New Whine in Old Skins

America's Campuses Resurrect the 60s With a Twist

One of the problems with aging is that you really do forget that many—-an increasing majority—-of the people have not seen what you have seen, or lived through what you lived through.

Current campus radicalism and mob-ism is nothing new. Maybe different in a few ways. But the current crop got nuthin’ on Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden, or the rest of the Students for a Democratic Society. (Or, more properly, the Students for a Fascist Society). Such are the Muslim pro-Palestinian analdodgers taking over Ivy League campuses at present. (Note to protestors: “try that in a small town.” Texas sent in the National Guard and the police cavalry today!)

It is definitely nothing new. All that has changed is the so-called cause, which used to be the “Veetnam War” and now is poor little Palestine (or something). I guarantee you many of these protesters couldn’t find Palestine on a map if you spotted them Egypt and Iraq.

Those who wish society to be peaceful and orderly for all shake their heads, baffled at the fascist overtones of Muslim students who, yes, want to kill Jews. These are the same Jewish students whose mostly wealthy parents sent them to nice liberal Ivy League universities to be further brainwashed and to exit with the connections needed to maintain a 1% lifestyle. And these are the same universities whose gutless administrators and faculty—-if not flat out agreeing with the Pale protesters—-do nothing to ensure the safety of students who may disagree. It’s worth taking a step back in time to see who wrote the manual on how to conduct such quasi-fascist occupation and “demonstrations.”

The Yippie movement, led by Rubin and Abbie Hoffman (both secular Jews, it might be pointed out) were steeped in communism. The thing is, for those actually educated, the essentials of communism and fascism are distinctions without a difference. Both are based on the labor theory of value, totalitarianism, and murder for the “right reasons.” One identified certain ethnic groups as the enemy, the other certain classes. But the distinctions ended there.

At any rate, the original Yippie/student “protest” movement was inevitable due to three streams converging in America at the same time: the largest group of college-aged kids in the country . . . EVER . . , a flood of money from the U.S. gubment into the universities for defense-related research (which immediately spread to the liberal arts departments to preach radicalism), and an army of leftist profs benefitting from the counterreaction to McCarthyism. In other words, universities had a lot of kids, a lot of money and a lot of leftist influencers.

Campus violence was not a case of emotions getting out of hand or of frustrated students who lacked patience or discipline for nonviolent protest. It was designed and driven by violence to force an even more violent reaction by the “authorities.” The assaults were then, as they are now, carefully planned and executed. The purpose was never to “force change” in the universities but to force the collapse of what was viewed, rightly or wrongly, as institutions that were tools of “the man.” In today’s case, the institutions are viewed as Jewish hotbeds to be occupied—-quite literally.

Now, as then, violating the law had no real meaning, for the law itself commanded no respect. (Ironically, the kangaroo trials of President Trump and the fascist-like indictments of electors in various states has only further cemented their view: why obey the law when the government itself ignores the law?) They are only repeating in a different way the messages their “good liberal” friends on campus have sent when they canceled through quasi-violence conservative speakers or when big city mayors ignored the laws by declaring themselves “sanctuary cities.” If they can do it, the Pale-lunatics reasoned, why can’t we?

One of the 60s leftist expressed the same concept in court, saying “Those who got subpoenas became heros. . . . It was almost sexual.” They called it “subpoaenas envy”: “Whose is bigger? I want one too.” Bill Ayers, Barack Obama’s compatriot, did not regret setting a bomb at the Chicago Haymarket Memorial Statue: “I feel we didn’t do enough,” he sighed. The tactical template was clear, said Rubin: “Satisfy our demands and we got twelve more. . . . All we want from these meetings are demands that the Establishment can never satisfy.”

What are the “demands” of the Pale/Muslim chowderdumplings marching today An “end to the war?” No. An “end to Israeli occupation?” No. Rubin wanted the complete destruction of all the “Establishment’s” institution (to be replaced with what, he didn’t say, nor did he have a clue as to what would come next). For the current clan of fascists, it is the total and complete extermination of Israel. But that’s just their first “demand.” Ultimately, they would get around to the complete and total extermination of Jews. That would be followed by the extermination or conversion of all non-Muslims. That is the only way it can end, though it is doubtful few will say as much now.

This is old wine in new skins. Until or unless it is ruthlessly and aggressively stomped out, there can never be a “liberal arts” university again. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just accelerating a much more violent counterrevolution. And it will come. It is inevitable.

Larry Schweikart

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