The Most Dangerous People in America: College Professors

American faculty campuses are permeated with corrupted professors who themselves corrupt college students. Without a doubt, college professors are essentially the most harmful individuals in America.

They’re not harmful as a result of they problem the established order or encourage their college students to suppose critically. On the opposite, they’re harmful as a result of they encourage impressionable younger faculty college students to stick to the doctrines of the professors they select with out giving them the prospect to meaningfully problem these doctrines.

During the latest pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas protests on elite faculty campuses, hundreds of scholars put up tents on personal property, commandeered university-owned buildings, defaced personal property, and chanted disturbing, antisemitic rhetoric. But whereas we consistently discuss in regards to the actions of the scholars, we fail to acknowledge that these college students aren’t alone however as a substitute are educated and cheered on by their faculty professors.

At Columbia University, lots of the college’s professors joined the protests, donning orange reflective vests and standing alongside college students in protest of Israel and—apparently—in support of the scholars’ proper to free speech. Of course, these professors, like their college students, usually are not constitutional students, but they educate their college students that what they’re doing is protected.

The First Amendment doesn’t shield the fitting to vandalize or trespass on personal property, which is what these college students have been doing, and even make terroristic threats or assist a terrorist group, which arguably many of those college students did. The very concept that there have been professors aiding the scholars in their unlawful takeover of the college ought to sound alarm bells.

Even in the face of the professors’ statements and actions, which have been to the impact of “we support our students’ right to protest,” no rights have been being violated. But you could be completely positive the impressionable faculty college students seeing their actions and studying their statements really feel extra emboldened than ever and as if they have been those wronged, not the scores of Jewish college students who have been barred from campus nor the numerous impoverished college students unable to entry the now-closed eating halls.

There could be little doubt left now that college students who witnessed their professors, individuals of nice authority and respect to them, supporting a protest that resulted in the unprovoked stabbing of a Jewish lady in the attention with a Palestinian flag, chants of “death to America” and “globalize the intifada” (a violent rebellion in which greater than a thousand Israelis have been murdered in the early 2000s), college students claiming “we are Hamas,” and a big variety of college students donning Hamas militant headbands will suppose any violence or violent rhetoric on their half is by some means justified.

Look no additional than the case of Russell Rickford, an affiliate historical past professor at Cornell University, who took a depart of absence after overtly stating that the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks have been “exhilarating” and “energizing.” He was seen again on campus, protesting in solidarity with the scholars and talking in support of the scholars and Palestine.

Why ought to a scholar really feel afraid of being suspended—and even expelled—when a professor of the establishment who met an analogous destiny is again on campus voicing his support of Palestine?

One factor any faculty scholar—significantly one who challenges authority—will be taught is that when that authority (the professor, the administration, and even the coed physique) is overwhelmingly liberal, questioning dogma is a recipe for failure and being labeled an outcast.

For a school scholar, a foul grade could make or break their faculty profession, which, to school college students, is essentially the most instantly essential factor in their life. Giving a school professor the flexibility to evaluate a scholar extra harshly as a result of they disagree and even merely query the professors’ beliefs is the proper recipe for indoctrination.

Let’s be clear, faculty professors shouldn’t be feared; they need to be revered once they earn that respect, similar as anybody else. The solely energy they wield is the title they got by their establishment—a title that may be rapidly stripped away from them. To faculty college students, these professors are essentially the most academically achieved individuals they know, so that they comply with them mindlessly; that’s why they’re harmful.

Well-educated persons are usually the least clever. They are so assured in their capability to suppose critically that they’ve efficiently satisfied themselves that they’ll do no unsuitable. It is just when college students have an trustworthy professor who understands their fallibility that they’ll really be taught.

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