{"id":86309,"date":"2023-10-24T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86309"},"modified":"2023-10-24T08:55:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T13:55:47","slug":"americas-hitler-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86309","title":{"rendered":"America’s Hitler Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Americans overwhelmingly consider Hamas a terrorist organization, and condemn the wanton slaughter of October 7. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But among Americans under 24 years old, the split between pro-humanity and pro-Hamas is not only depresslingly closely-fought, but the pro-terror side has a slight edge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putting it bluntly, a thin majority of young Americans are OK with genocide. They may couch it in intersectional twaddle, they may hedge the ugly parts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But a generation that grew up chanting “punch a Nazi” yapping about colonialism and calling their elders “fascists” around the Thanksgiving table are now supprting an actual Fascist regime that actually is killing minorities to further a thousand year old colonial movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s the professors<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first order of business is to heap scorn on a generation that has adopted this morally bankrupt perspective and the older adults in their lives who have so maliciously led them astray. The second task at hand is for us to understand what convinced the younger generation to sacrifice their humanity upon the altar of an intellectual fad. The answer can be found, at least in part, in one odious word that has claimed the benignity of this generation and so many before them: \u201cframework.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On October 13, the Atlantic<\/em> published a fascinating reflection<\/a> by Helen Lewis on the callous indifference her compatriots on the American left have shown toward the wanton murder of Jews for being Jews. She correctly identified the origins of this phenomenon in the intellectualization of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on college campuses, which flattens the distinctions between civilian and terrorist, between West Bank and Gaza, between Hamas and Islamic Jihad and the Palestinian Authority and Fatah, and so on. But that flattening is the outcome. The instrument that pummels the complexities of the region into an unrecognizable paste is that detestable word, \u201cframework.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFitting Israel into the intersectional framework has always been difficult, because its Jewish citizens are both historically oppressed\u2014the survivors of an attempt to wipe them out entirely\u2014and<\/em> currently in a dominant position over the Palestinians, as demonstrated by the Netanyahu government\u2019s decision to restrict power and water supplies to Gaza,\u201d Lewis wrote. Intersectionality is, indeed, the \u201cframework\u201d on display here. It started out as little more than a thought experiment, but it has since transmogrified into a way of life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

While our modern academic class is largely parasitical and counter-useful, they have <\/em>perfected the art of self-serving logical gymnastics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Americans overwhelmingly consider Hamas a terrorist organization, and condemn the wanton slaughter of October 7. But among Americans under 24 years old, the split between pro-humanity and pro-Hamas is not only depresslingly closely-fought, but the pro-terror side has a slight edge. Putting it bluntly, a thin majority of young Americans are OK with genocide. They […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,414,309,18,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-identity-first","category-indoctrinate-u","category-pc","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86310,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86309\/revisions\/86310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}