The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

Oh look! The spoiled, entitled idiots are back on Columbia's campus, pissing away the $93,417 cost of attendance that their parents have to cough up. Of course they are also boycotting classes, but judging by the quality of the education available at Columbia, that might be the better choice.

There is nothing quite like the ignorance of college students. It is an obnoxious combination of complete lack of knowledge, and fervent, loud, angry confidence that they are correct. And that is a perfect target for the hard left, because these morons are almost infinitely malleable...happily doing what they are told, following the herd, and feeling oh-so-wonderfully smug.

Chaos at Columbia: Pro-Hamas Students Block Entry To Campus, Vandalize Statue on First Day of Classes

"Students For Justice In Palestine" released this statement:

"Sheikh Yassin was assassinated by the Zionists in 2004, but even in death, his legacy of unrelenting resistance in the face of oppression lives on," the group wrote on Telegram. "He lives on in his students, which includes the current head of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar—the man who fooled the Zionist entity—and all the Palestinian fighters who embody the steadfastness that Yassin taught."

And the upper-middle-class twits wearing masks and keffiyahs -- the 21st century version of a KKK robe and hood -- happily support this. Never mind that they are the quintessential useful idiots of the left, and will be discarded the second they are no longer useful.

I wonder whether this is a country-wide movement, or are the saner universities in the Mid-West, the South, and the Mountain West largely immune to the dangerous stupidity of these entitled twits? A glimpse at the college football coverage shows a lot of college students doing what they traditionally do...drinking beer and watching their teams on Saturday afternoon.

The peculiar stupidity of the Ivy league is certainly on display, and their compatriots at Stanford and Berkeley and Duke and several other universities are dominating the news cycle. But what is the general tone on our university campuses? I cannot imagine a similar protest occurring in Tuscaloosa or Gainesville or Clemson or Lawrence, with its overt hatred of Western culture and America.

But the culture surrounding Columbia and the other schools that are displaying this sort of savage hatred of Jews, Israel, and America is supportive of this behavior, and until that changes...and it probably won't...we will have a core of anti-Western, anti-American, anti-Israel, and most of all...pro-Islam fervor.

The way to change it in the short term is simple. Crack some heads and send them to jail. Make the rioters afraid of rioting. And in the long term? Starve the beast...end government funding of any university that allows this sort of behavior.

Nope. I'm not holding my breath.

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]

posted by CBD at 11:00 AM

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