Victor Davis Hanson: Weimar America - We may be headed for a 1930s nightmare

American Greatness ^ | 4 Dec, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

[MtnClimber]

Something eerie, something creepy, is happening in the world—and now in America as well. The dark mood is brought on by elite universities, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion industry, and massive immigration from illiberal nations and anti-Enlightenment societies.

At Hillcrest High School in Queens, New York, hundreds of students rioted on news that a single teacher in her private social media account had expressed support for Israel. Waving Palestinian flags, and screaming violent threats, the student mob rioted, destroyed school property, sought the teacher out and tried to crash into her classroom—before she was saved from violence by other teachers and an eventual police arrival.

The subtext was that the overwhelmingly minority students (whose school is ranked academically near the bottom among New York City schools) were acculturated to the racist reality that as the “oppressed” they were exempt from any punishment for hunting down their own teacher. As a Jewish (and thus white) “oppressive” supporter of Israel, she was reduced to, in the words an enthusiastic commenter on a Tik Tok video of the riot, a “cracker ass bitch.” And so the student pack tracked her down as if they were hunting an animal. The old Nazi youth gangs tried to kill Jews because they were not considered “white;” our new Nazis hunt them down because they allege that they are. The common denominator between the 1930s and 2023 is an unhinged hatred of Jews.

Hundreds of such incidents are now occurring on a daily basis—as the country is leaving its Weimar phase and heading at warp speed into normalizing Jew-hatred and worse. Instructors singled out Jewish students in classes at UC Davis and Stanford. Pro-Hamas students ripped down posters, swarmed public buildings, and disrupted traffic.

A pro-Israeli demonstrator in Los Angeles was hit on the head and killed

[MtnClimber]

VDH ping

[escapefromboston]

Maybe Jewish Americans will stop supporting liberal causes ? I kind of doubt it though

[Chickensoup]

Truth here

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

[Eccl 10:2]

Vdh

[MeanWestTexan]

Right after gentile white women, who are exponentially a more significant voting Voting block.

[BobL]

“As a Jewish (and thus white) “oppressive” supporter of Israel, she was reduced to, in the words an enthusiastic commenter on a Tik Tok video of the riot, a “cracker ass bitch.””

Knowing women in NY City, they likely got the ‘bitch’ part right, at least.

[RoosterRedux]

The problem is that a great number of people in America have been brainwashed into Marxism by the educational system. And enough of them have graduated and move into society (multiple generations, in fact) that a giant echo chamber has been created that prevents this brainwashing from being removed by people with opposing points of view.

Frankly, this brainwashing effort is so perfect and effective that it almost seems impossible to have been created by humans.

[MtnClimber]

It was the long march through the institutions.

[Tell It Right]

Chilling summary from VDH:
But unless the public demands that their universities enforce on campus the Bill of Rights and the right to move freely in safety, that police enforce laws against mob violence on America’s streets and in our schools, and that the United States stops greenlighting mass immigration from anti-Western nations and extending student visas to residents of anti-American, terrorist-supporting, and autocratic Middle East regimes, then in suicidal fashion we are headed for a 1930s nightmare.

[mewzilla]

If Deep State still had a voting lock on its base, Deep State wouldn’t have to steal elections, would it.

[DIRTYSECRET]

*people in America have been brainwashed into Marxism*

Siren call-it works. Just look at Biden forgiving those college loans. Gavin defending California by going on offense.

[Ex-Con777]

True.

An enterprising individual could likely review footage and photos from the BLM mob leaders and find the same ingrates in charge of the anti-Israel mob now. This is all ACORN and community organizers just re-packaged.

EC

[Elsie]

We've been killing our own unborn, future American citizens for what/ 50 years now?

Shouldn't we kinda expect that the crap is FINALLY gonna hit the fan in this country?

[PGalt]

Anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life collectives are roaming the republic.

[cgbg]

Good morning—I heard a little tidbit on a podcast that stunned me—honestly do not know if it is correct or not.

The individual is working in the on-line education space and claimed that he researched who was ultimately responsible for the course content required to pass standardized tests.

His conclusion—not any teachers, not any schools, not any education association, not any testing association....

He claimed...

the Pentagon.

I have been able to find hints of this but nothing substantial so far.

[eyeamok]

Yeah, we are having a party, and the main attraction should be coming pretty soon. Buckle up.

[jmaroneps37]

500 million guns in private hands say you are wrong Vic.

[RoosterRedux]

Wow. I’ll check that out. Thx, CGBG.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Right after gentile white women, who are exponentially a more significant voting Voting block.

In the Nazi era, a significant number of Jews collaborated with the government. If white women have different reasons for helping the Biden regime (absolute and unlimited "abortion rights"), they are nonetheless helping an evil regime.