Fascist cops in Georgia brutally arrested a professor at a protest for NO REASON. “…a professor who had done absolutely nothing.” The story repeats this point as undisputed fact: “Fohlin yelled at the officers to ‘get away’ from the student. She leaned down closer to the student, but did not touch them, or any of the officers.”
It is possible a positive correlation may exist between tenure in certain academic fields and a sense of consequence immunity in all social interactions. More research needed.
I can validate your hypothesis; I have worked at the University of Washington *and* the bastion of communism #2, Western Washington University. Physics guys no worry. Engineers, no worry. B****** in the psych department? In-sane. Living on another planet entirely.
I’m sure it approaches 100% certainty, because the population is self-selective. Why would a person who believes in personal responsibility & consequences voluntarily immerse himself in a cesspool of childishness?
The Left will assert a positive correlation between the math rigor of a person’s discipline and their racism. I, OTOH, would assert a positive correlation between such assertions and the degree of fecal contamination of the proponent’s cranium.
They are deluded useful idiots to the powers that have orchestrated them. They will wake up one day and wonder how they wound up in the gulags, unless we defeat the ideology behind the veil.
Gee, you think a class of people who are insulated from any consequences in their professional lives might come to believe they are above consequences across the board? Definitely need to apply for an NSF grant for a few $M to study that.
That statement of hers was a genuine groaner — THAT is why lawyers tell their clients to SHUT UP. What an idiot. She just made an admission against interest.
Luckily for her, Soros prosecutors aren’t interested in bringing charges against anyone, so not only has she likely already been released (no cash bail), she won’t be charged, and she’ll probably get a settlement from the police department for “excessive use of force”. We are so f*cked.
Very very often I have hit a cop in the head from behind while he is arresting someone. He looks back, sees I am a white male, and usually laughs. But thats the joy of being part of the patriarchy.
This is a very important point. Neither "side" is inherently always in the right, and both have serious issues that need correcting. I personally suspect the problem is no clear set of rules and expectations (for the police it is often not knowing basic conceptual groups like "unlawful order", for Karen's things like "Not everyone is your damned fur baby, you twit.") I fear we let the rules become too numerous and contradictory for anyone to actually understand, and so everyone just picks and chooses those they like and try to hit everyone else over the head with them.
While the children of the Social Justice INFANTADA have gained their power by squeezing hard on America's Achilles' Heel (our general tolerance and good-faith belief that justice demands wrongs be righted, which they've abused and manipulated in increasingly grotesque ways), it's time to turn the tables and squeeze hard on the Achilles' Heel the INFANTADA has just revealed, which won't even require reams of lies and theories: MAKE THEM SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS.
Just look at these profs and "activists" and cossetted "my beliefs are just thus so is my every act" children of the 21st-century: they are genuinely SHOCKED when someone makes them face responsibility for their deeds, they are more shocked than a 19th-century aristocrat arrested for smacking a servant, they immediately start throwing a tantrum that reads more or less: I am an activist, student, Professor of Justice Studies, I have RIGHTS! (these people all have infinite rights and zero responsibilities), HOW DARE YOU fire, expel, suspend, arrest me!?
Apply the law and every college charter wisely, quickly and rigorously, and the INFANTADA will melt back into their safe spaces and soothe themselves with some binge watching.
Now the only question is if there's even a single member of the liberal class who's willing to clear even this lowest of bars...
yeah, that's really the rub here. the liberal class has not only abdicated their resppnsibilities, they have become supporters and enablers of all sorts of illiberalism.
The current environment has a real-life precedent: the Inquisition, which displayed equal tolerance for divergence of thought on topics based solely on faith.
and don't forget the Soviet Revolution, when various Nihilists and Bolsheviks convinced themselves and generations of "intellectuals" that a society's inability to attain "Justice" and "Equality" meant that it should be destroyed in a frenzy of righteous age, because certainly once enough things got destroyed, something better would have to appear in its place!
I’m uncomfortable citing the Soviets as proof of these people’s anti-intellectualism, as that’s “boot-strapping” the argument. These people are the emotional (can’t bring myself to say “intellectual”) descendants of the original Marxist and Soviet thinkers.
I'm down. I don't know if I count as a member of the "liberal class", or even what people actually mean when they use the term, but if someone wants to e.g. offer me a college presidency with the goal of applying the rules in a consistent and rigorous manner, I'm your man.
Please direct all inquiries to the above Substack email address. :D
I hope the adults at Cal Poly Humboldt (re the link in the story) are keeping a list of the “students” doing the occupying and send the bills for repair and restoration to their parents. Haha! I kid. Add the costs of the repair work to the loans being forgiven and pass ‘em along to the rest of us.
I’d bet the majority of the vandals weren’t students, most of them aren’t going to shit where they eat although a handful of professors are stupid enough to do so.
And I’m kind of torn - most of the colleges have become predatory. Academia does a hard sell on high school kids and press them into school loans and try to get family members on the hook to co-sign. since the schools technically aren’t lending the money they believe they have no culpability but that won’t stop the blowback.
It’s amazing that she thought nothing could happen to her. If chaos is occurring around me, there is a good chance I could get swept up into the chaos.
Another teachable moment, “if you don’t want something bad to happen to you, don’t go around where bad things are happening.”
The teachers are the source of this mayhem. No sympathy here. I say for each protest that gets out of hand, the supporting professors should be the first in handcuffs.
Yes, we can argue about this, but it is annoying when cops beat, tase, even falsely arrest people because their feelings were hurt (you can beat the charge, but not the ride) and when some people riot and expect no repercussions. It is called protesting, not rioting.
The only thing I would add is that the police are **supposed** to be the public servants being as they volunteered, have the training and the weapons including guns, plus the power of the state behind them. They are supposed to be responsible adults and there are no excuses to be otherwise. None. However, their definition of assault or resisting arrest can be a bit… overreaching, maybe even very unreasonable.
If they are irresponsible enough to overreact, just what can we do about them? Have more protests?
There are always two sides. However, the more conservative a person is in the United States, the more likely he is to ignore or justify police abuse no matter how egregious. The same with the more liberal people are with protesters.
I will say that in this example the police are in wrong because they abused their authority greatly acting brutally for being annoyed. Of course, the woman expected her status to protect her, which it usually does, but the police were being used to crush **all** protests no matter how mild. The arrestee was just too naïve to understand that, which high status people can be.
She appears to think that, as a professor, she’s entitled to special treatment. But if you are a former president and the leading candidate you are not above the law, even no one knows what law was broken, and must be treated with zero respect.
As she’s bleating “I am a PROFESSOR!!” over & over, I couldn’t help but remember Ned Beatty’s line in “Shooter” “I am a United States SENATOR!!”, to which Wahlburg responds “Exactly,” and then shoots him through the eye with a .45.
Many years ago, in the city I used to live in then, the glass facade of the local university shook loose in a storm (the city lies on the coast so it's always windy). That meant glass sheets weighing well over a ton came loose, and some smashed to the ground, having fallen from 5-6 stories up.
(Why the idiot architect and the idiot approvement committee decided on glass sheets on a building facing the ocean... well, that's a different topic.)
Friend of mine worked at a local security company and they get the task of cordoning off the area and keeping watch. We who worked in the building had to used a covered walkway to enter/exit, meaning you had to walk all of half a mile extra to get to the parking lot.
Around lunch, I get a call from him.
"Please for the love of Mercy can you come down hare with a large mug of coffee? My replacement is going to be hours late and I'm starting to lose it!"
I pop down with half a liter of coffee and some snacks, and stops to chat with my friend who asks
"Are your colleagues retards?"
"Huh? How do you mean?"
"Ive been stopping people from crossing the crodon all morning! Can't they read the signs saying 'LETHAL DANGER - FALLIN GLASS - USE SIDE ENTRANCE C'?"
"Uhm. . . what?"
"Yeah! And some, know what they say? 'But I'm a professor here! It doesn't apply to me!'"
I'm inclined to agree, though I'm guilty of it - the number of times in discussions on schools, education et c I've dropped a "As a teacher..." or "I've taught X for Y no. of years and..." - I hope I do it when relevant, and not as some authority-by-association-schtick.
I think we need laws to allow 50 Ft walls to be erected around campuses where L&O breaks down and the college administration is on board with it. À la “Escape from New York.” Nothing in or out. Let them explore the true nature of their “oppression free” society.
All college departments with titles ending in "studies" should be eliminated. How many of the protesters are actually students? Probably professional left wing protesters are being injected over time.
Jason Rantz (west coast contributor to FNC) fully concurs with the observed 100% overlap of the non-student BLM rioters and the non-student “We are Hamas” rioters. Their riot swag (signs, shirts, hats, keffiyehs) are probably printed by the same vendor.
It is possible a positive correlation may exist between tenure in certain academic fields and a sense of consequence immunity in all social interactions. More research needed.
I can validate your hypothesis; I have worked at the University of Washington *and* the bastion of communism #2, Western Washington University. Physics guys no worry. Engineers, no worry. B****** in the psych department? In-sane. Living on another planet entirely.
Actually that would be fascinating. I’d bet a crisp $benjamin that there is.
I’m sure it approaches 100% certainty, because the population is self-selective. Why would a person who believes in personal responsibility & consequences voluntarily immerse himself in a cesspool of childishness?
I did say “certain” fields. I’d propose an inverse correlation, relative the the math rigor of the discipline.
The Left will assert a positive correlation between the math rigor of a person’s discipline and their racism. I, OTOH, would assert a positive correlation between such assertions and the degree of fecal contamination of the proponent’s cranium.
"fecal contamination of the proponent’s cranium"
Gonna find a way to, use that - with attribution, of course.
I’m happy to grant you a royalty-free, nonexclusive license. 😂
To study it from within.
They are deluded useful idiots to the powers that have orchestrated them. They will wake up one day and wonder how they wound up in the gulags, unless we defeat the ideology behind the veil.
Gee, you think a class of people who are insulated from any consequences in their professional lives might come to believe they are above consequences across the board? Definitely need to apply for an NSF grant for a few $M to study that.
But then one could do the absolute worst: annoy them with facts.
Facts are part of the white, cis-normative, hetero-patriarchy. :-) Besides, who needs facts when I have My Truth?
Kids do that. “I’m not touching you! I’m not touching you!” And then actually do it. And are shocked at the consequence.
Children. We’re dealing with very adult children.
Suggested edit: "We’re dealing with very infantile children."
Possibly "Very large yet immature children"?
Or perhaps "Very large developmentally lagging children"?
There used to be a good word for that, I am sure...
BINGO!
Pretty sure you’re not supposed to “impulsively” touch cops in the middle of arresting someone. 🙄
Or slap them when they try to arrest YOU!
That was the best part. Has this woman never been around the popo before?
I guess she believed them that her lack of melanin would protect her. 🙄
“impulsively hit him on the head very lightly.”
This made my day. Bahahaha! My kids do the same thing to each other and are equally as confused as this professor when they get it trouble.
It's literally a toddler argument. BUT I ONLY HITTED HIM A LITTLE
Yes!!! Only a LITTLE! It hardly counts!
That statement of hers was a genuine groaner — THAT is why lawyers tell their clients to SHUT UP. What an idiot. She just made an admission against interest.
Luckily for her, Soros prosecutors aren’t interested in bringing charges against anyone, so not only has she likely already been released (no cash bail), she won’t be charged, and she’ll probably get a settlement from the police department for “excessive use of force”. We are so f*cked.
My 4 year old also gets into trouble FOR NO REASON! after breaking a rule. Weird coincidence
Very very often I have hit a cop in the head from behind while he is arresting someone. He looks back, sees I am a white male, and usually laughs. But thats the joy of being part of the patriarchy.
Are cops guilty of abuse of power? Yes
Are Karen's guilty of inciting police to violence? Also Yes
I feel like those are two different issues to be solved separately.
And the corporate media does not help in either case.
This is a very important point. Neither "side" is inherently always in the right, and both have serious issues that need correcting. I personally suspect the problem is no clear set of rules and expectations (for the police it is often not knowing basic conceptual groups like "unlawful order", for Karen's things like "Not everyone is your damned fur baby, you twit.") I fear we let the rules become too numerous and contradictory for anyone to actually understand, and so everyone just picks and chooses those they like and try to hit everyone else over the head with them.
Often literally.
While the children of the Social Justice INFANTADA have gained their power by squeezing hard on America's Achilles' Heel (our general tolerance and good-faith belief that justice demands wrongs be righted, which they've abused and manipulated in increasingly grotesque ways), it's time to turn the tables and squeeze hard on the Achilles' Heel the INFANTADA has just revealed, which won't even require reams of lies and theories: MAKE THEM SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS.
Just look at these profs and "activists" and cossetted "my beliefs are just thus so is my every act" children of the 21st-century: they are genuinely SHOCKED when someone makes them face responsibility for their deeds, they are more shocked than a 19th-century aristocrat arrested for smacking a servant, they immediately start throwing a tantrum that reads more or less: I am an activist, student, Professor of Justice Studies, I have RIGHTS! (these people all have infinite rights and zero responsibilities), HOW DARE YOU fire, expel, suspend, arrest me!?
Apply the law and every college charter wisely, quickly and rigorously, and the INFANTADA will melt back into their safe spaces and soothe themselves with some binge watching.
Now the only question is if there's even a single member of the liberal class who's willing to clear even this lowest of bars...
Uhhh, no re: clearing any low bars.
yeah, that's really the rub here. the liberal class has not only abdicated their resppnsibilities, they have become supporters and enablers of all sorts of illiberalism.
The current environment has a real-life precedent: the Inquisition, which displayed equal tolerance for divergence of thought on topics based solely on faith.
and don't forget the Soviet Revolution, when various Nihilists and Bolsheviks convinced themselves and generations of "intellectuals" that a society's inability to attain "Justice" and "Equality" meant that it should be destroyed in a frenzy of righteous age, because certainly once enough things got destroyed, something better would have to appear in its place!
I’m uncomfortable citing the Soviets as proof of these people’s anti-intellectualism, as that’s “boot-strapping” the argument. These people are the emotional (can’t bring myself to say “intellectual”) descendants of the original Marxist and Soviet thinkers.
Great term - The Infantada.
spread it around!
I'm down. I don't know if I count as a member of the "liberal class", or even what people actually mean when they use the term, but if someone wants to e.g. offer me a college presidency with the goal of applying the rules in a consistent and rigorous manner, I'm your man.
Please direct all inquiries to the above Substack email address. :D
I hope the adults at Cal Poly Humboldt (re the link in the story) are keeping a list of the “students” doing the occupying and send the bills for repair and restoration to their parents. Haha! I kid. Add the costs of the repair work to the loans being forgiven and pass ‘em along to the rest of us.
I’d bet the majority of the vandals weren’t students, most of them aren’t going to shit where they eat although a handful of professors are stupid enough to do so.
And I’m kind of torn - most of the colleges have become predatory. Academia does a hard sell on high school kids and press them into school loans and try to get family members on the hook to co-sign. since the schools technically aren’t lending the money they believe they have no culpability but that won’t stop the blowback.
The colleges get their money from endowments. Because people are this stupid.
It’s amazing that she thought nothing could happen to her. If chaos is occurring around me, there is a good chance I could get swept up into the chaos.
Another teachable moment, “if you don’t want something bad to happen to you, don’t go around where bad things are happening.”
The teachers are the source of this mayhem. No sympathy here. I say for each protest that gets out of hand, the supporting professors should be the first in handcuffs.
Yes, we can argue about this, but it is annoying when cops beat, tase, even falsely arrest people because their feelings were hurt (you can beat the charge, but not the ride) and when some people riot and expect no repercussions. It is called protesting, not rioting.
The only thing I would add is that the police are **supposed** to be the public servants being as they volunteered, have the training and the weapons including guns, plus the power of the state behind them. They are supposed to be responsible adults and there are no excuses to be otherwise. None. However, their definition of assault or resisting arrest can be a bit… overreaching, maybe even very unreasonable.
If they are irresponsible enough to overreact, just what can we do about them? Have more protests?
And what’s the other side of the story? There are always two sides.
There are always two sides. However, the more conservative a person is in the United States, the more likely he is to ignore or justify police abuse no matter how egregious. The same with the more liberal people are with protesters.
I will say that in this example the police are in wrong because they abused their authority greatly acting brutally for being annoyed. Of course, the woman expected her status to protect her, which it usually does, but the police were being used to crush **all** protests no matter how mild. The arrestee was just too naïve to understand that, which high status people can be.
All revolutions are bathed in crocodile tears. Horst Wessel anyone?
She appears to think that, as a professor, she’s entitled to special treatment. But if you are a former president and the leading candidate you are not above the law, even no one knows what law was broken, and must be treated with zero respect.
As she’s bleating “I am a PROFESSOR!!” over & over, I couldn’t help but remember Ned Beatty’s line in “Shooter” “I am a United States SENATOR!!”, to which Wahlburg responds “Exactly,” and then shoots him through the eye with a .45.
Consequences are beautiful things.
Did you catch the comeback from the cop,? "And I'm a cop!"
I didn’t. Thanks!
"Bleating". Perfect descriptor. LOL.
Many years ago, in the city I used to live in then, the glass facade of the local university shook loose in a storm (the city lies on the coast so it's always windy). That meant glass sheets weighing well over a ton came loose, and some smashed to the ground, having fallen from 5-6 stories up.
(Why the idiot architect and the idiot approvement committee decided on glass sheets on a building facing the ocean... well, that's a different topic.)
Friend of mine worked at a local security company and they get the task of cordoning off the area and keeping watch. We who worked in the building had to used a covered walkway to enter/exit, meaning you had to walk all of half a mile extra to get to the parking lot.
Around lunch, I get a call from him.
"Please for the love of Mercy can you come down hare with a large mug of coffee? My replacement is going to be hours late and I'm starting to lose it!"
I pop down with half a liter of coffee and some snacks, and stops to chat with my friend who asks
"Are your colleagues retards?"
"Huh? How do you mean?"
"Ive been stopping people from crossing the crodon all morning! Can't they read the signs saying 'LETHAL DANGER - FALLIN GLASS - USE SIDE ENTRANCE C'?"
"Uhm. . . what?"
"Yeah! And some, know what they say? 'But I'm a professor here! It doesn't apply to me!'"
This was around '07 or so I think.
The more a person flaunts their title, the less intelligent and accomplished they really are.
I'm inclined to agree, though I'm guilty of it - the number of times in discussions on schools, education et c I've dropped a "As a teacher..." or "I've taught X for Y no. of years and..." - I hope I do it when relevant, and not as some authority-by-association-schtick.
It’s one thing to cite your experience to support a point, it’s another thing to cite your credentials to dismiss others.
Pampered, hypocritical and delusional, I'd like to introduce you to reality.
MOAR!!!!!
Why does every day now feel like the “This is fine” meme?
They want and need incidents to further the pot boiling.
I think we need laws to allow 50 Ft walls to be erected around campuses where L&O breaks down and the college administration is on board with it. À la “Escape from New York.” Nothing in or out. Let them explore the true nature of their “oppression free” society.
If you threw in an endless supply of Kombucha, the human pesticide abortion pill regimen and Doritos, the offer might be too good for them to resist.
I mean, RESIST.
All that msg makes people very sketchy, lol!
All college departments with titles ending in "studies" should be eliminated. How many of the protesters are actually students? Probably professional left wing protesters are being injected over time.
Jason Rantz (west coast contributor to FNC) fully concurs with the observed 100% overlap of the non-student BLM rioters and the non-student “We are Hamas” rioters. Their riot swag (signs, shirts, hats, keffiyehs) are probably printed by the same vendor.