Universities Sowing the Seeds of Their Own Obsolescence

Victor Davis Hanson
"The media blitz during these last several weeks revealed a generation that is poorly educated and yet petulant and self-assured without justification."

"When mobs tore down a statue of Ulysses S. Grant and defaced a monument to African-American veterans of the Civil War, many people wondered whether the protesters had ever learned anything in high school or college.
"Did any of these iconoclasts know the difference between Grant and Robert E. Lee? Could they recognize the name “Gettysburg”? Could they even identify the decade in which the Civil War was fought?
"Universities are certainly teaching our youth to be confident, loud, and self-righteous. But the media blitz during these last several weeks of protests, riots, and looting also revealed a generation that is poorly educated and yet petulant and self-assured without justification.
"Many of the young people on the televised front lines of the protests are in their 20s. But most appear juvenile, at least in comparison to their grandparents — survivors of the Great Depression and World War II.
"How can so many so sheltered and prolonged adolescents claim to be all-knowing?" . . .
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NRO contributor VICTOR DAVIS HANSON is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author, most recently, of The Case for Trump. @vdhanson

This writer says to defund the universities

The writer of this post, Jay Latimer is the pen name of a Duke University alumnus.

Defund the universities  "Fed up with Defund the Police? Worried that hordes of “peaceful protestors” might soon show up to burn and pillage your neighborhood? Want to make your views known but unsure where to begin?

"Here’s a way to hit back: defund the universities.

"It’s no secret that much of the radical ideology fueling the Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots are the product of our dysfunctional higher educational system. Universities today are almost 100% hard left-wing bubbles, openly hostile to any conservative thought. They are intolerant of opposing opinions, the very opposite of the kind of dialogue intended for higher education, and so desperately needed today. These Molotov-cocktail wielding radicals are the end product of years of propaganda from left-wing professors.

"Colleges may hate conservatives, but they will be forced to listen – and change – if you target their pocketbooks. And colleges and universities are vulnerable, especially with the current double-whammy of lower student enrollment and the coronavirus taking its toll.

"Here’s a modest outline of how to begin. Ideally some enterprising legislator will help to put these into law. If BLM can force “radical change” on society why can’t conservatives push through a few modest proposals of our own?" . . .  

To: Office of Gift Planning, Duke University

CC: Duke President Vincent E. Price

Dear Sirs,

I am very sorry to have to write you this letter, but I feel I no longer have any choice.

As you know I was considering a major donation to Duke University. However, after learning of President Price’s “structural racism” initiatives, I will no longer be donating to Duke. In fact, I will make it my priority to convince other alumni not to donate as well.

I am shocked and appalled to see the direction that Duke University has chosen to take. I am ashamed to be a Duke alumnus, and am worried and indeed horrified at what this once great institution is becoming.

President Price’s recent announcement to go all-in on a “structural racism” ideology insures that Duke will become a place where racial grievances are magnified, and where people are judged and rewarded based on the color of their skin and actions of their ancestors. Ironically this kind of ideology is the very definition of racism, and the polar opposite of Martin Luther King’s vision for a color-blind society.

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After calling for no fireworks for the 4th of July, Gavin Newsom was in for a surprise

The right can have its social justice warriors as well, in spite of Democrats and their Congressional Republican allies. TD

With the Wuhan virus, Gavin Newsom discovers the perils of crying ‘Wolf’
. . . "And then, suddenly, Newsom announced that mass riots were okay – and, by the way, if you’re not rioting, you’re still locked up. Having been lied to and manipulated, Californians are turning to civil disobedience." . . .
. . . "It turns out that, even in a smugly leftist state, the government can only cry “wolf” so often." . . .

Monica Showalter  "Amid a new outbreak of the coronavirus, California's Gavin Newsom was adamant that no firework celebrations be done on the Fourth of July, because the public simply could not be trusted to socially distance.

If you're looking for fireworks, the governor said he believes counties should consider canceling shows.

Addressing the counties on California's watchlist, he explained, "We have worked with those counties, the 19 counties that are mandatory closure lists and we have made it clear privately- now we're making it more abundantly clear publicly- that we believe that they should consider canceling some of their fireworks shows and presentations. By the way, a number of cities have done just that, LA in San Francisco." . . .

. . .

Richard Grenell posted:The people of Southern California are revolting against @GavinNewsom. My liberal neighbors are fed up with his controlling ways.

. . .
. . . Here's economically battered Fresno, from a scold of a reporter looking to see those tickets issued:
. . .

"All that mattered was that he be able to put out an order and watch the descamisados fall into line.

"So he got what he wanted with the shutdown of public displays, making a lot of people unhappy, but instead of compliance, got a massive repudiation of his utterly unreasonable order. And a big celebration of freedom instead, highly appropriate on America's national holiday. Maybe he can take the sentiment of the people and the verdict of science into consideration next time he wants to flex his state muscle and work on his lethal nursing home policy instead."

BLM Co-Founder Once “Begged Allah” in a Tweet For “Strength” Not to Kill White People

Kamala Harris, comment, please. As Maxine Waters said of the Rodney King riots, "We do not condone..."

Wayne Dupree   

"If you wonder how BLM became such a violent and militant group, wonder no more…their violent and radical roots go back to the beginning of the movement.
"A Sudanese refugee and proud Marxist by the name of Yusra Khogali is one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter collective in Canada.
"Khogali is also a devout anti-white activist and racist.
"She believes white people are “subhuman” and should be “wiped out.' ”

"MORE NEWS: [VIDEO] Experts Say Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Just Violated IRS Law During an Appearance on CNN"