Wokeism now seeks the obliteration of the “four olds” the Red Guard sought to destroy: customs, culture, habits, and ideas. The outcome for China and the tragedies in our time suggest there are “olds” we need to recover.
Black Lives Matter Vandalize Central Park Monument, Clash With Police, 6 Arrested
At least six people were arrested by NYPD officers in Manhattan near Central Park as Black Lives Matter-affiliated protesters spray-painted graffiti on a Columbus Circle monument.
The NYPD confirmed that the USS Maine national monument was defaced during anti-police demonstrations on Thursday. Protesters marched from Greenwich Village to Columbus Circle.
The six people who were arrested by the NYPD were charged with assault, damaging public property, and more, officials told local media outlets.
“We respect’s everyone right to peacefully protest, but vandalism is not part of peaceful protest. We are working to de-escalate the situation to prevent further damage from occurring,” the department wrote on Thursday night.
The Dangers of the Growing ‘Snitch Culture’ in the US
Has the US become a nation of snitches?
Doug Casey: Without doubt, the US is transforming from a nation of whipped dogs into something much worse, a nation of squealing rats. It’s because fear is being used by the powers that be to “unite” the country, much the way the inmates of a prison are united.
We’ve always had snitches, of course, starting with the silly little girls in Salem that turned in “witches” for keeping to themselves or gathering medicinal plants. More recently, the government has cultivated a class of snitches looking to profit from others they think aren’t paying their “fair share” of taxes. More recently, we’ve encouraged snitches to seek out suspected terrorists which constituted a near-zero threat. And now, we have plague snitches.
Harvard’s Counter Teach-In, 50 Years Later
How a student disruption prefigured the extremism of today’s college campuses
Fifty years ago, some friends and I had the audacity to sponsor what we called the “Counter Teach-In: An Alternative View.” It took place at Harvard University on March 26, 1971, and argued in favor of American involvement in the Vietnam War a position roughly as outrageous then on campus as arguing in universities now that Israel should defeat the Palestinians.
Opponents of the war disrupted the event. In doing so, they took the first step toward the cancel culture that has overtaken campus life, with faculty and students alike now being investigated by star chambers before being fired or expelled for the sin of holding the wrong views. Similarly, the strong words and weak actions of Harvard’s leadership foreshadowed cowardly conduct of university administrators who speak bravely but act with pusillanimity.