As a Jewish friend says: “I am sure that if the religions were reversed and millions of Jews were clamoring to get into Europe that the Muslims in Europe and the United States would be encouraging the Judaicizing of Europe.”
Rabbi Baruch Efrati believes Jews should ‘rejoice at the fact that Europe is paying for what it did to us for hundreds of years by losing its identity.’ He praises Islam for promoting modesty, respect for God.
As concerns grow over the increasing number of Muslims in Europe, it appears not everyone is bothered by the issue, including an Israeli rabbi who even welcomes the phenomenon.
Rabbi Baruch Efrati, a yeshiva head and community rabbi in the West Bank settlement of Efrat, believes that the Islamization of Europe is actually a good thing.
“With the help of God, the gentiles there will adopt a healthier life with a lot of modesty and integrity, and not like the hypocritical Christianity which appears pure but is fundamentally corrupt,” he explained.
Rabbi Efrati was asked to discuss the issue by an oriental studies student, who inquired on Judaism’s stand toward the process Europe has been going through in recent years.
Following the election of a hijab-wearing Muslim woman as the mayor of the Bosnian city of Visoko for the first time in continent’s history, the student asked the rabbi on the Kipa website: “How do we fight the Islamization of Europe and return it to the hands of Christians and moderates?”
Efrati wrote in response that the Islamization of Europe was better than a Christian Europe for ethical and theological reasons – as a punishment against Christians for persecuting the Jews and the fact that Christianity, as opposed to Islam, is considered “idolatry” from a halachic point of view.
“Jews should rejoice at the fact that Christian Europe is losing its identity as a punishment for what it did to us for the hundreds of years were in exile there,” the rabbi explained as the ethical reason for favoring Muslims, quoting shocking descriptions from the Rishonim literature (written by leading rabbis who lived during the 11th to 15th centuries) about pogroms and mass murders committed by Christians against Jews.
“We will never forgive Europe’s Christians for slaughtering millions of our children, women and elderly… Not just in the recent Holocaust, but throughout the generations, in a consistent manner which characterizes all factions of hypocritical Christianity…
“A now, Europe is losing its identity in favor of another people and another religion, and there will be no remnants and survivors from the impurity of Christianity, which shed a lot of blood it won’t be able to atone for.”
‘Islam a relatively honest religion’
The theological reason, according to Rabbi Efrati, is that Christianity – which he sees as idolatry – has a tendency to “destroy normal life and abstain from it on the one hand, while losing modesty on the other hand,” as it “ranges between radical monasticism to radical Western licentiousness.”
Islam, the rabbi added, is “a religion which misjudges its prophets but is relatively honest. It educates a bit more for a stable life of marriage and creation, where there is certain modesty and respect for God.”
Efrati ruled, therefore, that “even if we are in a major war with the region’s Arabs over the Land of Israel, Islam is still much better as a gentile culture than Christianity.”
He added, however, that Jews must pray that the Islamization of most of Europe will not harm the people of Israel.
Chaim Amalek: “Until and unless Israel tears down its walls and barriers against African and Syrian migrants, I can see no moral basis for supporting it with arms or money. Liberal American Jews in particular need to lead the fight against ethnic particularism, whether in the West, or in Israel.”
Jewish Press: The Wailing Wall wailed just a little louder on Tuesday, when two Jewish American, Code Pink activists Ariel Gold, of Ithaca, NY and Ariel Vegosen, of Oakland, CA, unfurled a banner at the old Wall that read, “American Jews support BDS.” It may have been a historic low for the Kotel, built in the first century by a grandson of Herod, to support the Temple Mount compound above, which burned to the ground shortly after the construction was concluded.
Representing the women’s peace organization, Code Pink, the two activists—both named after an angel, a modern Jewish city in Samaria, and a Disney mermaid—proudly expressed their “Jewish opposition to the Israeli occupation of Palestine” and endorsed “the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement as a nonviolent strategy to bring about a just peace in Palestine and Israel.”
Last September 18, the third grade classes at the Beverly J. Martin School in Ithaca, NY, heard a presentation on human rights by Ariel Gold and Palestinian activist Bassem Tamimi, as well as the local chapter of the anti-Israel Jewish Voice for Peace. Tamimi is the Arab lady who sends children, especially her own video star daughter, in front of unsuspecting Israeli soldiers, to scream at, punch and even bite them — and then she films their reaction, proving the cruelty of the occupation.
The Kotel has seen many sad things since that terrible fire in the year 70, saw poet Yehuda Halevi killed by an Arab horseman right by its ancient stones, and it has seen many tears and felt millions of hopes, in the form of notes to God that were tucked in its crevices. And now it witnessed two Jewish women who came over just to teach Israelis about justice and non-violence:
“At this moment of escalated violence in Palestine and Israel, we are here at the Kotel to pray for an end to the occupation, the root cause of the violence. … We support of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions as a nonviolent strategy to bring about a just peace and full equality for all people in Palestine and Israel. We call on all people to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and boycott Israel until Palestinians have equal rights and occupied lands are returned by Israel.”
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From JTA: The organization that oversees a popular Jewish summer camp near Los Angeles denied reports that it knowingly may have exposed tens of thousands of its campers to radioactive waste and toxic chemicals — calling reports to that effect “deeply flawed and entirely misleading.”
Dr. Robert Wexler, the president of American Jewish University, made the statement Tuesday in response to a local NBC affiliate report that it covered up evidence that its Camp Alonim for children and teens may have been contaminated by a neighboring Simi Valley facility, now owned by Boeing.
“In their most recent broadcast, KNBC suggested strongly that AJU, and the prior managers of Brandeis-Bardin, sought to conceal evidence that our property is contaminated. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. Our overriding goal is the safety of everyone who visits Brandeis-Bardin, and we are confident that our site is absolutely safe despite KNBC’s misleading report,” the statement said.
The 2,800-acre property on which the camp is located — known as the Brandeis-Bardin Campus after the Brandeis-Bardin Institute, which runs the camp — sat next to the former Santa Susana Field Lab since it was purchased in 1947. American Jewish University took over operations of the property in 2007.
Over the years, the field lab was home to ten low-power nuclear reactors, a sodium burn pit, a plutonium fuel fabrication facility and a a uranium carbide fuel fabrication facility.
The NBC4 investigation uncovered reports, studies and tests that show campers and staff could have been exposed to radioactive materials and toxic chemicals from the field lab that migrated onto the Brandeis property through groundwater, surface water and wind.
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‘With Open Gates: The forced collective suicide of European nations’, a slick, hard-hitting film about the European migrant crisis is going viral in Europe, already watched at least half a million times.
Although the 19-minute film may feel like a dispatch from the future, it is cut entirely from recent news reports, police camera footage, and interviews. Kicking off with scenes of a modern car ferry disgorging thousands of illegals into Greece, the film then cuts to dozens of aerial shots of columns of migrants marching north into Europe.
The film then changed to the harrowing testimony of one young Greek woman who was unable to hide her horror and despair at the scale of the migrant crisis sweeping over her home island of Lesbos. Just six miles from the Turkish coast, the island was subjected to migrant riots in September as newcomers turned on their hosts for not moving them to mainland Europe fast enough.
As Breitbart Londonreported at the time, the tearful woman tells a news crew: “We are in danger, every day, every minute. We need someone to protect us. They come into our houses. I want to go to work, but I can’t. Our children want to go to school, but they can’t. They have stolen our lives!”.
Also featured is American presidential hopeful Donald Trump, who gives his opinion on the migrant crisis: “I’ve been watching this migration, and I’ve seen the people.
“I mean, these are men. They are mostly men, and they are strong men… they look like prime time solders. Look, Europe is going to have to handle, but they are going to have riots in Germany.
“I always thought Merkel was a great leader, but what she’s done in Germany is insane”.
The video is being rapidly shared on social media and online message boards and has been viewed at least half a million times, having been uploaded to platforms including YouTube and Facebook among others dozens of times.
Although the main thrust of the film is to goad native Europeans against mass migration and the negative effects of multiculturalism, the film also paradoxically takes a swipe at one European minority group who stand to lose almost the most from mass Muslim immigration. It also includes a short clip of discredited, anti-Semitic politician Nick Griffin, former Member of the European Parliament and leader of the British National Party.
The inclusion of Mr. Griffin, an unpopular figure even in Britain’s nationalist right and the rapid success of the film in the Netherlands suggests the film may not have been edited by a British citizen.
Breitbart London has reported at length on the rising tide of anti-Semitism in Europe which has arrived with mass migration. From Jews being specifically targeted for degrading house-invasion rape-thefts to Jews being excluded from Holocaust commemorations because of Muslim attendees hijacking events, migrant-Europe is now hostile towards Jews at a level not seen in decades.
Below the video on YouTube, uploaded on Monday by anonymous user Death of Nations, the editor warns: “This video will not be online long, download and mirror it while you can”.
“At current immigration levels and disappearing birth rates native Europeans are destined to become a minority in their own countries within decades. This is already the case for many of Europe’s largest cities.”
“Millions of young Muslim men leave behind their family, pay thousands to criminal traffickers to reach the land they have been promised by European politicians illegally.
Dubbed by the media as “refugees”, they cross through 6-10 safe countries to reach wealthy nations like Germany or Sweden where they hope to receive a better life at the expense of the taxpayer.
Only a fraction of them are Syrian, as they enter unfiltered, without any documents and without any legitimate right to claim asylum. Women and children are rarely seen, except in the cherry-picked sob stories of the media”.
At the end of the lengthy call to arms, the writer concludes:
“We are still at a point where you will not get imprisoned for your political opinion in most European countries, but this will change very soon. Do not be apathetic, do not be weak. Be someone that can be proud to call himself European”.
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There’s nothing in Torah that pushes for unlimited immigration. There is nothing in the Jewish tradition that pushes for this.
Every living organism reacts strongly against anyone threatening its life. No wonder many goyim, such as the authors of the following piece, are angry. Unfortunately, all Jews will pay a price for the suicidal activism of a few Jewish elites.
What’s my agenda here? I’d rather Jews not get thrown into a pit of death for the foolishness of a tiny number of their elites.
Jews have been persecuted the least and thrived the most in WASP countries. Why would we want to make America, Canada, England, Australia, etc less WASPy?
As a Jewish friend says: “I am sure that if the religions were reversed and millions of Jews were clamoring to get into Europe that the Muslims in Europe and the United States would be encouraging the Judaicizing of Europe.”
Chaim Amalek: “1. I don’t care how many delusional, white-haired community “spokesmen” emerge from the toilet to declare their love for Muslim immigrants – the harm they can do or have done is dwarfed, by many orders of magnitude, by the vast damage done by such goyim as Angela Merkel. 2. I’ve yet to meet a Jew who has expressed a desire to see more Muslims settling anywhere in the West. I suspect that this is an elite phenomenon, just as it is among all those Christian rulers and priests and pastors who likewise are calling for more of it.”
REPORT: European Jews are “on the forefront of welcoming the influx of largely Muslim migrants and refugees,” one of Europe’s leading Jewish historians, Dr. Diana Pinto has claimed.
Speaking at a Jewish Community Center’s world conference in Jerusalem last week, Pinto, a Senior Fellow and a board member of the London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research, described how “European Jewry, remembering its own postwar refugee status, is on the forefront of welcoming the influx of largely Muslim migrants and refugees—one of the greatest wagers of the coming decade.”
According to coverage of her speech printed in the Jerusalem-based Times of Israel, Pinto, who is also a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, said that “in this interface with peoples holding historically laden identities, European Jewry is saying, ‘It doesn’t matter where you come from, what matters is where you’re going.’”
Pinto’s comments were confirmed by an article in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency of September 8, 2015 (“European Jews, mindful of risks, urge aid to refugees”), which told of several instances of Jews pushing for aid for the invading nonwhite hordes even though they were well aware that many of the incoming Arabs were “anti-Semitic.”
The JTA quoted Ron van der Wieken, chairman of the Central Jewish Organization of the Netherlands, as saying that while he was “aware that some Middle Eastern refugees harbor very negative feelings toward Jews … Jews cannot withdraw support from those in need and fleeing serious violence,” and urged Holland to devise a “charitable” refugee policy.
Zoltan Radnoti, the newly elected chairman of the rabbinical board of the Mazsihisz umbrella group of Hungarian Jewish communities, was then quoted as saying, “I help the refugees with fear that I am helping send danger to other Jews in Europe. I know some of the refugees may have fired on our [Israeli] soldiers. Others would have done so in a heartbeat. I know. But I am duty bound to help.”
Mazsihisz has set up collection depots in Budapest Jewish institutions from which it delivers food, clothes, diapers, medicine, water, and other necessities to the invaders.
In Italy, the JTA reported, the Jewish community of Milan threw open the doors of its Holocaust museum to accommodate homeless invaders from the Middle East and Africa.
In Brussels, the JTA continued, one Menachen Margolin, a Chabad rabbi and director of the European Jewish Association lobby, led a delegation of rabbis to deliver food and nonperishables to the invaders.
The Times of Israel reported earlier (“5 things you can do to help the refugee crisis,” September 17, 2015), that an emergency meeting of the Board of Deputies of British Jews was held in September to “coordinate over 20 UK Jewish organizations’ responses to the refugee and migrant crisis.”
The Board of Deputies of British Jews has even set up a special website called “Support Refugees,” supported by all major Jewish synagogues and organizations in the UK, to “be a one-stop shop for those who want to get involved in supporting refugees and asylum seekers both in the UK and abroad.”
Jews in Britain demand more nonwhite invaders be allowed into the UK–but not into Israel….
The Times of Israel went on to detail different ways its readers could help the invaders in Europe. Firstly, the article told its readers not to send food or clothing, but only money—because, as Shachar Zahavi, from the Israeli NGO IsraAid, was quoted as saying, “We prefer to purchase relief items on the ground [in Greece].”
What was really needed, Zahavi said, was “baby carriers to be distributed in Greece to those families that are still on the move and crossing borders.” In addition, IsraAid was organizing Jewish doctors to set up clinics in Greece and Serbia.
The Times of Israel also reported that the US-based Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) had announced that it has hundreds of staff on the ground in twelve countries where it provides refugees with legal assistance, trauma counseling, and training in sustainable livelihoods.
…these Jews and their organizations are all in favor of the nonwhite invaders pouring into Europe—but at the same time, all support Israel, which has flatly refused to accept one “refugee” from anywhere, never mind Syria.
As detailed in the LA Times of September 6, 2015 (“One country that won’t be taking Syrian refugees: Israel”), Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel’s “lack of demographic and geographic depth” required controlling its borders against both “illegal migrants and terrorism.”
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* Not only is the only white guy in the back row, he is, by a process of elimination, in the Coast Guard. (Maybe we need a cross reference to Coast Guard on Coast Guard violence, with reference to the case of the black guy in SC who was shot in the back last summer.)
So let’s see. The US Army is represented by a white woman. The Air Force is represented by a black man. The Marine Corps (my former outfit) is represented by a severely under-dressed Hispanic, but at least he’s wearing the team colors (scarlet and yellow). The Navy is represented not by a gay person but by a bespectacled black woman. The Coast Guard is represented by a presumably gay person waving his hand for attention.
Two other generic service people — on the left and right are supposed to represent older people, four eyed people, and probably people who have polymorphous sexual identities.
Quite the politically correct cartoon.
I am too old to take these kinds of things seriously anymore, even as a USMC veteran (Semper Fi, if the shoe fit) but it is certainly true that just ordinary straight white guys have, and still do, most of the dying for this country. However, I get the sense that that percentage relative to population may be slipping. I really don’t know.
* The current U.S. military is 85% male. It is 72% white, 16% black, and the rest are Asian, American Indian, or multi-racial. 4% are non-white Hispanic (included in other racial groups). Veterans are approximately 80% white and 94% male.
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* Very good Cruz immigration answer. Would have been more effective if he’d denounced Rubio/Jeb/Kasich by name.
* Cruz kept waiting for anti-amnesty applause that shld have come but didn’t. Leads me to suspect hall again stacked with RNC amnesty fans
* Rubio a wind-up doll with his little canned speeches.
From the Audacious Epigone: During the fourth Republican presidential debate, Fox News flashed a word chart in which the size of words corresponded to the alleged concern about the words, the larger the words the greater the alleged concern and the smaller the words the lesser the alleged concern.
Conspicuously missing was a term that, according to Google Trends over the last month, has garnered more search interest than any of the putative top four concerns on people’s minds has.
Immigration, Taxes, Homeland Security, Campaign Finance, and Size of Government
* It was a Wall Street Journal sponsored debate too. They may not have wanted to promote their position on immigration with the Republican base voters.
It reminds me of the questionnaires I used to get from the RNC along with their requests for donations. They’d ask me to indicate which on a list of issues were the most important to me, but the list would never include the issues I consider most important–immigration, racial preferences, etc. Those issues were beyond the pale.
* Illegal immigration was a significant topic, but not immigration itself.
Trump proposes that all the illegals be kicked out, but he “hopes” they all get back in! Some opponent of mass migration!
It would make more sense to seal the border and then confer full citizenship on those who have arrived – and have done with it. The problem with the threat of deportation is that it helps further drive down wages.
And the American people, themselves very ambivalent about the cheap labor provided (depending largely on their own class position), have to partly blame their own inaction for illegal immigrants being allowed to remain long enough to integrate themselves into the economy. (In law it’s called maintaining an attractive nuisance. The alternative to amnesty may be reparations.)
* My review:
Kasich did very poorly, especially when talking about banking. He even got booed. He seems to be positioning himself as the “moderate” candidate, but he’s not doing well.
Rubio, Fiorina, and Cruz did well. Rubio seems like he’s now the establishment frontrunner, as he speaks well and knows how to articulate the basic conservative talking points (repeal Obamamcare, strong military, family values, etc). Rubio even was able to defend the child tax credit and come across as pro-family, while seeming anti-spending. Cruz hits the talking points well too. Fiorina seems tough and is articulate, but isn’t likeable enough.
Carson and Trump were okay. Carson was able to hold his own and evade the controversies that have been dogging him lately. Trump was tough on illegal immigration and called for building the wall on the border. Trump also cited Operation Wetback (from the Eisenhower era) and talked about the Israeli border fence. Trump had good points on trade and the TPP too. Bush and Kasich were against Trump’s immigration proposals, but neither man did well.
Jeb Bush was forgettable.
Rand Paul made very substantive points on foreign policy and military spending, but I think he’s out of sync with the party.
I was disappointed that the candidates don’t want to raise the minimum wage. I was also disappointed that the candidates are against regulating Wall Street. Rubio was smooth in positioning himself as anti-regulation and still positioning himself as anti-Wall Street.
A lot of the foreign policy talk was absolutely insane, especially from Carly Fiorina. Trump and Rand Paul were the only sane candidates in the room.
I don’t think much changed from this debate, except that Rubio (and maybe Cruz) will continue to surge at Bush’s expense.
* Carson had a more coherent and cogent response on the minimum wage than Trump. This should be Trump’s strength, but he almost seemed asleep tonight. Still tired from SNL on Saturday?
I thought Rand had the strongest points judged purely on intellectual merit — especially on the utter insanity of declaring a “no-fly zone” in an area where Russia now has military planes in the air! Also, Trump did wake up in talking about the craziness of going into Syria.
In terms of presentation, Cruz seemed strongest, followed by Fiorina. I actually found Cruz’s closing comment moving (and I’m pretty cynical).
Jeb! actually said something intelligent on the technical merits of natural gas. Aside from that, I hope he enjoyed his nap.
Kasich struck me and the females in the house as more than slightly scary: I’ve seen him in many one-on-one interviews over the years, and he is not really like this. I guess he just cannot handle the debate format.
There was a feature article on Rand recently the title of which was something like “He Wants to Be Your President, But Not Your Pal.” Alas, the country wants a pal.
So, I think it will narrow down over the next four months to Trump, Rubio, and Cruz. Let’s hope, for the sake of the country and the GOP, that it is not Rubio who gets the nomination.
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Steve Sailer writes: On Monday, America’s undergraduate college system melted down in three humiliating incidents.
At Yale, in a brouhaha over Halloween costumes that has been dragging on for a week and a half now, a distinguished professor apologized for defending freedom of speech and thereby triggering a black coed to screech obscenities at him. This sorry incident called to mind the struggle sessions of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, when the national leader encouraged self-righteous young nitwits to force scholars to wear dunce caps.
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Here’s U. of Missouri Professor of Communication Melissa Click rounding up “some muscle” to throw out a reporter from some kind of Hate YT rally at Missouri.
But first, a perspective on the Department of Communications:
How many U. of Missouri football players are Communication majors?
And here’s her page on the U. of Missouri website:
Dr. Melissa A. Click earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests center on popular culture texts and audiences, particularly texts and audiences disdained in mainstream culture. Her work in this area is guided by audience studies, theories of gender and sexuality, and media literacy. Current research projects involve 50 Shades of Grey readers, the impact of social media in fans’ relationship with Lady Gaga, masculinity and male fans, messages about class and food in reality television programming, and messages about work in children’s television programs. Melissa is Vice-Chair of ICA’s Popular Communication Division and is Chair of the committee hosting the Console-ing Passions conference at the University of Missouri in April 2014.
Did I ever mention that a superfluity of punctuation in the service of bad puns is the secret handshake of postmodern academics?
Melissa’s excellence in the classroom has been recognized by the MU Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Women (Tribute to Women, 2004), the Intercollegiate Communication Association/iCom (Outstanding Professor, 2007), MU’s College of Arts & Sciences (Purple Chalk Award, 2007), Lamda Pi Eta (Honorary membership, 2008). In 2010, she received the Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award. MU’s Association of Communication Graduate Students have recognized her as an “Outstanding Mentor” (2011) and as “Graduate Advisor of the Year” (2013).
Frequently Taught Courses:
Comm 4618/7618 – Television Program Analysis and Criticism
Comm 4638 – New Technologies and Communication
Comm 4975 – Visual Literacy
Comm 8110 – Intro to Graduate Studies
Comm 8150 – Seminar in Television Criticism
Comm 9530 – Topics in Mass Communication: Cultural Studies, Audiences, & Fans
Research Interests:
Media audiences and fans; Gender, race, class and sexuality in popular culture; Television analysis and criticism; Media literacy
Selected Publications: Click, M. A., Lee, H., & Holladay, H. (2013). Making monsters: Lady Gaga, fan identification, and social media. Popular Music & Society, 6(3), 360-379.
Behm-Morawitz, E., Click, M. A., and Aubrey, J. S. (2010). “Relating to Twilight: Fans’ Responses to Love and Romance in the Vampire Franchise.” In M. A. Click, J. S. Aubrey & E. Behm- Morawitz (Eds). Bitten by Twilight: Youth culture, media, and the vampire franchise. New York: Peter Lang.
Aubrey, J. S., Walus, S., and Click, M. A. (2010). “Twilight and the Production of the 21 st Century Teen Idol.” In M. A. Click, J. S. Aubrey & E. Behm-Morawitz (Eds). Bitten by Twilight: Youth culture, media, and vampire franchise. New York: Peter Lang.
Aubrey, J. S ., Behm-Morawitz, E ., & Click, M. A. (2010). The romanticization of abstinence: Fan response to sexual restraint in the Twilight series. Transformative Works and Cultures, 5.
Click, M. (2007). Untidy: Fan response to the soiling of Martha Stewart’s spotless image. In J. Gray, C. Sandvoss, & C. L. Harrington (Eds.), Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World, pp. 301-315. New York: New York University Press.
Melissa A. Click also writes for the University of Wisconsin, Madison’s Antenna and the University of Texas at Austin’s Flow .
COMMENTS TO STEVE SAILER:
* What a useless woman. She wasted educational resources on herself that might have gone to another woman who studied something useful like nursing, physical therapy or accounting.
* Melissa’s CV is probably the sort of Japanese government had in mind when it cracked down on humanities departments in its universities.
* What exactly is the “perimeter” protecting and why are reporters being pushed away from it?
* This woman makes me ashamed of working in academia. Unfortunately, her ilk increasingly dominates all fields of study.
* She must be popular with the students who were selected into the university because of their diverse skin colors rather than for their academic merit.
Those students are flunking out of their normal university courses, but can pass her pop-culture classes. It’s likely that her lectures during the last week of October focus on Halloween costumes.
* Remember Melissa Click’s C.V. – and the tens of thousands of public university professors with C.V.’s just like hers – when the Left loses its shit about “government funding of religion.” The government is funding their religion to the tune of billions of dollars per year.
* If I was a Missouri taxpayer, I’d have some real questions about spending any money on this travesty. Missouri is very Republican, but I guess the Governor is a Democrat and can probably protect UM. It would probably make a great campaign issue for a Republican. Shades of Ronald Reagan and Berkeley.
* Universities like to have a prof or two teaching pop culture subjects as money-bait. They make the rich kids browsing the catalogue say, “Hey, I want to go to this school,” instead of somewhere else where they actually have to use their brain and work all the time. It works much like putting a soda machine in the hallway of a public high school. The sugary calories are bad for the students, but it makes them cough up extra money anyway. With college tuitions ever-climbing, universities resort to tactics like these to snag potential students from each other. Also, these profs teach the athletes if the grades of the latter start to sag.
* Low-hanging fruit right now for Trump would be to use this idiocy (and her CV) as an argument for cutting federal money to universities. He could easily whip up a policy plank that a super-majority of voters would support. Just say you’ll cut all funding (including backing student loans) for social science and humanities majors, and use some of the money saved to increase funding on engineering, basic sciences, and medical research.
The humanities will survive. Elite schools will keep them for prestige reasons, and students from wealthy families can still study them.
* Why do many black people, when angry, often go into a sort of trance and start repeating themselves over and over like mental patients? The large threatening Black Guy they were using to try to intimidate the photographer is a good example of that, though I’ve mostly seen the phenomena from lower class and poor blacks.
“You lost this one bro. You lost this one bro.You lost this one bro.You lost this one bro.You lost this one bro.You lost this one bro.You lost this one bro.You lost this one bro.
Is that a cultural thing, or a retarded prefrontal lobe issue? Sans brain damage, it certainly seems like a micro-aggression: repeat yourself, while getting louder, to indicate something physical is about to happen, to intimidate your target into submission. Primitive, but effective.
If it is a bona fide micro-aggression, apart from basic retardation, black college students should be alerted to this negative behavior, so they can work to replace it with a more productive behavior that relates better to modern civilization–which I will always presume is their ultimate aim, because I’m a good person.
That said… regarding the big black guy… what the hell is his major, I wonder? He must have an interesting story.
* The left is so easy to trigger now. For example yesterday at a family dinner my high IQ Jewish sister who was a debating champion in high school was almost brought to tears by my calmly laying out why the “wage gap” hardly exists, and that even if it did exists who cares as there is an argument for disincentivising women from working so that women pursue motherhood.
She’s much smarter than I am, but I easily beat her in that debate, and she was almost crying. It was great.
* When I went to high school, a pre-fight ritual for African Americans evolved: they would stand offset in front of each other, right shoulder facing right shoulder, and rotate like that in a circle while daring the each other to repeat some insult. They’d gradually raise their voices, and then one would finally shove the other, and the fight would be on.
* Problem is, Trump never endorses any position that doesn’t have the Family Feud survey-says high approval rating or Q Score. Copious federal welfare for state uni’s so that your idiot children can hold up meaningless diploma papers is a very popular policy. He’s on sturdier ground just restricting the number of illegals added to the Medicare moocher pool, which is on track to sink the whole country long before campus retardism is in even a weakened condition.
* Yes, revoking the sanctified status of student loans would make for both an excellent “left-liberal” wedge maneuver and the accelerant to restore market reality back to the youth country-club, uh, “higher education” sector. The libs want it to apply to outstanding debt as well, which is the proverbial rub, but the imminent fiasco might be not only worth the outcome but necessary. Colleges not organized to add value via training, on balance, don’t deserve preservation. Also cancel all of the G.I. Bill mutations and Pell grants.
* It’s hard to watch stuff like that and at least feel somewhat sympathetic towards fascism. I know: horseshoe theory and all that but how can we fight this growing cancer without resorting to illiberal means?
* Maybe the reason for the protests is basically simple. The black students admitted to the University are not as qualified as the non whites. They then are self conscious about taking remedial courses or being in invented degree programs. Hence they see themselves as left out of mainstream campus life.
* Asians for example seem do be doing just fine. Not only are they as successful economically as whites, but because their crime rates are low they don’t attract excess scrutiny from shopkeepers or the police while they are going about their day to day business. OTOH, although it’s very risky to say so in public, everybody knows that a highly disproportionate percentage of the black population consists of low achieving fuckups, and so blacks in general tend to get treated that way. This is a burden that blacks who aren’t low achieving fuckups — which I’m willing to concede is probably an absolute majority — are forced to bear, and yes, it’s unfair.
But what’s the solution? Whining about “white privilege” might bring you some emotional solace, but it isn’t actually going to improve black behavior. And there is always the risk that white people might wise up and tell you to piss off. Then what? If you have a solution please share it!
* So let me understand what’s happening here.
-A group of students organize themselves based on their ethnicity. They protest for preferential hiring and other preferential treatment for their ethnicity, including a de facto veto on what is taught at the school:
“This curriculum must be vetted, maintained, and overseen by a board composed of students, staff and faculty of color.”
– This group of protesting students picks out one specific ethnic group for demonization, citing it as the cause of most societal problems.
– To have their demands met, they mass in large groups and use intimidation and violence to silence opponents and the press. (How else to describe calling for “muscle” against a reporter?)
Doesn’t this fit the definition of fascism?
* Liberals spend so much of their time obsessing over the non-existent KKK, Halloween costumes, an ethnic joke somebody told 20 years ago, the fact that some guy with racialist beliefs sent money to this or that Republican candidate, but they are deaf, dumb and blind when it comes to the insanity displayed in that video. In fact NBC Nightly News did a perfectly straight story last night about “racial tensions” on the Missouri campus, including footage of some black students wailing in joy over the President’s resignation. Never mind that all of this stuff is, like, 100% fake.
My point: You can be as crazy and shrill and as psychologically imbalanced as you like. It’s a free country. You can blog to your hearts desire about “white privilege” or whatever. But these creeps got the President and the Chancellor of a major University to quit, in part by thuggish violence. They draw 6 figure salaries at taxpayer expense (and get cushy jobs for their lesbian partners in some cases) and they have access to the minds of impressionable young people, usually by required diversity brainwashing courses.
* All I could think of, watching this very brave cameraman “stand his ground,” was the frightening movie I saw in 6th grade called, “The Lottery.” I felt like he was so close to being hit with something, or by someone…or the mob would lose it & beat him to death like the Taliban.
Jeez, these students at U.M are stupid!…their faces will go down in recorded history infamy especially since they “shouted down” a young man of color, technically! Up shot: Republican candidates will appeal to even more frightened people (including the massive Asian demographic) across USA, in addition to the young people stuck on this god-forsaken campus after they see this video. What a bunch of losers, including the prof – I always thought Women’s Studies was bogus. Just disgusting (probably expected) that they don’t even understand/respect The Constitution. U. of M. will not recover from this. Sounds like Missouri is a crummy state you DON’T want your kid going to college in. Too many tornadoes for me!
* It speaks well of the Black students who, while lacking the smarts to do real college work, are at least aware, if only dimly in the back their minds, that they’re in over their heads.
But it speaks poorly of them that they give expression to this awareness of theirs in the form of resentment and blaming of others.
* I took a couple of those “pop culture” type classes in grad school. I needed the credits and, hey, they were available. I didn’t fool myself that I was learning anything useful — it was purely for entertainment. You got to sit in class and watch movies! Then the professor would later explain how everything about the movie was racist and sexist and blah blah blah, but you could pretty much ignore that; reading the introduction to the course textbook basically told you everything you needed to know to regurgitate this crap to the professor’s satisfaction.
The “work” was laughably easy. You had to write papers, but like you said, you could pretty much churn this stuff out in your sleep. All I had to do was sprinkle it with Marxist buzzwords and somehow link my thesis to “proof” that all straight white male Republicans were evil, and — voila! — instant “A,” every time. I think I wrote all of my “papers” for those classes in about 30 minutes the night before they were due, and nobody was the wiser.
Basically, you could fire at least two-thirds of the staff of most modern universities and the quality of the education wouldn’t suffer one bit. Heck, it might even improve. I keep wondering when some Republican governors looking to save money are going to figure this out.
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