Insanity Knows No Bounds

Over the past several weeks, campus incidents … illustrating leftist intolerance and brutality … have appeared throughout the news.  At the same time, the Washington Post (adopting a new motto: “Democracy Dies in Darkness”) is living up to its growing “fake news” reputation.

The College Campus:

At Bethune-Cookman University’s commencement, U.S. Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, was booed throughout her address and many graduates turned their backs on her. Apparently, free speech and good manners are not part of the academic experience at the historically black college in Daytona Beach, Florida.  Mrs. DeVos’ main crime is that she’s part of the hated Trump Administration.  That’s enough to trigger the heckler’s veto.

At Harvard University … which once championed a colorblind society … will stage an all-black graduation ceremony.  More than 120-students have registered for the event, which Courtney Wood, a Master’s degree candidate in education policy and management, more or less defined as revenge for having to live in the fascist U. S. and attend this hellhole.  “There is a legacy of slavery, epistemic racism and colonization at Harvard, which was an institution founded to train rising imperialist leaders,” said Ms. Wood.  [FYI: Harvard was founded by the Puritans in 1636 to train Christian clergy.]

All-black graduation ceremonies will be held at several other universities, including Stanford, which is staging its version (the same day) as Stanford’s “LGBT graduation.”

The University of Arizona is offering students $10 per hour to act as “Social Justice Advocates,” snitching on those who fail to spout leftist orthodoxy.  [This is right out of Mao’s ‘cultural revolution.’]  The informants’ job is to search out “diversely insensitive behavior,” according to an online description uncovered by CampusReform.org.  “The position also aims to increase understanding of one’s own self through critical reflection of power and privilege, identity and intersectionality, systems of socialization, cultural competency, and ally-ship as they pertain to the acknowledgement, understanding and acceptance of differences.”

The Network News:

The headlines are full of nonstop hysteria at how Trump or the Republican Congress is wrecking the country.  

The Metro section of the Washington Post (WP) recently featured a five-column photo and article headlined “Woman Told Not to Nurse in Church.”  It took two WP writers to chronicle the horrifying saga of a woman who was asked to go to a more discreet place to nurse her baby rather than whip out, without cover, and in view of men and boys around her, something that tends to distract the male mind.  The woman and her attorney “are pressing the church leaders to issue a statement and reverse their policy,” citing a state law that allows women to breast feed anywhere they have a legal right to be.  As the WP gleefully notes, “there is no exemption for religious institutions.”  

Elsewhere in the WP – the Sports section bemoans the slightest breech of leftwing orthodoxy.  Over on the Editorial page, “Censorship Comes to the U.S. Senate” lamenting the removal from a U.S. Capitol tunnel a student’s painting in January depicting police officers as vicious, gun-toting pigs preying on black people.

It’s hard to say which is farther gone – college campuses or “mainstream” media.

Rev. Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.

Chaplain (Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army

Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel