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Rachel Rotenberg's avatar

thank you, I appreciate the content of your writting.

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Steven N.'s avatar

I’m intrigued by the fact these protests have the same exact ideology that drove the Summer of Love protests in 2020. The same affluent student class. The same Marxist roots. The same thirst for violence. The same dynamic of oppressed VS oppressor. The same cult religion based on chants and group conformity.

The only difference is the group that is the oppressed and the group that is the oppressor.

To support BLM is to support Hamas.

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David Josef Volodzko's avatar

I think a lot of BLM supporters would surely object to your last remark but I agree that the pro-Palestine protests represent the new incarnation of what we saw in 2020 with BLM.

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Steve Crumbaugh's avatar

I have read there is a Soros link funding the protests. Do you know if this is true or just a conspiracy theory about the favorite whipping boy of some anti-progressives?

How does this Berkeley professor have such widespread influence? I understand the institutional links you have outlined, but how does that translate into these massive, violent demonstrations across the Western World? Is it simply because a large portion of the faculties at these universities are in cahoots with him? Is the cultic religion of the simplistic oppressor-oppressed dichotomy so widespread and its hateful rhetoric so ingrained in academia that so many of our universities have become its seminaries, preparing the foot soldiers for the holy war against the unbelievers?

As someone who holds to old school liberal / enlightenment values such as First Amendment freedoms, law and order (particularly where property rights and personal safety are concerned), and respect for the rights of all, even those with whom we vehemently disagree, I am appalled at what is going on. As someone who appreciates the contributions of the Jewish people to the world, I am dismayed that they have once again been made scapegoats by crowds of ignorant, malevolent, vile, antisemites.

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Spider Webbs's avatar

It's not that this one professor has all the influence, but that he's the most popular and successful at what he does. He's Most Valueable Player of a very large group.

I went to a UC school in the early 1990s and even as a very liberal kid I was absolutley freaked out by the postmodernism ("science isn't real") and politics. It's wild to see how it's grown. It was just "those weirdoes" at universities and now it's mainstream with the support of CNN and MSNBC and it's just utterly weird.

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Spider Webbs's avatar

Can someone explain the Soros conspiracy to me? It seems entirely unlikely that this person is both a Jewish Conspirator AND Anti-Zionist. Or even either one.

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Not so young anymore.'s avatar

Students got Justice in Palestine should be thrown out of every university.

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BKGVR's avatar

Of note, Hatem Bazian also appears to be a professor at a tiny Islamic institution known as Zaytuna College. It is located in Berkeley, has an operating fund of about $50 million, lists a handful of well paid administrative staff, and serves all of...14 students.

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Rachel Rotenberg's avatar

David, you are such a breath of fresh air. I just read what you wrote for Konstantine and I had this nasty thought that I am glad the Seattle Times fired you, I would never have read your work if you were still working there. So many journalist are just rewriting other peoples words, yours sound like your own.

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David Josef Volodzko's avatar

Haha, thank you. You know, back when I was debating whether to re-enter mainstream journalism or go independent, Katie Herzog advised me to choose the latter, saying that being fired was one of the best things that ever happened to her. I'm starting to see what she meant.

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