Why Academics Leftists and Elitists Need to Treat Ordinary Americans With Respect
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nsacpi
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It is true that I don't have much curiosity about this. The student body of the school I teach at is not very activist. If anything, the maga contingent is the most likely to be vocal about its views.
sturg33
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Youre not curious why young people at the highest levels of education choose to spend so much of their energy?
Might be time too retire
I feel like trying to understand why the youth spend their time the way they do is pretty much always a fool’s errand.
sturg33
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I would like to understand the logic behind mass protests in favor of a Muslim terrorist group who despises women and gay people from the people who claim to defend the rights of women and gay people
How did they get there?
Oh, its about a slaughter?
Ok, then I would like to understand why the slaughters in Africa and Iran dont meet the threshold.
I hoped a person who walks the campuses wirh them would be able to shed some light, but hes not very interested in such an odd advocacy inconsistency
Faulty premise for the most part. While there are certainly *some* genuine Hamas supporters out there, the majority of Americans on this side find Hamas to be bad, but don’t accept that Israel is the good actor in this.
sturg33
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Were there mass protests on behalf of Isreal on October 8th?
No, guess they were busy that day.
The answer is obvious and you free to say it. They hate Israel because they hate western ideals, white people, and jews. And Israel is the most free, democratic nation in the entire region, yet our young and highly educated despise it.
The reason they aren't protesting about Iran and Africa is because they dont care. And they wouldnt care if Palestine was being attacked by Pakistan. They only care because they are Marxists, and western culture is the enemy of Marxism.
That is sturg33s hypothesis. Then I ask WHY the young highly educated have found themselves AGAINST freedom and democratic nations in favor of highly bigoted ones. WHY is that that case? I have my own theories, but im curious why yall aren't curious
I’ve given you my hypothesis. If you don’t want to acknowledge that because you disagree with where I land on it, feel free to stop asking me about it.
It’s that the relationship between the United States and Israel is such that protesting Israel on a US campus is perceived as something that might bring about change. There’s no sense in protesting Iranian leadership on a college campus because they are not our ally and you aren’t going to bring about any change domestically by doing so.
The prevalence of Palestinians and other Muslims from the region is why I think there’s such a gap between protests over Gaza and protests over countries in Africa where we have less of an immigrant population, but even then I think the unique status of Israel in American politics naturally makes it a bigger focal point.
nsacpi
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I care about how much my students learn and how much effort they put into their work. What they do with the rest of their lives is not my business. I'm happy to talk to them but I don't make their business my business. I've had maybe two conversations that touched on politics in any depth in the past few years. One was with a thoughtful libertarian-leaning student. Another was a consumer of Charlie Kirk's podcasts with whom I had a conversation after his assassination. I rarely encounter any left-leaning students who are politically active or want to talk about politics. I teach at a business school.