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Academics Protest Trump With Public Reading of French Homosexual’s Book

Posted on | January 17, 2017 | 1 Comment

This makes perfect sense at a certain level:

Many groups of scholars and writers are planning teach-ins or readings for Friday, the day Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated as president of the United States. Others are organizing teach-ins to focus on Trump’s policies.
Some anthropologists are taking a different approach. They are planning events that day in which people — together at locations across the country or virtually connected — will read and discuss a lecture presented by Michel Foucault, the late philosopher, as part of a series he gave at the Collège de France. The lectures have been published as a book, Society Must Be Defended. . . .
“This lecture strikes us as very good to think with at this present point: it demands we simultaneously consider the interplay of sovereign power, discipline, biopolitics and concepts of security, and race. In light of the current sociopolitical situation where the reaction to activism against persistent racism has been to more overtly perpetuate racism as political discourse, we need to remember and rethink the role of racism as central to, rather than incidental to, the political and economic activities of the state,” wrote the two scholars who organized the effort in a blog post at Savage Minds. The scholars are Paige West, the Claire Tow Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College and Columbia University, and JC Salyer, term professor of practice at Barnard.

Foucault was a gay French philosopher who died of AIDS in 1984. His postmodern (or poststructural) philosophy was typical of the French Left in the decadent political and intellectual aftermath of World War II. The Communist Party was so powerful in France that, when the Kremlin wished to signal a change in the party line in 1945, the chosen messenger was Jacques Duclos, the Stalinist leader of the French Communist Party. It was the infamous “Duclos letter” that spelled the doom of CPUSA Chairman Earl Browder (who had sought to maintain the old Popular Front line) and ushered in the anti-American stance of Cold War Communism. The extraordinary influence of Communism in post-WWII France helps to explain why French intellectuals like Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were so consistently anti-American, a tradition to which Foucault was an heir, and which made him a darling of American academics, whose hatred of America is their intellectual raison d’etre.

Michel Foucault and his 1976 book, ‘The History of Sexuality.’

Foucault is perhaps best known to American students for The History of Sexuality which is one of the main sources cited by Professor Judith Butler in her book Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (see pp. 23-24, 31-33, 124-127). Foucault’s idea of sexuality as regulated by “discourses” of power in turn influenced another of Professor Butler’s main sources, radical lesbian Monique Wittig (see “These Discourses of Heterosexuality Which Particularly Oppress All of Us”). The prevalence of Third Wave feminist “gender theory” in American universities has given Foucault a sort of academic immortality, and it is therefore a cliché that these Barnard College professors would choose this French homosexual as their Inauguration Day protest reading.

You may ask, “Who are these professors at Barnard?” Professor West is an anthropologist whose specialty is the natives of Papua New Guinea, while her colleague John C. Salyer is a staff attorney for the Arab American Family Support Center. Two years ago, West and Salyer gave a “Distinguished Lecture” at the American Museum of Natural History about — wait for it — the anthropology of climate change.

What are we to make of the claim by West and Salyer that “the reaction to activism against persistent racism has been to more overtly perpetuate racism as political discourse”? Are they talking about the “Black Lives Matter” movement, which provoked riots and murders of police? Are they perhaps talking about the Islamic terrorist attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, or the terrorist attacks in France and Germany? Do Americans “perpetuate racism as political discourse” simply by stating the self-evident fact that radical Muslims want to kill us all? Are we not permitted to say or do anything in defense of our own lives? And since we’re asking questions that these Barnard professors have never asked, let’s ask this: Why do parents pay $50,394 annual tuition for their daughters to attend Barnard College? Is it mainly because Barnard tuition is cheaper than having their daughters committed to an insane asylum?

(Via Memeorandum.)



 

Category: Education, Intellectuals

How Leftists ‘Think’

Posted on | January 16, 2017 | 2 Comments

Among the dishonest tactics of rhetoric routinely employed by the Left is the False Analogy, “Trump is Hitler” being the latest variation. Scarcely a year ago, the esteemed voices of liberal media were assuring us that Donald Trump was a bumbling idiot who could not possibly win the Republican nomination. Once he did win it, however, the same esteemed voices assured us that the bumbling idiot Trump was doomed to be defeated by the Glorious Leader of the Democratic People’s Party. As soon as this prediction was proven false, and Trump was elected president, the esteemed voices of liberal media hit the panic button: “TRUMP IS HITLER! FASCISM IS ON THE MARCH!”

In what sense is Donald Trump comparable to Hitler? Or why is Trump — who was supposed to be such an incompetent dimwit that he couldn’t be taken seriously — now suddenly analogous to the totalitarian who rose to power in Germany after he spent 12 years turning the once-obscure Nazi Party into a disciplined instrument of his will? Trump has not organized a mass movement with Stormtroopers and goosestep marches, he has merely run a winning campaign for a president, being elected to chief executive of a constitutional republic. Only because the Left has been so eager to expand the power of the federal government, and has spent the past eight years building a Cult of Personality around President Obama, whom liberals praised for his habit of governing by executive orders, can Trump’s presidency be imagined as anything like a dictatorship.

It is simple work to point out how Trump is nothing like Hitler, and therefore no serious person could believe such a thing, but this does not prevent liberals from suggesting it, and why? Because the bogus Trump-is-Hitler analogy helps inspire fear of the Republican president.

The circularity of liberal logic makes it fun trying to distill their arguments to the form of a syllogism. Who can’t spot the error in this?

Premise A: Vote Democrat because
Premise B: Trump is Hitler;

and therefore

Conclusion: Vote Democrat!

At some level, liberal ideology is simply partisan prejudice, and any expectation of logical coherence is doomed to be disappointed, as liberals will defend anything Democrats do while condemning Republicans for doing the same thing. It isn’t even necessary for a Republican to do anything in order for liberals to condemn him; the mere fact of his being a Republican means that whatever he does is wrong, ergo, vote Democrat!

Donald Trump has not even taken office yet, and has therefore committed no official act as president for which he can be condemned, but liberals aren’t letting that get in their way, are they? Because it is so easy to show what’s wrong with the Left’s modus operandi, the Left seeks to avoid any situation where they might be find themselves compelled to defend their claims against informed criticism. Their preferred venues are academia (where leftists get paid to lecture ignorant teenagers) and the broadcast media, where the message is controlled by editors and producers whose job is to make every story conform to the approved political narrative.

We are not supposed to notice this, just like we aren’t supposed to notice the word games involved. Try to pin down the Left, and you’ll find them doing a variation on the “clown nose on/clown nose off” trick, by which they avoid responsibility for their own ideas:

So the tautology

  • “as we can only think in words, we think in words”

becomes, clown nose on,

  • “as we can only think in words, words mediate our interaction with reality”

which with the addition of some baggy pants, floppy shoes, and a seltzer horn, becomes

  • “as words mediate our interaction with reality, words create our reality.”

which of course is logically equivalent to

  • “reality itself is nothing but words.”

And boom, you’re a Social Justice Warrior.

You should read the whole thing at Rotten Chestnuts.

 

Category: Intellectuals

In The Mailbox: 01.16.17

Posted on | January 16, 2017 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Elections Have Consequences – Clinton Global Initiative Shutting Down
Twitchy: Ben Shapiro Blasts Joss Whedon And His Vile Tweet About Paul Ryan
Louder With Crowder: High School Receives Hateful “KKK” Tweets – Sent By A Black Teen?


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Snow In Venice
American Power: Watch For The Left To Become Even More Ruthless
American Thinker: The Trump Dossier Puts The Deep State In Deep Sh!t
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye Blue Monday
BLACKFIVE: Duplicity by Ingrid Thoft
Bring The HEAT: Jets Fly Over Portland To Thank Life-Saving Pararescuers
Da Tech Guy: Why The MSM Fears Trump, Year 2 – Local Stories Vs. National Ones
Don Surber: Number Of People Who Will Lose Health Care Upon ACA Repeal Is Zero
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, The Last Big Top
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Joe For America: Celebs Sing “I Will Survive” In Awkward Anti-Trump Video That Immediately Backfires
JustOneMinute: Asymmetric Unintelligence
Power Line: Trump Hits Back At John Lewis, also, Democratic Bullies Try To Scuttle Trump’s Inauguration
Shark Tank: Florida Speaker Corcoran Loads His Six-Shooters
Shot In The Dark: Yesterday’s Felony…
STUMP: Connecticut – Day of Action For Higher Education!
The Geller Report: Muslim Wife Of Orlando Mass Murderer Finally Captured
The Lonely Conservative: Fake News Is Old News In The Drive-By Media
The Political Hat: Obama Awards Himself A Participation Trophy
This Ain’t Hell: MGEN John Rossi’s Suicide, also, The Closet Monsters
War Is Boring: Erik Prince’s Mercenaries Are Bombing Libya
Weasel Zippers: Harry Reid Aide Questions What Valerie Jarrett Did At The White House, also, Samantha Power Warns Against Cutting U.S. Funding of UN
Mark Steyn: This Masquerade


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Category: Linkagery

FBI Arrests Wife of Orlando Killer

Posted on | January 16, 2017 | Comments Off on FBI Arrests Wife of Orlando Killer

Mike Arroyo of Fox News reports:

The FBI on Monday arrested the wife of the gunman in the Pulse Nightclub massacre on charges connected to the shooting rampage, investigators confirmed to Fox News.
The June 2016 shooting, seen as the deadliest in modern U.S. history, killed 49 people and wounded dozens more. Police shot and killed gunman Omar Mateen after a three-hour standoff, during which he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terror group.
The charges against his wife, 30-year-old Noor Salman, included aiding and abetting his attempts to support ISIS, as well as obstruction of justice. . . .
In April 2016, Mateen and Salman took their 3-year-old son to Walt Disney World, but their behavior reportedly was alarming enough for Disney officials to have contacted the FBI to alert them that Mateen and Salman appeared to be scouting the theme park as a venue for a potential attack. . . .
During the attack that began around 2:00 a.m. on June 12, Mateen placed 16 calls, an FBI source told FoxNews.com, and communicated by SMS, a texting service.
At least three calls were to 911 and one was to a local news service, during which he pledged his allegiance to ISIS and expressed support for the Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
He texted Salman during his shooting rampage, made posts to his Facebook account proclaiming his allegiance to ISIS and pledging more attacks, and according to an FBI source, used the social media platform Snapchat to communicate with at least one other person.

(Via Memeorandum.) There can be no doubt that the attack in Orlando was an act of Islamic terrorism. It was not, as feminist Amanda Marcotte tried to claim, a crime of “toxic masculinity,” and yet Democrats tried to use the Orlando attack to demonize Christians and Republicans.

 

Category: Islam, Terrorism

Astrology and ‘Heteropatriarchy’: Two Things That Don’t Explain Your Problems

Posted on | January 16, 2017 | 3 Comments

 

“Mercury in retrograde” — as soon as you hear someone offer this as an explanation for something, back away slowly and quietly. You’re dealing with a dangerous kook, and sudden movements might set them off.

“Mercury in retrograde” is a dye-marker of belief in astrology, and you don’t want to be in the proximity of anyone foolish enough to believe such ridiculous nonsense. Belief in astrology is like theosophy or voodoo or Keynesian economics — a hallmark of poor judgment. Bad things happen when you start hanging around losers like that. Avoid them.

Go take a look at the Twitter search results for “Mercury retrograde” and you will notice that it’s almost entirely women. You can explain that however you wish, but doesn’t the unusual prevalence of belief in astrology among women also tell us something about feminism?

 

Like astrology, feminism is a quasi-religious belief system that tells people that their problems are caused by circumstances beyond their control. It’s not her fault she didn’t get hired for that job, feminism tells the young women — she’s a victim of sexist discrimination. The college girl got drunk at a frat party and did things she regrets? That’s certainly not her fault, feminism tells her — she’s a victim of “rape culture.”

Or maybe Mercury was in retrograde.

Feminism offers a ready-made excuse for anything a woman might be unhappy about, so the feminist movement attracts a lot of unhappy women who need excuses for what’s wrong with their lives. Read more

Category: Education, Religion, Sex Trouble

Rule 5 Sunday: Siren

Posted on | January 15, 2017 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

So here we are a few days away from the inauguration (The End of an Error, as various bumper stickers and T-shirts proclaim), and while there are a bumper crop of hot young female Trump supporters, I think I’ll save that for next week. This week, a tip of the wombat’s helmet goes to Justine Suissa, lead singer for the trance group Above & Beyond, most notably on their side project Oceanlab. I owe James Lileks props for bringing her to my attention through posting a video for her song “Autumn Tactics” off Chicane’s Behind The Sun album.
But enough blathering about music. As usual, many of the following links are to pics generally considered NSFW, and the management is not responsible for any ill effects resulting from your failure to be discreet in your clicking.

From the cover of Oceanlab’s “Sirens Of The Sea”

Goodstuff leads off this week with Tempest Storm and her huge memory storage units, followed by Ninety Miles From Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns; Animal Magnetism has Rule Five Bad Decisions Friday and (as a New Year’s change of pace) a Saturday Brunettenarok.

EBL’s herd of heifers this week includes the National Championship, Mocking ISIS, Juliet Huddy, Nicole Kidman, Ms. Puffernutter, Madonna, Amanda Righetti, Lola Kirke, Sofia Vergara, and Cowboys Vs. Packers.

A View from the Beach brings us A Neutral Swiss Girl – Julie Ordon, Reason #5392 That Trump Was Elected, “I Feel Good/Scuttle Buttin'”, “St. James Infirmary”, Morning Dance, If You Need A Belated Xmas Present, PSA: How To Rebuild a Hydraulic Cylinder, The Bag Law Menace and It Was a Helluva Funeral.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Corinne Foxx, his Vintage Babe is Ina Claire, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Guess. At Dustbury, it’s Octavia Spencer and Simonetta Sommaruga.

Thanks to everyone for their linakgery!


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Category: Rule 5

You’re #WhyTrumpWon, Nancy Pelosi

Posted on | January 15, 2017 | 2 Comments

 

She’s a 76-year-old white woman whose father was the boss of the corrupt Democrat machine in Baltimore during the segregation era, and being married to a multimillionaire California real-estate investor, she’s one of the top 10 richest members of Congress. Democrats in Congress couldn’t have picked a more out-of-touch leader if they had tried. The geriatric liberal, whose political beliefs are like a fossil of the 1988 Dukakis campaign, apparently cannot understand why Democrats keep losing.

In 2010, Pelosi insisted on ramming ObamaCare through Congress: “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” Eight months later, in the 2010 midterm elections, Republicans scored their biggest congressional gains since 1938. Four years later, Democrats lost the Senate, and their losses have been even worse at the state level.

“Republicans are now in control of a record 67 (68 percent) of the 98 partisan state legislative chambers in the nation,” as Barbara Hollingsworth reported. “In 24 of the 32 states with Republican-controlled legislatures, voters have also elected Republican governors.”

Pelosi can’t seem to grasp why her party has become so unpopular, and instead resorts to scapegoating rationalizations:

While giving a press briefing to reporters, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called the GOP’s push to defund the taxpayer funded Planned Parenthood a “manhood thing.”
During her press briefing, Pelosi fielding questions about Republican plans to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and remove taxpayer funding for abortion provider Planned Parenthood.
At the end of her remarks, Pelosi said, “Let me end on this note. Of all the things that they could be doing in a reconciliation bill — job creation, deficit reduction — no, forget that. What are they doing in this bill? Overturning the Affordable Care Act, undermining the health security and financial stability of America’s working families, and defunding Planned Parenthood. That’s their — that’s their manhood thing,” Pelosi said while shaking her hands.
“You know, defunding Planned Parenthood. How can they establish that as a priority unless they’re coming at all of this from a very ideological stand-point?” she asked.

Here, Ms. Pelosi, let me explain briefly: Planned Parenthood is America’s largest abortion provider. Many millions of Americans (who, not coincidentally, are eligible to vote) believe that abortion is morally wrong and should be illegal. However, even if you aren’t in favor of outlawing abortion, you may not think that giving federal taxpayer money to Planned Parenthood is a good idea. To repeat something that I keep saying, but which no Democrat seems capable of understanding: The national debt is now approaching $20 trillion — that’s trillion with a “T,” meaning $20,000,000,000,000 — and interest payments on the national debt cost $223 billion, or 6 percent of the federal budget, in 2015. So for every dollar the IRS collects from taxpayers, only 94 cents is available for current needs, and the annual budget deficit in fiscal year 2015 was $439 billion out of $3.7 trillion.

When you have a budget deficit of more than $400 billion, why spend half a billion dollars annually to fund Planned Parenthood, an organization whose business is about killing future taxpayers? Also, Planned Parenthood is a major donor to the Democrat Party, and why should Republicans in Congress give money to their worst enemies?

Despite the spectacular failure of ObamaCare, which has driven up health insurance premiums everywhere, Nancy Pelosi still can’t understand why anyone would want to repeal ObamaCare, and her propaganda phrase, “America’s working families,” is the exact opposite of reality. “Working families” — married people with jobs — generally had health insurance before ObamaCare was enacted, and have found themselves paying higher premiums because of the mandates imposed by ObamaCare.

ObamaCare wasn’t about “working families,” it was about mandating and subsidizing coverage for the kind of people who don’t have jobs or don’t have families, i.e., the typical Democrat voter. Republicans officials may not be rude enough to actually say this, but the people who vote Republican are not so stupid they can’t figure it out. What were Democrats really talking about when they invoked “pre-existing conditions” as an urgent cause to change our healthcare system? AIDS? Hepatitis? Cocaine addiction? “Gender dysphoria”?

During the first four years of the Obama administration, the government added nearly 6 million new recipients of federal SSI disability payments, more than doubling the number on the disability lists, while workforce participation rates fell to the lowest in American history. Democrats see nothing wrong with this, because moochers and malingerers tend to vote Democrat, whereas taxpayers with jobs tend to vote Republican.

Like I said, voters aren’t nearly as stupid as Nancy Pelosi assume them to be, and Democrats being the Baby-Killing Welfare Moocher Party is the fundamental cause of Donald Trump’s election. Yet the failure of the Democrat agenda, both as policy and as politics, is not something that the party’s elderly liberal leadership can admit, and therefore Pelosi is compelled by her partisanship to offer scapegoating rationalizations and counterfactual explanations, including blaming George W. Bush (who left the White House eight years ago) for the federal deficit under Obama.

You have failed, Ms. Pelosi. You have lost. You are personally responsible for the Democrat Party’s decline into political irrelevance.

You are #WhyTrumpWon. Congratulations.



 

 

Category: Abortion, Budget, Election, Nancy Pelosi, Planned Parenthood

Marxists Shut Down Campus Speech — Is Trump Inauguration Their Next Target?

Posted on | January 15, 2017 | 1 Comment

 

A Marxist-Leninist radical group that helped organize a violent protest to shut down a campus speech in California may be planning to make the upcoming inauguration of Donald Trump its next target, investigative journalist Lee Stranahan reports. The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), which has previously been investigated on suspicion of aiding terrorism, is directly linked to the radical campus group, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which was at the forefront of the demonstration Friday at the University of California-Davis (UCD).

College Republicans at UCD were forced to cancel Friday’s lecture by Breitbart.com tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos and hedge-fund mogul Martin Shkreli after “a large number of protesters blocked access to the venue, and it was determined that it was no longer feasible to continue with the event safely,” university officials said in a statement to the Sacramento Bee. Protesters tore down police barricades and even attacked journalists covering the event at UCD’s Sciences Lecture Hall, Allum Bokhari reported at Breitbart.com:

Video footage shows protesters jumping barricades and throwing them towards police. . . .
ABC-10 reporter Frances Wang reports that her photographer was attacked with hot coffee mid-interview. . . .
Protesters were chanting “no justice, no peace, no racist police.” . . .
“We were told by the chief of Davis police that they could not guarantee the safety of the students, the speaker, or the police officers if the event should go ahead,” said Gabrielle McDowell, vice chair of the UC Davis College Republicans.
“As the organisation hosting the event, we would have been held personally responsible for any harm caused as a result of its taking place. We were therefore forced to cancel the event” she continued.

The UC Davis SDS chapter celebrated this as a “huge victory,” and the protest was also highlighted on the national SDS Facebook page.

The protest at UCD “may be a preview of what to expect at next week’s inauguration of Donald Trump,” Stranahan reported, “because the national group behind it already has a nationwide planned protest against America’s next President set for January 20th.” He noted the connection between the Davis chapter of the SDS and FRSO which, Stranahan said, “is plotting the end of the United States as we know it”:

This group [SDS] is the new incarnation of the 1960s radical group of the same name that gained worldwide infamy when it split to become the Weather Underground, a terrorist group bent on overthrowing the United States through violent communist revolution.
The new version was formed in 2006 has . . . . connections to an avowedly Marxist group determined to destroy the United States in the name of “racial justice.” That group is called the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), who describe their connection to the new Students for a Democratic Society on their website: “Members of FRSO have been working in SDS since the first National Convention in Chicago back in 2006.”

Two years after the SDS was reformed, an activist charged that FRSO members were trying to impose their “Maoist” agenda on SDS. “I believe that Maoism is in opposition to a democratic society,” SDS activist Rachel Haut said in a 2008 interview, “and thus [FRSO’s] position or reason for being in SDS is opportunist. We are attempting to build a student movement not a Maoist movement.” This accusation prompted a response from three members of FRSO’s “Student Commission.”

“Freedom Road members work very hard to maintain Students for a Democratic Society as a strong, fighting organization that benefits from its ideological plurality while remaining united practically by radical, anti-imperialist activism,” the FRSO members wrote, citing their party’s Marxist-Leninist “three revolutionary objectives”:

  1. Harm the enemy and win all that can be won for the people.
  2. Raise the level of consciousness, organization, and struggle of the mass organizations we work in.
  3. Win the advanced fighters to Marxism-Leninism and build organization for revolution.

An article at the FRSO’s “Fight Back” news site last year boasted of the group’s role in SDS, quoting FRSO activist Chrisley Carpio: “As the youth and students of Palestine, Colombia and the Philippines rebel, many students in the U.S. are thinking about socialism. The FRSO Student Commission deepened our commitment to build the student movement and to recruit new members all over the U.S., whether in small town high schools, big universities, or community colleges in cities and border towns. Despite political repression, we are planning to grow.”

 

SDS and FRSO have already promoted anti-Trump protests. In March 2016, after violent protests caused Trump to cancel a rally in Chicago, FRSO official Steff Yorek called for repeating the thug tactics:

“We need two, three, many Chicagos,” said Yorek. “Trump is an open advocate of racism and national chauvinism. Forcing Trump to chicken out of his Chicago campaign appearance was a real victory. Chicago protesters of all nationalities sent a message to the world, that here in the U.S. there is widespread and militant opposition to his reactionary agenda.”

 

Yorek and her lesbian partner, Jess Sundin, were among the members of FRSO who were targeted by a 2010 FBI raid in Minneapolis. Search warrants showed the agents were investigating FRSO for suspicion of supporting foreign terrorist groups including Hezbollah:

The warrant for the raid on [FRSO member Mick] Kelly’s apartment, in the 1800 block of Riverside Avenue, sought notebooks, address books, photos and maps of Kelly’s travels to the Palestinian territories, Colombia and in the United States on behalf of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. It also sought materials on his personal finances and those of the group, on Kelly’s “potential co-conspirators” and recruitment efforts for the group.
The warrant also sought any information about efforts to support FARC, a guerrilla organization in Colombia, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine [PFLP], and Hezbollah, the political and paramilitary organization based in Lebanon.

No charges were filed as a result of the FBI raid, but FRSO openly advocates the anti-Israel agenda of PFLP. Last year, at the Left Forum in New York, the FRSO’s Sundin spoke in defense of anti-Israel activist Rasmea Odeh. In 2014, Odeh was convicted of federal immigration fraud charges after it was discovered that, in her immigration application, Odeh had concealed her role in a 1969 terrorist bombing in Israel.

The day after Trump was elected, FRSO issued a statement in which Yorek called for a “mass movement” to shut down the country: “We need to do everything we can to drown his administration in a high tide of struggle and fightbacks. We should aim to make this country ungovernable. . . . We need to light a fire and fan the flames.”

 

FRSO frequently features SDS news on its “Fight Back” site including the group’s call for an Inauguration Day walkout:

On Inauguration Day, Jan 20th, SDS will hold a national student walkout, in alliance with many other student groups. We will disrupt operations on campuses everywhere. Whether it’s against segregation, deportation, or war, history shows that the fight for an education system based on peace, equality, and justice has always been spearheaded by students and youth, and never by the White House.
While we anticipate continued attacks on undocumented youth, we’ve already seen more deportations in the last eight years under President Obama than we’ve ever seen in US history. SDS has protested to end them every step of the way.

Stranahan quotes an FRSO statement calling for “the establishment of an independent African-American nation based in the South” as well as “struggles of national liberation for all other nations brutalized by imperialist oppression whose homelands are within the borders of the United States, such as the Native American nations of the US, the Hawai’ian nation and the Puerto Rican struggle for national independence.”



 

Category: Crime, Education, Election, Terrorism
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