There has been a massive increase in Turning Point chapters and membership following the assassination of founder Charlie Kirk. Students who felt chilled in their ability to express their faith or values on campus stepped forward after the murder. That does not sit well with some faculty. One example is Derek Lopez, a teacher’s assistant and graduate student at Illinois State University, who was shown trashing a TPUSA table and mocking the shocked students. He was later arrested.
Lopez, 27, is shown on camera standing near the table, taunting the students and saying, “Well, you know, Jesus did it, so you know I gotta do it, right?” He then tosses the table and says, “Thanks, guys, have a great day.” He is then shown tearing down a flyer on a nearby bulletin board.
Lopez was presumably referring to Matthew 21:12 where Jesus turns over the tables of the money lenders in the Temple. In the passage, Jesus says “It is written. My house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of robbers.”
It is a telling choice. For years, conservative values on campus have been viewed as virtually sacrilegious in a culture of increasing academic orthodoxy. This week we discussed how a leading academic journal ran a long column against intellectual diversity.
Lopez brings a new menacing meaning to the school slogan “gladly we learn and teach.” We have seen faculty engage in such violence and property destruction for years, particularly targeting TPUSA and other conservative groups.
Years ago, many of us were shocked by the conduct of University of Missouri communications professor Melissa Click, who directed a mob against a student journalist covering a Black Lives Matter event. Yet, Click was hired by Gonzaga University. Since that time, we have seen a steady stream of professors joining students in shouting down, committing property damage, participating in riots, verbally attacking students, or even taking violent action in protests.
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.
At Hunter College in New York, 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. Another college then hired her.
Another example comes from the State University of New York at Albany, where sociology professor Renee Overdyke shut down a pro-life display and then resisted arrest. One student is heard screaming, “She’s a [expletive] professor.” That, of course, is the point.
In Wisconsin, a department chair was shown destroying a table of conservative students.
Once again, what is most striking about these individuals is the sense of license to engage in such violence conduct. Higher education has long created a sense of orthodoxy and intolerance on campuses.
The good news is that this individual was reportedly arrested. Presumably, Illinois State University will terminate his teaching position and expel him. There must be clear rules about such conduct in higher education. This type of political violence is anathema to an institution of higher learning.
It is sad that Lopez never embraced the diversity of thought and values that is so essential to a university. However, make no mistake about it, his warped concept of free speech is neither unique nor universally condemned on our campuses.
The problem, however, is not these attacks on displays, but the systemic purging of conservative and libertarian faculty from campuses where departments now largely run from the left to the far left. This academic echo chamber fuels even greater intolerance and the sense of license shown by individuals like Lopez.
Listen up commies! This is America! We put UP tables to voice our opinion NOT tear them down!
Anyone is free to say their mind but NOT to silence others. That’s how it works HERE.
Don’t like it? Feeling violent? Then eat our justice system commie. We have LAWS.
You WILL be forced to respect others rights!
A friend of mine uprooted this political campaign sign on public property: https://photos.app.goo.gl/BdaBwTTHgMs9LVHV8
He took it into the office, but the manager wasn’t there. A couple of hours later it was back, so he complained to the county.
Then they put it up inside the office, so he complained again and they took it down again.
Three times up, three times down. That’s how it works HERE. Don’t like it? We have LAWS. (I don’t remember what county code section.)
Creekan,
laws you say? Now you leftys like laws?
Sorry, but I’ll say it again: YOU, Creekan, ARE NOT to violate other rights! Got it?
We have the right to free speech, and your justification for violence in the face of it is moot.
You will be punished.
Stop threatening me and put a bumper sticker on your own property or a message on your muzzle.
“Stop threatening me and put a bumper sticker on your own property or a message on your muzzle.”
Mocking you and jeering you may invade what you see as your Sacred Safe Space, little gaslighting Biden Birthing Boy. But it isn’t considering threatening in normal America. Why don’t you you look to GeorgeX as an example of how you can grow some bark to protect yourself with when you post your BullSchiff and the result is to be mocked and jeered?
If you can’t manage that, the only safe thing to do is confine your presence to universities where they protect sensitive little people and their emotional fragility.
Creekan posted in raging indignation on a sign in California: “That’s how it works HERE. Don’t like it? We have LAWS. (I don’t remember what county code section.)”
But Creekan – you’ve been supporting and cheerleading a Democrat administration which REFUSED to enforce existing federal Immigration Laws for the last four years! You’ve supported your Governor Newsom sheltering criminal Illegal Aliens violating multiple federal laws! But an alleged violation of a county ordinance has you dropping your guts in public, off topic to the subject of a violent Democrat Man-Bun Warrior?
At the same time, we’ve watched your rage for weeks that a new administration is now enforcing those existing Immigration Laws that Biden violated his oath of office and refused to enforce! (did you make your No Kings Enforcing Immigration Laws event yesterday?)
So here you are again Creekan… more political Marxist political theater, having your latest Midol Moment about an apparent violation of a section of that county code. Immediately after four years of gloating and supporting 20 MILLION Illegal Aliens being invited by Biden to violate Immigration Law, now you and your “friend” are wailing that those existing immigration laws are now being enforced.
Creekan: any comment or justification for the hypocrisy you’re putting on display yet again regarding your version of what law enforcement should look like? Federal, state criminal code, and local county ordinances?
You are a splendid example of Big D Democrat Double Standards! One set of commie laws enforced against normal Americans – while the same commie laws provide Illegal Alien Guest Democrat Voters with immunity from existing Immigration Laws
You’re quite the piece of work! Be proud of what you are, representing what a “reasonable Democrat” looks like during the run up to the midterm elections!
You must’ve confused me with someone else. I haven’t liked Newsom since his Prop N stunt in 2002 and his ersatz marriage licenses in 2004.
Every Californian voter who’s undecided on Prop 50 should see his 30-second video: https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1958620879056937328
Guv Gav wants to lead us down “a damned … path.” When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.
You say we have laws – but you presumed what those laws are.
Generally political signs are allowed on public property But those who put them up must take them down after the election.
If your friend uprooted a sign – he likely violated the law.
The ability of government to restrict speech on public property is limited and context dependent.
Generally political content is barred inside government workplaces.
But elsewhere the constitution favors free speech.
Perhaps decaf… or a lot less cocaine.
Also, you may want to consider the purchase of a new keyboard. Your shift key seems to be randomly malfunctioning.
(I’ll also point out, for the elucidation of the uninformed, that Communism had laws. It had a lot of laws, about everything, That was one one the many things about Communism that were bad.)
–Shannon
I’m trying to believe that it’s not ALL leftys that would choose violence, crime and taking the rights of others as a means of political expression but here we are. I’m going to need to hear at least a couple democrats say they don’t like this crap either or I’m going to have to lump em all together as enemies of the personal freedoms afforded by our constitution and of our republics founding principles of freedom.
“I’m trying to believe that it’s not ALL leftys that would choose violence, crime and taking the rights of others as a means of political expression”
You are correct it is not all – it is just a significantly larger proportion than any other ideology
It isn’t, and nobody should expect it to be.
Ideologues’ potential for violence is a strict function of numbers and intensity of belief. The nature of the belief is not relevant. That’s why Bhuddists fight religious wars. (The religious wars of the West didn’t end because Christians decided, en masse, that it was just fine for Those People to be wrong. They ended because Christians stopped caring enough about it, in large enough numbers, to keep the fight going.)
Which is what you’d expect, since all ideologies are equally wrong, because they all make the same mistake: You cannot systematize human behavior, and nobody should try. Not even you. We each make billions of decisions, most of which have nothing to do with each other, and there are billions of us. Any attempt to impose an overarching system on that must inevitably lead to force, and then to failure.
Your system is not different, because you are not special. This is equally true for all values of “you.”
The resulting body count depends not on what system you try to impose, but on how hard you try to impose it.
–Shannon
Context and nuance are generally considered to be relevant for informed debate among normal adults:
“That’s why Bhuddists fight religious wars.”
Context and nuance please: how many wars of aggression, versus wars of defense against primarily Chinese invaders, have Buddhists fought?
“The religious wars of the West didn’t end because Christians decided, en masse, that it was just fine for Those People to be wrong.”
Context and nuance again please. Did those religious wars of the West start with the First Crusade around 1100 AD? Or in a defensive response to the invading hajji Caliphate hordes swarming out of what is now Saudi Arabia, centuries before that, which ended in the Battle Of Tours, circa about 760 AD?
There’s a 300 year gap there, as some may notice with regards to ‘the West’s religious wars’.
“Which is what you’d expect, since all ideologies are equally wrong, because they all make the same mistake:”
Claims of moral and cultural equivalency, whether applied to cultures or political parties and movements are almost always the erroneous sophomoric pronouncements put forward by self-appointed elitists.
Jesus overturned the tables for selling in the temple, this guy doesn’t like the free exchange of ideas.
Note how the liberals implore ” jesus” when they think it will be beneficial for them? Jesus overturned tables ( for money changing at the temple), Jesus was a socialist ( except he did not say forcibly take other people’s money). Liberals are insane.
“Jesus was a socialist”
If my agnostic memory is correct, Jesus also said that if you wanted to be fed, you better work if to earn being fed. I remember it being something like this(?): For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
I doubt today’s Democrats and Bernie Sanders would agree with Jesus’ view of what socialism looks like.
So? Jesus apparently didn’t like free trade. How is that any better than this guy?
What’s ironic is that Illinois State University is in Normal, IL. If he is normal, I’d hate to meet his sister, Abby-normal.
The term “university” is derived from a similar late Latin word meaning “whole”. https://www.etymonline.com/word/university [“from Medieval Latin universitatem (nominative universitas), “the whole, aggregate,” in Late Latin “corporation, society,” from universus “whole, entire” (see universe).] In mideaval times, it connoted a concern with all things. Now in our country it connotes a concern with enforcing Marxist or current left-wing orthordoxy. In effect, its meaning has been reversed.
So what and no it has not.
Wow! You really know how to gainsay. That must’ve taken you minutes.
Know what and no it did not.
an argument is “a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition,” while contradiction is “just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says”.
Leftys: No it’s not.
If I say “The board may give directions that are not formal action” contradicts “The board shall act only by ordinance, resolution, or motion” is that enough of a “series of statements” to make “an argument” or would you call that conclusory?
He had a man-bun and was dressed like the original Soy-Boy. Did you expect anything different?
I see you’re still in your Walmart bath robe. How typical of old girls.
I haven’t “a bathrobe” nor do I enter a Walmart. I am up, showered, dressed and working on a vector for the 1-69th Fighting Irish Infantry Regiment crest so that our private business can make their next National Guard presentation piece in NYC.
Thank you so much for displaying the oddity that you use as a brain. I use mine to create a product for a customer and add to our economy. You utilize what is remaining of your “little grey cells” to denigrate that which confronts the absurdity of your ideology.
You’re 65 years old and you’re not in the guard. And you dress drag. Hope fully camos.
Where did she say that she was in the Guard?
Try re-reading you dummy
Oh oh super sleuth is at it again.
Your reading comprehension is equal to your ability to think logically.
Really (poor) retort…
Try again
(poor)? WTF does that mean? Hillbilly for demented?
WhimsicalMama,
I have noticed that trend among these beta males. The man bun, the wearing their pajamas out in public. Around here it has been noticeably on the decline, but it appears to be still the norm at these so-called higher education universities.
Oh oh, the calvary is here. Gonna save a damsel in distress? BTW farmer lives in his momma’s cellar, in his pink Barbie PJs.
You truly should get your TDS treated (it’s free courtesy of TPUSA in case your EBT is empty) Now run along and read some more Howard Zinn while you drink your soy latte.
What do comments highlighting your infantile thoughts have to do with TDS?
Really, you poor child. Still in the 5th grade by looking at you’re comments
Suggest you go back to your 5th grade grammar book. You inversed the predicate. But you wouldn’t know what that is anyway.
I’ve seen toddler tantrums where they are so angry and thwarted that they cannot speak, just throw things and stomp – I see you are having one of those days. Now buzz off to Blue Sky and tilt at those windmills.
WhimsicalMama does not need saving. She is clearly holding her own against you.
Oh oh, the calvary is here. Gonna save a damsel in distress? BTW farmer lives in his momma’s cellar, in his pink Barbie PJs.
Somebody is suffering from their mother giving them her hair dryer, vibrator collection, and the kitchen toaster for their bath toys one too many times.
Projection:
Channeling one’s actions onto others typically refers to the psychological concept of projection, where an emotionally disturbed individual unconsciously or deliberately attributes their own thoughts, feelings, and anti-social or criminal behaviors onto someone else. This is an internal defense mechanism which allows a person to avoid confronting their own behavior and guilt by seeing them as the thoughts and actions of someone else who they despise and hate instead.
The “Original Soy Boy ™” was, presumably, a Japanese peasant in a funny hat. (All peasants wear funny hats. Nobody understands why.)
If the woodcuts are accurate, it was the Samuraiz wot had da man-bunz.
Why anybody old enough to know algebra would construct an insult around an innocuous, albeit slightly-gross-tasting, legume, and/or the delicious sauce for which it is named, is a mystery to every thinking person.
–Shannon
The local Unit 5 public school district is just as bad. Thourghly CRT pedogogy where the president of the school board called conservatives “low information voters” and worse in a facebook post. One high school teacher wears an Abolish ICE shirt to school another gradeschool music teacher quizzes his students on gender fluidity by painting his finger nails and putting an LGBTQ flag on his piano. The source of all this indoctrination? – the state school board.
Location?
“Location?”
Why? Because you’re poised, waiting for that answer, in order to post a similar detailed response to this one?
Sealioning:
Sealioning is a form of adolescent trolling where someone persistently demands answers to insincere questions to provoke a response, often pretending to seek a civil debate while actually trying to exhaust or frustrate others with no intention of real discourse. This behavior is characterized by a facade of politeness and a refusal to acknowledge previous answers. Often used as a tactic by whining Democrats in online forums and podcasts
Illinois State University is in Normal Illinois, therefore the local school district would be in the same location. Teachers from ISU are frequently hired by Unit 5. That’s a problem.
Severely damage these cowards on a regular basis. Then they’ll go away…
“Presumably, Illinois State University will terminate his teaching position and expel him.”
I really admire you, Professor Turley, but sometimes you make such naive comments. “Presumably”? “Hopefully”, perhaps. He certainly should be terminated and expelled. But given what we know of academia, and given what you’ve just written in this very column, I certainly see no basis upon which to presume such an outcome. I’d be curious to know if you think there is such a basis, other than wishful thinking.
The Left has set themselves on a course to change America. Turning over tables is just a silly expression of rage. But then the Left got a shock to their system, just yesterday at “No Kings.” They found their fan club was mostly the elderly, moving and protesting their rage in slow motion. The Left may need to do a rethink. Back on the campuses, we note faculty cannot rethink, having decided they already know everything. Even on the campuses, it is mostly middle-aged to elderly faculty that keep the rage churning.
I find it interesting that the No Kings rally in Atlanta was mostly white in a majority black city. Democrats must be a bit concerned….
True here in Oakland, as well.
Most of the not-white (mostly African-American, but not exclusively so) people at Lake Merrit yesterday were the same peeps I’d see there on any random sunny Saturday afternoon, doing the same things they’d be doing on any random sunny Saturday afternoon. BBQing, selling food or art from little stands, walking around, blasting crappy music at annoying volumes, hangin’ out smokin’ weed… the kinds of things that normal people normally do at normal parks on normal weekends.
Most of the people holding stupid signs and chanting stupid chants and yelling stupid slogans and cheering for stupid politicians yelling stupid things through microphones were honkies.
I expect it was pretty much the same everywhere. For some reason, Whitey seems to think that standing under a hot sun, in a huge crowd of loudly emoting humans is fun.
–Shannon
This guy has probably never had an original idea in his life and has made a career in academia by being a good little sheep. Unfortunately his termination will probably result in hero status in the bizzarro world of academia. I highly recommend the novel Straight Man by Richard Russo, whose premise is that in academia, the real competition is for the role of straight man in a comedy routine.
A future Democrat leader ala Schumer and Pelosi.
I have been a Christian for more than forty years. We do not have to allow ourselves to be attacked. In my opinion we can rightfully defend ourselves. I might have a different stance if these people were held accountable suffered consequences for their actions. As long as the people doing this suffer no consequences for their actions it will continue. Left-wing activist prosecutors and judges put Christians in jail for praying to close to an abortion clinic. Turning Point USA has many well built Christian men who could act as security for the Turning Point outreach tables. Christ flipped the tables over in the Temple which is sacred ground. In my opinion it is time for we on the right to begin pushing back hard against the lunatics on the left.
“Left-wing activist prosecutors and judges put Christians in jail for praying to close to an abortion clinic. “. STOP! No they do not. Prove it.
“Left-wing activist prosecutors and judges put Christians in jail for praying to close to an abortion clinic. “. STOP! No they do not. Prove it.
Gaslighting
Gaslighting is the intended psychological manipulation by the perpetrator of those they’re attempting to victimize through intentionally misleading that person or persons. This involves the perpetrator lying, denying events, and other methods used with the intent to have their victims doubt their perceptions of reality, memories, and feel overly emotional or irrational. Within personal relationships, it is a form of psychological abuse and torture. The main five methods of gaslighting that may be used alone or in conjunction with others are: lying, blame shifting, countering, trivializing and withholding.
If you are actually mentally disabled and have that as an excuse, let us help you with your diminished mental capacity:
A pro-life activist has been convicted and sentenced to 90 days in jail for silently praying in a public area near a Michigan abortion facility
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pro-life-activist-jailed-for-praying-silently-outside-michigan-abortion-clinic-appeals-to-supreme-court/ar-AA1JJiY5
Absolute bulldust. Matthew Connolly was absolutely NOT arrested or convicted for praying, and anyone who claims he was, including this “Christian Post” web site that you quote, is lying.
Matthew Connolly is a career criminal, and in this case he was properly arrested and convicted of trespassing, resisting arrest, and interfering with a business. He and his fellow criminals invaded private property, and when ordered to leave they refused. When the police came to arrest them they went limp and had to be put in wheelchairs to be removed from the property. Nothing in the first amendment entitled them to do any of these things. And the fact that they happened to be praying while they were committing their crimes is neither here nor there. A bank robber doesn’t get off because he was praying while he was doing it, and neither do they.
Note that he’s not even appealing the trespassing and resisting arrest charges; his only challenge is to the interfering with a business charge, and he’s not appealing that on first amendment grounds but on a claim that the ordinance is worded so vaguely that no one can understand what they are prohibited from doing. Three courts that looked at the wording had no problem at all understanding it; but even if the Supreme Court takes the case (it won’t) and agrees with his argument about the wording, that wouldn’t justify his actions. Vaguely worded or not, he knew damn well that he was doing wrong, and committing multiple crimes.
Well then in the Left’s state of mind, we should whip out our Bowie Knife and slice off an ear and scream “Well Peter did it!’.
As usual, the Left forgets all about context and intent and even subtlety. They scream “No Kings” when they lose an election decisely.
We had our January 6 but they have been carrying on now for almost a year since 11/2024. The trouble is that Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are all starting to sound just like this teaching assistant.
Since the Left has lost Twitter and is in the process of losing CBS and the Washington Post I have noticed that they seem to be facing some more harsh questions from the remaining MSM. And they are testy indeed.
I guess if the Sombrero fits???
Illinois State is in a far more conservative part of Illinois so it will be interesting to see what happens.
gobbledygook
GEB,
It is not just CBS. NBC fired some 150 people, mostly in their “DEI” division. Last year, Microsoft terminated their entire DEI division and fired all the DEI employees. They saw no value added. Many other companies came to the same conclusion. Hollywood is reporting a real downturn in production as producers cull woke content. No one wants to watch it. Go woke, go broke.
Not true. Your shoveling shit as usual.
Once again, I lay out a trap for you and knowing how dumb you are, you took the bait.
NBC fires teams of journalists focused on marginalized communities, axing NBC Out & NBC BLK staff
https://www.advocate.com/news/nbc-cuts-nbc-out
Microsoft quietly lays off a controversial team following backlash
https://www.thestreet.com/employment/microsoft-lays-off-controversial-team
UpstateFarmer – Well done. ATS has trouble reading and assimilating. He had already used his new word of the day “gobbledygook” and it overtaxed him. His brain is now undergoing reconstruction .
I’ll add your list to my list. Hopefully the lists continue to grow longer.
Well done? Puh lease… So gonna gang up on anon now? You children.
Another pathetic retort from Ano
OMG… more than one person mocked your sophomoric shyte. No fair!
well he’s a low-info moron or an evil liar, so no, don’t ‘mob’ him like a commie would, individuals can throw reason and facts at him mercilessly.
A trap? Yet no where in your trap is it stated they were DEI…. focused on… controversial. Still don’t see that as DEI.
And your sources, geez you knucklehead, get something with credibility. Try again, this time keep your fat fingers out of the trap.
Yep Upstate the left loves to be proven wrong and we let them have it… LOL
“Not true. Your shoveling shit as usual.”
Another man-bun Biden Bolshevik Boy projecting. As usual.
Projection:
Channeling one’s actions onto others typically refers to the psychological concept of projection, where an emotionally disturbed individual unconsciously or deliberately attributes their own thoughts, feelings, and anti-social or criminal behaviors to someone else. This is an internal defense mechanism which allows a person to avoid confronting their own behavior and guilt by seeing them as the thoughts and actions of someone else instead.
Once a nicely-worded insane idea is exposed for what it truly is, Racism in this case, AND a money grift,
corporations eventually figure out that racism is a bad look for them.
It’s happening to “climate change” now. exposed. just like the ‘hidden’ deep state and “nice commies”
Think about it socialists: Is there any way to get the whole world to agree to your worldview except through violence?
It’s quite sad how society has come to accept terms like “triggering” as an excuse for criminal conduct and mental illness. Maybe a spoonful of job loss, confinement and a stiff fine would aide in recovery from this dreaded campus disease “triggering”?
So margot, if anyone here is triggered, its you. Turley tosses out some red meat and you lunge head first after it.
“So margot, if anyone here is triggered, its you. Turley tosses out some red meat and you lunge head first after it.”
Gaslighting
Gaslighting is the intended psychological manipulation by the perpetrator of those they’re attempting to victimize through intentionally misleading that person or persons. This involves the perpetrator lying, denying events, and other methods used with the intent to have their victims doubt their perceptions of reality, memories, and feel overly emotional or irrational. Within personal relationships, it is a form of psychological abuse and torture. The main five methods of gaslighting that may be used alone or in conjunction with others are: lying, blame shifting, countering, trivializing and withholding.
Red meat? context or you’re CCP
Sounds like what you are describing is accountability for ones actions. I would expect this kind of behavior from a six year old. Not someone who is 27.
“I would expect this kind of behavior from a six year old. Not someone who is 27.” So says the truculent geriatric who resorts to name calling and throws temper tantrums when he smells a liberal among the commenters.
I don’t mind liberals. I dislike dilettantes as they waste my time and the air around them is sucked dry.
“So says the truculent geriatric who resorts to name calling and throws temper tantrums”
Projection:
Channeling one’s actions onto others typically refers to the psychological concept of projection, where an emotionally disturbed individual unconsciously or deliberately attributes their own thoughts, feelings, and anti-social or criminal behaviors to someone else. This is an internal defense mechanism which allows a person to avoid confronting their own behavior and guilt by seeing them as the thoughts and actions of someone else who they despise and hate instead.
Smelt you before you got here, criminal commie.
The best news I’ve seen in years is that 65% of Democrats surveyed by Pew said higher education in the US is on the wrong track. The only surprise about 77% of Republicans saying the same thing is the percentage is not higher than 77%.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/15/growing-share-of-americans-say-the-us-higher-education-system-is-headed-in-the-wrong-direction/
It’s good news for two reasons. First, it means there are more rational Democrats than we thought existed.
The second reason why it is good news is that with so much opposition to what academia is doing, it can not and will not continue. It’s not rational to expect taxpayers to continue to guarantee $TRILLIONS in student loans and fund tens of billions of dollars for research grants when around 2/3 of the country oppose what higher education is doing with their taxes.
Academia went to war with the population. It lost. If our political system is not wholly corrupt, then meaningful “reform” of higher education must come next.
Additionally, here in Marxist Massachusetts, universities and colleges are reporting that foreign student registrations are down – considerably.
Now that the revenue stream is impacted, institutional attitudes just might change.
Yeah the local Ferrari dealer is pissed – no middle eastern buyers. He blames Trump.
Anonymous 9:06 AM- One can hope. Funny what happens when the revenue stream is impacted.
Of course, the question is, how many of that 65% answered the way they did because they don’t think academia is radical enough.
Our so-called “higher education” system is completely broken, with the probability of meaningful repair open to question. My wife and I have a fund set aside to reimburse (some of) our grandchildren’s post-secondary education and training tuition expenses. You had better believe that I will be carefully scrutinizing institutions for behavior and positions similar to that highlighted by Prof. Turley in this column before disbursing any requested funds. Assuming that Republicans maintain control of the WH and at least one House of Congress for at least one additional Presidential term, I expect to see some significant financial failures and bankruptcies among colleges and universities. If that happens, it will imo have been far overdue. I will consider it good riddance to bad rubbish.
“higher education” system is completely broken,”… no it is not. There are numerous colleges and universities that are not infected. Stop whining, you take the republican bait without thinking.
“Stop whining, you take the republican bait without thinking.”
Oooohhh… what we have here is a Democrat who can possibly think, acknowledging that many campuses are infected with Democrat Marxist Theology. But some aren’t, so we shouldn’t take “the bait”.
Can it even name the ones it wants us to know aren’t infected with Marxist theology? A
nd why is a factual article providing examples of the Democrat/Marxist/Woke corruption and corrupt professors “bait”? Unless you’re an angry Democrat, enraged that the corruption and these vile reptiles are being called out?
“what we have here is a Democrat who can possibly think, acknowledging that many campuses are infected with Democrat Marxist Theology”
Or one who was just so desperate for any comeback that they would say pretty much anything. That is where my proverbial bet is.
Ok then. I am not Christian but I am pretty sure that Jesus did’t get off scot free. “If you can’t do the time…”. We can either crucify him or just luck up his sorry &@@
There are campuses in this country that the Democrat Man-Bun Warrior would decide to just walk right past a TPUSA display like that without even thinking of putting his grubby soy boy hands on the display like that. Actions, as well as elections, can have consequences. Consequences for laying your dick beaters on other peoples’ property far more immediate and physically personal than later being arrested and charged.
Man-Bun Warrior knew he was in a known safe space when he did this. Places where that kind of criminal behavior has a record of being allowed and cheered, going back to Obama’s first years in office where Antifa and Black Liars & Marxists were first allowed to do things like this – those are the safe spaces for the soy boys to do their performative political street theater at.
We know the issue is that they keep getting away with it. They know it’s a wrist-slap at worst. Yet the Left keeps throwing January 6 in our faces, where the rioters suffered very serious consequences. I can’t imagine why anyone would listen to any more about January 6 from these hypocrites.
Elitism breed’s arrogance which eraces civility & common sense.
More proof, the left is just plain crazy!
That’s proof? You mushmind.
Anonymous 8:36 AM No, No, NO ATS, Your brain is still in for reconstruction and rehabilitation. You’re still showing only mewling responses.
Oh oh, really really old GEB to the rescue in his wheelchair.
Boy, I wish I was part of your gang.
GEB,
Can one’s brain under go reconstruction or rehabilitation if the brain was never fully developed in the first place?
“That’s proof? You mushmind.”
Gaslighting
Gaslighting is the intended psychological manipulation by a low-IQ perpetrator targeting those they hope to victimize through intentionally misleading that person or persons. This
involves the perpetrator lying, denying events, and other methods used with the intent to have their victims doubt their perceptions of reality, memories, and feel overly emotional or irrational. Within personal relationships, it is a form of psychological abuse and torture. The main five methods of gaslighting that may be used alone or in conjunction with others are: lying, blame shifting, countering, trivializing and withholding.
DustOff,
It would be funny if it were not so sad. And how often it happens. They put on full display, for everyone to see, exactly how unhinged they are.
Two Karens. You two gonna cuddle-up today?
The real Karen, is 27 year old Derek Lopez. Just watch the video the good professor attached. Just yesterday there was a whole lot of Karens protesting against the very people who fund their little No Kings day thing.
That video is red meat for the likes of you and your fellow simpletons.
Then how is it a pajama wearing, man bun sporting loon is the one who makes it all possible? If anyone posts simpleton comments, you have the monopoly on it.
“That video is red meat for the likes of you and your fellow simpletons.”
Gaslighting
Gaslighting is the intended psychological manipulation by the perpetrator of those they’re attempting to victimize through intentionally misleading that person or persons. This
involves the perpetrator lying, denying events, and other methods used with the intent to have their victims doubt their perceptions of reality, memories, and feel overly emotional or irrational. Within personal relationships, it is a form of psychological abuse and torture. The main five methods of gaslighting that may be used alone or in conjunction with others are: lying, blame shifting, countering, trivializing and withholding.
How does one become so ignorant of their own ingnorance? I’m sure this indoctrinated tool would be willing to fly a plane into a tower if his prof told him to.
ingnorance? No further comment required.
“Ingnorance?” This is what pro bono trolling has come to. I almost miss the good old days before DOGE wiped out their troll farms.
“ingnorance? No further comment required.”
We do appreciate your brevity in parading yourself as the avatar of the Democrat Woke Useful Idiot brain trust. It is a refreshing change from when Gigi’s performances before you took her place.