(curation of bits of work about my curation work) it is my hope that each parcel will have room to articulate
itself, and in the process, will confuse and conflate singularity of narrative or voice.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4419&context=gc_etds
In other words, she cannot sustain a coherent thought across the length of her thesis.
The purpose of a master thesis is for the student to demonstrate sufficient skill in academic research. The paper should take us through the research process, thesis, arguments, counterarguments, sources, logical reasoning, etc. The introduction of her project clearly demonstrates that her paper does not meet the requirements for any academic degree. That she has a master’s degree and is now pursuing a PhD demonstrates the demise of academia.
@Anonymous: Re: “The intro from Callen Zimmerman Master’s degree. .”Likely written prior to her daily dose of lytic cocktail. Obviously designed to impress by appearing complex and highly intellectual yet likely a camouflage for deep insecurity and profound lack of self-esteem. That this sort of stuff rates a ‘magistrum’ and admission to PhD candidacy speaks to the present state of affairs in academia at all levels. Going forward we shall have to scrutinize the credentials of our considered choices for legal representation or neurosurgery carefully.
AKA: “You’ve successfully regurgitated the jargon, kid. What else can we say except, “You’re In!”
much like the
jumbled pile of clothes that one assembles in the midst of trying to find an outfit for the day,
She sounds like a hot mess.
OT (Gag Orders) –
Professor Turley has objected to gag orders issued by Democratic judges against Donald Trump. Supposedly, these orders are necessary to secure “a fair trial.” We are now seeing why those judges want to gag Trump. The past few days, there was testimony in the New York “fraud in financial statements” case that was damaging to the prosecution: Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump testified that they played no role in preparing financial statements, relying on accountants to perform this task. Yesterday, NY Atty General Letititia James immediately released a video on social media wherein she said that the both Trump sons were “liars”. This is a shocking attempt to influence public opinion and the court itself. It is essentially a form of testimony. But it will be said that a gag order was necessary to protect the judge’s staff, esp his clerk. Now it seems that his chief clerk, Allison Greenfield, who frequently passes notes to the judge during the trial, has violated ethics laws by making excessivie politicial contributions to Democrats. A complaint against her has been filed. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/02/complaint-calls-for-trump-new-york-trial-judges-clerk-to-be-disbarred-for-excessive-political-donations/ She has also been seen socializing with top Democrats. The political influence, the gag orders, the tesitmonial videos of the AG all represent a form of judicial corruption in NY State, a Kangeroo Court in a banana republic.
The professor just uploaded his article. Can’t you at least discuss it with others till Noon before trying to commandeer his blog for your whims? Sheesh
BugAnon- As you know, there are no published limits on raising Off Topic” issues here, either as to time frame (original idea on your part) or subject matter. If Darren thinks something is irrelevant, he can pull the comment. Gag orders have been a frequent point of discussion here in the past few weeks, esp. by you. Raising the issue of the ethics violation by Letitia James on the day of the violation is the best time to do so.
Decades of too much empowerment without the counterweight of humility, courtesy, and self-reflection.
As well as the counterweight of discipline, rigor or genuine scholarship.
Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Another worthless degree that will only be employable at a liberal college.
I wonder what her parents are like?
Parents?? You think she had parents??! 🙂
This woman’s actions are a manifestation of the spiritual exhaustion of our society. America needs spiritual renewal. And if conservatives want young people to see the superiority of conservatism over liberalism, they have to build a society that young people will want to conserve. This Soviet immigrant to the UK (Konstantin Kisin) lays it out in a recent speech, which incidentally is very funny:
Thank you for sharing that OldMan.
Oldman, that is a great video that led me to the organization. I have to go back and look around because this organization, ARC, appears to be the real deal. I love the name as clearly everyone will recognize it as Noah’s Arc (k) and the attempt to save the human spirit from the downward spiral it is in. Hopefully the organization will do more than Noah and not just create an ARC, but look further, something Noha failed to do. One of its founders is Jordan Peterson. Later, I will go through their conference and see who else spoke. Thanks, thanks, and thanks.
I wonder how you bumped into it.
S. Meyer – thanks for the enthusiastic reception. I hope you’re right that its’ the real deal. As for how I found it, a writeup of the speech was linked to by a news aggregator I check called citizenfreepress.org. Here is the writeup by Rod Dreher, which has the clip embedded. (To get the above video I just searched Konstantin’s name on YouTube.) I didn’t even know there was a publication called the European Conservative.
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/building-a-seaworthy-arc-is-not-so-easy/
Rod Dreher brought up something important. The Ark, Noah’s Ark, something Estovir could comment on, but he is angry at me.
God told Noah of the destruction he would do. Noah built the ARK, but his ACTIONS otherwise, in this case, were nonexistent. That differed from the ACTIONS taken by Abraham, who prayed to God not to kill the people in Sodom and Gomorrah. Noah did not pray and is similar to a conservative following a vision while, at the same time, he lacks ACTIONS (to prevent annihilation) [praying is one type of action that I am neither advocating nor not.] We need new and better conservative leadership.
Is Trump a Conservative? No. He is a pragmatist with gut reactions that breed common sense conservative activism and values rather than passivity.
Some people may be offended by activism because it calls for action and getting off one’s a$$ to do something. Many of our conservative leaders do not want activism because their goal is not conservatism but reelection and all the power and money that can come from being a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
I was unfamiliar with Rod Dreher before your posting, but I appreciated his write-up and liked what he said. He recognizes where the conservative leaders have taken us.
I listened to McCarthy’s speech before reading Dreher and was commenting when I stopped to read Dreher. Here is what I was writing when I stopped to read him. ‘I listened to McCarthy’s speech, which was more of a campaign speech than I would like. He knows that, but what he doesn’t know is he is no Margaret Thatcher.’ Dreher’s comments were on the same line, so I will look for what Dreher writes in the future.
He also talks about Hungry, a government defiled by others in the EU and our leftists here. It is not suffering the onslaught of those who wish harm to good people all over the world, including Israel.
Yes, the speech in your link has led me, hopefully, to a new source of renourishment.
Thank you for the link.
S. Meyer……Rod is a great guy…and we usually agree with him. One of his favorite teachers at the Natchitoches, Louisiana residential high school for “really smart kids”, and one with whom he stays in touch, is honestlawyer’s oldest and closest friend (a friendship of 65 years). Though we’ve never met Rod, we feel we know him a little through honestlawyer’s friend.
btw…Rod’s story about his sister’s death and burial in the treasured, tiny town of St. Francisville, La, is a poignant, wonderful read. He’s a very sensitive thinker and writer.
Cindy, I never heard of him before but was quite impressed by what he wrote in that article. I am thinking of reading his latest book. Try to meet him. He sounds like a thinker and what he wrote resonated with me.
He sounds like a thinker and what he wrote resonated with me.
I have known Dreher’s writings since the 1990s. He is a mess. He has been a broken man for decades, and sadly his recent life has proven just how shallow he always was interiorly.
He went off the cliff with his bestseller book, “The Benedict Option”. I may have mentioned it once when I first landed on this forum, but I entered a Benedictine Monastery two years after college, to discern a religious life as a Benedictine monk. Dreher completely misunderstood or purposely distorted The Rule of St Benedict, on which his book was supposedly based. The Rule is a must read for every serious Catholic, and every Christian should consider reading it as well. It is a book meant for monks living in community. St Benedict of Nursia founded the first Western monastery.
Dreher was once a Methodist, converted to Roman Catholic and then converted to Eastern Orthodox Catholic (Orthodox Church of America – OCA / Russian Church in Exile) because he was angry at the Catholic Church when the sex scandal erupted in 2002. Problem was he could not stop writing about his anger. It consumed him, and his interior life became hollow. Dreher could not move on. His anger predictably morphed into ideology, Conservatism, smug, self-righteous, holier than thou, judgmental as frack, and his financial success soared as a writer, gifted that he was with that talent: magazine, books, speaking tours, etc. Recent tragic events in his life have shown him to be what he always was: shallow and terribly lost, living in a foreign country, Hungary, divorced, away from his children, alone, all self-imposed, all completely inimical to both Catholicism and OCA. There have been many recent “Catholic” writers who followed Dreher’s trajectory, all leading to the same sad demise. Shallow, not men of Faith at all.
I have said it many times. Conservatism is an ideology. It is amorphous. It means whatever people want it to mean, unlike Orthodox Judaism and Catholicism, the latter are anything but amorphous.
To have faith in God is painfully difficult. To live that faith daily, hourly, is radical. It means continually dying to self and believing God is in control and in the quiet of one’s stormy life. And storms are part of everyday life. It requires a daily, rigorous discipline, and Americans today are not about discipline. Dreher did what all ideologues do: they made themselves the summa, visible and palpable in his writings, albeit notoriously long and melodramatic.
It is one thing to appreciate some of the things Konstantin Kisin said in the video, just like Dreher has some good points. The difference between Kisin and Solzhenitsyn is this: Solzhenitsyn clung to his Faith like his life depended on it.
See
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Christian Moralist
https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2018/12/11/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-christian-moralist
Kisin even stated in his intro remarks how Solzhenitsyn emphasized the importance of the spiritual life of a people. No one believes that today, certainly not conservatives, and progressives are largely atheists.
Conservatives cling to their ideology, created in their own image. God’s teachings, as set forth in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition, are quaint considerations, only if they do not challenge their own thinking. That isn’t truth. Thats convenience which is why America, Europe and Israel are where they are today.
“He is a mess. ”
Estovir, you know him better than I do, as I never heard of him before reading that write-up. I don’t know his personal life, but I don’t see anything wrong with the piece he wrote, even if one might disagree with portions of it. Cindy seems to know him and thinks highly of him.
You have your particular view of things where religion and religiosity predominate your outward personality. I relate to others in a secular manner as I believe religiosity belongs to the individual. Jews don’t proselytize. Some Rabbis will emphasize that we are all imperfect and that bettering ourselves is what we are about. You seem to start from the other direction and work backward.
Religion is not there to replace the state, so I look at individual policies of the state and how they interact with the people and their needs. Of course, in my mind, the state must promote the individual and his rights over the state, compatible with a moral foundation. The state’s function is for protection. The Constitution, though not perfect, is a good start to build on.
I liked Dreher’s image of an Ark and all the symbolism involved, along with the recognition that man is moving in the wrong direction.
In my mind, his statement about McCarthy and his cliches were on target.
He was correct about conservatives being unimaginative, but that might depend on one’s definition of a conservative. I like conservatives like Ronald Reagan, but if one prefers to deal with strict concepts, I like the free marketplace and civil liberties. I am not sure what a conservative is in your world.
He talked about Hungary keeping its own culture and considering the problems encountered in many EU nations. I think he was correct.
I can’t say much about his relationship to his religion or the various branches. That is religious doctrine particular to those practicing those religions. I also can’t speak about his personal life because that is his, not mine.
He said, “We live in an era in which the spiritual energies of the West have been depleted, and the workability of classical liberalism has withered.” That is something else I agree with.
Is he a broken man, as you say, or a great guy, as Cindy says? I have no answer, which is perplexing because two intelligent people have polar opposite opinions of the same man. Victor Hugo might question the opinions of you and Cindy asking which of the two has the better view.
S. Meyer……..You might enjoy reading this about the Hungarian PM and Rod:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/05/19/hungary-american-conservative-right-wing-intellectuals-orban/#cookie_message_anchor
Honestlawyer’s best friend, who is very close to Rod, as I’ve mentioned, told us that Rod and Tucker Carlson are good friends…and that info is part of the above news article. BTW, Honestlawyer’s best friend is a lifelong hardcore liberal Democrat, so for him to respect and support Rod says a lot about Rod, in our opinion.
Cindy, that was an interesting article. Thank you. I don’t know if you realize my wife is Hungarian and crossed a minefield between Austria and Hungary. I am happy with Orban and agree with the big picture, but I have to hedge because I don’t know all the details. However, compared to the rest of the EU, he is on the right path.
The ideologies have become near-meaning differentiators. There is the autocratic or Marxist Revolutionary group, and the rest where too many hold no beliefs and are bought by the one giving out the most free candy.
Whether right or left, those adhering to our Constitution and our freedoms are the group I am from. As time passed, I believe Democrats appeared to be more civil libertarian oriented in the past because the hard left was active in pushing civil liberties, and Democrats followed. Those who remain Democrats were not sincere in their beliefs because now that Democrats fight against civil liberties and the Constitution, they remain Democrats and woke.
P.S…S.Meyer…No, I didn’t know about your wife! How fascinating!
I agree with you re: the Constitution’s the thing!. As you may know, I was Dem and worked in major and minor campaigns for 40 years. I worked with James Carville, and other big names and was a loyal soldier. That all ended with the shameful bullying in the creation of Obama and his campaign during the ’08 primaries……..by that November I had joined other women in exiting the Democratic Party, that we had worked for and volunteered for, tirelessly, loyally, for decades.
Shirley Chisolm said that when she ran for Pres. in 1968, she was discriminated against many more times for being a woman than for being black. That’s the Dems! They have no use for women they can’t control.
Their “abiding love and support” for people of color, Jews, women, is so shockingly shallow. As we are witnessing …now that Jews need love and support more than ever, the Dems not only have abandoned them, but have joined in the attacks!
Someone wrote on the blog the other day that this is not the Democrat Party of FDR. I strongly disagree!.
Remember, and never forget, FDR and the fate of the ship, the St. Louis!!!!
There is more to My wife’s story. She is a legitimate hero.
I was born a Democrat, but during the Vietnam War, I started to realize who the enemy was. I was against the war, but that put me in close contact with the radical left. I saw them create violence and were ecstatic if that led to injury or death. I began to recognize it wasn’t the war they fought against but America.
They were animals then and animals now. One of our members strikes me as that far left without a conscience. I bet that his parents were true Stalinists and never deviated even after the Stalin papers were released. I can’t be sure, but he fits the profile.
I was never a party person and would vote for the best or split my vote, always believing the less concentration of power, the better for America.
Sorry, not .org, .com
https://citizenfreepress.com/
Good stuff.
Unfortunately the voice of reason is wasted on these fascist, flying monkey Libturds…frankly I don’t know why the right is so hell bent on Pro- Life…I would think the vast majority of abortion enthusiasts are overwhelmingly Democrats…Leftists, Antifa, BLM or nymphomanisch…let them cull their ranks organically…How Feminists, BLM (Bacon, Lettuce & Merde) are Pro-Palestinian pen pals is pretty natural…activism trumps objectivity should be restricted to bowel movements – Joe Goebbels must be looking up and smiling …Ellsworth Toohey too…how the fringe became mainstream is thanks to the Hippie liberals of the 60s who never took their heads out of their colons.
Reading the absurd definition of herself and her class, what can we expect today? This isn’t a college level course, this is a Cosmo Magazine story. But, we have so many people with “women’s study” or “gender study” degrees; they have to do something. How the heck do you use that degree in a regular world?
“How the heck do you use that degree in a regular world?”
There’s a “golden arches” in almost every town.
“How the heck do you use that degree in a regular world?”
Would you like fries with that?
@Upstate
Alas though, these days it’s more like, ‘Would you like a high paying job at Disney/Google/The New York Times/Vice (or heaven forbid, Congress)?’. The days of liberal arts jokes are no longer a thing when they are the ones doing the hiring. Words fail at this point. First noticed this trend in earnest personally job hunting in education with my wife in CA over ten years ago.
It’s sad that the stereotypes are so pure and absurd all one need do is look at the hair/course of study combo. 😐🤷🏽♂️ the kernal of truth is in there, nevertheless, and with each incident all I see is the common undercurrent these days. We are creating a society where at least a full half are underdeveloped and out of their minds.
James,
I would agree with the ‘Would you like a high paying job at Disney/Google/The New York Times/Vice (or heaven forbid, Congress)?’ pre-high interest rates, high inflation, profit margins slimming.
Read an article a few weeks ago showing in this Bidenflation economy, the first jobs getting the ax are the DEI and HR divisions.
I do agree with you about a society of underdeveloped and out of their minds. The good news I read an article citing a WaPo article, yes, really, of how COVID homeschooling was not just a blip, but has continued to grow from so-called “fringe” into a mainstream movement.
Scary thought would be they become HR managers in major companies. Probably shouldn’t be giving them any thoughts on pursuing that!
“How the heck do you use that degree in a regular world?”
In today’s world:
Brand manager for a beer company. PR person for a family entertainment company. Head of HR for almost any Fortune 500 company. Principal or Superintendent of a public school. Head of a bureaucracy in any Leftist administration. But if you desire rapid career advancement: Join the military.
OT, but related,
Ditching Degrees: Walmart’s New Hiring Strategy is a Boon for Workers
“This shift acknowledges that too many American workers with the knowhow and experience to advance professionally face a completely artificial barrier to family-sustaining employment: they lack a piece of paper issued by an expensive college or university.”
https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2023/11/01/ditching_degrees_walmarts_new_hiring_strategy_is_a_boon_for_workers_990004.html?mc_cid=6e24edee7d
“How the heck do you use that degree in a regular world?” The professional rabble-rousers of the world, Soros/Gates/and the like, hire, train, and pay them handsomely to continue their legacy pot-stirring and chaos incitement for nothing more than the thrill of it all. Look at it this way, if folks like the ‘learned’ professor won’t carry the torch, who will?
It’s always “queer studies” or “gender studies” or some other garbage subject. (I wonder how she thinks women and “queers” would be treated by Hamas?)
Bottom line: don’t let your kids major in any subject ending in “studies.” They’ll have their mind destroyed and they won’t be able to get a job.
She’d be slaughtered by the US Israel jdams, other bombs and fire before hamas could decolorize her hair.
She knows this, and so do you.
The President of the Harvard Law Review was caught on video attacking a pro-Israel participant, tearing his flag and attacking other Jews as they marched for their cause. THE PRESIDENT OF THE HARVARD LAW REVIEW!!!!
Some day this fool will be in front of a Senate Committee trying to get appointed to a huge position and this video will emerge…and I hope the kid knows this.
HArvard and other schools have diminished themselves to such a degree that they no longer are elite institutions, they are ruined.
Now Claudine Gay will have a chance to prove if she really means it when she says Harvard “must begin the vital work of eradicating antisemitism from our community.”
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/10/30/gay-hillel-speech/
HullBobby,
The parallels to Germany 1930s is frighting.
Upstate, the same little fascist fools that said it is ok to punch a Nazi are now proven to be the Nazis.
See someone who is bald and has a beard and call the person he and it is a hate crime, say you want to kill Jews and force Jewish students into an ATTIC…free speech.
Some of us, actually many of us on this site, have known about this rot on campus for years, but finally many uninterested people are now seeing how far gone the universities truly are. Jews have been cowed on campus for years, Palestinian groups have dominated and bullied all others out of polite conversation, and it has all been fine with the faculty. The BDS movement (much like a BM movement) poisons debate and stifles any type of rebuttal. This is why thee left feels empowered to tear down posters of babies being held hostage. They cannot countenance an opposing opinion.
You probably missed Obama and his weather underground bombing and terror group getting him elected. The electric company CEO’s son was Obama first home fundraiser host and is still along with his terrorist wife University faculty.
Keep dreaming son, history already passed you by and proved you WRONG.
As the turlet flushes and you drown in your fantasies, your enemies are jealous of your pinhead swirlie, stand tall and show off.
What a wonderful opportunity to discover who the real fascists are.
The only good that may come out of all of this, is MAYBE finally the general public, the donors, the alumni, our government- are finally going to see what many of us have been shouting from the rooftops for years. Our “institutions of higher learning” are nothing but propaganda factories. Why do you think they keep up the mantra of “Everyone should go to college!” The mask is coming off…
If “disrupting a speech on free speech” is itself free speech, then disrupting a disruption of a speech on free speech is ALSO free speech. We best get to doing some of that disruption.