Watching The Ivy League Go Full-On Toxic Weed
By Mitch Berg
I’m trying to decide if David Hogg is:
- the thing parents fear they’ll get back at semester break when they send their kids to private colllege
- A parody account rejected by Babylon Bee and Titania McGrath as “too over the top”.
One thing he is? Evidence of “white supremacy”. He’s using up a seat at Harvard that a deserving Asian kid didn’t get.
Exhibit D-24662-F:
The vision of gay slaves and Seminoles sitting in orange T-shirts and ELCA hair waving signs in safe white neighborhoods in Eagan, in 1820 (“centuries ago”) almost made me chuckle.
Erin Palette, with Pink Pistols, s not amused, and lights the little fop up but good.
while the colonists and early citizens of the United States were well-armed and saw virtually no restrictions on what arms they could own or when they could carry or use them in a peaceful manner, this was not true for all inhabitants of the land. Many people of color were brought to this country as slaves, and as property, they had no rights. Furthermore, free persons of color and Native Americans were often prevented by law from owning firearms.
Such gun control as Hogg champions would have hurt those fighting slavery. Abolitionists were highly unpopular and threatened with violence or worse. Rev. Elijah Parish Lovejoy, publisher of the abolitionist newspaper The Saint Louis Observer, was murdered by a pro-slavery mob who shot him before destroying his new printing press. Members of the Underground Railroad needed to protect themselves from law enforcement and bounty hunters enforcing fugitive slave laws, and so were often armed. The most famous example of these is Harriet Tubman, who carried a pistol for self defense while escorting runaway slaves to freedom.
While the 14th Amendment eliminated some of this discrimination, many additional laws were passed to keep people of color, the poor, and other âundesirablesâ from owning or carrying arms as part of the many Jim Crow laws of the time. Some of these statutes have survived to the present day, such as the North Carolina Pistol Purchase Permit. It requires that an applicant be of âgood moral characterâ despite the fact that âThe term âgood moral characterâ is not defined in our statutes nor is there a case specifically on point as to what constitutes good moral character for purposes of a pistol purchase permit.â
Needless to say, being a person of color was ample reason to deny a permit under these circumstances. Most famously, in 1950 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, applied for an Alabama concealed-weapon permit after receiving death threats. He was, of course, denied. In the 1960s, Californiaâs Mulford Act banned the open carry of firearms as a direct reaction to members of the Black Panthers patrolling minority neighborhoods while visibly armed.
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Between Hogg and Matt Yglesias, I’m starting to think a Harvard degree, outside of hard sciences and medicine, should be considered a disqualifieer.
February 7th, 2020 at 7:52 am
I’ve decided not to come down too hard on Junior Hogg because:
1. He’s a child being used as a human shield by political activists and is therefore not the correct person to attack.
2. He may still be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the school shooting, and therefore not responsible for the disordered mental state that causes his shoddy analysis.
3. He is the product of modern American “education,” in which students are rewarded for rote recitation, not for ability to think for themselves. To be honest, that’s not much different from how students learned in the past, the important distinction is what’s being recited: political cant instead of verifiable truth. Can’t fault a computer for garbage in-garbage out, whether the computer is silicon or carbon based.
4. He’s no more threat to me than Saint Greta, who’s just been nominated for the Nobel Prize. They’re marionettes, briefly entertaining but quickly boring.
February 7th, 2020 at 8:29 am
Aw look at that, he’s jealous of Greta.
February 7th, 2020 at 8:30 am
I think this tweet also means he knows his 15 minutes is up, for good.
February 7th, 2020 at 10:20 am
He’s becoming quite the little woke-bot thee days.
David Hogg
@davidhogg111
Lincoln was a really good president.
1:28 PM ¡ Feb 5, 2020
David Hogg
@davidhogg111
Actually, I was not aware of the scope of how detrimental he was so many native american populations.
He was not a really good president.
4:25 PM ¡ Feb 5, 2020
David Hogg
@davidhogg111
I thank my indigenous peers that brought my attention to Lincolnâs atrocities committed against native Americans.
Iâm deeply sorry for not acknowledging these crimes that I was unaware of until now. I will do better in the future.
4:33 PM ¡ Feb 5, 2020
February 7th, 2020 at 12:50 pm
TKS, thank you for adding a new word to my vocabulary. Woke-bot, I shall use it often.
February 7th, 2020 at 2:10 pm
I’d argue that Hogg is worse than the average Hahvid student for the simple reason that he’s nowhere near as smart, and thus he’s forced to simply repeat what he’s told. Very dangerous position for him.
February 7th, 2020 at 3:19 pm
bike, that idea also applies to other “special admission” students, the ones who didn’t get in on grades and test scores, but because they were legacies, or affirmative action, or politically connected.
Thomas Sowell has written extensively on “mismatch” between student ability and peer abilities caused by these programs. He argues that rather than making certain students the dumbest person in class and therefore the most likely to fail, the student would be better off at a lower ranked school where she’d be competitive.
I suspect Junior Hogg would benefit from the same.
February 7th, 2020 at 3:59 pm
Thomas Sowell has written extensively on âmismatchâ between student ability and peer abilities caused by these programs.
I have two problems with this. The first is that I simply don’t believe that Harvard or Yale or St Olaf or Gustavus Adolphus, etc are superior schools that require, so to speak, superior students. I didn’t 20-some years ago when I paid for my children’s schooling (Mankato St and St Cloud St) and I didn’t 40-some years when I went to SCSU (then a college). I accept that one might cultivate connections at Ivy League type schools that may end up being more worthwhile when compared to MN state schools. I also accept that one might get a better STEM education at a STEM univerisity like MIT or CalTech, but that brings up my second problem.
As Rod Dreher wrote, “Having all but ruined humanities education, the Social Justice Warriors now turn to the STEM fields. Purdue University has hired Donna Riley as its new head of its School of Engineering Education.”. The Gramscian damage now being perpetrated on STEM is in the early stages, but I see little or no push-back. Consequently, I see there being an effort made to reduce the “mismatch” that Sowell speaks of by reducing the rigor and effort required to keep up. Everybody passes.
February 7th, 2020 at 4:02 pm
… oops, hit send too soon. I would suspect that little David will be quite successful at Harvard given the quotes above.