The protests that have broken out at America’s college campuses don’t look like they’re going to stop anytime soon, at least not in the blue states, where all of the administrators and the government have decided to allow these puerile children who are pro-terrorist to continue their activities ad infinitum.
Why?
Because they must be humored.
Columbia University extended the deadline for the tent encampment of the demonstrators by 48 hours. Then, the deadline passed and the demonstrators didn’t leave. Nothing happened because it turns out the administrators are a bunch of cowards. They’re running scared from their own faculty. They’re running scared from themselves because they all agree with these students. And, of course, they are running scared from these students.
All of this raises a question. The students who are doing this — 18, 19, 20-year-old students who are paying $80,000 a year or attending on scholarship to major in a useless field at a place like Columbia University — are some of the richest, most privileged people in the history of the world by any stretch of the imagination.
And yet there they are, protesting not just against Israel, not just in favor of actual terror groups, but also against America.
Let’s be real about what these people like and what these people don’t like. What they hate most of all is America and the West. They hate the West, which has given them extraordinary levels of privilege. They think the West is the source of victimization. They think the West is exploitative, and they seek to tear it down.
It’s the only reason, as I’ve been saying for years at this point, that you would see something like “Queers for Palestine,” which is inherently self-contradictory. It makes absolutely no sense. Or “drag queen story hours” in favor of Hamas.
The only reason for this is because of a coalition of people who believe that the entire system is itself evil, wrong, and corrupt.
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So who are these kids who make up the system? Case one: Khymani James, a student at Columbia University, who says that he goes by “he,” “she,” or “they,” and is one of the organizers of this mass protest. He was directly negotiating with the leadership of Columbia University.
Here is the point: You don’t have negotiations with students. The students pay — they’re a client — to come to the university, but they’re only a client under certain circumstances, namely, they abide by the rules that apply to the clients and the establishment.
If you walk into a restaurant, you are clients of the restaurant. If you proceed to take off your pants and underwear, they’re going to have you arrested. You have now violated the rules of the establishment.
These students are in no position to “bargain with the administration.” So where exactly is the leverage point? The leverage point is simply the weakness of the administration. Khymani James announced that he had communications with and had achieved concessions from the Columbia administration. He stated:
Columbia University issued a written commitment to engage in further negotiations for at least 48 hours. This is a win for us. Our negotiation team has committed not to participate in a bargaining process, so long as the university attempts to extract concessions by police or military force. After forcing students, the majority of whom are Palestinian, black, Brown and Jewish students from marginalized backgrounds to wait in the cold overnight to find out if they would be attacked and arrested by the NYPD or National Guard, early this morning, we won the concession that the University will not call law enforcement on our peaceful protest.
So, who is James?
The Boston Globe actually ran a piece about James in 2021 in which the Globe stated, “A young Black man raised by a single, immigrant mother in a South Boston housing development, nurtured by teachers who recognized his potential, accepted by one of the city’s best public high schools, and then by a prestigious Ivy League college, Columbia University.”
In other words, the system worked to help a person from an impoverished background get ahead.
And then James proceeded to attack the system. Why? Because this is what makes you famous in America today as a young person. The best shield you have against the claim you are not being victimized or being helped is your intersectionality. Because no matter how many times the system has helped you get ahead, that the system has helped you go from an impoverished single mom background to Columbia University, you can say, “I am still a victim of that same system because after all, I am, black, gay, trans, Palestinian” — or whatever term you want to use.
The Globe continued, “In March, James and a half-dozen other students resigned from the district’s student advisory council, citing their frustration with adults who pushed them to soften their tone and water down their agenda. Closing the loop on his move outside the system, James also resigned from the School Committee.”
This is a person who has cultivated victimhood his entire lifetime. And now you can see the apotheosis of this approach. Khymani James was called on the carpet by Columbia’s administration a few months ago.
Why? Because James had suggested that he wanted to kill Zionists.
This is evident in a video he live-streamed with the school. He maintains the mentality of “I am a victim; therefore, I get to be an aggressor. I have been helped by the American system; therefore, America is evil. The people who have largely put me in a position of privilege and power are people who do not share my race, but white supremacy is the great threat to everything.”
He stated, “I’m Khymani James. I use he, she, they pronouns. Zionists in my DM wanting to meet up and fight. I don’t fight to injure or for there to be a winner or loser. I fight to kill. See y’all in New York January 2024.”
He was asked, “So that’s specifically what we’re discussing today. Do you see why that’s problematic in any way?”
“No,” he answered.
“Do you think that there’s a serious weight in taking someone else’s life?” he was asked. He responded:
I think there is a serious weight in taking someone’s life. And at the same time, I think that taking someone’s life in certain case scenarios is necessary and better for the overall world. And so I personally have never killed anyone. Thank the Lord that no one has put me in that position. Though when Hitler died, the world rejoiced. Everyone looks back at that time period and said that Hitler needed to die because he was exacting an immense amount of harm against the world.
And so, just like that, during the Haitian Revolution there, Haitian slaves had to kill their masters in order to gain their independence. These were masters who were white supremacists. What is a Zionist? A white supremacist.
Basically, he’s making the case that every person who is for a Jewish state should be killed because they’re like Hitler or like the white people who were killed during the Haitian Revolution.
James said he wanted to kill Zionists, that Zionists are white supremacists.
Note that this is a nonsensical argument. First of all, under this rubric, it assumes every Jew is white, which is not true. More than half of the Jews in Israel are brown and Mizrachi and from Arabic countries. Second, it assumes Jews fit within “white” in the intersectional hierarchy, which again, is weird, since this is a discussion about historically victimized peoples. Jews rank number one on the list. But Jews are also disproportionately successful, which is why they are “white supremacists,” according to the intersectional crowd.
Here’s the bottom line of argument from this radical, who has been pampered by the system — Boston Latin Academy, Boston Public School Board, Columbia University — and now has been adding on the various armorial protections of intersectionality in order to act as a shield against his own radicalism: I’m not being attacked because I’m wrong or terrible or pro-Hamas or promoting actual murder. I’m being attacked because I’m gay, trans, queer, non-binary, black. That’s the shtick.
“There should not be Zionists anywhere. Zionists or Nazis,” he stated. “If we can agree as a society, as a collective, that people, that some persons need to die if they have an ideology that results in the death of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, if there are people like that who exist, shouldn’t they die? Why would we want people who are supporters of genocide to live? I’m confused. Zionists, along with all white supremacists, need not to exist.”
Khymani James was not only accepted to Columbia, Columbia also knew all this beforehand. James was accepted to Columbia after being called into a school committee meeting basically saying, “I hate white people,” in 2021.
When you wonder what’s going wrong with the next generation, understand that people like Khymani James have been pampered. They’ve been bred by an entire ideology that suggests power lies in aggressive statements of victimhood that allow you to call for wiping entire groups of human beings off the planet Earth based on ideology.
Whenever people try to box in what’s happening on these college campuses and say, “It’s just about Hamas,” or, “It’s just about Israel,” they are wrong.
It’s about the West.
Do you want the future of the West to look like this?