College Protests Problem of Liberals

"We’ll soon learn whether the old- fashioned liberals have what it takes to stand up to the Maoists. So far, it’s not looking good." This was exhibited at Harvard Law School in November 2015. Pieces of black tape were found on images of black faculty and one woman at their newest classroom building, Wasserstein Hall. Police investigated the hate crime. Law students demanded Dean Martha Minow recognize the horrific racist crime. She caved and stated there is a serious racism problem at Harvard Law School. One more example, Wolfe and Loftin at U Missouri, of what Roger Morris recognized in his book, Partners in Power. The preferred leader is weak with relaxed rectitude. Not just deans, and college presidents, but police chiefs, governors, CEOs, etc. They are easier to manipulate as Minow shows.

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The Occupy movement of 2011 was a mostly white, somewhat undirected kick against capitalism by a generation enamored of social media but unsure how to communicate effectively. Occupy had no official leaders, no clear policy agenda, and no real point other than to provide a channel for its supporters’ inchoate rage at how the world works. Occupy soon withered away from boredom and incoherence, but the millennial generation’s budding leftists learned that they had an appetite for protest. All they needed was another cause.
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In an all-too-predictable rerun of 1960s radical history, white lefties became infatuated with their black counterparts. Here were protesters willing to do more than just shout and chant—they were ready to throw stones and fight the police, in Baltimore and in Ferguson, Missouri. And unlike Occupy, BLM had several identifiable leaders, a somewhat clear policy agenda, and a driving purpose: to put white America on the back foot.
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They don’t know who the 1 percent are, or how they got that way—apart from the nefarious, rapacious Koch brothers, of course—but they know that these modern Robber Barons call the shots and always have. They don’t know much about Thomas Jefferson, except that he owned slaves, and thus the mere mention of his name invalidates their identities. They know only outrage. They feel only pain.
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How to placate this angry and organized element that threatens to hold hostage the Democratic Party and its electoral prospects? Does the party establishment stand for free speech and civil discourse, or does it support burning it all down? We hear a lot about the Republicans’ Tea Party problem but almost nothing about the Democrats’ Maoist problem.
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The typical American college campus is run by cadres of old-fashioned liberals—not revolutionaries, just plain old American liberals who like mom, apple pie, FDR, LBJ, and Obama. At the higher levels of administration and on boards of trustees and overseers, you may even find the odd moderate Republican. What you don’t find many of are radicals such as those that have been videotaped abetting the anti-free-speech temper tantrums in Missouri.
We’ll soon learn whether the old- fashioned liberals have what it takes to stand up to the Maoists. So far, it’s not looking good.
http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon1110mh.html

Matthew Hennessey
Liberals v. Maoists
The turmoil on campus is the Left’s problem to solve.
November 10, 2015