ED MORRISSEY: Decolonize Academia Now!
The sickness that American higher education spreads through the use of public support has become too apparent to ignore. Beege will have a story in a little bit about how the worship of death-cult terrorism now literally appears on the walls of George Washington University while its administration offers no rebuke at all. On campuses across America — and not just at the college level — students march while chanting “From the river to the sea,” an explicit call for the annihilation of Israel and its so-called “colonizers.”
If it’s decolonization they want, then we should accommodate them. . . .
Rather than launch destructive campaigns that will undermine the rights of all Americans, we need to address the issue at its core. The issue isn’t the NSJP, or the current flock of moral idiots on American campuses at the moment. The problem is the firehose of federal tax dollars propping up the Higher Ed Industry, and the way it gets manipulated to transform education into the kind of indoctrination that produced this anti-Semitic Hitler Youth Movement.
In other words, we need to end the student loan programs. We need to end Pell grants, and every scholarship from the federal government, even the ones for left-handed Laplanders with Lyme Disease. We need to end the transmission of every federal dollar into the bloated, corrupt Academia as it exists now and has existed over the last several decades. Its main product has become a blizzard of non-performing administrators and crops of moral idiots, the latter of whom emerge with crippling lifetime debt and nihilist fantasies that many of of them will never outgrow.
To put it another way that might appeal to our progressive partners: We need to Defund the Fleece.
This violates no rights. It doesn’t dictate speech codes to college campuses, another point on which conservatives should know better than to impose. Not a single thing will change, except that we will finally kick the financial struts out from underneath a persistent parasite that has finally come close to achieving its goal of killing its host.
Colleges and universities can still operate how they wish, as they should. But they will no longer have an income stream from federally backed student loans, and that means they will no longer be able to afford to operate with impunity. When the student loans stop, the student stream will as well — and it will suddenly matter who’s on the payroll, and just how much tuition they can charge in a market where pricing signals have been fully restored.
That in itself will provide a certain amount of clarity.
Clarity is the theme, lately.
