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‘Too Late to Save the University’?

Posted on | December 3, 2018 | Comments Off on ‘Too Late to Save the University’?

 

Azusa Pacific University (APU) began as the Training School for Christian Workers, and in 1939 was renamed Pacific Bible College. It was until recently the largest evangelical Christian university on the West Coast, but it seems the salt has lost its savour, so to speak. One of the few Christians remaining on the APU faculty, Professor Barbara Harrington, has written a letter to the university’s Board of Trustees, explaining that “students are exposed to radical beliefs that deride and malign traditional Biblical Christianity,” with predictable results:

Before long, the students espouse errant ideological trends that leave them isolated from the community, embittered against Christian faith and values, and approaching the world with a raised fist and angry slogans instead of an open heart and saving truth. These students gradually become unteachable, and they leave APU in a much worse state then they were in when they arrived. I have had students confront me in class asserting that, “There is no such thing as masculine or feminine.” I had another lovely young student transform from loving Jesus and her Christian faith when she came to APU, to becoming a sneering, bitter self-declared “queer womynist” who now sees Christianity as the most divisive and pernicious influence in human history.

The crisis at Azusa Pacific keeps getting worse:

Two members of the board of trustees of a major evangelical Christian liberal arts university have resigned, contending the institution has “drifted” from its foundation and mission, and now is at odds with its written policies, statement of faith and the Bible itself.
Raleigh Washington, a prominent pastor known for his leadership of the Promise Keeper’s men’s movement, and Dave Dias, a Sacramento-area business executive, submitted letters of resignation on Wednesday to the board of trustees of Azusa Pacific University in Southern California. . . .
Washington, a trustee for 15 years, wrote that he had constantly confronted the board over the previous six years with abundant evidence that the administration and a substantial portion of the faculty were promoting a progressive ideology that clashed with the institution’s statement of faith and core principles.
He charged that the board has failed in its responsibility to hold leadership accountable and has become “complicit in this disobedient behavior.” . . .
“After fervent prayer and with integrity of heart, I cannot continue to be a part of these violations of God’s word,” he wrote. “I fear the spiritual consequences of this lack of correction and discipline.” . . .
Washington said the bottom line is that the board is overseeing an administration and faculty “who in their practice as well as their teaching blatantly violate Christian biblical precepts.” . . .
Dias, who had served on the board since 2004, said in his letter of resignation he “cannot support the obvious and intentional ‘mission drift’ and departure from the sound, Orthodoxy and Theological foundation for which APU was founded.”
“Although APU policies speak eloquently to remaining steadfast on these issues, actual university practices and an overwhelming amount of evidence dictate otherwise,” he said.
Dias said he’s leaving because the board “has refused to take the immediate, decisive, appropriate and necessary steps to remain fully committed to its founding principles.”
“My solemn fear is that it may be too late to save the university,” he said.

Embracing “social justice” hasn’t helped APU’s bottom line:

In emails to faculty, President Jon Wallace said top university leaders were surprised by the school’s debt, which includes $17 million from the 2017-18 fiscal year, a projected $20-million loss for this fiscal year and an additional $61 million in unpaid bonds. In response to the newly projected $20-million loss, the university has put a freeze on hiring, eliminated retirement plan contributions, canceled a scheduled employee raise and reduced benefits, according to the emails.

“Get woke, go broke.”



 

Category: Education

‘It’s Like Undermining What Our Generation Is Trying to Do’

Posted on | December 3, 2018 | 1 Comment

The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved:

Columbia University students invited Saturday Night Live comedian Nimesh Patel to perform on campus this weekend, then cut his mic and kicked him off stage after he allegedly made “rude” and “offensive” jokes.
The debacle happened Saturday night at cultureSHOCK, an event dedicated to celebrating Asian and Pacific Islander culture. . . .
Patel allegedly made numerous “offensive” jokes, including about how being a gay black man isn’t a choice since “no one looks in the mirror and thinks, ‘this black thing is too easy, let me just add another thing to it.’” . . .
Halfway through his skit, organizers jumped on stage, stole the mic, denounced Patel’s jokes, and asked him to wrap up his set. Patel pushed back, and said he was exposing students to ideas that could be found “in the real world.”
Students then cut his mic and kicked him off stage.

Mentioning “the real world” on campus was Patel gravest sin:

For Sofia Jao, BC ‘22, problems with the performance resided not in the set, but with Patel’s closing remarks.
“I really dislike when people who are older say that our generation needs to be exposed to the real world. Obviously the world is not a safe space but just accepting that it’s not and continuing to perpetuate the un-safeness of it… is saying that it can’t be changed,” said Jao. “When older generations say you need to stop being so sensitive, it’s like undermining what our generation is trying to do in accepting others and making it safer.”

Sweetheart, when my father was your age, he was fighting the Wehrmacht. And you realize, don’t you, it’s not just “older generations” who are sick of your overprivileged Ivy League “safe space” nonsense? Like, there are 18-year-olds — right now, this very minute — going through basic training at Parris Island and Fort Benning. There are plenty of people in the world with worse problems than having to listen to “offensive” jokes, and maybe if you had some real problems to worry about, you’d understand how silly you actually are. As it is, perhaps you should consider how fortunate you are to be at Columbia University (annual cost of attendance $73,446 including room and board) and stop your pathetic whining about “what our generation is trying to do.”



 

Category: The Ivy League Is Depraved and Decadent

The New Rules: AVOID ALL WOMEN!

Posted on | December 3, 2018 | 1 Comment

If you are male in the #MeToo era, every woman in the workplace is your enemy. Feminism’s goal is to destroy the careers of all men. There is only only one way for a man to be safe from this danger:

No more dinners with female colleagues. Don’t sit next to them on flights. Book hotel rooms on different floors. Avoid one-on-one meetings.
In fact, as a wealth adviser put it, just hiring a woman these days is “an unknown risk.” What if she took something he said the wrong way?
Across Wall Street, men are adopting controversial strategies for the #MeToo era and, in the process, making life even harder for women. . . .
Interviews with more than 30 senior executives suggest many are spooked by #MeToo and struggling to cope. “It’s creating a sense of walking on eggshells,” said David Bahnsen, a former managing director at Morgan Stanley who’s now an independent adviser overseeing more than $1.5 billion. . . .
Now, more than a year into the #MeToo movement — with its devastating revelations of harassment and abuse in Hollywood, Silicon Valley and beyond — Wall Street risks becoming more of a boy’s club, rather than less of one.
“Women are grasping for ideas on how to deal with it, because it is affecting our careers,” said Karen Elinski, president of the Financial Women’s Association and a senior vice president at Wells Fargo & Co. “It’s a real loss.”
There’s a danger, too, for companies that fail to squash the isolating backlash and don’t take steps to have top managers be open about the issue and make it safe for everyone to discuss it, said Stephen Zweig, an employment attorney with FordHarrison.
“If men avoid working or traveling with women alone, or stop mentoring women for fear of being accused of sexual harassment,” he said, “those men are going to back out of a sexual harassment complaint and right into a sex discrimination complaint.”

Before a woman can file a discrimination complaint against a man, however, first she has to learn his name. She can’t accuse you of harassment or discrimination is she doesn’t know who you are. So the goal for men now is to be invisible at work — drift into the office silently, like a ghost, hurry to your cubicle, never speak to anyone more than is absolutely necessary, then sneak out when the day is over.



 

Category: Sex Trouble

Rule 5 Sunday: Happy Hanukkah!

Posted on | December 2, 2018 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

We used to have a saying in the Cold War Army that certain women were so hot they made fatigues look good, and I don’t think there’s any doubt that former IDF soldier Gal Gadot, better known these days as the actress who plays Wonder Woman, is one of those women. Here’s a pic of her from her draftee days making IDF fatigues look hot.

Gal Gadot before she became famous.

First to light ’em up this week is Ninety Miles From Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #454, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism gives us Rule Five Gun Confiscation Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s holiday herd includes Amy Winehouse, The Front Runner, Thanksgiving Rule 5, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 1 Recap, Alexandra DeSanctis,  and Lucy Walters, Etc.

A View From The Beach delivers with The New Face of FBI, Missy Peregrym, Russiagate: It Turns Out Lying to Congress is Illegal After All, “Meximelt”, Surrounded by Russiagate, Ashley Judd Under Fire From Fellow Sex Workers, Russiagate Sturm und Drang, Feminist Sex Bots to Demand Small Talk, Consent, Rita Ora Out of Sync in New York, Getting to the Heart of the Matter, Did Low CO2 Kill the African Megafauna?, She Helped that Problem Just by Walking Back Out and Ring Around the Russiagate.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Amy Motta, his Vintage Babe is Fay McKenzie, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Victoria’s Secret. At Dustbury, it’s Samantha Bond and Janelle Monae.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

‘The Bible and the Belt’

Posted on | December 2, 2018 | Comments Off on ‘The Bible and the Belt’

 

The University of Alabama won the SEC football title Saturday night. If you listen to this week’s episode of The Other Podcast, you’ll find me interrupting the political commentary to give updates. It was a huge gut-check for the Crimson Tide. The undefeated national champions trailed 28-14 before Tua Tagovailoa threw a 51-yard touchdown pass to Jaylen Waddle with three minutes left in the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, Tagovailoa was injured and had to leave the game. Jalen Hurts came in at quarterback and led a drive that ended with a 10-yard TD pass to Jerry Jeudy to tie the game at 28-28. On Georgia’s next possession, the Bulldogs failed to convert a fourth down on a fake punt, surrendering the ball to Alabama at midfield with three minutes left. Hurts then led the game-winning drive, scoring on a 15-yard touchdown run.

A win is a win, even a come-from-behind win that induces cardiac trauma, and leaves your starting quarterback gimped up with a bad ankle. Tagovailoa will have four weeks to recover from his injury before the Tide’s Dec. 29 national championship playoff game (probably against Oklahoma), and Jalen Hurts was awesome, as Tagovailoa acknowledged after the game: “You guys have seen Jalen do this numerous times. For him to get his opportunity again, I am happy for him, and the team is happy for him as well, for him to step in and do what he did.”

Before Saturday’s game, however, there was controversy:

ESPN’s College GameDay aired a feature on Saturday that seemed ready to tell the story of Tagovailoa’s family life in Hawaii and the road to Tuscaloosa. Instead, it made for a disturbing viewing experience as Tua’s father, Galu, detailed how be molded Tua into a football star with a “Bible and the belt” philosophy.
Early in the story, Galu discussed how he forced Tua to throw lefty despite his son being right-hand dominant. The reason: Galu was a lefty.
Tua said his father’s strict discipline applied to both school and sports. When Tom Rinaldi followed up for clarification on what he meant, the Alabama quarterback said the “belt was involved” when he threw an interception or failed to get a certain grade.
“Two things in a Tagovailoa is your faith and your discipline. It’s simple,” Gula said, laughing.
“He means the Bible and the belt. You gotta work, son. You gotta do better. The evaluation from dad is the most honest,” his mother, Diane, added.
The feature also shed light on how Tua ended up at Alabama. Gula made the decision. Regardless of what Tua favored, he said his father had the final say.

The revelation that the Alabama quarterback’s family believes in corporal punishment evidently shocked some viewers, but how do you think championship athletes are made, anyway? Football is not a game for weaklings. Becoming the best quarterback in the country — Tua threw for 3,189 yards and 36 touchdowns during the regular season — doesn’t just happen accidentally, you know. Someone should do an interview of NFL Hall of Fame members and ask, “Did you father ever spank you with a belt?” My guess is that at least 90% would answer yes, and they wouldn’t even think it was controversial. That’s just the way it was.

Old-fashioned good parenting — “your faith and your discipline,” as Gula Tagovailoa said — may seem “disturbing” to some sports writers, but they’re not the ones playing in the championship game, are they?

Here, watch the 5-minute video and judge for yourself:

 

Gula Tagovailoa: “You want the best for your kids. I felt the best was USC, because a lot of great players came out of there. I felt like, man, maybe Tua can be a part of that. But when Alabama called, it just changed everything.”
Diane Tagovailoa: “Nobody gets an offer from the University of Alabama who lives in Hawaii. So it was like, wow, is this really true? Is this really happening?”
Gula Tagovailoa: “I was like, all right. You want to go big? Let’s do it big. You want to go compete? Alabama’s where it’s at.”

Yes, sir, Mr. Tagovailoa — and thank you for raising such a fine son!

“Every ’Bama man’s behind you, hit your stride!”

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)



 

Category: Alabama, Football

FMJRA 2.0: A Smooth Jazz Interlude

Posted on | December 1, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Roll Tide!
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Pro Tip: Avoid Bragging
A View From The Beach
EBL

Sex: What If We Stopped Pretending We Don’t Know What We Actually Know?
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Les Chants Magnetiques
A View From The Beach
EBL

Jonathan Yaniv Is Not a Woman and #IStandWithMeghanMurphy
The Quick & The Dead
Transgender Archives
Fishersville Mike
EBL

Twitter Bans Iraq Veteran Jesse Kelly; Glenn Reynolds Quits Platform in Protest
EBL

Emergency Tip-Jar Rattle: $557
EBL

Suspect in Hate Crime at L.A. Synagogue Is Probably Not a Trump Supporter
EBL

Lawsuit Blames Sheriff for ‘Devaluation of African-American Life in Pinellas County’
EBL

The Media: Stupid or Dishonest?
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.26.18
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

The Twitter Necropolis
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.27.18
EBL
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

What David French Won’t Say
EBL

Mississippi Elects First Female Senator, Liberal Media Blame Racism
357 Magnum
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

Illegal Alien MS-13 Suspect Pleads Guilty to Raping and Murdering Teenage Girl
EBL

Ace vs. ‘Non-Binary Ben’
357 Magnum
EBL
Dustbury

Late Night With in The Mailbox: 11.28.18
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

National Review’s ‘Pro-Family’ Writer @xan_desanctis Insults Dennis Prager
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

Late Night With In The Mailbox: 11.29.18
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach

Science Superstar Neil deGrasse Tyson Exposed as Sexual ‘Predator’
A View From The Beach
EBL

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.30.18
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending November 30:

  1.  EBL (23)
  2.  (tied) A View From The Beach and Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!



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Category: FMJRA Award

George H.W. Bush, R.I.P.

Posted on | December 1, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones . . .

Former President George Herbert Walker Bush will be universally praised in the wake of his death because it is always the policy of liberals to celebrate the dead Republicans they formerly defamed, as a means to impugn the living Republicans they currently defame. Those of us old enough to remember how liberals hated Bush when he was president (and before that, as vice-president under Ronald Reagan) will not be deceived by their panegyrics to his “civility” and “bipartisanship.”

George Bush was not yet 19 years old when he was commissioned as a Navy pilot, and still only 20 when he was shot down in action:

On 2 September 1944, Bush piloted one of four aircraft from VT-51 that attacked the Japanese installations on Chi Chi Jima. For this mission his crew included Radioman Second Class John Delaney, and Lieutenant Junior Grade William White, USNR, who substituted for Bush’s regular gunner. During their attack, four TBM Avengers from VT-51 encountered intense antiaircraft fire. While starting the attack, Bush’s aircraft was hit and his engine caught on fire. He completed his attack and released the bombs over his target scoring several damaging hits. With his engine on fire, Bush flew several miles from the island, where he and one other crew member on the TBM Avenger bailed out of the aircraft. However, the other man’s chute did not open and he fell to his death. It was never determined which man bailed out with Bush. Both Delaney and White were killed in action. While Bush anxiously waited four hours in his inflated raft, several fighters circled protectively overhead until he was rescued by the lifeguard submarine, USS Finback. During the month he remained on Finback, Bush participated in the rescue of other pilots.

Did I mention that Lt. Bush’s grandfather was a wealthy industrialist, that his father was a senator, and that he was a senior at prestigious Phillips Andover Academy when he decided to enlist? In other words, the sons of America’s privileged elite once felt a patriotic duty to their country that today’s decadent elite don’t seem to feel, and if nothing else, Bush deserves to be well remembered for his heroic service.

Bush’s landslide 1988 victory over Democrat Michael Dukakis was interpreted at the time, and rightly so, as an endorsement of Ronald Reagan’s successful presidency — a “third term,” as it were — but Bush lacked Reagan’s inimitable personal charm and, some conservative critics would say, was not devoted to the same political principles. Bush was much more aligned with the “Eastern establishment” GOP, the Chamber of Commerce “country club Republicans,” whereas Reagan had been an all-out supporter of Barry Goldwater in 1964. Bush’s 1988 campaign promise of a “kinder, gentler America” was resented by many Reaganites (including Nancy Reagan, who understood this phrase as an implied criticism of her husband’s policies), and Bush notoriously failed to keep his other promise: “Read my lips — no new taxes.”

It would be easy for conservatives to criticize Bush now, as they criticized him at the time, for fumbling away Reagan’s successful legacy. The Berlin Wall came down during the first year of Bush’s presidency, and the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, not long after America led an allied coalition to victory in the first Gulf War. At that time, polls showed that Bush was overwhelmingly popular and he looked like a shoo-in for re-election. However, in the second half of 1991 a recession began — a mild recession that proved to be brief, but this wasn’t apparent at the time, and the liberal media made it seem like 1932 all over again. The economic downturn, a GOP primary challenge from Pat Buchanan and the subsequent third-party campaign of Ross Perot created the perfect storm in 1992 that allowed Bill Clinton to be elected president with less than 43% of the vote. It was these events, I would argue, which spawned the post-Cold War problems that have haunted America the past 25 years.

One could imagine an alternative history — for example, if Bush had vetoed the tax increase enacted by the Democrat-controlled Congress — that might have prevented the unraveling of his presidency and, with a Republican in the White House to reap the benefits of the “peace dividend” (i.e., deficit reduction as a result of lower military spending), the political and cultural trends of the 1990s might have taken a much different path. But this is hindsight and wishful thinking, and we have to live in the world we have inherited, not the world as we wish it might have been. The failure of Bush’s one-term presidency should not, however, cause us to forget the good things he did.

For example, Bush was one of the leaders of the GOP’s effort to break the Democrat stranglehold on the “Solid South.” He defeated the powerful Texas Democrat machine to win two terms in Congress, ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 1970, and served as Ambassador to the United Nations (1971-73) and later as director of the CIA. In the interval, Bush was chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1973-74 when it fell his duty to inform President Nixon that he would have to resign, as the Watergate revelations had destroyed his support within the GOP. In all of these roles, Bush was a man of honor who did what duty required, as a patriotic servant of his country. This has nothing to do with why liberals are now praising Bush, however. Instead, they’re praising Bush as a way to make an invidious comparison to Trump. You can be certain that after Trump dies, he will somehow be rehabilitated by liberals and praised in order to discredit future Republicans.



 

Category: History, No More Bushes, Republicans

CNN Commentator Fired After U.N. Speech Endorsing Anti-Israel Violence

Posted on | December 1, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

The usual suspects on the Left are upset that Professor Mark Lamont Hill lost his contract as a CNN commentator Thursday — he remains on the payroll of Temple University — but he said what he said:

CNN Contributor Marc Lamont Hill told the United Nations on Wednesday that Israel should be replaced by a Palestinian state, and defended the Palestinian use of violence against Israel.
Hill was speaking at the “U.N. International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People,” which provides an annual platform for extremist rhetoric against Israel. He was present to express his views as an “invited representative of civil society.” . . .
Hill referred to the founding of Israel in May 1948 as “the great catastrophe,” borrowing the term “Nakba,” which is used by Palestinians. . . . Hill continued with various other accusations against Israel, adding that he had refused to drink “Israeli water” on a flight from “Palestine” to New York. . . .

[Quoting Hill’s speech:] Solidarity from the international community demands that we embrace boycotts, divestment, and sanctions as a critical means by which to hold Israel accountable for its treatment of Palestinian people. . . .
Black resistance to American apartheid did not come purely through Gandhi and nonviolence. Rather, slave revolts and self-defense and tactics otherwise divergent from Dr. King or Mahatma Gandhi were equally important to preserving safety and attaining freedom. We must allow—if we are to operate in true solidarity with Palestinian people, we must allow the Palestinian people the same range of opportunity and political possibility. If we are standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people, we must recognize the right of an occupied people to defend itself. We must prioritize peace. But we must not romanticize or fetishize it. . . .
So as we stand here on the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the tragic commemoration of the Nakba, we have an opportunity to not just offer solidarity in words but to commit to political action, grassroots action, local action, and international action that will give us what justice requires. And that is a free Palestine from the river to the sea.

Israel either has the right to exist, or it doesn’t, and Marc Lamont Hill quite clearly denies Israel’s right to exist. It would ill behoove Hill to claim his remarks were “taken out of context,” because we have the full transcript of his speech, and it does not exonerate him.

Many conservatives have been purged or marginalized for saying things less obviously hateful than what Hill said, and his known association with Louis Farrakhan adds weight to the charge of anti-Semitism.

If you’re going to demand that we “recognize the right of an occupied people to defend itself,” shouldn’t this principle extend beyond Israel? And if 70 years is not enough time to ratify Israel’s territorial sovereignty, how long will it take? What other historic conquests will you delegitimize? What other “occupied people” will you encourage to use violence to resist their conquerors? What about the people of Texas, a formerly independent republic? What about British rule in Northern Ireland? Would Mark Lamont Hill endorse a secessionist uprising in Texas or a renewal of anti-British terrorism by the IRA?

This is where everyone might benefit from reading Thomas Sowell’s Conquests and Cultures: An International History, which makes the point that being an “occupied people” isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Some conquests are objectively better than others. We might observe that the Germans were an “occupied people” after losing World War II, but the Allied occupation of Germany was better than the previous Nazi occupation of Poland. The fact that Stalin’s Soviet Union instituted a new totalitarian occupation of Eastern Europe after Hitler’s defeat is arguably the source of the confusion in Marc Lamont Hill’s mind. Why? Because Soviet propaganda justified the Iron Curtain and the Cold War by claiming America under Harry Truman was a “fascist” power, and this anti-American ideology took root on the Left. During the “long twilight struggle” of the Cold War, every U.S. ally was targeted for such smears by Soviet propaganda, which was parroted by the Left in America and other Western countries. This is how and why Palestinian nationalism became a cause célèbre on the Left in the late 1960s, becauses the Soviets were always eager to exploit any Third World conflict for their own advantage, and therefore furnished weapons to Israel’s enemies.

The Left’s hatred of Israel is a legacy of this Soviet propaganda, and you might notice that the British stopped having problems with IRA terrorism not long after the Soviet Union collapsed. Coincidence? No, it is a fact that the KGB smuggled weapons to the IRA, in the same way that they smuggled weapons to Palestinian terrorists in Israel.

More than 25 years after the Soviet Union ended up in “the ash heap of history,” just as Ronald Reagan had predicted, the poisonous seeds of Soviet propaganda continue to produce tainted fruit. In fact, this decaying fruit becomes more toxic with each passing year because of the “intersectionality” of identity politics promoted on our university campuses by left-wing academics like Professor Hill. Consider this passage from his speech Wednesday at the United Nations:

What I’m challenging us to do in the spirit of solidarity is not to embrace optimism but to embrace radical hope. Radical hope is a belief that despite the odds, despite the considerable measures against justice and peace, despite the legacy of hatred and imperialism and white supremacy and patriarchy and homophobia, despite these systems of power that have normalized settler colonialism, despite these structures, we can still win. We can still prevail.
One motivation for my hope in the liberation and ultimate self-determination of the Palestinian people comes in August of 2014. Black Americans were in Ferguson, Missouri in the Midwest of the United States protesting the death of a young man named Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American male who had been killed by a law enforcement agent. And as we protested, I saw two things that provided hope for the Palestinian struggle. One was that for the first time in my entire life of activism I saw a sea of Palestinian people. I saw a sea or Palestinian flags in the crowd saying that we must form a solidarity project. We must struggle together in order to resist because state violence in the United States and state violence in Brazil and state violence is Syria and state violence in Egypt and state violence in South Africa, and state violence in Palestine are all of the same sort. And we finally understood that we must work together and not turn on each other, but instead turn to each other.
And later that night when the police began to tear gas us, Mariam Barghouti tweeted us from Ramallah. She, along with other Palestinian youth activists, told us that they tear gas that we were experiencing was only temporary. They gave us tips for how to wash our eyes out. They told us how to make gas masks out of t-shirts. They gave us permission to think and dream beyond our local conditions by giving us a transnational or a global solidarity project.

If “global solidarity” were to yield “a free Palestine from the river to the sea,” as Professor Hill so ardently hopes, are we to suppose that this “liberated” Palestine would be free from “patriarchy and homophobia”? Perhaps the women and girls raped by ISIS and the homosexuals persecuted in Iran would disagree with Professor Hill’s “radical hope.”

Furthermore, what are we to conclude from Professor Hill’s assertion that the Ferguson riots were analogous to the Palestinian “struggle”? Couldn’t this be interpreted as an endorsement of anti-white terrorism in the United States? And if arresting a robbery suspect — which is what Michael Brown was — is intolerable “state violence,” then isn’t Professor Hill delegitimizing all law enforcement? Officer Darren Wilson was exonerated after evidence showed that Brown was shot after attempting to take the officer’s gun while resisting arrest. The “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative promoted by the #BlackLivesMatter movement was a lie — a bogus propaganda claim — and yet here we are, more than four years later, with Professor Hill preaching that lie at the United Nations!

CNN, which devoted many hours of coverage to promoting #BlackLivesMatter propaganda in Ferguson, Baltimore and elsewhere, has cut loose Professor Hill, but it has not repudiated its allegiance to the Left, and so we can expect still more poisoned fruit from that toxic tree.

UPDATE: Ace is on the warpath against Dan McLaughlin and other “conservatives” who defend CNN because of their totally-not-gay crushes on Jake Tapper.



 

Category: CNN, Israel, Racism
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