Abdul El-Sayed is the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan who has become the embodiment of the Red-Green Alliance. His connections and bromance with Hasan Piker also has caused a lot of controversy. But so too has El-Sayed’s maternal half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, a whacked out radical anti-American who … teaches … at … the University of Chicago.It runs in the family apparently, and at U. Chicago.I had a chance to speak about the evil sister and a couple of other topics (the SCOTUS mail ballot ruling and Birthright Citizenship) with Jesse Kelly.The clip below is pegged to start on the sister issue, but you can scroll back and listen to the whole thing.Transcript Excerpt (auto-generated, may contain transcription errors, lightly edited for transcript clarity)
Kelly (04:36):…. I’m gonna ask you about universities, specifically our elite universities, for instance, not just Cornell. The University of Chicago is one of those ones that I would never be able to get into. Uh, this lady is apparently a professor there. <laugh>
Video played (04:57):The University of Chicago, it’s evil. Like, you know, it’s a colonial landlord. Like, why would I, why would I put any of my political energy into this space? And I kinda had a little bit of disdain for, uh, for, for, like, people who spent a lot of time doing that. And the genocide really collapsed that and made me realize that. But what we don’t have is power. And I think for me, the question of base building is about. I think the question that I, I’m asking myself and I’m asking you to ask yourself is, where can I actually build power? Turns out, I work at one of the biggest employers in the city of Chicago. I work at a place that is a landlord, a healthcare provider, um, a police force but they are, right? And, um, a place where I have access to thousands of people that I could potentially organize.But I’m just like, actually, this is where I need to build power, right? Like, this is my b- best possible structural leverage. And so I do, I do one-on-ones with my liberal colleagues who are like, “Well, I don’t know, but, you know, I just think we should live the life of the mind here in Hyde Park.” <laugh> And it’s like, “Yeah, no, I hear you. Totally. Yeah.”
Kelly (06:11):
Bill, it’s one thing to have your professor lean left a little bit. That’s a whole new ballgame apparently we’re in now. How prevalent is this thinking on campus?
WAJ (06:22):
Well, it’s certainly prevalent among a certain aspect or percentage of the faculty, the most active, the most vocal faculty. This woman is representative of that attitude. And I don’t know if it was in this clip or another clip. She says the whole reason she’s going into academia is because of the power it gives her.
And so we have to realize that there are people who do not view teaching as their calling. They are not in academia to teach. They’re in academia to politicize. And this is a real problem.
I think people do not understand the depth of the problem. It’s not a majority of professors. It’s not a super majority, but it’s a big enough minority that they wield power on the campuses, they wield power over your children. This is why I say all the time that academia, particularly in the humanities and social sciences, is run by people more radical than you can imagine, and it cannot be reformed internally.
And that’s why I support the Trump administration and various state administration attempts to reform academia from the outside, because they will not reform themselves. So this is a massive problem.
These are people who go into academics and go into higher education and increasingly K through 12 for the express purpose, which this woman admitted — she said the quiet part out loud — for the express purpose of proselytizing the students, and this is a problem we need to deal with. It is a major problem.
Kelly (07:56):
Yeah, it is. Bill, my friend, thank you as always, outstanding.
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