OPINION: Why believe the’ educated’ who prospects in years-old ridiculous/bogus themes?
Democrats worried about the reported right-wing disdain in “expertise” haven’t accurately done much to alleviate those concerns, especially given Donald Trump’s 2024 re-election.
So-called experts who scarcely uttered a peep while the Biden administration constantly colluded with Big Tech to judge news outlets and individuals during COVID and the 2020 election are once, really like from 2017 to 2021, angry about Trump’s reported disdain for the First Amendment.
Only this past year in parliamentary evidence, George Washington University Law School’s Mary Anne Franks really said it was a “myth” that the Biden presidency actively worked to suppress certain stores and tones.
Although GOP Senator John Kennedy did a very good job exposing French for the far-left radical that she is, consider too that French believes the First and Second Revisions are “highly susceptible to being read in isolation from the Constitution as a whole” and their” commitment to fairness and the collective good”.
She also believes health “misinformation” should be a federal crime. ( Here’s more to add to Sen. Kennedy’s list of Franks ‘ inane views. )
About a week before Franks ‘ appearance, two Stanford University history professors also attempted to memory-hole the last four years, while whining that Trump is akin to Big Brother.
Right off the bat in the first paragraph, Jessica Riskin and Priya Satia regurgitate debunked and ridiculous tropes that, in a sane world, would make readers immediately close the browser tab in disgust.
” After the Nazis marched in Charlottesville in 2017 chanting’ the Jews will not replace us!’ President Donald Trump insisted that there were’ very fine people on both sides,'” the profs write.
Elon Musk’s more recent alleged” Nazi salutes” also perturb them.
According to their respective faculty pages, Riskin’s specialties are “early modern science, politics and culture and the history of scientific explanation”, while Satia researches the “origins of state institutions, military technologies, ideas and practices of development, and the anti-colonial responses they inspired”. ( Seven years ago, Satia complained that a history conference had too many white guys:” You’d have to try really hard to come up with a roster of speakers that looks like that”. )
The professors have written seven books between them and their place of employment, Stanford, is one of the most prestigious universities in the country … but , they actually believe Trump praised Neo-Nazis and Musk gave a” Sieg Heil” gesture.
It’s been eight years and “experts” are still clinging to Trump’s remark about Charlottesville to claim he is a dangerous bigot. This essentially leaves us two choices: Authorities like Riskin, Satia, and many others are purposely ignoring the actual context of Trump’s comment… or their “expertise” should be called into question.
The professors also say the Trump administration’s” charges of antisemitism levelled at Columbia and other universities conjure an Orwellian world in which the slogans of the totalitarian ruling party bamboozle the opposition by representing everything as its opposite”.
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Yes, Riskin and Satia ( pictured ) claim Trump is projecting his own antisemitism onto Columbia and other colleges. Just like” 1984″.
And it must true because the pair note that “almost two thousand Jewish professors, students and staff members” from colleges across the land signed on to a statement proclaiming that Jews are being used as” a shield to justify a naked attack on political dissent and university independence”.
If I was a betting man I’d wager very good dough that the vast majority of the profs who signed this letter are political far-leftists akin to the group Jewish Voice for Peace.
The authors continue:
America’s universities are worth fighting for. As an unparalleled locus of learning, research, scholarship and social transformation, they are one of our country’s greatest achievements and most important contributions to the world. They have been at the epicenter of social and political forces, with a history containing both heroic and ignoble episodes. But as centers of free inquiry, critical thinking and dissent, they are essential to American civil society ]emphasis added ].
Such is why Trump is so antagonistic towards higher education, the professors contend. However, the emphasized terms alone show why Trump proved victorious in November.
Universities a place of social transformation? Like trying to delude people into believing there’s no actual difference between the sexes? That biological females should have to compete against biological males — and just sit and take it? That indigenous “ways of knowing” are just as legitimate as Western-based hard science? Etc.
And dissent?  , We’ve seen what happens when people speak out against college-originated gender nonsense. Even the most logical and thoughtful approaches are scorned and their creators turned into pariahs. Anyone who veers from the” correct” course on matters of race, gender, and sexuality routinely incur the wrath of the academy.
Where was the academy and its concerns about” 1984″ during the last four years — when an unelected cabal of far-left progressives controlled the government via a mindless husk of a chief exec who gleefully did all their bidding?
Who in the academy spoke up when this cabal’s justice department investigated parents who dared to question their publicly elected school board members? When , pro-lifers who protested outside abortion clinics were imprisoned? And, as noted previously, when the cabal colluded with Big Tech to shut down opposing voices?
Riskin and Satia obviously aren’t stupid. But they’re insulated in their progressive bubble, neatly protected from the views and beliefs of the average working person who gets their hands dirty, and breaks many a sweat during a 40-60-hour week.
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IMAGE CAPTION &, CREDIT: The novel ‘ 1984’ alongside President Trump, Robert Adamson/X. INTERIOR IMAGE: Stanford University.
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