In college one acquaintance heavily argued about the merits of socialism.

After graduation he got a job. It turns out he told a mutual friend that he was rather upset with the amount of taxes taken out of his paycheck.

Not sure how much that changed his views, but no doubt some realities do dawn on people, and that may have an impact that accumulates over time.

I point out to my liberal Jewish friends that Jews have suffered most when the haters had the power of government behind them. (See: Khmelnitsky, Hitler, Stalin, Ferdinand & Isabella).

“We demand that the video created for Day of Absence and Day of Presence that was stolen by white supremacists and edited to expose and ridicule the students and staff be taken down by the administration by this Friday,” the students wrote in a list of demands to college President George Bridges.”

“one of the assertions by the students is that the place is somehow riddled with rampant racism”

That is the overwhelmingly dominant paradigm on campuses today.

“what would actually satisfy these students? A full-scale Cultural Revolution? The purging of those kulaks known as white people, or the right, or whoever the target du jour may be?”

Bingo. White people must be subjugated because it is revenge for imagined wrongs they seek. Only the whip hand vigorously used will satisfy.

And given the cultural rejection of the virtues necessary to socioeconomic success, an inability to compete further impels them to imagine ongoing racial grievances.

While whites on the left are amenable to whatever it takes to expiate their ancestral sins.

This incident is the result of black and Hispanic students and ‘professors’ calling for a one day expulsion of ALL whites from Evergreen. Prelude to expulsion of all whites from power. They will never be satisfied with less.

Only when whites are enslaved will the most radical of blacks be satiated. They have become what they rail against. They demand their turn at being the master. And whites deserve whatever cruelty their hate may demand. That hate is far more widespread among young blacks than most whites realize.

A 17 minute visit here demonstrates this reality.

Very true, and also tactically important. When marketing a product or service, it is generally a good idea to segment the potential-customer set and then try to understand what are the drivers of behavior in each segment. The same is true for political policies and belief systems.

Thanks.

I hope I’m right, too, and not just because I like to be right (although, like most people, I do like to be right).

The fact that history shows the terrible consequences of tyranny doesn’t bother them a bit: it’s the little who will die. The planet will be better off. Those who do not learn the lessons of history are just stupid, and many of these people are pretty stupid. The rest are corrupt and simply don’t care if the little people suffer.

“If I were president of Evergreen…”
To hell with that.

If I were Governor of that state, I’d fence the campus off & let them kill and eat each other until the last remnant of that plague is dead.
Then, MOAB the remains.

I get the hyperbole, but I hear more and more of this kind of talk in these comments threads.

You know that doing the above would be both illegal and murderously immoral.

Bonhoffer was talking about HITLER. You’re talking about mixed up college kids who – at least as far as I know in this instance – haven’t physically hurt anyone and certainly haven’t killed anyone.