{"id":88883,"date":"2024-05-08T04:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=88883"},"modified":"2024-05-07T12:20:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T16:20:41","slug":"esr-on-the-shambolic-response-of-the-elite-universities-to-the-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/05\/08\/esr-on-the-shambolic-response-of-the-elite-universities-to-the-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"ESR on the shambolic response of the “elite” universities to the protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

ESR<\/a> finds a silver lining to the storm clouds of all the ongoing pro-terrorist campus protests we’re seeing these days:<\/p>\n

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What I’m thinking as I watch the shitshow elite universities are making of their response to violent pro-Hamas demonstrations and the systematic terrorization of Jewish students:<\/p>\n

All my life I’ve been watching Marxist infiltrators capture more and more of our institutions, and been terrified of the moment when they achieved primacy, because our f*cking useless conservatives ran away from that fight after the Army-McCarthy hearings, a few years before I was born.<\/p>\n

The moment of victory for the Long March is here, or as close to it as makes no difference, but I’m feeling curiously relieved. Because it turns out that what they discarded in order to sock-puppet every institution in sight was *competence* (which is white supremacy, doncha know, they keep telling us that themselves), and then public trust in those institutions.<\/p>\n

Their triumph is collapsing around them because they are literally too dysfunctional and insane to run what they have captured. I was expecting competent totalitarianism, not this. I like this better.<\/p>\n

Of course there is the problem that the wider civilization might not survive the collapse of everything they’ve corrupted. But as long as we can avoid that, I actually feel more hopeful about the future than I did 20 years ago. <\/p>\n

And the thing elite academia has become is certainly something we can watch collapse into rubble without worrying that it’s going to take civilization down with it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ESR finds a silver lining to the storm clouds of all the ongoing pro-terrorist campus protests we’re seeing these days: What I’m thinking as I watch the shitshow elite universities are making of their response to violent pro-Hamas demonstrations and the systematic terrorization of Jewish students: All my life I’ve been watching Marxist infiltrators capture […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,28,53,13],"tags":[1456,1235,622,1213,1020,720,764],"class_list":["post-88883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-competence","tag-esr","tag-ideology","tag-kakistocracy","tag-progressives","tag-protest","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-n7B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88886,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88883\/revisions\/88886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}