Your history lesson for the day. All of the following comes from Jonah Goldbergs Liberal Fascism. As with the previous eras, the 1960s represented an international movement. Students launched radical uprisings around the world, in France, Indonesia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Senegal, South Korea, Mexico and the United States. Meanwhile, working from within the establishment, a new cohort of liberal activists sought to re-create the social and political dynamics of their parents generation, to further the legacies and fulfill the promises of the Progressive Era. This two pronged assault, from above and below, ultimately succeeded in seizing the commanding heights of the government and the culture..............The self-styled revolutionaries had grown increasingly brazen in their campaign to force concessions from the university. Students and professors who were labeled race traitors received death threats. Enemies of the radical nation were savagely beaten by roaming thugs. Guns were brought onto campus, and the students dressed up in military uniforms. Professors were held hostage, badgered, intimidated, and threatened whenever their teaching contradicted racial orthodoxy. But the university administration, out of a mixture of cowardice and sympathy for the rebels, refused to punish the revolutionaries, even when the president was manhandled by a fascist goon in front of an audience made up of the campus community...................The radicals and their student sympathizers believed themselves to be revolutionaries of the left--opposite of fascists in their minds--yet when one of their professors read them the speeches of Benito Mussolini, the students reacted with enthusiasm. Events came to a climax when students took over the student union and the local radio station. Armed with rifles and shotguns, they demanded an ethnically pure educational institution staffed and run by members of their own race. At first the faculty and administration were understandably reluctant; but when it was suggested that those who opposed their agenda might be killed, most of the moderates quickly reversed course and supported the militants. In a mass rally reminiscent of Nuremberg, the professors recanted their reactionary ways and swore fidelity to the new revolutionary order. One professor later recalled how easily pompous teachers who catechized about academic freedom could, with a little shove, be made into dancing bears.............Eventually the fascist thugs got everything they wanted. The authorities caved in to their demands. The few who remained opposed quietly left the university and, in some cases, the country, once it was clear their safety could not be guaranteed.............The University of Berlin in 1932? Milan in 1922? Good guesses. But this all happened at Cornell in the spring of 1969. Paramilitary Black Nationalists under the banner of the Afro-American Society seized control of the university after waging an increasingly aggressive campaign of intimidation and violence.....................The public excuse for the armed seizure of the Cornell student union was a cross burning outside the black dorm. This was later revealed to be a hoax orchestrated by the black radicals themselves in order to provide a pretext for their violence---and to overshadow the administrations fainthearted and toothless reprimands six black radicals whod broken campus rules and state laws............................ As the cross-burning incident at Cornell demonstrated, for this preference for arousing passions at the expense of truth and reason defined the agenda of those fighting in the trenches. The practice of lying for justice---always acceptable on the communist left---was infused into the American New Left with new potency. The catchphrase at the Columbia uprising was the issue is not the issue. No wonder, since the actual issue -----building a gym in adjacent Harlem---was such small beer. For most of the activists, deceit wasnt the point. The point was passion, mobilization, action. As one SDS member proclaimed after he and his colleagues seized a building and kidnapped the dean, Weve got something going on here and now weve just got to find out what it is. From me.....this might be why its so damn hard do defend yourself and your point of view against Liberals. They dont really have a point of view, they have action. They dont think things through, think Obamacare, its just the point of doing something. And many times that something is something really bad or it turns in to something really bad when it is put into action. And then they just walk away and the American tax payer pays for their action for the rest of their lives.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 16:35:50 +0000