{"id":33617,"date":"2015-11-17T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33617"},"modified":"2015-11-16T23:06:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T04:06:49","slug":"jonah-goldberg-you-stupid-schmucks-look-at-you-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/11\/17\/jonah-goldberg-you-stupid-schmucks-look-at-you-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonah Goldberg &#8211; &#8220;You Stupid Schmucks, Look at You Now&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/427054\/missouri-yale-student-protests-left?target=author&#038;tid=897\" target=\"_blank\">Jonah Goldberg&#8217;s weekly &#8220;news&#8221;letter<\/a> last week covered the entertaining spectacle of legions of progressive thinkers turning on their own allies:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; this \u201ccrisis\u201d is 100 percent liberalism\u2019s fault. Sure, sure, you can divvy up the slices of blame in different ways, but those guys tailgating in the parking lot drinking beers and eating bratwurst? Those are the conservatives and libertarians enjoying a day off, because they don\u2019t have to wait in line for even a morsel of blame. <\/p>\n<p>I almost feel sorry for those decent, sincere career liberals standing there in the quad as the little Maoists scream in their faces and strip off the suede elbow patches on their tweedy jackets like a lieutenant being busted down to a private. As the kids fit lifelong members of the ACLU with their duncecaps, the poor souls can hear the conservatives hooting and laughing off beyond the fence, throwing nerf footballs and telling jokes at the liberals\u2019 expense.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Outside of the actual headquarters of the Democratic party itself, no major institution in America today is more thoroughly run and controlled by the Left than academia. <\/p>\n<p>For several years now, whenever I\u2019ve visited a college campus, I\u2019ve tried to make the following point. It basically goes like this: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>You kids think it is somehow rebellious to be liberal. So let me see if I get this right. The administrators at this school are liberal. The professors are liberal. Your high-school teachers were probably liberal. Your textbooks are, for the most part, liberal. Hollywood is liberal. The music industry is liberal. The fashion industry is liberal. Publishing is liberal. The mainstream media are liberal. Silicon Valley is liberal. Believe it or not, most corporations and the overwhelming majority of charitable foundations are liberal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And yet, you think you\u2019re sticking it to the man by <strong>agreeing<\/strong> with them? <\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Moreover, it\u2019s been like this for <em>generations<\/em>. It was true when most of these administrators and faculty were <em>born<\/em> \u2014 they have grown up inside a universe where this fact was simply taken for granted. With the Left given total control of these oases of tolerance and citadels of progressivism, what do we get? <\/p>\n<p>We get pampered and coddled students screaming that these institutions are hotbeds of racism, homophobia, sexism, and the rest of the 31 Flavors of Oppression. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sorry, but over here by the hibachi in the parking lot, that\u2019s just frick\u2019n hilarious. <\/p>\n<p>And it is fitting. It is just. It\u2019s almost frick\u2019n Biblical in its justness. You see, there is precious little bigotry and prejudice on college campuses. But the bulk of what does exist is aimed almost entirely at the guys and gals chilling at the tailgate party. Pro-life Christians, Israel-supporting Jews, libertarian professors, conservative scholars, climate-change skeptics, traditionalists of every stripe including classical liberals, and, of course, people who can take a joke: These make up the bulk of the victims of campus bigotry and prejudice. I can\u2019t tell you how many professors I\u2019ve met who have to keep their conservatism secret, at least until tenure, if not forever. I\u2019ve never met or heard of a faculty member who had to keep her Marxism on the down-low.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonah Goldberg&#8217;s weekly &#8220;news&#8221;letter last week covered the entertaining spectacle of legions of progressive thinkers turning on their own allies: &#8230; this \u201ccrisis\u201d is 100 percent liberalism\u2019s fault. Sure, sure, you can divvy up the slices of blame in different ways, but those guys tailgating in the parking lot drinking beers and eating bratwurst? 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