Pro-Hamas Protests on College Campuses Are Ripping the Mask Off Wokeism
“dramatically increased awareness that something is rotten in the state of higher education in the English-speaking world”
People can now see how deranged campus culture has become, and that is a good thing.
Niall Ferguson writes at the Daily Mail:
What irony! The deranged defence of Hamas on campuses across the West is fuelling a counter-revolution that could finally loosen the stranglehold of wokeism
Has wokeism jumped the shark? In other words, have the radical Leftists who for years have exercised increasing power in our universities finally gone too far?
I dare to hope so. The recent disgraceful responses to the attacks on Israel that we have seen — from American university campuses to the streets of London and Sydney — have dramatically increased awareness that something is rotten in the state of higher education in the English-speaking world.
Some of us have been battling against the ideological takeover of academia for close to a decade. Each year, we have been getting better organised. But we have struggled to convince people in the real world just how bad things are.
The past three weeks may finally have changed that.
The expression ‘jump the shark’ was coined in 1977 when the scriptwriters of long-running comedy series Happy Days — into their fifth series and getting short of ideas — tried to pep up the storyline by having the main character, Fonzie, preposterously jump over a shark while on water-skis.
The campus Left’s response to the attacks of October 7 was equally far-fetched and over-the-top — but immeasurably more offensive.
Let’s remind ourselves what happened three weeks ago. Two Gaza-based terrorist groups inspired by Islamist ideology, committed to the destruction of the state of Israel and backed by at least one government, staged a trailer for a second Holocaust. In their savagery, they exceeded even the horrors perpetrated by the Russian butchers of Bucha in Ukraine.
More than 1,400 Israelis were killed, including children and even babies. More than 200 were kidnapped.
The idea Israel should do nothing in response to this outrage — other than ensure the flow of aid into Gaza — defies both human emotion and strategic sense. Only those wearing ideological blindfolds cannot see that.
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Just when you thought the Crusades were over …
https://twitter.com/ACTBrigitte/status/1712532259830407580
“First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people”.
Says it all.
Curriculum:
1. Do not attend any college right out of high school.
2. Get a job. Any job. Babysitting, dog walking, ESL, pump gas, mow grass, shovel snow, shovel sh:t, au pair , wait tables, tend bar anything
Your goal here is to get good enough at this so that you can survive with minimal additional assistance from parents
3. Learn a language. Start online. This will take at least a year before you go overseas to live and work in your new second language.
Your goal here is to be completely comfortable bilingual Level C1 such that at some point you will be able to function seamlessly in English or your second tongue.
If you do (1) and (2) above, then you don’t need to be a genius nor particularly beautiful or gifted.
But within a few years you will have real skills that have real $$ value in the real world.
You’ll be offered opportunities that your former peers cannot imagine.
And you’ll have zero debt.
And you’ll still be able to go to college if you want to. Either in English or, better (and cheaper), in your second language.
I know that this curriculum works because I’ve seen it work. More than once.
If you think you can just go to a college and get your degree and someone’s going to offer you a fine upper middle class future, then you’re an idiot. Woke or not.
Good luck
Oh one more thing. The above curriculum is fun. It’s fun as sh:t. Trust me.
“If you think you can just go to a college and get your degree and someone’s going to offer you a fine upper middle class future, then you’re an idiot. Woke or not.”
50 years ago, this worked just fine, at least in STEM. But the world changed.
Quite so.
As well, 50 years ago China was just beginning to open up. In 1973, 50 years ago, I’m pretty sure that a total of zero US corporations were operating in China. with its 1,000,000,000+ people
Same with Vietnam and it’s 100,000,000 people.
Times change Strategies for success must evolve………………
Not so much. What has changed are the Degrees in the various “Studies” kids are paying tens of thousands for to realize they graduated qualified for a Walmart job. STEM can still do quite well
I followed your plan, sort of. We learned French in High School, on the Quebec border quite common. Graduating I worked less than a year at McDonald’s rising to manager then joined the Army and grew up. Got out and with the College Fund went to a University, learned Spanish and got a degree in Biology. Worked 2 jobs during school and summers so owed $8,000 for that degree which I paid off in a year.
This should be on the front page.