How to change the direction of leftist and anti-Semitic universities
It won’t be easy, that’s for sure. But at least more people have become aware of the problem.
Commenter “J.J.” writes:
The solution for change, I submit, is to cut off the money. State legislatures can do this in red states.
Alumni can vote with their pocketbooks. I informed my alma mater some years ago, that they would not donate another cent until they changed their policies.
Students can start picking schools that aren’t woke. Smaller choice, but many students are opting to skip college – the blue-collar professions offer a better career path for many.
The feds could start limiting grants only to schools that are emphasizing education over indoctrination. They could also decide to tax the endowments of these schools – take away their non-profit status. The student loan program could be reorganized to only allow loans to students who attended non-woke schools. Finally, the feds could ban any foreign money going to schools unless it is for valid research or education purposes. No more foreign propaganda posing as education.
I agree.
Here’s an extremely interesting article on the money situation regarding tax breaks, and what might be done about it:
Prohibitively expensive universities that turn out students who believe that open antisemitism and championing terrorism are forms of “social justice” do so on the taxpayer’s dime. That’s because they all enjoy tax-exempt status as “educational” public charities. But are these institutions in fact serving the public interest? And how much are the lessons that students are learning at these wealthy “public charities” costing the American taxpayer?
The auditors at OpenTheBooks.com, a nonprofit government-spending watchdog which I [Adam Andrzejewski] direct, examined 10 universities—the Ivy League, plus Stanford and Northwestern. We found that during a five-year period from 2018-22 these wealthy universities collected $45 billion in taxpayer subsidies, special tax treatment, and federal payments. In fact, these universities collected a stunning $33 billion in federal contracts and grants. It therefore seems these schools are more federal contractors than educators—with federal payments exceeding undergraduate student tuition.
Additionally, the universities we surveyed profit handsomely from “nonprofit” tax breaks amounting to a benefit of roughly $12 billion. Wealthy universities pay only a 1.4% “excessive endowments” tax on their gains whereas wealthy individuals pay up to 23.4% on their capital gains. …
In addition to examining the tax-exempt status of institutions that tolerate open antisemitism and other expressions of radical bigotry, House appropriators need to go line by line with a red pen through the $7 billion doled out each year to these 10 wealthy universities. …
Public funding of any type of discrimination simply cannot be tolerated.
Much more at the link.
And although I can’t read this article because of a paywall, the short excerpt offered this tidbit:
Every year, some 200 campuses now host a multiday hate-the-Jews fest, its malignancy encapsulated in its title: “Israel Apartheid Week.”
There is also the influence of money from the Arab world, as described in this article. An excerpt:
For decades, China and Middle Eastern autocracies have been pouring billions of dollars into American and other foreign universities. Such funds support students from their countries but can also support academic programs that propagate these countries’ world views. …
… Between 2014 and 2020, Muslim-majority countries together donated $4.86 billion to American higher-educational institutions, representing 29 percent of all foreign donations.
Qatar and Saudi Arabia were responsible for much of this largesse. …
Qatar’s role is particularly troubling, since the country is often an ally to both Iran and Hamas. The country also backs other terrorist groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, and is home to the most important Middle Eastern media outfit, Al Jazeera. Along with Saudi Arabia, Qatar is among the largest donors to Palestinian organizations and causes.
It’s too early to make direct connection between a school’s anti-Israel agitation and its donations from Middle Eastern countries, but the biggest recipients, such as Cornell, NYU, Georgetown, and Harvard tend to have large pro-Hamas elements. Student groups on each of those campuses have embraced the Hamas cause, most prominently at Harvard, where more than 30 student groups initially signed pro-Hamas statements, though some have since sought to dissociate themselves. …
… The past decade has seen a surge of Muslim students, including large numbers whose tuitions are paid by Arab governments. These students, though a small portion of all enrollees, have often led the pro-Hamas activity on college campuses. They are frequently joined by Middle Eastern studies faculty, many of whom hold anti-Israel and anti-American views, and whose departments often receive funding from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries.
Sobering stuff. But it explains a lot, I think.
Harvard Board and the Profs all support Gay, as does a large part of the alumni. Only thing that might help is if more alumni stop giving it money. I mean they have how many Billions in their endowment fund. That should be taxed and there should not be a tax exemption for giving to this “institutions”. Ok, maybe a certain portion would be tax exempt.
I really don’t see any change happening.
It does make one wonder why so many of these already extremely wealthy Universities are so willing to take even more money from such sources. Is it just simple cupidity?
I’m not sure why there’s a need to hedge at this point. It seems pretty clear to me anyway.
SOLID, J.J. and Neo.
My reply to Cornhead in yesterday’s thread on this topic was posted as Neo launched this new one.
I explain how tide turning against the Left is developing, in greater detail and specificity.
Here’s a convenient LINK
https://www.thenewneo.com/2023/12/11/the-problem-in-academia-is-much-worse-than-the-presidents-plus-the-red-cross/#comment-2712987
Ha, ha. You think the Biden Democrats, which predominate at most colleges and universities, are in any danger of having their Biden monies reduced?
In California, resident applicants are secondary to Chinese applicants who pay full tuition. Many California students cannot get into first tier state universities, no matter their grades and SAT scores. I am old enough to remember when UC was free to resident students.
The University of Iowa has eliminated its DEI. Michigan is spending a giant sum on DEI.
Interesting story out of WI. There was an offer to give existing employees a raise if DEI got eliminated. Regents rejected it.
I told the University of Nebraska Regents to get rid of their DEI. Former Regent Jim Pillen (now Governor) tried to get rid of DEI/CRT, but he got backstabbed.
The University of Nebraska system needs to cut $58m. DEI elimination would save at least $5-8m.
I recall being a freshman at an elite east coast university. I was interested in swimming and a friend said, “You should check out the lavish new swimming facility.”
I had walked by a large swimming facility some days prior, and replied, “Oh, you mean that one?” “No, no. That’s the 20 year old lavish swimming facility. I’m talking about the brand new one that’s super lavish.”
It was clear that the place was awash in money. Then the alumni assoc. wants to make sure that you become a regular donor. Why would I do that? Money is obviously much more important to me than it is to them.
These massive tax-exempt endowments are also a little crazy. I think that this is a problem across the board re: large charitable institutions. However, we will never fix the general problem because the wealthiest and most powerful people’s families are now ensconced in these institutions and they can and do buy politicians. But maybe… just maybe, we could peel off the universities from this scam, if there is the will.
Money laundering for democrats.
The Gay-thing continues (SEE my LINK above for earlier updates). I bet Cornhead that Claudine Gay is gone as Harvard President by New Years,
and he TAKES THAT BET!
A Daily Mail story says Harvard Board backs President Gay. Zerohedge leads with the same and an update, including these key X-pressions:
Bill Ackman
@BillAckman
I have been told now by two reporters that one of the factors that made it challenging for the
@Harvard
board to fire Gay was that they were concerned it would look like they were kowtowing to me.
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From a source I trust:
Claudine Gay will not resign and the governing boards decided not to terminate her as president of @Harvard.
Oilfield Rando
@Oilfield_Rando
Outstanding. Firing her was going to create the illusion that universities are salvageable. This helps more people realize where we are.
Noah Pollak
@NoahPollak
Exempting her from plagiarism rules is part of sending a message: Harvard is Animal Farm now, and some “scholars” are more equal than others. The president may be a grim, corrupt DEI apparatchik — but in public we will refer to her as a brilliant scholar.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/harvard-refuses-fire-gay-issues-statement-her-defense
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THESE new posts thus reiterate and amplify my replies on yesterday’s thread “The Problem in academia is much worse than the Presidents”.
Joe Biden received money from Penn State for doing nothing. Well nothing besides being the liason between the school and Chinese donors.
He can’t be the ONLY politician to get such a cut of the action, can he?
Who else has been, I wonder?
Towers of ivory? Pillars of pork and piss (stalagmites).
good will hunting had it right, but for the wrong reason
https://twitchy.com/samj/2023/12/11/we-knew-it-was-coming-black-professor-claims-anti-plagiarism-policies-harm-black-and-latinx-students-n2390723
House Speaker Mike Johnson has his word on this, with the headline
“‘Everything’s on the table’: Mike Johnson suggests House may cut federal funding to universities over antisemitism“
As the Daily Caller reports via the free BizPacReview
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/12/12/everythings-on-the-table-mike-johnson-suggests-house-may-cut-federal-funding-to-universities-over-antisemitism-1419356/
Yale and Harvard were started as religious schools, yes ?
Institutions rot from the inside. They may have outside help, but the rot is internal.
In many cases, the primary effort should not be reform but to fund the alternatives.
Joe Biden got money for not teaching from U. Penn, not Penn State. Not that we should think Penn State is any better in the “woke” department.
In states like mine, with a Republican super majority in the legislature, improvements can be made in the state universities because the legislature holds the purse strings. We may gradually see what’s visible in Florida now, with leftist professors leaving and more genuinely academically-minded ones coming in.
you can read the Mosaic article here:
https://archive.ph/tX7KJ
Apparently Carol Swain, one of the people that Claudine Gay plagerized in her Ph.D. dissertation, is a Conservative black woman and is unsurpisingly none to happy about the situation.
Thanks Nonapod for that link.
I’ll be honest, as always ;-), I’d never heard of either Gay or Swain until this past week. Since my experience with the demonic woke-ification of higher education goes back to the early 1980s, I always assumed it had gotten worse, & various eruptions generally proved my assumptions correct. So I was sickened but not surprised to see the pro-rape & torture crew come out in full throat & the 3 harpies of the Ivy Apocalypse do their song & dance before Congress. We’re past due a real reckoning and I’m well on record with the presumption it’s going to have to be ugly & bloody to right the ship of the Western States…I’m thinking more than the US needs “righting.”
In Rufo’s interview these two struck me…not for their “Wow factor,” but for how bloody obvious her statement are…and how radical they sound in the current climate.
“Swain: It’s clear to me that standards were lowered in the mid-1990s, and the elites came together and decided that they were going to defend affirmative action.” — Affirmative action is by definition a lowering of standards rather than a raising of candidates’ caliber. Always has been. Can’t be anything else. IMO.
“Swain: A white male would probably already be gone.” — “probably”? Most certainly be gone & need not have applied for the position to start with.
I’m sorry. You can’t tell me those three are the most qualified applicants for those roles. The deck is so stacked against white guys…and Gay like the new SCOTUS Justice & the VP (although she’s in a category of her own) could well be just smarter than a bag of hammers but ticks all the boxes & can string sentences together coherently enough…she’s in.
Senate GOP Leaders Rio rising campus antisemitism, and in the world, in short communique.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTQH52rktOw
John Guilfoyle says “Since my experience with the demonic woke-ification of higher education goes back to the early 1980s, I always assumed it had gotten worse….”
But back some 30 years ago, and before the Left adopted Jew-hate and genocide, we could all laugh at them!
Between the early ‘70s and 1990s, there ran a spate of Hollywood comedies after Animwl House,” always discovering latent campus rebels arising from unexpected segments of the student body.
The last one to do so was “P.C.U.” The title itself a wink and a nod at PCU, or a pre-freshman’s nightmare at “Port Chester University”, vaguely set in Connecticut.
See the arch party-style documentary, “How PCU predicted the SWJs” here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnVIG__jFRQ
The film itself is snuffed out online, and even this satirical documentary is siloed by YT and cannot be found by nearly all internet search engines.
Just have a couple drinks and imbibe the glories of student rebelliousness lost, now that the “cause-heads” have melded with the faculty tohave pushed them off campus.
P.C.U. is “the most important movie in the past 25 years. SJWs, crazy academics, and authoritarian movements, this movie had it all. Watch how it relates to what’s happening now. Enjoy!”
Or re-watch it. It became samizdat less than three years ago. Times have changed since…and for the worse.so MOCK Them while you still can!
To Just Lily:
“Joe Biden received money from Penn State for doing nothing.” Not Penn State, but the University of Pennsylvania. Penn state’s claim to fame (besides the pedophile brouhaha involving Sandusky) is their employment of the world’s greatest climate hoaxter, “Hockey Stick” Michael Mann. It’s easy to mistake one pedagogical shitehole for another these days, so I understand your confusion. Cheers.
Unfortunately, I won’t hold my breath waiting for campuses to turn. Does anyone remember the fights about ROTC and the Solomon Amendment (to withhold some federal funding if ROTC wasn’t permitted on campus)?
Thanks for the clarification on which Penn school Biden was affiliated with. I appreciate the corrections Kate and Steve!
In an earlier post touching on this subject someone posted a recent Heather MacDonald piece on the Feminization of the University. It’s excellent, as all her reporting and writing is.
I hear and read more and more people who comment on politics and the culture touching on the issue of the Feminist Movement in the West and the subsequent harm it has done. I’m of a mixed mind on this. My mother had much more to do with who I became than my father (a nice man, but incapable of providing for a family without immense help from my mother). My sister is the person who has had the single greatest positive impact in my life (prior to my marriage, but I wouldn’t have been a guy worth marrying without my sister’s immense help). I watched my mother and sister struggle in a culture that often treated women inferiorly in many ways. It certainly limited opportunity for women.
So I’m grateful for much of what ’60s and ’70s feminism brought about. But I can’t help but perceive that there are great, cultural issues tormenting many young men and young women in America, and feminism is at fault for some of this.
As a fan of women and equality I am glad our society no longer holds women back culturally, academically or professionally. But it seems obvious in fighting that fight we somehow missed something and we need to repair that. So many of our young men are lost and so many young women are miserable. The percentages of women on anti-depressant drugs is staggering and males are certainly taking their fair share of prescription and non-prescription drugs as well as abusing alcohol and other recreational drugs.
Watching those 3 female Presidents testify and being rather familiar with College campi from paying a fair amount of money to help the Little Fireflies matriculate, I don’t hold out a lot of hope for the immediate future. Yet, the good people are not giving up and are only more encouraged to fight back. Look at the University of Austin and Chris Rufo/Ron Desantis’ project in Florida. More and more bifurcation. There will be a lot of employers who refuse to hire graduates of the University of Austin, New College, Hillsdale… Will there then be opposing boycotts? Companies refusing to hire graduates of Berkeley or Columbia? Harvard?
“But back some 30 years ago, and before the Left adopted Jew-hate and genocide, we could all laugh at them!”
TJ…to be honest…I wasn’t laughing. I was fighting mad & said so. I was threatened with “cancellation” before “cancelling” was a thing. My degree, my vocation…all under a bullseye because I rejected marxist liberation theology & its hellish spawn that we see now in the sex-ification & race-ification of society & particularly the church. I have not ever given in nor been silent. I just know like all of us here, that we’re in so much deeper than we could ever have predicted & the rot is so much worse.
Like Rufus, I’m encouraged by the growing chorus of better-minded folks, but saddened that the next generations have to push string uphill to win back what’s been lost & forge something stronger.
Indoctrination of the young in the ‘educational’ system is absolutely critical to the Left’s agenda. No way in hell are they going to allow interference in the continued cultural weaponization of those institutions. Reduced alumni contributions will be compensated for with increased tax dollars. And the RINOs will vote for it.
“Mitt Romney says he would vote for a Democrat in 2024, calling it ‘an upgrade’ from Donald Trump.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
Picking a viewpoint–anti semitism–as a disqualifier for government money is going to be politically and socially difficult.
They can call it something else….you’re not against Peace Studies, are you?…or softball it in classrooms without official mention on the syllabi.
And a Pandora’s Box comes to mind. Careful what you design. Consider its controls in your enemies’ hands.
That being said, a billion dollars-individual donor or cumulatively among a number of donors–is the equivalent of a five percent return on twenty billion dollars. If that much is withheld, it’s as if their endowment dropped by twenty billion. So they either reduce spending or get into their seed corn. Might take more than that, but donor rebellion is not subject to litigation.
John Guilfoyle. I can imagine your tough time. Religion was the earliest field to succumb to the SWJ matrix.
Yes, Geoffrey Britain. The young are the key playground for our Devil’s Disciples.
And we must widely unify around who and what our enemies within are. Or else all progress to reversing their tyrannies will be stilled and reversed.
The big picture will reveal the greatest challenges that lay ahead. Next year, I think?
Nonapod on December 12, 2023 at 1:48 pm
The link to the City J article by Chris Rufo on Carol Swain and plagiarism by Claudine Gay was good; but the associated essay by Heather MacDonald was better, addressing the core limits of free speech vs. incitement to violence that those presidents “upheld” (while really failing to explain that as the “context”) during their congressional testimony. And then Heather compares that basically correct stance vs. many of their prior positions not allowing true free speech because of ideology, DEI, wokeness, bias, etc. They should be fired for their prior actions and positions, not the “context” view they failed to convey very well to Congress.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/right-deed-wrong-reason
The line up to but short of incitement or actual violence can be tricky, as per the Nazi Skokie march, or the moves that Antifa, et al. try to promote. I suppose the courts will have to parse this further? Hope there are plenty of police body cams and citizen cell phone videos to help out.
The parallel issue becomes what are the functions of a Harvard or other top notch university. Heather says to pursue truth and extend knowledge. Hillsdale says it includes defining morality and developing character. So any rando can stand on a soap box on the public sidewalk just outside of Harvard and speak almost any nonsense he wants. If the founders of Harvard could see what it is now, in terms of promoting deranged views against other groups, they would probably demand it be closed down, too.
After I read the rest of tonight’s postings/comments, maybe I will try to find an original Charter of Purpose for Harvard??
RTF: “There will be a lot of employers who refuse to hire graduates of the University of Austin, New College, Hillsdale… Will there then be opposing boycotts? Companies refusing to hire graduates of Berkeley or Columbia? Harvard?”
I vote for YES! I know that if I was still a hiring manager, I would look with a very jaundiced eye at any Ivy grad of the last 5 years (even in STEM, unfortunately). Getting around the HR and related rules against plumbing a candidates true nature or ideology might be tricky, but absolutely necessary to allow your group or company to function with minimal work turmoil from a bothersome employee.
Some here may have near term real world examples to confirm or revise my comment.
Thanks to Neo for links to examples of how the money supply to academia can be changed. I’m convinced that the best line of attack is to reduce all the easy money and influence buying that’s going on.
This Congressional hearing has created a real storm around the issue of free speech, propaganda, and antisemitism in academia. It’s almost as shocking to the many middle-class Americans as a surpise attack like 9/11.
Federal funding, grants and student loans require that the GOP wins enough seats in Congress and wins the POTUS to make a real impact.
Vote like your well-being depends on it, because it does.
The rot is widespread, but this country is well worth fighting for.
Excellent comment at the City Journal post:
David C.
“American universities don’t like to accept money from American oil companies, but a check from an oil-producing country makes them feel all warm and cozy inside.”
File under: if the Left didn’t have double principles, it wouldn’t have any at all.
I added a round-up of links on this topic here (two comments):
https://www.thenewneo.com/2023/12/11/the-problem-in-academia-is-much-worse-than-the-presidents-plus-the-red-cross/#comment-2713103
https://www.thenewneo.com/2023/12/11/the-problem-in-academia-is-much-worse-than-the-presidents-plus-the-red-cross/#comment-2713104
I note that the Mosaic piece is from 2015.
Looks like a lot of people didn’t notice the anti-Semitic rot until they had to.
@ Chases Eagles > “Money laundering for democrats.”
Name something political-economic that isn’t.
@ Richard Aubrey > “Careful what you design. Consider its controls in your enemies’ hands.”
Good point, and hopefully the Republicans keep that in mind and craft a “general” law against universities using public money to espouse or suppress ANY political viewpoint.
Churches have to be “neutral” to keep their tax exemptions, and so should public schools.
That’s “neutral” rather than neutral because we all have seen the government give a pass to black-majority ecclesiastical institutions doing blatant politicking, including candidates speaking (campaigning) even in Sunday services.
To clarify: Shutting down incitements to violence, physical damage to buildings, and blatant imminent threats to individuals is NOT “suppressing political viewpoints.”
There are already laws against all of that; the universities have declined to take action to use them. That discretion should not be removed, just the funding.
They can do and say what they want, but we don’t have to pay for it.
No further comment.
https://twitchy.com/coucy/2023/12/12/turkish-parliament-n2390754
Turkish MP Angrily Claims Israel is Suffering ‘The Wrath of Allah’… Immediately Has Heart Attack
from the TabletMag excerpt – “We found that during a five-year period from 2018-22 these wealthy universities collected $45 billion in taxpayer subsidies, special tax treatment, and federal payments.”
Makes me mindful of the Varsity Blues scandal (college admission bribery scandal). Let’s look at politicians & their doling out of taxpayer dollars in the same light. At least the Varsity Blues criminals bribed with their own money.
from 2019 – ‘College Admissions Are Rigged In Favor Of Prominent Democrats’ – https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/11/college-admissions-are-rigged-in-favor-of-prominent-democrats/
“The all-time record, though, must go to former Vice President Al Gore, who sent four. Imagine that: four kids in a row to Harvard. Andrew Cuomo (Chris’ brother), the sitting governor of New York, sent one of his kids to Harvard and the other two to Brown, another Ivy League university that your kids would struggle to get into. Brown is, as they say, “highly selective,” at least for the children of nonpoliticians.”…..
related from 2020: ‘How Elite Colleges Rip Off Taxpayers’
Yale University gets government handouts while paying little in property taxes.
https://reason.com/2020/11/11/how-elite-colleges-rip-off-taxpayers/
Warned you all about so much..
problem was i was too early, way in time to actual act on things
your only remembered if you act too late!!
REMEMBER TOUNGUE IN CHEEK I SAID INVEST IN OVENS…
[jews are a subset of whites… remember my poiting out that too?]
now you all know why… and it was evident in a jewish institution!!!
[the birth rate is so low… 50% of men do not want ANY relationships… women are liberating themselves from their future using Only Fans… while berating men looking at them at a gym, cause you know, men cant have their own…
now, california is pushing crypto communist salary setting lawsuit with disney.. can you imagine… no way to negotiate salary cause they decided to set salaries by job the way they did in the old soviet union. and there is a ton of stuff…
There is no stopping any of it any more – in fact, watch how the
attempt solidifies and make GLIECHSHALTUNG !
Even if everyone wanted to, the people younger than you have no idea what direction to walk
its over.
ya all did good…
welcome comrades!
in the meantime…
I hope you didn’t put your opinions online or hid them.
Given my family lived under the KGB and GRU…
all my social media contains jack since the start of social media!!!
We already lived through regime changes in many countries in which what you did prior was a no no
This to me is hysterical!!!!!!!!
not that it matters…
[matters like the discussion over a table of Egyptian pyramid builders no one remembers today]
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https://inthesetimes.com/article/former-left-right-fascism-capitalism-horseshoe-theory
Losing the Plot: The “Leftists” Who Turn Right
What do we make of former friends who fell down the rabbit hole of the Right?
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” — President Harry S. Truman
“We didn’t love freedom enough.” — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn.
If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?
— Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher
“Let not anyone pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.” — John Stuart Mill, in an 1867 address at the University of St. Andrews
I wish these times had never come, but that’s the feeling of all who live to see such times. All that’s left to do is decide what to do with the time that’s given to us. – J.R.R. Tolkien
Hope you all are ready for the game of your life!
You had way longer than any other generation to prepare! – Artfldgr
I know what comes next…
by history and many family experiences
been nice.
“Education doesn’t make you smarter.”
? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
good luck and godspeed…
“Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart — and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains … an unuprooted small corner of evil.
Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.”
? Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
The evil inside you kept you talking not acting…
As all Latvians know… and why we ALL READ The Gulag Archipelago
Without it, we could not look in the mirror in the morning and pretend whatever Americans pretended that let us get this far along without pause, or prevention.
“To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.”
? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Candle in the Wind
Psst… Who is he talking to?
Well except for the kadets many of whom served lenin until they were purged who loved freedom in Russia
As for Bertrand Russell he had some good points but he went down a rabbit hole in the end
As day follows night
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12859225/Harvard-Bill-Ackman-stock-donation.html
I dont know who is a greater hack sharlet or joyce who is a fan of child traffickers (no joke)
Taibbi is still a leftist like orwell
The influence of the universities in question is a function, in part, of the attention paid to them.
It’s one thing to penalize by reducing resources in one way or another.
But a campaign to just ignore them, except for bad jokes, would work as well. “Harvard? Oh, you’re one of THOSE. Huh.”
AesopFan on December 13, 2023 at 2:57 am
[Initially I responded to the “neutral” comment, but I fully acknowledge your VERY next comment well clarifies the issues around impermissible free speech situations.]
“Churches have to be “neutral” to keep their tax exemptions, and so should public schools.”
But we need to be careful to distinguish rules suitable to retain tax exemptions from the free speech criteria. It would be nice if seekers after truth were neutral enough to explore and present both/many sides of an issue; and then perhaps come down on one side vs. the other based on context and supporting. evidence.
[Somewhat repeating your 2nd comment, but providing a link some may find helpful to explore]
But there does not have to be any neutrality about assessing if free speech is for or against your views; only if it reaches the level of impermissible incitement or harassment, etc. I found this today to be a helpful clarifier:
https://www.thefire.org/news/why-most-calls-genocide-are-protected-speech
@ R2L – thanks for the link. FIRE is one of my favorite organizations, and the point is well argued in their post.
BUT we don’t have any obligation to PAY FOR speech we don’t like.
Let the Left fund themselves, for a change.
And NPR Delenda Est while we’re at it.