Antisemitism Runs Amok On College Campuses, And How Joe Biden Just Got Hoisted By His Own Rhetorical Petard
The horrors on display by students and faculty at the formerly elite institutions of Yale and Columbia continue to unfold. Among the more graphic images circulating on social media are antisemite students forming a human chain, arm in arm, hand in hand, to block access of a Chassidic Jew to campus buildings. It harkens back to the exact same tactic used in Austria in 1938 when Nazis linked arms to block off the entrance of the University of Vienna to Jews. It’s beyond disgusting, and to a vast majority of the country, it’s bile-inducing. Only on the margins, the extremes of both parties, do people trade in this kind of sewage. Yet Joe Biden believes the election is going to be close enough that he feels compelled to play footsie with his fringe and attempt to appease them, normalize them in order to lock down their vote this November.
From the time Joe Biden chose to run for president in the 2020 election cycle, he had one recurring theme for why – his reaction to what Donald Trump said about a protest in Virginia, known now as the Charlottesville lie.
Now you may not actually recall the details of what took place back in 2017, or what was said afterward by the former President, or how it was misreported by the media and turned into a campaign device for Joe Biden he would end up reciting dozens of times. Here’s a montage of just a handful of instances Biden used the white supremacists crashing the rally in Charlottesville as a bludgeon with which to hammer Donald Trump.
The lie about Charlottesville resides in Joe Biden’s premise that there were only two groups of people at this rally – white supremacist neo-Nazis, and those against the white supremacists. That’s actually not what the rally was about.
In 2017, it was the year of tearing down statues of Confederate officers, renaming military bases that were originally named for Civil War generals who fought for the South, and other cancel culture outrage from the days of slavery. The subject at hand for this rally was the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville. There were two groups showing up to protest – those who wanted the statue removed, and those who wanted the statue to remain. Racism was not part of the argument. It was a debate about the silliness of trying to whitewash and erase history versus keeping the traditions that remind us of what happened in this country’s history, both good and bad. In short, there were good people on both sides of the debate who were there to make their views known about whether that particular statue in that particular city should or should not remain. The trouble ensued when a handful of white supremacists showed up and injected poison into the debate.
Former CNN, Real Clear Politics, and Fox News contributor, Steve Cortes, produced a video for PragerU a few years ago, explaining the facts and the myths around Charlottesville.
The precursor for all the angst over what Trump allegedly meant by the quote, “good people on both sides” is just wrong. In fact, Donald Trump, during his presidency, specifically condemned the white supremacist fringe on the far right no less than 38 times, including the next paragraph in his “good people on both sides” statement.
Joe Biden will continue to lie about what happened in Charlottesville. If there is one trait about the President that has not eroded with age, it’s his ability to prevent proven facts from entering his narrative and storytelling ability. What gets me is the umbrage, the indignation of Joe Biden over and over again, as though he’s taking the moral high ground when it comes to condemning antisemitism, overacted like William Shatner in a Priceline commercial. Among his greatest hits?
“Moral equivalence? Good people on both sides? That message is sent to our children, for God’s sake.
What has become of us? Our children are listening, and our silence is complicity.
I don’t remember that ever happening in an administration before.
It gave license and safe harbor to white supremacists and neo-Nazis.
We have a problem with this rising tide of supremacy, white supremacy in America, and we have a president who encourages and emboldens it.
It will be given no license, no oxygen, no safe harbor.”
Unless, of course, that president really, really needs the votes.
Biden condemns the protests but also condemns those who don’t understand the Palestinians. I’m not sure what that means. As John and I talk about on the latest edition of Look Through The Chaos, the podcast, Palestine is a made-up word by the Roman Emperor Hadrian around 130AD to erase the Jewish presence in what was then Judea and Syria. There were no Palestinian people before that. They were always a nomadic Arab tribe.
Native Americans in this country were erroneously called Indians by Christopher Columbus when he thought he reached the Indies in the 15th Century. He’d actually landed in the Caribbean. According to Joe Biden’s logic, people who don’t understand the Indians are condemnable.
As it turns out, do you know who doesn’t understand the antisemites hijacking the campus of Columbia University? The New York Police Department. They don’t understand the encampments. They don’t understand the desire to occupy and live in the middle of the South Lawn West and threaten every Jew on campus. Hundreds of arrests were made.
On the podcast, John and I discussed what has to happen to get to the other side of the chaos in academia. Among my suggestions are removing tenure for professors, taxing the endowments, and encouraging major corporations in the private sector to blackball these antisemites, making them not hirable, enlisting capitalism in the fight against Marxism. I would like to revise and extend my remarks.
All these hate-filled morons that are among the 4% who were accepted out of the thousands of applicants that were denied admittance to Columbia, these same students that qualify for student loan forgiveness thanks to Joe Biden transferring that financial obligation from those who signed documents onto the backs of you and me, they should now be treated just like January 6th protesters that were arrested at the Capitol. After a couple of years residing in the Gray Bar Hotel awaiting a court date and trial in a system that is slow-walking the judicial process in order to make it hurt, you will quickly see a lot less of these types of protests.
I know what you’re saying. That’s not the conservative way. All I can tell you is that we should have one rule in this country for everybody. Republicans didn’t change the rules. Democrats did. Now that they have changed the rules, let’s see it applied evenly for a while, regardless of where they are on the ideological spectrum.
