FROM CULTURE WATCH.
Critical Theory and Collapsing Colleges
Why are our universities imploding and exploding?
Right now hundreds of college campuses in America, Australia and elsewhere in the West are being “occupied” by militants and radicals. How many of these are actual students and how many are outside agitators happy to come along and help push the revolution is a moot point.
But what we are currently witnessing has not come about by accident. West-hating militants are simply following in the footsteps of their Marxist forebears, happy to see not just universities but the West as a whole come crumbling down. Long ago those pushing revolution from without realised that taking over things from within was the way to go.
So now they have almost completely taken over all the institutions of power and influence, be they schools, the media, politics, the courts, the arts, even many of the churches. And for those who were not originally activists and communists, after decades of the propaganda coming from the hyper-radicalised universities, media and so many of our politicians, it is a wonder that ALL students are not now full-blown revolutionaries.
A few months ago VICTOR DAVIS HANSON wrote about the ugly state of American higher education, especially its putrid and violent anti-Semitism:
After Oct. 7, the public was shocked at what they saw and heard on America’s campuses. Americans knew previously they were intolerant, left-wing and increasingly non-meritocratic. But immediately after Oct. 7 — and even before the response of the Israeli Defense Forces — the sheer student delight on news of the mass murdering of Israeli victims seemed akin more to 1930s Germany than contemporary America.
Indeed, not a day goes by when a university professor or student group has not spouted antisemitic hatred. Often, they threaten and attack Jewish students or engage in mass demonstrations calling for the extinction of Israel. Why and how did purportedly enlightened universities become incubators of such primordial hatred?
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