Posted on 11/17/2023 11:25:44 AM PST by SJackson
antisemitic rhetoric and attacks have increased at some of America's leading institutions, Jews on college campuses have been left scratching their heads, asking how itis possible that progressives could present the veneer of tolerance and modern thinking, while celebrating Hamas' barbarity and embracing hate.
But, in fact, "progressive" intolerance is nothing new for college campuses, with antisemitism and even Nazism part of many universities' dark pasts. Jay Richards of the Heritage Foundation raised eugenics as another example.
"It's hard for us to imagine now, but it was an idea that was shared by essentially all elite opinion makers and institutions in the early 20th century, especially as part of the wider progressive movement," he said. "In many ways, it was developed in the United States in the 1920s and exported to Germany and [they]… really actually implemented it with that kind of dramatic efficiency."
Adolf Hitler was a great admirer of American academics' work to advance eugenics. Eugenics is the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of characteristics regarded as desirable – and to weed out what scientists viewed as undesirable.
Biologist Steven Farber argued that academic articles published by eugenicists like Charles B. Davenport – who lectured at Harvard, the University of Chicago, and Carnegie Institution – were the "intellectual underpinnings" of the Nazis' racial social policies.
According to the U.S. Holocaust Museum, "Eugenic theory provided the basis for the Nazis' clandestine program that killed disabled Germans, an estimated 250,000 patients," before it was later turned against Jews, Roma, homosexuals and other groups deemed inferior as part of "racial hygiene."
In addition to embracing hateful and faux-scientific ideology, embedding eugenics in its biology textbooks, some college administrators were openly antisemitic while leading institutions that limited the acceptance of qualified Jewish students.
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Yale, for example, has a document in its archives entitled "Jewish Problem" from 1922 which pushed for quotas on "the alien and unwashed element." Jewish enrollment was subsequently held at 10% for four decades, according to a book written by a former Yale student called "Joining the Club."
Worth reading the article for other examples pro Nazi academic actions. They've traded Nazis for jihadists. And of course eugenics is alive and well, the term just not spoken.
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The one thing that is crystal clear is that colleges have to be purged from top to bottom. The best way to do that is to defund them.
We have to burn the village to save it.
The expressions of “surprise” by Jewish academics is such a joke.
Pro-Palestine anti-Israel was a major thing when I was on campus 40 years ago.
At that time the Left was hysterical over the 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
“...quotas on “the alien and unwashed element.”
The “quotas” in the form of lowered standards. Asians, Jews whites don’t and haven’t competed based on color blind standards.
If antisemites in the United States could be blocked from voting, demcorats would NEVER win another national election.
So was the right. Within the last month I believe a high ranking Iranian, might have been military, political or religious, included Lebanon in a list of defeats of the US at the hands of Islam. Many of Reagan’s advisors, Caspar Weinberger, VP Bush, William Clark, opposed Israel’s actions in Syria and Lebanon, pushing for a withdrawl. Sounds familiar.
Eugenics and other evil have never been absent from campuses. They’re just more out in the open now.
The Soros “ Open Society “ Virus is spreading rapidly.
To date, there is no effective remedy.
Thomas Sowells “Intellectuals and Society” covers this in depth, and is a GREAT read. Very eye opening. History coming full circle. Sigh.
The Left has captured every major institution in the West.
There is no forcing them out by any internal process (external military defeat would do it).
But this Regime is going to collapse of its own incompetence, corruption and failure.
They are failing at the basics now (eg. reliable electric power). And big projects they want to do like CA high speed rail - they have spent $10 billion and have laid zero miles of track.
Even small things like artillery ammunition, they can’t even produce that. And the announced timelines for future production are longer than the Manhattan Project.
The “quotas” in the form of lowered standards.
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