Is the Left Beginning to Implode on Campus?
Jonathan V. Last says yes in a new post at the Weekly Standard.
The Campus Left Begins to Implode
If you pay any attention to the ways in which radicalism dominates the culture of the university these days, you’re likely to feel as though you’ve gone through the looking glass. “White privilege.” “Trigger warnings.” “Rape culture.” All of this (and much else) has turned academia into a bizarre, Orwellian simulacrum of itself. And not only that, but the radicalism has migrated outward into the broader culture, too. It’s the kind of insanity we haven’t seen in America since the bad old days of the early 1970s.
The good news is that these sorts of perversions always burn themselves out-they’re too untethered to reality. Eventually people realize that the radicalism is really about just one thing: power. And once people begin to challenge the dogmas, they collapse in a cascade. Because as they lose their power to exact a price for criticism, they attract more of it.
The bad news is that these radical revolutions can deal out a great amount of harm before they are discredited.
But in any case, we may be witnessing the first dawning realization on the left about the problems inherent in their movement. Allow me to present three pieces, each from a liberal looking at contemporary campus politics.
Comments
I hope and pray it’s imploding! Please, let’s bring back some plain old common sense.
To me, anyone who has such extreme fears of “triggers” or “words” does not have the intellectual capacity to be a student on a college campus (at least in times past when one did receive an education- prior to the current social/cultural dogma).
It’s not imploding. It may eventually die down and smolder for a while, but it will inevitably rekindle.
Much like gun control. Often proclaimed dead, but it’s still around.