The thing is, even though ending the draft or the Vietnam War or South African apartheid sounds a lot more defensible than jihadist butchery, most of the bad things that have happened since 1968 can be traced directly to the idiots of those days who were in the universities trying to tear the system down. Imagine what damage the trust fund bros chasing ji-hotties can do before the Sharia courts get them and the girls become third wives.
I think the Slutskys of the world want to avenge anyone who disagrees with their many causes, their “I CANNOT BE WRONG ABOUT ALL THAT OCCUPIES MY HEAD” attitude. They crave the control of Marxism, and careless what happens to the Kulaks.
Good luck with your show.I've just seen "Giant",in London with John Lithgow playing Roald Dahl.It's a superb play,if somewhat wordy and provides a unique perspective on "Anti Semitism".All good wishes."Break a leg".
She could have done her hair for her ridiculous moment of glory. Send the gay Hamas supporter behind her to the Middle East already. Let’s see how tough he stands there surrounded by his pals.
At least that. He should be ashamed standing against the only country in the whole Middle East where gays live freely and respected. Supporting those who throw gays from the top of buildings.
In Israel they would be in the army or completed service. Young women several years younger than idiot Slutsky were in a tank battling Hamas for 18 hours. Saving Israeli lives from Hamas savages
PREACH!! I've been saying that we really need to supercharge Americorps and make public and community service a prerequisite for state and federal student financial assistance, or give students free state college tuition in exchange for a certain number of hours worked. These kids need to go work with Habitat for Humanity, volunteer with seniors and at risk youth, do neighborhood improvement projects like community gardens, shuttle people to and from polling places during elections, etc--and how about scrubbing off graffiti and repairing the damage done to statues and public monuments?
Imagine if all of the resources used to set up these encampments were instead poured into those suffering from all of the many conflicts raging around the world?
The Palestinian cause is the most cynical because grifters have WEAPONIZED the situation to enrich themselves while using students and the people of Gaza as human shields.
My understanding of the whole situation really shifted when I read the book Son of Hamas.
Oh yes--Mossab Hassan Yousef is heroic, a man with the courage of a Salman Rushdie. Every word he utters against the terrorist organization he was born into and brainwashed by spells danger for him yet he continues to trumpet his message, which we'd do well to heed. Re: the encampments--one comment I didn't include in my essay today is the observation of the absolute tone deafness of these kids--especially at UCLA, where their phony campus tent city is mere yards from actual tent cities inhabited by homeless Americans on the streets of LA. What a mockery. First, those homeless folks should be invited to campus where these "activists" should be made to dismantle their camp, giving all the tents and supplies and whatever other stuff they have in them to these needy people that are right under their snotty noses. If not? Let these unhoused people live in the dorm rooms they've abandoned and let the kids sleep rough.
Hooray for your take on the subject. Hooray for your new show.
It is v much does my jihad look big in this from some of them. In Newcastle, they wanted hot water bottles because to camp out was to feel the pain of the Gazans. <eyeroll>
I have zero respect for them. I do have a lot of respect for people like AHMED FOUAD ALKHATIB who wrote in the Sunday Times about the need for Palestinians to pursue peace instead of being brainwashed by Hamas. A bit like the Troubles in Northern Ireland, it will only end when the vast majority become sick of the killing etc. In Gaza, this will mean repudiation of Hamas. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ive-lost-31-family-members-gaza-but-we-must-resist-hamas-wfctnjf7m
Mark, unfortunately I think you are right. The problem of how to counter much of the brainwashing and getting people to actually think and not blindly accept or indulge in diversity of thought is going to be with us for a long time. We need to get back to Mills trident thinking.
It is why substacks like James' The Cornfield are important.
We've cut corners, lowered standards, discouraged excellence (see: participation trophies), allowed the curriculum to be degraded (see: de-colonized), seen our best and most seasoned educators driven out (cancellations, which eerily resemble the Nazis' ousting of the intellectuals (see: Jews) and "decadent" artists), and critical social justice overtaking everything else thanks to embedded DEI bureaucrats who are the REAL problem.
My next piece compares the hijacking of our schools and universities today to the takeover of education and indoctrination of kids by the Nazis and while the substance and politics are different the tactics are nauseatingly similar. Like text book. Stay tuned.
Thank you, Michelle! As Oscar Wilde wrote: "The truth is rarely pure and never simple;" and this generation (which supposedly abhors a binary) has been taught a childish black vs. white, good vs. evil narrative to plaster over any and all situations: white folks=evil, brown folks=victims. I feel sorry for these kids... they're supposed to be stupid and immature, but to send college educated people into the world with such a simplistic grasp of the complexities of that world... well, I will probably be dead by the time they take over. LOL
The one thing you can stop doing is calling them 'kids' -- they are all over 18 and old enough to take responsibility for their actions, particularly the Phd students who should be in their mid-20s. Infantilization serves no good purpose except to excuse their abhorrent behaviour and quite frankly bizarre almost Manichean notions. Old enough to develop nuance.
I do remember being a college student and being perhaps naïve but by the time I graduated, I certainly had a far more nuanced view of the world. And my lot by the time they were graduate students, they were all adults and standing on their own two feet. I was told this in no uncertain terms that!
Apparently over here, the government is going to take strong action against the blockading students as they have little tolerance for 'Jew-hate'. And I understand that Trinity College Admin is suing the student association as the blockade of the Book of Kells has cost them quite a bit of revenue.
One of the big plays for activists is to 'send in the mothers' -- they have been doing this since the America Firsters opposed US efforts against Nazi Germany, probably started during the temperance movement. I can remember a new article about this sort of thing during the whole Portland Oregon BLM mess. Performative activism -- people always seem to think it will accomplish more that it actually does.
Journos do seem to fall for it as I suppose they like a dramatic photo.
Motherhood (i.e. the act of bearing a child) does change a woman though-- recent research shows that baby's cells remain within the mother for decades. They have just really started studying the science of motherhood in any great detail and the results are interesting.
The thing is, even though ending the draft or the Vietnam War or South African apartheid sounds a lot more defensible than jihadist butchery, most of the bad things that have happened since 1968 can be traced directly to the idiots of those days who were in the universities trying to tear the system down. Imagine what damage the trust fund bros chasing ji-hotties can do before the Sharia courts get them and the girls become third wives.
Can we call them “generation entitlement” or does “generation clueless” work better?
I think the Slutskys of the world want to avenge anyone who disagrees with their many causes, their “I CANNOT BE WRONG ABOUT ALL THAT OCCUPIES MY HEAD” attitude. They crave the control of Marxism, and careless what happens to the Kulaks.
Good luck with your show.I've just seen "Giant",in London with John Lithgow playing Roald Dahl.It's a superb play,if somewhat wordy and provides a unique perspective on "Anti Semitism".All good wishes."Break a leg".
Nailed it. Especially the last line.
She could have done her hair for her ridiculous moment of glory. Send the gay Hamas supporter behind her to the Middle East already. Let’s see how tough he stands there surrounded by his pals.
I heard a commentator call them "Osama Non Binary."
At least that. He should be ashamed standing against the only country in the whole Middle East where gays live freely and respected. Supporting those who throw gays from the top of buildings.
Remember those faces and be sure never to hire them!
This is one person who regrets that this revolution will be televized… apologies to Gil Scott-Heron.
In Israel they would be in the army or completed service. Young women several years younger than idiot Slutsky were in a tank battling Hamas for 18 hours. Saving Israeli lives from Hamas savages
PREACH!! I've been saying that we really need to supercharge Americorps and make public and community service a prerequisite for state and federal student financial assistance, or give students free state college tuition in exchange for a certain number of hours worked. These kids need to go work with Habitat for Humanity, volunteer with seniors and at risk youth, do neighborhood improvement projects like community gardens, shuttle people to and from polling places during elections, etc--and how about scrubbing off graffiti and repairing the damage done to statues and public monuments?
This was brilliantly written James.
I am dedicated to a musicalized version of the Marxist American Revolution.
Only one song from the catalog of Musical Theatre fit the moment.
Enjoy!
https://jennyhatch.substack.com/p/ucla-beyond-the-barricade
Empty minds at empty tables...
Imagine if all of the resources used to set up these encampments were instead poured into those suffering from all of the many conflicts raging around the world?
The Palestinian cause is the most cynical because grifters have WEAPONIZED the situation to enrich themselves while using students and the people of Gaza as human shields.
My understanding of the whole situation really shifted when I read the book Son of Hamas.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jennyhatch/p/son-of-hamas-book-review?r=87fg5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Thanks for your passion and clarity.
Jen
Oh yes--Mossab Hassan Yousef is heroic, a man with the courage of a Salman Rushdie. Every word he utters against the terrorist organization he was born into and brainwashed by spells danger for him yet he continues to trumpet his message, which we'd do well to heed. Re: the encampments--one comment I didn't include in my essay today is the observation of the absolute tone deafness of these kids--especially at UCLA, where their phony campus tent city is mere yards from actual tent cities inhabited by homeless Americans on the streets of LA. What a mockery. First, those homeless folks should be invited to campus where these "activists" should be made to dismantle their camp, giving all the tents and supplies and whatever other stuff they have in them to these needy people that are right under their snotty noses. If not? Let these unhoused people live in the dorm rooms they've abandoned and let the kids sleep rough.
Hooray for your take on the subject. Hooray for your new show.
It is v much does my jihad look big in this from some of them. In Newcastle, they wanted hot water bottles because to camp out was to feel the pain of the Gazans. <eyeroll>
I have zero respect for them. I do have a lot of respect for people like AHMED FOUAD ALKHATIB who wrote in the Sunday Times about the need for Palestinians to pursue peace instead of being brainwashed by Hamas. A bit like the Troubles in Northern Ireland, it will only end when the vast majority become sick of the killing etc. In Gaza, this will mean repudiation of Hamas. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ive-lost-31-family-members-gaza-but-we-must-resist-hamas-wfctnjf7m
Michelle they wont stop. They cant stop, they have been brainwashed and promised everything under the sun.
There are no easy answers. No easy way out of this situation.
Mark, unfortunately I think you are right. The problem of how to counter much of the brainwashing and getting people to actually think and not blindly accept or indulge in diversity of thought is going to be with us for a long time. We need to get back to Mills trident thinking.
It is why substacks like James' The Cornfield are important.
And it also shows what happens when people have, how should I put this, a lazy mind?
We've cut corners, lowered standards, discouraged excellence (see: participation trophies), allowed the curriculum to be degraded (see: de-colonized), seen our best and most seasoned educators driven out (cancellations, which eerily resemble the Nazis' ousting of the intellectuals (see: Jews) and "decadent" artists), and critical social justice overtaking everything else thanks to embedded DEI bureaucrats who are the REAL problem.
Nazism 101
Stalinisim 101
End of Democracy 101
My next piece compares the hijacking of our schools and universities today to the takeover of education and indoctrination of kids by the Nazis and while the substance and politics are different the tactics are nauseatingly similar. Like text book. Stay tuned.
Thank you, Michelle! As Oscar Wilde wrote: "The truth is rarely pure and never simple;" and this generation (which supposedly abhors a binary) has been taught a childish black vs. white, good vs. evil narrative to plaster over any and all situations: white folks=evil, brown folks=victims. I feel sorry for these kids... they're supposed to be stupid and immature, but to send college educated people into the world with such a simplistic grasp of the complexities of that world... well, I will probably be dead by the time they take over. LOL
The one thing you can stop doing is calling them 'kids' -- they are all over 18 and old enough to take responsibility for their actions, particularly the Phd students who should be in their mid-20s. Infantilization serves no good purpose except to excuse their abhorrent behaviour and quite frankly bizarre almost Manichean notions. Old enough to develop nuance.
I do remember being a college student and being perhaps naïve but by the time I graduated, I certainly had a far more nuanced view of the world. And my lot by the time they were graduate students, they were all adults and standing on their own two feet. I was told this in no uncertain terms that!
Apparently over here, the government is going to take strong action against the blockading students as they have little tolerance for 'Jew-hate'. And I understand that Trinity College Admin is suing the student association as the blockade of the Book of Kells has cost them quite a bit of revenue.
How could these young women possibly be mothers?
There is a small matter of biology...
One of the big plays for activists is to 'send in the mothers' -- they have been doing this since the America Firsters opposed US efforts against Nazi Germany, probably started during the temperance movement. I can remember a new article about this sort of thing during the whole Portland Oregon BLM mess. Performative activism -- people always seem to think it will accomplish more that it actually does.
Journos do seem to fall for it as I suppose they like a dramatic photo.
Motherhood (i.e. the act of bearing a child) does change a woman though-- recent research shows that baby's cells remain within the mother for decades. They have just really started studying the science of motherhood in any great detail and the results are interesting.