Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
October 30, 2023
CONSEQUENCES: Billionaire Leon Cooperman pulling Columbia funding amid student protests: These kids have ‘s— for brains.’
The Ivy League admissions people have gotten exactly what they wanted.
October 29, 2023
THEY’RE LUCKY NO ONE RAN THEM DOWN: Protesters Take Over Brooklyn Bridge, Call for the Elimination of Israel.
GROUPS OF JEWISH STUDENTS SHOULD BE ROAMING THE CAMPUS WITH AXE HANDLES INSTEAD OF COWERING IN THEIR ROOMS: Cornell Lockdown Due to Threats.
Make it expensive to be a Nazi and there will be fewer of them. Don’t believe me? Ask Curtis LeMay. And hey, just a few years ago all the best people were encouraging me to punch a Nazi.
“DECOLONIZATION” IS A PROPAGANDA TERM: “The decolonization narrative has dehumanized Israelis to the extent that otherwise rational people excuse, deny, or support barbarity.”
BIDEN’S FREEFALL CONTINUES: “Ordinarily presidents enjoy some upward bump in their approval rating when there is a world crisis such as the new war in Israel, but Biden continues to sink despite his high-profile visit to Israel and Oval Office speech. According to the latest Gallup Poll Biden’s approval rating has fallen four points from 41 percent last month to 37 percent now—an all time low in Gallup’s series.”
To be fair, that’s only because he’s awful.
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
IT’S ONLY A MODEL: Blue Origin reveals mockup of Blue Moon lunar lander prototype.
I don’t want to throw shade at Blue Origin, which I’d really like to succeed, but they’d be more credible if they’d mastered flying to orbit.
IN SHORT, THEY’RE GARBAGE PEOPLE:
Why were 'progressives' of all people, so apt to hatred? Because it's a self-righteous movement that imposes itself by force. Those who thought it would not turn on them forgot the fate of the old Bolsheviks.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 29, 2023
You are safer under a government of bumbling ordinaries encumbered by a fragile faith than governed by self confident supermen convinced that everything is permitted.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 29, 2023
They hate themselves because deep down, they realize they’re garbage people.
Related:
Her voters are in the streets calling for intifada right now. https://t.co/4cIWudUtH6
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 29, 2023
UPDATE:
Shocked Shocked that this would happen in the other country that invaded Poland in 1939.
— Lorien1973 (@Lorien19731) October 29, 2023
Plus:
https://twitter.com/anniesun16/status/1718749046016221548?s=46
ANOTHER UPDATE: The spirit of resistance.
🇺🇸 Black Hebrew Israelites fight pro Palestine 🇵🇸 protestors in Chicago 🏙️pic.twitter.com/7GkUdCsCFu
— World War Now (@WorldWarNow_) October 29, 2023
THAT’LL BE THE DAY I GO BACK TO ANNANDALE: Giant Supervolcano in California Is Sleepy, But Scientists Say It’s Restless.
BEWARE THE CHAIR: How Extended Sitting Time May Be Aging Your Brain Faster.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: I Tried the Carnivore Diet, it Had Unexpected Health Benefits.
THERE’S NO GOOD REASON: Asked for the 1000th Time: Why Are We Supporting the UN Again?
Related:
The automatic virtue card no longer workshttps://t.co/Lxzi2E880v
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 29, 2023
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Emory U. puts on play about whiteness as a ‘paranoid structure.’
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Prof. Giordano: K-12 conditions students to hate Jews in college.
CLAUDINE GAY: As Harvard president, I am committed to tackling the pernicious antisemitism on our campus.
The past few weeks have been full of darkness. First came the horrific terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, in which over 1,400 Jewish people were murdered by Hamas, and more than 200 others were taken hostage. Then came the escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Here in the U.S., we are witnessing a surge in anti-Jewish incidents and rhetoric across the nation — and on our own campus. The ancient specter of antisemitism, that persistent and corrosive hatred, has returned with renewed force.
A recent ADL report found that incidents of antisemitism had almost tripled over the past six years nationally. Here at Harvard, I’ve heard story after story of Jewish students feeling increasingly uneasy or even threatened on campus.
As we grapple with this resurgence of bigotry, I want to make one thing absolutely clear: Antisemitism has no place at Harvard.
For years, this university has done too little to confront its continuing presence. No longer.
I am committed to tackling this pernicious hatred with the urgency it demands.
Harvard’s mission, and legacy, is the pursuit and dissemination of truth. And the core of antisemitism is a lie This lie has taken many forms, including Holocaust denial, blood libels, conspiracy theories and the denial of the Jewish peoples’ historical ties to the land of Israel.
Harvard is a place for inquiry and vigorous debate about our world’s greatest challenges. A place to reveal truth, not to deny facts.
That would be a delightful change.