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Liberals and Campus Violence
July 2, 2017
Daniel Greenfield
"When your next college free speech controversy erupts, don’t blame liberals.” That's the message of Georgetown's Jacques Berlinerblau.
Jacques distinguishes between liberals and leftists.
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There's a degree of truth to this. But, as with the USSR, the radical left has the strength that it does because most left of center, whether they call themselves liberals or progressives, act as their useful idiots. Their governing principle is no enemies to the left.
Worse still, the current intersectional incarnation, which hides leftist politics behind identity politics, has the unequivocal and unthinking support of the people who call themselves liberals. It's why these thugs have been able to paralyze administrators and faculty by screaming about their pain, crying that their bodies and minds are being destroyed, and demanding safe spaces.
They may not follow the argument to its logical conclusion, but neither do they offer any meaningful intellectual resistance. And that's because they think that the difference is more about tactics than outcome.
Much of the motivating power for this does indeed come from the radical left. Specifically from a few radical faculty members who actually implement what they teach. But all that was necessary for their triumph was the complicity of "liberals".
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Liberals and Campus Violence
Liberals and Campus Violence
July 2, 2017
Daniel Greenfield
"When your next college free speech controversy erupts, don’t blame liberals.” That's the message of Georgetown's Jacques Berlinerblau.
Jacques distinguishes between liberals and leftists.
...
There's a degree of truth to this. But, as with the USSR, the radical left has the strength that it does because most left of center, whether they call themselves liberals or progressives, act as their useful idiots. Their governing principle is no enemies to the left.
Worse still, the current intersectional incarnation, which hides leftist politics behind identity politics, has the unequivocal and unthinking support of the people who call themselves liberals. It's why these thugs have been able to paralyze administrators and faculty by screaming about their pain, crying that their bodies and minds are being destroyed, and demanding safe spaces.
They may not follow the argument to its logical conclusion, but neither do they offer any meaningful intellectual resistance. And that's because they think that the difference is more about tactics than outcome.
Much of the motivating power for this does indeed come from the radical left. Specifically from a few radical faculty members who actually implement what they teach. But all that was necessary for their triumph was the complicity of "liberals".
...
Liberals and Campus Violence
