I’ve put up a new post, on all of this over the weekend — and here on Monday morning, Scott triples down on the claim that the Columbia tent city is somehow Nazis… reborn. Sheesh — were Paul, John and Scott… equal to Josef Stalin, reborn — when the takeover of Parkhurst occurred, on Dartmouth’s campus in 1969?
This is about to become a collapsible farce (by those opposing the protests). There is an argument that the protests are misguided — but that argument doesn’t include calling them… Nazis.
The old rule on the internet here obtains — if you call your opponent a Nazi… you’ve admitted to losing the rational argument. The boys are failing to make a rational argument against the present protests — especially since many Jews are joining the protesters. [22 children were killed by the IDF in Gaza this past weekend — a “raid”, that kills mostly kids?!? How is that a Geneva Convention compliant operation, boys?] End, update.
As we have long ago, and now repeatedly — pointed out, the boys, in 1968-69, look over an administration building then called Parkhurst, for three days — as a Vietnam protest. Each was arrested, but quickly bailed — and each graduated with all honors restored. [That Scott offers no quarter to today’s Ivy protesters… is unsurprising — but feckless, just the same.]
Scott in particular has dramatized / played / portrayed the current Columbia protests / “takeover” — of a lawn space, camping outside… as a hate crime. By the protesters, for supporting the people of Gaza. [He churlishly and falsely calls it a “kill the J*ws” movement.]
In any event, here is how the NYT sees it:
…Students who camped in tents to protest the war in Gaza, including the daughter of Representative Ilhan Omar, may be barred from finishing the semester.…
I guess many saw what the boys did in ‘69 — inside a building / trespassing for three days… as equivalent to a hate crime against US troops then fighting, and dying in Vietnam (most without the privilege of a bucolic Ivy League undergrad stay).
The cries for expulsions and long jail terms — to try to equate this “camp out”… to J6?
Are in my estimation… Poppycock.
No one has died. There was no breaking down of barricaded doors. And no threats to kill Mike Pence.
The kids simply camped out. And refused to leave the lawn.
Me?! I think the boys’ reactions here… speak volumes about how little they believe in free expression in our system of ordered liberty.
Out.
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