As usual, when left wingers talk about Defending Democracy, they mean railroading through what left wing elites have decreed. It's only oligarchy to go against the popular will if the popular will pushes the left wing agenda.

mike bski on X

THE DEMOCRATS KILLED DEMOCRACY: And Had the Audacity to Do It While Screaming About Saving It

Picture the most devoted Democrat voter you know.

Your neighbor with the yard signs. Your coworker who cannot get through lunch without mentioning January 6th. The family member who mutes you at Thanksgiving. That person who genuinely, deeply believes the Democratic Party stands for the working class, the poor, the vulnerable — and above all, for democracy itself.

Now ask one question: does their party actually represent what THEY believe?

Not what MSNBC told them to feel this morning. Not what arrived in their DNC fundraising email. What do the actual human beings who vote Democrat actually want from their government?

I teach science. I deal in evidence. And the evidence here is not ambiguous. It is humiliating — not for the voters, but for the machine that has been harvesting those votes while openly, measurably, provably ignoring everything those voters care about.

So let us go through it.

— THE VOCABULARY PROBLEM NOBODY WANTS TO TOUCH —

Before anything else, the word.

America is a constitutional REPUBLIC. Not a democracy. "Democracy" does not appear in the Constitution a single time. Article IV, Section 4 guarantees every state a "Republican Form of Government." That is the actual text. Madison warned in Federalist No. 10 that pure democracies "have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention... as short in their lives as violent in their deaths." Hamilton celebrated "legislative balances and checks" in Federalist No. 9 as the specific safeguard against tyranny — from kings, aristocrats, or unchecked majorities. All three equally.

The Electoral College, the Senate structure, judicial review — those are not bugs. They are FEATURES. Built deliberately so that mob rule cannot function, because the Founders understood that mob rule is just tyranny with a friendlier presentation.

Here is the thing about "democracy." It gets taught wrong in school. Your teacher learned it wrong, believed it sincerely, and passed it along to you. Same way people taught that blood is blue until it hits air. Or that humans only use 10% of their brains. Repeated confidently. Still wrong. And the correction is worth making because the entire Democratic argument — the one @RepJeffries deploys at the podium multiple times a week — rests entirely on a word that does not mean what he says it means. When he says "saving democracy," what he means is "getting the outcome we wanted." When the constitutional guardrails prevent that, the guardrails become threats to democracy.

That is not protecting democracy. That is dismantling the republic they cannot stop mispronouncing.

— THE DATA THAT SHOULD EMBARRASS THEIR OWN PARTY —

The Manhattan Institute surveyed Democratic voters — not Republicans, not independents, THEIR OWN VOTERS — on the actual policy positions their elected officials vote on every day.

The results were not close.

Only 13% of Democratic voters believe Israel is a colonial apartheid state that should be dismantled. Thirteen. Yet @RepJayapal — Washington's 7th Congressional District, Seattle — and the progressive caucus sprint to the nearest camera to validate exactly that fringe framing every chance they find. The 87% of Democrat voters who disagree? Functionally unrepresented by the people cashing their party's fundraising checks.

Only 11% of Democratic voters think the country should avoid focusing on deporting illegal immigrants. Eleven percent support what their politicians are fighting for on immigration. The other 89% — the overwhelming majority of actual Democrat voters — want enforcement. Their representatives are busy comparing ICE agents to the Gestapo.

Only 21% of Democratic voters support gender transition medical procedures for minors. One in five. Four out of five of their own voters are skeptical or opposed to a policy their politicians treat as settled doctrine. @RepJamaalBowman, New York's 16th District, voted against every measure placing any restriction on those procedures. Who exactly is he representing?

Seventy percent of ALL Americans — not just Republicans, everyone — said in October 2025 polling that the Democratic Party is "out of touch." That number came from a center-left polling outfit. Their overall approval cratered to a 35-year low: only 33% of registered voters viewed the party favorably, per the Wall Street Journal in July 2025. Net favorability hit NEGATIVE 32 — worst for either party since at least 1996, per CNBC. Quinnipiac dropped them below 20%.

@RepJeffries holds his weekly democracy press conference. America watches. The numbers keep falling. Someone should tell him.

— WHAT THEY DID TO THEIR OWN VOTERS FIRST —

The Democratic primary system has superdelegates — party insiders, lobbyists, DNC officials — whose votes count above the expressed preferences of actual party members. They are the institutional veto, the emergency brake for when regular voters pick "wrong."

1. Hillary Clinton had 400+ superdelegates committed before a single primary vote was cast anywhere in the country. The media reported her delegate lead as mathematically insurmountable from day one of the race. Democratic voters went to polls in early states knowing the outcome was being managed around them. Then the DNC's own internal emails leaked. Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned. Donna Brazile — a CNN contributor serving simultaneously as a DNC official — admitted she fed debate questions to Clinton's campaign in advance. The party absorbed the scandal, made minor reforms to quiet the noise, and moved on.
2. Bernie Sanders built real momentum. Then, in roughly 72 hours before Super Tuesday, Buttigieg dropped out. Klobuchar dropped out. Beto O'Rourke materialized to endorse Biden, who had just lost badly in multiple early states. The moderate lane cleared in unison at a speed that defies coincidence. Nobody explained the coordination. Nobody had to.
3. This one is in a different category entirely.

Kamala Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee without receiving a single presidential primary vote. Zero. Biden withdrew. Harris was coronated immediately — no competitive process, no debates between candidates, nothing resembling a democratic selection of a nominee. The party simply announced it.

This is the party that schedules weekly press conferences about protecting democracy.

Harris had dropped out of the 2020 primary BEFORE IOWA — before a single vote anywhere — because she could not generate support from her own party's voters. She returned in 2024 as the automatic pick because the party decided the demographic calculation was right. Not because voters chose her. @SenBernieSanders, whatever one thinks of his politics, watched the party machinery roll over him twice. His voters got processed and discarded. And @SenatorSchumer stepped to the microphone and announced Harris with the energy of a man confirming a decision made at a table he was not invited to.

They called it democracy. With a straight face.

— FOURTEEN TIMES. LET THAT NUMBER SIT. —

The 2025 government shutdown. This went down the memory hole so fast it should offend everyone.

Democrats voted FOURTEEN TIMES to reject clean Continuing Resolutions that would have reopened the government. During those fourteen votes:

42 million SNAP recipients had their benefits in limbo. Active duty military were in paycheck uncertainty during an active military operation. Air traffic controllers — the people responsible for whether your aircraft lands on a runway — worked without pay. TSA agents, federal employees of every description, all of it on hold.

@RepJeffries, Minority Leader, Brooklyn and Queens — voted no. Repeatedly.

@SenatorSchumer, Senate Minority Leader, New York — voted no fourteen times. The same man who voted FOR clean CRs twenty-nine consecutive times before this shutdown. First time in his entire Senate career he voted against one. And in 2018, on record, Schumer described Republicans during a budget fight as someone who "won't even come to the table to negotiate a bipartisan CR." Pelosi 2018: "We're not hostages to your wall. Reopen the government." Obama 2013: "You don't get to demand a ransom for doing your job."

Every standard they applied to Republicans for a decade dissolved the instant they were the ones holding the lever.

Their stated reason: COVID-era ACA subsidies were expiring. Premiums would rise. People would suffer.

Here is the part that needs to be read slowly.

Those COVID subsidies were written as TEMPORARY provisions in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Not one Republican voted for that bill. Democrats extended the temporary subsidies through 2025 in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Not one Republican voted for that one either. Democrats designed the expiration. Democrats set the clock. Democrats programmed the timer. And when it hit zero exactly on schedule — @SenatorSchumer, @SenatorWarnock, @RepJeffries, and @SenAlexPadilla walked to their cameras and told their constituents Republicans did this to them.

@SenatorWarnock — the Reverend Senator from Georgia — repeatedly posted that Republicans voted to "double premiums." In committee hearings. On social media. To constituents. This is a documented, verifiable falsehood. No Republican wrote those subsidies. No Republican extended them. No Republican scheduled the expiration date. He knows the voting record. His staff reads legislation. When a Reverend tells his congregation something he knows is not true, there is a word for it in both legal and theological traditions, and neither is flattering.

But the thing that actually floors me — the accidental confession buried inside their entire argument — is this.

By insisting that ending the COVID subsidies would make the ACA unaffordable, Democrats publicly admitted something they have never acknowledged in fifteen years of defending the program.

The Affordable Care Act is not, in fact, affordable.

They named it the Affordable Care Act. Promised it would lower family premiums by $2,500 per year. Premiums doubled between 2013 and 2017. The seven largest health insurance companies tripled their revenues from $511 billion to $1.5 TRILLION between 2014 and 2024. The plan enriched the very corporations it claimed to regulate, while making coverage more expensive for the people it claimed to help.

And here is where it gets genuinely surreal.

These same people lionized Luigi Mangione — the 26-year-old who murdered a health insurance CEO — as a folk hero, a symbol of righteous rage against corporate health care greed. They made him a cultural icon.

Then they shut down the government demanding that American taxpayers permanently subsidize those same insurance corporations.

I have a whiteboard. I am waiting for someone to explain the consistency.

If you went to your boss and said "last month you gave me a $1,000 Christmas bonus, and this month you did not, so you cut my pay" — your boss would explain those are different things. One was a one-time bonus. The other is your salary. Demanding a temporary bonus become permanent compensation is not a pay cut. It is an expectation that was never reasonable.

That analogy is exactly what happened. And they blamed the people who never wrote the bonus in the first place.

— THE 80% THEY VOTED AGAINST UNANIMOUSLY —

The SAVE Act. H.R. 22. H.R. 7296. All it requires is proof of United States citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. A passport. A REAL ID. A military identification card. Documents the average adult carries for routine purposes like boarding a commercial flight or opening a checking account.

National polling: 80% support. Including a majority of registered Democratic voters. Their own voters. The humans they claim to represent want this. Eighty percent.

Every Senate Democrat voted no.

@SenatorSchumer — no. @SenAlexPadilla — no. @SenatorWarnock — no. @SenatorWarren — no. Unanimous opposition to a bill supported by four out of five Americans, including their own base.

Then they returned to their cameras to discuss protecting voters.

Quinn's Law #22: liberals love democracy unless it does not go their way.

There is exactly one coherent argument for opposing citizenship verification in federal elections. None of them are going to say it into a microphone. But it is there, and it explains the vote.

— THEY TRIED TO REMOVE HIM FROM THE BALLOT. THE ENTIRE SUPREME COURT SAID NO. —

When the ballot box looked uncertain in 2024, Democrats attempted something that had never been done in the 156-year history of the 14th Amendment — using it to remove a presidential candidate from state ballots. Colorado. Maine. Illinois. Others.

If a foreign government attempted that, every network would call it election interference without hesitation or qualification.

The Supreme Court rejected it unanimously. Nine justices. Across the full ideological range. Zero to nine. The entire court, looking at what Democrats were attempting, said no.

They put him in a courtroom for the campaign trail instead. The trial judge — Justice Merchan — had donated to "Stop Republicans PAC" and to Biden's 2020 campaign. His daughter ran a Democratic political consulting firm generating millions from anti-Trump advertising during the trial itself. Four Supreme Court Justices dissented from allowing the proceedings to continue on immunity grounds. The jury was permitted to convict without unanimously agreeing on which crime had actually been committed.

Then came the democracy speeches.

— THE QUESTION NOBODY ASKS THEM —

A direct question for @RepJeffries, @RepJayapal of Washington's 7th District, @RepTedLieu of California's 36th, @RepAOC of New York's 14th, and @IlhanOmar of Minnesota's 5th:

What have you accomplished for your constituents that did not involve taking money from someone else and handing it over?

Not symbolically. Not rhetorically. What measurable improvement in the actual lives of the people in your actual district can any of you point to?

The poorest, most economically distressed urban congressional districts in this country have been represented by Democrats — often the same family of machine politicians — for 40, 50, 60 consecutive years. Some of these districts have been Democratic strongholds since the Eisenhower administration. The poverty rates in many of them are HIGHER today than in 1980.

@RepJeffries represents parts of Brooklyn and Queens where generational poverty has not shifted across decades of his party's stewardship. @IlhanOmar represents Minneapolis — Democratic governance for generations. What has improved?

The answer to that question is not a coincidence. A constituency that builds real economic independence tends to stop needing the party that managed their dependency. The incentive structure runs exactly backward, and it has for six decades.

In January 1963, Congressman A.S. Herlong Jr. read into the Congressional Record a list of 45 Communist Goals for America. Goal #15: capture one or both of the U.S. political parties. I am not presenting that as conspiracy. I am noting that when observed outcomes match stated objectives with this precision across six decades, intellectual honesty requires at minimum that we notice.

— THE TALLY —

Here is what "protecting democracy" has meant in practice.

Presidential nominees selected without primary votes — twice now.

Fourteen votes to withhold pay from military, air traffic controllers, and 42 million SNAP recipients over subsidies Democrats wrote as temporary and then blamed Republicans for letting expire on schedule.

Unanimous opposition to an 80% voter-supported election integrity bill — including opposition from their own voters.

An attempt to remove a presidential candidate from state ballots, rejected 9-0 by the Supreme Court.

A health care law that tripled insurance corporate revenues while making coverage less affordable — championed by the same movement that made a folk hero of a man who murdered an insurance CEO.

A party with 20% approval and negative 32 net favorability holding press conferences about representing the will of the people.

Quinn's Law #2: if you want to know what liberals are up to, pay attention to what they accuse conservatives of doing.

They accuse us of threatening democracy.

Look at what they have done to their own.

The word they keep using. It does not mean what they think it means.

Or maybe it does — and they know exactly what they are doing.

That second possibility should unsettle you more than the first.

Madison built this republic deliberately because he did not trust unchecked majorities. He wrote Federalist No. 10 specifically to explain why mob rule is indistinguishable from tyranny regardless of which mob is running it. He did not anticipate that the people dismantling his guardrails would do it from inside a major political party while announcing themselves as democracy's last line of defense.

But that is where we are.

But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who reads the Federalist Papers, checks the actual voting records, and cannot locate a single senator or representative at 20% approval who has standing to lecture the remaining 80% on what democracy is supposed to look like.

Links - 13th October 2026 (French Migrant Riots)

Why the French school riots are a taste of the chaos to come - spiked - "The level of violence has been exceptional, even by French standards. Comparisons can be made with the riots of 2005 and 2023, but these were in response to supposed incidents of police brutality and drew in disaffected youth from banlieues all over France. This is the first time that school protests have turned so nasty. The French government was in no way prepared... The protesters and their supporters claimed the violence had been started by law enforcement... Apart from bricks and other heavy projectiles, the weapon of choice is the firework launched from a tube. These fireworks have been turned not only on the police but also on firemen who attempted to put out blazes. Another favourite tactic of rioters is to throw aerosol cans into fires and watch them explode. Among other weapons seized by the police were knives, hammers, baseball bats, Molotov cocktails and bottles of hydrochloric acid.   The recourse to violence was clearly anticipated and prepared for by certain protesters. In the mêlée, it was understandably difficult for police to calibrate the proportionality of their response and to distinguish between the aggressive protesters and the rest.  What cause is all this violence meant to serve? In the beginning, pupils, with union prompting, were protesting against the paucity of teachers, the decaying state of school buildings, the complexity and stress of the university application system and, finally, overwork. It is true that during Emmanuel Macron’s two terms, there has been a desultory succession of education ministers with very different approaches. The government was recently humiliated by the publication of the PISA results, which showed an alarming decline in standards.  However, although it is evident that the educational system needs more investment, everyone knows that the French state is stony broke, with record levels of debt and borrowing costs. More money is already spent on education in poorer areas, like the Seine-Saint-Denis district north of Paris, where much of the protests and riots began, than elsewhere.   Was it really to call for building improvements that so much school property was destroyed? The bill for the damage done so far has been calculated in the tens of millions of euros. The already cash-strapped authorities will have to pay for the repairs. As often happens in this situation, there is much talk among politicians of making the parents of vandals pay, but the difficulty of identifying the culprits and of extracting money from the families means that this will, as usual, go nowhere. What happened over the past week is what always happens when school pupils protest: the movement gets hijacked by extremists of various stripes. Already, the main union behind the protests, the Union syndicale lycéenne, is a far-left organisation. Unsurprisingly, far-left tropes were apparent in the banners and slogans of those protesting – from anti-racism and the supposed need to decolonise education to the plight of Gaza and the usual ‘anti-Zionism’, which swiftly descended into anti-Semitism. The theme of police brutality was quickly placed front and centre, even as the police were deliberately attacked by those who were the real instigators of the violence; namely, the ‘casseurs’ (from ‘casser’, to break) – quasi-professional rioters wearing masks who damage property and clash with police. As always happens, their politically motivated actions drew in non-political hoodlums from the banlieues who are simply eager to engage in violence and mayhem. No doubt hotheads among the genuine school pupils joined in, too.    Equally worrying has been the involvement of politicians from the far-left party La France Insoumise (LFI). On Tuesday, 40 of its elected representatives joined protests outside schools, calling for the movement to spread and blaming any violence on ‘police savagery’. A trio consisting of LFI founder and presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, former chair of the Union syndicale lycéenne Louis Boyard and mayor of the Seine-Saint-Denis district Bally Bagayoko were photographed smiling and giving the thumbs up sign amid a crowd of school pupils.  Bagayoko, of Malian ancestry and elected mayor in March this year, has shot to superstardom among far-left politicians. He was greeted by exultant school protesters on Monday when he turned up to show his support. Videos have widely circulated showing him dancing next to a burning wheelie bin and apparently attempting to pull a burning settee away from some school gates. The president of the Paris region has announced she will be sending him a bill for €100,000 to pay for damages to school property. A policewoman has lodged a complaint against him for allegedly helping to vandalise her car. The Paris prefect of police has accused Bagayoko of incitement to commit acts of violence. All this only enhances his status as an icon of left-wing revolt.   On Tuesday, Mélenchon himself made a predictable statement about police brutality, accompanied by a sinister warning that there would be ‘no forgetting or forgiving’, presumably aimed at any officers accused of heavy-handedness. He even went so far as to call on LFI activists to ‘interpose themselves’ between the police and the school protesters in order to protect the latter. Although this tactic may sound Gandhi-like, it is well known that LFI has proxies among Antifa combatants, as was shown by the murder of right-wing militant Quentin Deranque in February this year. The next day, Mélenchon seemed to take a more moderate stance, declaring that only ‘non-violent methods’ should be used. Such strategic ambiguity is typical of LFI, at one moment apparently encouraging anti-democratic behaviour, the next denying any such intention.  All this would be bad enough, but in the present context of the run-up to the presidential election in April and May next year, it has an especially menacing side. The election has two rounds, but in France, the metaphor of a ‘third round’ is habitually used to describe any movement of protests and strikes that inevitably follow an election result the left does not approve of. At present, the polls predict a clear victory for Marine Le Pen. Will LFI and its troops accept the result? In February, Mathilde Panot, leader of the LFI parliamentary group, declared darkly: ‘We will never accept fascism taking power, even legally by the democratic process, as Marine Le Pen wants to do.’ In May, Bagayoko told a podcast audience that if Le Pen were elected, the consequence would be a ‘popular insurrection’.  In this light, Mélenchon and LFI’s involvement in this wave of violence looks very much like a dress rehearsal for what will happen if Marine Le Pen is elected. In the meantime, it is also a way for Mélenchon to consolidate his hold on the youth vote"

Police fire teargas as French school protests cause 'heaviest toll in decades' - "Police fired tear gas at protesters outside French high schools on Tuesday as students, teachers and parents took to the streets on the biggest day of what Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu described as the most violent school protests in decades... Lecornu told lawmakers at least 215 teenagers and 85 school staff had so far been injured in clashes, "the heaviest toll in decades paid by the school system". His office said more than 700 police officers were also hurt."
Left wingers are still pretending that this is normal for France

Ivanka Trump RV 🇺🇲 on X - "This is surreal. Paris has been conquered. The cops are sitting back and watching it happen because being taken over by an immigrant invasion is better than being called a racist. Unbelievable."

Michael Shellenberger on X - "Students are rioting because the French government spends too little to educate the children of migrants, say the media. But France spends between two and 200 times more per student than the nations from which its migrants come. The media refuses to report basic facts."

Thread by @shellenberger on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Students are protesting in France because schools don’t have enough money, say mainstream journalists. In truth, they have more money than ever. What’s really behind the riots is a decades-old Left-Islamist political alliance that much of the media supports.
A lack of school funding and a shortage of teachers are behind the protests and riots at French high schools, say the news media.  “Complaints from students about deteriorating schools, teacher shortages and heavy class schedules have become the latest cause embraced by some presidential hopefuls,” wrote the AP.  Students are protesting long school hours, overheated classrooms, dilapidated buildings and staff absences, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).  Le Monde editorialized that the government is to blame for not listening to the students. Of the French public surveyed, 62% said students were justified in their protests. Protests have now reached more than 1,000 of France’s 3,700 high schools, called lycées.  But French schools have more money per pupil today than at any earlier time.  Primary school classes averaged close to 30 pupils in the 1960s, nursery classes close to 40, and public primary school classes will average 21 this year, the lowest on record.  In 1970, 20% of a generation earned the baccalauréat, the lycée diploma, whereas nearly 80% earn it today. Spending per pupil has risen 1.6% a year in constant euros since 1980.  While the French government spends 4.5% of gross domestic product on educational institutions, Germany spends 3.7%...
.@TheEconomist says the bond markets are behind the riots"

Mark Dubowitz on X - "Heard this today from a smart European: Europe has subcontracted security to America. Its economy to China. Energy to Russia and its labor force to the Islamists. This model now has completely collapsed."

Christina Aguayo News | Facebook - "#new France, which recognized a Palestinian state, is now being destroyed by the very M*slims that they tried to acknowledge, according to experts in France #france  "True to my country’s historic commitment in the Middle East, for peace between the Israeli people and the Palestinian people, I declare that France today recognizes the State of Palestine.”  That was Emmanuel Macron a year ago in New York.  #muslim  Hamas viewed this as a victory.  Now Paris is on fire and conservatives are pointing out that the riots, destruction and school fires are what mass immigration looks like a generation later.  #paris  Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally saying "France is sliding into riot and urban violence.” “What France has become after decades of laxity and mass immigration.” The CGT union said two-thirds of high schools in Seine-Saint-Denis joined the riots on Thursday. From there it spread to Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Nantes, Lille, Rennes, Toulouse, Strasbourg, and La Ciotat in the Bouches-du-Rhône. Education Minister Édouard Geffray said,
🔵400 to 500 high schools will be fully or partly closed on Monday,
🔵24 have been burned or ransacked,
🔵78 education staff have been injured, and
🔵170 students have been hurt.
Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin said 735 of France’s 3,700 high schools have been hit one way or another.  That is about 20%. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said about 5,000 people have been arrested since Monday, most of them minors, and that France is  “sliding into riot and urban violence.” A police spokesperson put officer injuries above 600.
🔴On  Friday, Oct. 2, physics teacher Thierry Laurent, 59, was doused with diesel while putting out a fire students had set on a tree.
🔴A 16-year-old pupil at that school was arrested Sunday in Marseille. Prosecutors opened a case for violence against a public employee, face concealed, with a weapon.
🔴A policewoman was chased and beaten on the ground in Paris while someone shouted “Wallah, kill her.”
🔴Critics called it barbarism and asked how long France will “let our country sink without reacting.”
Paris police chief Patrice Faure said Saturday the riots are “out of control.”  White Lives Matter wrote,  "This is sickening and everyone White American who hails from Europe as the motherland should be disgusted at this vile image! This is the death of your culture"  Do you agree?"

Gad Saad on X - "When referencing Muslim thuggery in France, the French media refers to them as "Les Jeunes."  The youth.  But the youth are not Vietnamese youth; they are not Japanese youth; they are not Hasidic Jews youth.  They are Muslims but it is mean and Islamophobic to call them by their actual identity.  In Britain, the Pakistani child rapists are called "Asian men."  Now the mayhem in France is apparently not due to Muslim youth but to "high school protesters."  ANYTHING is better than to be accused of Islamophobia.  Give up your children, your women, your heritage, your society, your religion, your culture, your civilization but don't you dare be Islamophobic."

French school protester arrested after ‘flamethrower’ attack on woman - "The assault occurred on Friday in Marseille, one of several cities roiled by violent protests that forced the closure of hundreds of schools and led to clashes with police, teachers and firefighters. In one of the most shocking pieces of footage to emerge from the riots, a person wearing a hood uses an aerosol can and a lighter to launch a burst of flame at a woman calling for an end to the vandalism... Protests spread last month from impoverished French suburbs where students complained of overcrowded classrooms, poor facilities and absent teachers. But much of the sympathy for the protesters has evaporated after chaotic scenes were caught on camera, including a police officer being beaten while unconscious and teachers being assaulted outside school gates.  In further footage, a young person wearing a hood runs up to a teacher attempting to put out a tree fire and douses him with petrol... Intelligence agencies reportedly told a crisis meeting on Thursday that the movement had been initiated by La France Insoumise (LFI), a hard-Left party led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who is running for president in 2027... Bally Bagayoko, the LFI mayor of Saint-Denis, was carried on the shoulders of a crowd of jubilant student protesters outside the gates of the Paul Éluard high school in the suburbs of Paris.  Earlier, he had said that “violence can be legitimate”, before adding that “every time we can avoid it, it’s better”.  Mr Bagayoko was filmed attempting to pull a burning rubbish bin away from the gates of the school before high-fiving and clasping hands with the students."
Proof that they are well-integrated!
Damn far right violence!

The nihilistic far-Left is pushing France to the brink - "What began as a normal demonstration in a democracy has morphed with lightning speed into violent riots all over the country. And it is unlikely to die down anytime soon.  Spurred on from the very first day by far-Left MPs from Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party La France Insoumise (France Unbowed), the movement spread rapidly. Watching Mélenchon’s lieutenants draped in their tricolour sashes, visiting blockaded lycées and haranguing the young with the words “violence can be legitimate” marked a new low point in French tolerance for political violence. After all, the word “terror” and “terrorism” were born in the streets of Paris in 1793 during the final spasms of the French Revolution under Robespierre. Mélenchon added even more fuel to an already dangerous situation, with eyes bulging and tongue dripping with rage, and said: “We are proud to be at the high school gates to defend our kids. Mobilise yourselves to intervene against police savagery.”  Savagery? When police are being shot at from close range with firework mortars and sprayed with highly corrosive hydrochloric acid, it would be surprising if they did not try to retaliate. Infiltrated by professional thugs and older radicalised provocateurs, lycéens (pupils) often do not realise the danger they are in and get injured in the fray. French public opinion is not blind. A poll for Le Figaro showed that while 62 per cent of the French support the demands of lycéens, 78 per cent disapprove of the far-Left involvement in the violence.  In seven months’ time, the French will choose their next president, and Mélenchon is doing two things. First, he has already begun campaigning, galvanised by early polls showing that he could make it through to the second round to face the far-Right’s Marine Le Pen. Secondly, Mélenchon is preparing the insurrection he hopes will follow if Le Pen is elected. He knows the country is fragile and will use every lever at his disposal to fracture it further and sow chaos. Politically, he doesn’t mind appearing violent – quite the opposite. According to an exhaustive study by Fondapol, a centre-Right French think tank headed by political scientist Dominique Reynié, Mélenchon is overrepresented among two groups with higher levels of abstention than the population as a whole: French Muslims and the young... if education in France has failed, it is not because of systemic inequality but because high standards have been replaced by a generalised, naive benevolence. As the economist Pierre Bentata recently put it: “in schools, conviviality has replaced authority” and “the vertical hierarchy of knowledge has given way to a horizontalisation of opinions.”  In primary schools, there are no marks but coloured dots to shield pupils from disappointment. In the end, 90 per cent of an age group obtains the baccalaureate which makes it almost worthless. “In our eagerness not to frustrate, we have ceased to educate,” Bentata concludes. Hence today’s savagery."

LeeKuanYewRespecter on X - "The ABC has covered the French riots as simply students rallying for better classroom conditions. No mention of the radical left, despite literal Antifa and communist flags appearing in frame.  Also telling is the uncritical acceptance of the claims. A simple check shows that French schools are not underfunded. France is in the top quartile of OECD nations for upper-secondary spending and is the only European country other than Germany spending more than 25% of GDP per capita per upper-secondary student each year.  Are they lying to us or themselves?"
Yuri Bezmenov's Ghost on X - "Demoralized media here, trying to convince the public that they are not at war, that nobody is trying to abolish their civilization, and that they only want “equality.” It is a classic motte-and-bailey.  The trick works because “equality” can mean two very different things while sounding like the same claim. To a normie, equality means equal rights, fair treatment, and protection from discrimination. That’s the safe, non-activist meaning. It asks for changes within the existing order without challenging the order itself.  In the revolutionary grammar, “equality” means activism. It is a mandate to find inequality, identify the structures said to produce it, and act against them. Unequal outcomes, inherited institutions, traditional roles, social hierarchies, cultural norms, and other distinctions become evidence that domination still exists. Carried to its endpoint, the project is to sublate Western civilization itself: dismantle its inherited forms while preserving and reappropriating the achievements worth carrying into a higher social order. Equality becomes the standard by which the existing order is judged, dissolved, and rebuilt.  Thats why equality can function as a solvent. The argument begins with an obvious injustice most people agree should be corrected, then moves outward. First a rule is unequal, then an institution, then the surrounding culture, and eventually the civilization that produced them becomes the deeper problem.  The motte-and-bailey works by sliding between those meanings. When challenged, it retreats to the safe version: we only mean equal treatment, equal rights, basic fairness. Who could object to that? Once the challenge passes, the broader meaning returns, and “equality” again becomes a reason to dismantle inherited distinctions and institutions.  So the public hears equality as a promise to make the existing order fairer. The revolutionary can use the same word as a mandate to put the existing order itself on trial.  That double meaning is what makes the deception work. The moderate meaning reassures the public that nothing fundamental is happening. The radical meaning allows a much more fundamental transformation to proceed under the same word."

Defiant L’s on X - "Student during Paris riots and clashes with police: “There are only ten of them. In the name of Allah, we can kill them all!” https://x.com/visegrad24/sta tus/2107127083734552874/video/1   They have welcomed them in, now they're reaping the consequences.   If the police can't deal with high schoolers how are they going to deal with the thousands of military aged men that they just accepted in the country"

John Daniel Davidson on X - "The problem looming over these riots is that France has a large population of young people who are immigrants or the children/grandchildren of immigrants that are simply not employable. They will not work and employers will not risk hiring them.  They are not citizens in any meaningful sense, but an unassimilated third world horde, unemployable and ultimately ungovernable."

ᴸᴬᵁᴿᴬ on X - "🇫🇷 France has for decades been importing and breeding generations of people who, in practice, are good for nothing except freeloading, making noise, and aggression. The young Blacks from the banlieues are not “troubled youth” or “victims of the system.” They are a product that simply does not work in European society. Company bosses have been saying it for years behind closed doors: they are unemployable. Not because anyone discriminates against them. Because the moment they show up at a workplace, the circus begins. Zero discipline, constant entitlement, contempt for Whites, no basic respect, intellectual emptiness, and readiness for conflict at the slightest pretext.  Bosses, French entrepreneurs, say it straight behind closed doors: the second they open their mouths or set foot on company premises, you already know there will be a problem. Aggression, zero work culture, zero discipline, zero respect, zero basic social skills. The team refuses to work with them. Interns? They won’t even take them for a week because it’s a risk. The only ones they still hire are the children of their own employees. This is not about “poor neighborhoods” or “inadequate education.” This is a cultural product: an environment dominated by street culture, contempt for work, contempt for the French, a cult of violence, and a permanent sense of entitlement. The state piles on top of that lifelong welfare and a multicultural ideology that forbids naming the problem for what it is.  Look at the photos from France currently flooding X. A pack of young Blacks with middle fingers up, twisted faces, hoodies, acting like a half-wild herd that has just claimed territory. This is not an accident. This is their natural way of being. Street culture, cult of violence, contempt for work, the eternal feeling that the world owes them something. For decades the French state has been feeding this with benefits, ideology, and an absolute ban on telling the truth. The result is exactly what you see: masses of people who cannot and will not function according to the rules of the civilization that took them in.  There used to be methods that worked. Hard, brutal, effective. Disciplinary quarters, the Foreign Legion, real hierarchy and real consequences. From similar material they turned out people capable of at least minimal discipline. It worked because no one played at “understanding” and “empathy.” There was only the will to break the bad upbringing. Today that will is gone. In its place we have cowardly politicians, judges, and media who prefer to watch their own cities turn into zones where a White man is a stranger rather than admit that the mass import of a population with diametrically lower average predispositions and a diametrically different culture leads to irreversible catastrophe. Do they have IQ under 50?  This is not a question of “integration.” Integration with something that by itself produces aggression, entitlement, and intellectual mediocrity on a mass scale is an illusion. The more of them arrive, the more French society has to retreat, pretend, and pay. Companies avoid them like the plague. Normal people from the same backgrounds get hit with the same stereotype because the majority simply does not work. And the entire layer of power, instead of solving the problem, is busy protecting the lie. Either the hard hand, selection, and removal of this Black waste that is unfit returns, or France will continue to sink under the weight of monkey-people who will never be able to function at its level. And there is no tragedy in that. There is only consequence. And that consequence is the extinction of the White race. A matter of time.
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Left wing worker protection doesn't help their employment too

Henry von Blumenthal on X - "Riots are not only taking place in France. They are happening in Spain and Belgium too, which rather undermines the claim that this is about underfunding in the French educational system."

Eva Vlaardingerbroek on X - "This is Liège (Luik), Belgium. Note how the French migrant “school riots” are spreading. Of course they are. Because they are not about the school system. They are ethnoculturally motivated attacks against Europe and its native peoples."

Visegrád 24 on X - "BREAKING: The riots are spreading from France to Belgium. Young second and third-generation migrants have joined forces with Antifa near the central station and are clashing with riot police."
Dr. Sydney Watson on X - "It's sort of funny how you can be shown a crowd like this, from anywhere in the West, and know exactly who is doing it, what their politics are and what they look like."

Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: Thousands of Islamists are now rioting in Belgium. Attacking Belgians, destroying buildings, and accosting police."
Sean Fitzgerald (Actual Justice Warrior) on X - "I can't believe the French government is underfunding Belgium schools"
Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio on X - ""They're just worried about school funding!" has to be one of the most spectacular gaslights ever"

Visegrád 24 on X  - "BREAKING:  Moroccan wedding guests have attacked the Member of the Flemish Parliament Filip Dewinter @FDW_VB  in Antwerp city hall in Belgium.  The anti-migration politician is also a Councilman of the Antwerp City Council and arrived in city hall for a council meeting  together with fellow Vlaams Belang councillor Anke Van Dermeersch.  A large group of Moroccans who had gathered in front of city hall for wedding pictures recognized the politician, called him a racist and quickly attacked him.  Dewinter was grabbed by the throat by a large man, pushed inside city hall, punched and kicked by several people.   He came away with a bleeding eyebrow and a black eye, and has filed a complaint for assault and battery.  European politicians are now attacked at their work place for opposing mass-immigration.  Meanwhile, mainstream media stays silent about the attacks or downplays them and the threat they pose to democracy."
Clearly, it's his fault for being racist, Islamophobic and xenophobic. This is proof we need to lock up the "far right" to prevent violence

Fox News on X - "What looks like a student protest in Paris is becoming something much bigger.  A Fox News Digital investigation identifies 50 organizations connected to France's protests, but only 15 are student or youth groups.  The other 35 include communist and socialist organizations, labor unions, political parties and activist networks, raising questions about who's helping drive the movement beyond its original demands over school conditions.  The investigation also traces international connections and efforts to amplify the unrest, including tactics seen in the United States. | @foxnewspolitics    See who's behind the 50 organizations: https://foxnews.com/world/behind-f"
Left wingers are still lying that the riots are about school funding

Clash Report on X - "French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon: A world is coming to an end. That world is the one that has ruled for 40 years: neoliberalism, which spread across the entire planet after using Pinochet's dictatorship as its laboratory."
Christian Heiens 🏛 on X - "It's absolutely insane for this guy to blame his country's ills on "neoliberalism" when French government spending as a percentage of the economy is currently higher than it was in the Soviet Union right before it collapsed.   France is currently running a 5% deficit to GDP, the nation's debt to GDP stands at nearly 120%, the country has one of the most generous welfare and entitlement systems in the world, and French Boomers living off taxpayer-funded pensions earn more than working adults.  Is the "neoliberalism" in the room right now?  Communists like Melenchon just throw around the word "neoliberalism" to mean "thing that I don't like", as if that's a sufficient distraction from the fact that the last 40 years have been ruled by their ideology."

Mor Edge Insight on X - "There isn’t really any other way to see it. This man is praising a violent riot that injured 48 police officers in a series of riots that have injured hundreds. He says that throwing large paving stones and furniture that could instantly kill somebody is “beautiful”  It opens up so many questions that it’s hard to know where to even begin. How is a politician vying for the leadership of the country next year openly inciting violence and an insurrection, with no consequence? How is Macron simply standing by watching and doing or saying nothing?  And I think most importantly, how are the French people, and the same question goes for all Europeans, simply watching it and doing absolutely nothing?   There is no fight left in any of them except those who are rioting and burning down the streets. And these same countries want to convince the world that they’re somehow going to stand up to Putin and take on Russia.   Ukrainians are fighting for their lives and their spirit is incredible, strong, courageous. They e truly stood up and shown what fighting back means. But European countries are the opposite. And it’s painful to watch. No leadership. No courage. No patriotism to be seen anywhere.   This isn’t going to end well. It doesn’t even matter if it’s Russia or China or Iran pushing these riots. The point is that not a single European country is fighting back. Not one. And while their cities are destroyed and burning in flames with skyrocketing crime and rape and chaos, the only thing they find time and courage to do is lecture and condemn the few countries who do have the courage to fight back.   This man Melenchon should be executed for treason. But instead you can almost see him winning the election next year. Because if he doesn’t, then all he has to do is set his attack dogs on the country and burn it all down and then just take the country nobody seems to care to fight for.   Europe truly has fallen."
Weird. We're told the far left just want free healthcare and equal rights, not destroy society

Lara Logan on X - "ACAB is the Antifa slogan for “All Cops Are Bastards”. Same thing they wrote on the walls & monuments in Portland & Minneapolis & here they are writing it in France. Same ideology, same network of terror. Remember when CNN compared these a**holes to the Allies/heroes landing on the beaches of Normandy to fight the fascists? Now the whole world can see them for what they are: a violent foreign terrorist network of Marxists & Nazis allied with political Islam and funded/directed by their globalist puppet masters."

How much does France spend on education compared with the rest of Europe? - "Among European countries, Sweden spends the largest share of its GDP on education at 7.3 percent in 2024, followed by Iceland (7 percent) and Belgium, Estonia and Finland (6.3 percent each), according to Eurostat.  The lowest spenders are Ireland (2.7 percent), Greece (3.9 percent), Romania and Italy (4 percent each), and the United Kingdom and Spain (4.1 percent each).  At 5.1 percent, France is joint 13th, level with the Netherlands and Slovakia, and above the EU average of 4.8 percent."
Clearly, as long as they don't spend infinity on education, both France and Belgium are underfunding education and deserved to be destroyed by "student 'protests'"

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "Rioters at French high school in Beaugency chant lyrics to Boro700’s MRH - a rap song which glorifies the ISIS terrorist attack on the Bataclan as well as a jihadist terrorist who executed an 8 year old French Jewish girl by shooting her in the head.
Lyrics: “Bataclan, they played dead, lie down, I’m gonna shoot one in the eye.”
“Like Mohamed Merah, dodging the cameras  at the Bataclan, I shot him with my eyes, manhunt, Salah Abdeslam.”
Mohammed Merah executed three French Jewish children aged 3, 5 and 8 years old. He chased the 8 year old French Jewish girl and grabbed her by the hair, paused to reload, then shot her in the head.  Salah Abdeslam meanwhile was the only surviving member of the 10-man ISIS cell that carried out the November 2015 Paris attacks including the massacre at the Bataclan. Murdered 130 people, injured more than 490."
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "It’s absolutely fucking insane that the mainstream media are hiding the truth of the French riots. The students will literally scream “we love ISIS and want to execute Jewish children” and the mainstream media will say they want more investment in education"

Ridiculous Zuccs: Lucy Craig (Jane Doe)

Even mentioning the name "Lucy Craig" (without a photo) "may faciliate or coordinate activity that might cause harm to people, businesses or animals".

"Is that Lucy Craig"

"Is Lucy Craig a predator or victim in your eyes?"

Of course, this does not seem to be the case for posts slamming the Cornell 7 / Cornell "57".

Links - 11th October 2026 (2 - Woke Universities [including Admissions])

Libs of TikTok on X - "I cannot believe this is real. California State Superintendent candidate Richard Barrera says he’s against bringing back the SATs and if students at top universities are at elementary level math, it’s the college professors’ job to catch them up 🤯"
Left wing ideology as usual is about levelling down and destroying civilisation

Smirkley on X - "Texas guarantees UT Austin admission to the top 5% of every high school class, by grades alone. This seems race neutral but top 5% at a black school isn’t top 5% at a white/Asian one.   Among its own auto-admits entering in 2008 (tell them to publish new data) the mean SAT was 1277 for asians, 1267 for whites, 1111 for hispanics,  and 1068 for blacks.  2025 Texas SAT score averages: 1202 for asians, 1054 for whites, 904 for hispanics, and 887 for blacks.  Model with 2025 SAT scores and the Texas class would be 42% Asian, 37% white, 12.5% Hispanic, and 2.6% black."
i/o on X - "A lot of people are shocked to discover that whites are only 25% of the in-state undergrad students at the University of Texas, outnumbered by Hispanics, who perform much worse than whites on the SAT. The reason for this is what I would call a "deformative action" admissions approach (described below).  The second graph shows how far the fall-off would be for the Hispanic student share if the sole admissions criterion was actual tested cognitive ability.  And you can also see how Asians (only 6% of the population of Texas) would then be the dominant group on campus if measured intelligence were the only admissions criterion.  (And, yes, the SAT is still mostly a test of general intelligence, although less so than it was a few decades ago.)"

i/o on X - ""In 2024 and 2025 (combined), half of Berkeley Law’s admitted black applicants had LSAT scores that were below 95% of the admitted white applicants... black applicants had 5.8 times higher odds of admission than comparable white applicants.""

i/o on X - "Harvard abolishes its SAT requirement in hopes of removing evidence of its preferential treatment of black and Hispanic students in admissions. A few years later, it creates its first remedial math class."
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Ghost on X - "So can someone explain why Harvard is admitting students who can’t do 7/8th grade math?"
SettledScience™️ on X - "Because UCSD is willing to take those that can’t do 5/6th grade math?"

Gail Heriot on X - "Eliminating the SAT as a requirement effectively results in institutional suicide for universities like Harvard. A Harvard with a remedial math course isn’t really Harvard anymore. I’ll leave it to others to decide if that’s good or bad."

It’s ‘racially harmful’ to reform grade inflation at Harvard, student petition argues - "The lobbying comes as a Harvard faculty consider capping the number of A grades they give out in each class. That proposal came after a report published last fall found that 60 percent of all undergraduate grades are now As"
When you admit racial minorities are less competent

The Chronicle of Higher Education on X - "One of the Harvard report’s most compelling findings is that students almost universally speak about grades in terms of how much effort they put in. If they spend a lot of time studying and do all of the work asked of them, they believe, they should get an A."
Jonah Goldberg on X - "This is exactly how I feel about doctors. If the surgeon really tries his or her best, who am I to complain when they remove the wrong organ? Also, pilots. Knowing how to fly is so much less important than really, really, caring about getting there."

Shabbos Kestenbaum on X - "An open letter to current Harvard faculty, donors, and trustees:  I know you hate me.  I know you hate President Trump.  I know you think the enforcement of federal law is actually a conspiracy to overhaul higher education.  I know you think the multiple conclusions of religious discrimination against Jews is a lie.  But I am genuinely struggling to understand, irrespective of antisemitism, how the current disastrous state of the University has not resulted in tangible, meaningful reform.  I implore you to answer basic questions about how you continue to choose to run Harvard University:
1. Why do you insist on paying Claudine Gay, an actual serial plagiarist who was forced to resign, a salary of $900,000 a year?
2. Why specifically should Claudine Gay of all people be teaching a class on leadership, using Harvard as a case study?
3. What specific merits and talents does Chairwoman Penny Pritzker bring to the table? What is the specific justification for keeping her?
4. For what specific reason is the University refusing to comply with federal law by not sharing the criminal background history of your foreign students to DHS?
5. Does it bother you that 97% of the faculty identify with one particular political ideology? If yes, what are two specific actions you're willing to take to rectify the problem?
6. What specifically have you done to ensure that the few conservative students left on campus aren't self-censoring their work and opinions?
7. Does it bother you that multiple faculty members, such as Professor James Hankins, admitted they or their colleagues were told that white men, in the post George Floyd backlash would no longer be hired if there was a (less qualified) black or gay applicant?
8. Thousands of donors, representing billions of dollars, have refused to give anymore since 10/07. What specific policy overhauls have you implemented to win them back?
Irrespective of antisemitism, I'm genuinely struggling to understand why Harvard refuses to get out of its own way. This entire controversy since Day 1 has been entirely self inflicted and avoidable. Poor leadership after poor leadership..."
Peter Boghossian on X - "The entire institution is an incorrigibly corrupt ideological cesspool. The corruption has been institutionalized: Gay was found innocent of plagiarism charges BEFORE her investigation. She's a serial plagiarist who even plagiarized the acknowledgments in her dissertation."
Nan Hayworth, M.D. on X - "Harvard can't be bothered because it has not yet encountered consequences that inspire sufficient fear in that institution. This is one of many reasons why taxpayer dollars should be withdrawn from every school in the country. They insulate from consequences of arrogance and overt malefaction."

Philip Greenspun on X - "The New York Times told us that Claudine Gay "resigned" from Harvard. The university's IRS filings, however, show that she was being paid at the rate of $3.1 million/year after purportedly resigning."
Jonatan Pallesen on X - "The media didn't write about this at the time, but Claudine Gay is not only a plagiarist. Also:
1. Her research makes no scientific sense. (See https://t.co/HnToNRrPCZ)
2. She removed inconvenient data points going against her hypothesis in order to publish her biggest paper. (see: https://x.com/jonatanpallesen/status/2000387665695219997?s=20)
Having her be the president of Harvard is bad, but it makes some sense. Paying her $3 million to be a political scientist, a job she is useless at, does not make any sense. It is highly disrespectful to the students paying tuition."

Steve McGuire on X - "“Recent evidence suggests that Harvard’s upper administration sees its own faculty as a problem that needs to be solved.” Yes."
Jason Locasale on X - "The problem is that an upper administration exists at all.  Universities weren’t meant to operate like corporations optimizing for brand protection and revenue extraction.  Faculty are treated as variables to manage, useful when they attract funding or prestige, disposable when they create risk.  These administrations tolerated and even empowered extreme behavior when it aligned with their branding and revenue strategy.  Until these institutions move away from this model where a centralized administrative class manages speech, behavior, and reputation, reform is only cosmetic."

Why I’m Leaving Harvard - "My four decades of experience at one of the world’s leading universities have given me a unique vantage point to trace the replacement of Western history by global history. This change is part of the reason why the younger generation finds itself in a state of moral and intellectual disorientation... We had just endured almost two years under the university’s strict Covid regime. This was a form of emergency governance that mirrored to a fault the whole country’s uncritical acceptance of The Science and its proclivity, when backed by public power, for tyrannous invasions of private life. At Harvard, professors were told we had to lecture in masks and give seminars on zoom. Neither practice accorded with my idea of liberal education.   The year earlier the university had collectively taken a knee during the Summer of Floyd. This turned out not to be empty virtue-signalling, as I expected, but had serious consequences for the way we conducted our affairs. In reviewing graduate student applicants in the fall of 2020 I came across an outstanding prospect who was a perfect fit for our program. In past years this candidate would have risen immediately to the top of the applicant pool. In 2021, however, I was told informally by a member of the admissions committee that “that” (meaning admitting a white male) was “not happening this year.” In the same year a certifiably brilliant undergraduate I had tutored, who was literally the best student at Harvard—he won the prize for the graduating senior with the best overall academic record—was rejected from all the graduate programs to which he applied. He too was a white male. I called around to friends at several universities to find out why on earth he had been rejected. Everywhere it was the same story: Graduate admissions committees around the country had been following the same unspoken protocol as ours. The one exception I found to the general exclusion of white males had begun life as a female. Harvard, I believe, is now on a better course under its current president, Alan Garber. The reaction to the Claudine Gay fiasco, which highlighted the university’s shocking indifference to the anti-Semitic demonstrations following the October 7 atrocities, compelled the Harvard Corporation, which chooses the president, to seek out a safe pair of hands... When late liberal pedagogy replaced Western civilization courses with global history, serious harm was done to the socialization of young Americans. When you don’t teach the young what civilization is, it turns out, people become uncivilized."
Diversity is about eradicating the existing order, not diversity
Weird, we are told that DEI is to ensure that everyone gets a fair chance and that discrimination against minorities is eliminated. Of course, the next copes are that white men have discriminated against others for so long, so it's their turn to be discriminated against and that this is good, and also that because society privileges them so much, discriminating against them just levels the playing field overall

Harvard professor calls out ‘exclusion of white males’ in scathing public resignation - "Hankins contrasted how history is taught in China, where national identity and patriotism are openly reinforced, with how it is taught in the United States, where Western history is often presented as something to be condemned or dismantled. “In the hands of hyper-progressive (or ‘woke’) practitioners, Western global history is often, indeed, actively anti-Western,” he wrote.  Harvard’s downfall, Hankins said, had begun decades prior. In the 1990s, the university was “under increasing pressure to hire more women faculty,” and thus, was forced to abandon some of its longstanding expectations.  “Since at the time women formed less than 10 percent of PhDs in history and were even rarer in the mid-career cohorts from which Harvard tended to hire, equality required that standards be lowered,” the professor observed... he concluded that, while one can “hope” for change in America’s existing higher education institutions, “for now, a better hope lies in building new institutions unencumbered by the corruption and self-hatred that infect the old.”"

Thread by @elianayjohnson on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "“We have not hired with tenure a historian in a Western field—ancient, medieval, early modern, or modern—in a decade; the last promotion to tenure from the junior ranks occurred in 2012.” “Meanwhile, the department has lost eight senior historians in Western fields—all major figures—through death, retirement, or departure for other universities. I will be the ninth, and I am not expecting to be replaced.” “It is hard to avoid the impression that, whether through hostility or neglect, Western history is being phased out or allowed to die on the vine at Harvard. My remaining colleagues in Western history are mostly distinguished specialists, but new blood is not flowing in. Meanwhile, the Hamilton School, founded only four years ago, has almost miraculously hired forty-eight outstanding scholars.”"

Thread by @MaxE2review on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "People know that much of academia is dominated by woke dogma, but they really don't grasp how extreme and how culty it truly is, even at the very highest levels. There are so many examples it's hard to know where to start. To illustrate it, let's do a deep dive into the head of the Cambridge faculty which hired Jason Arday (and where I once studied sociology). Her name is Hilary Cremin, and she famously referred to Arday as 'the best in the world'. But what else has she written?
She's described British schools as 'a contemporary form of fascism', that brutally oppress kids based on their race, gender and culture, despite the fact that literally no proper data supports this in any way.  I'm not making that up, it's a direct quote. Bear in mind this person is head of the education faculty, which trains teachers, at the most prestigious university in the world. But it doesn't end there, ofc.  She views humans as of no greater moral worth than any other living being, and looks excitedly forward to an end of 'speciesism' which oppressively views humans as more valuable than other beings (which, of course, we are). She believes that to achieve a utopian future, she the school system and society more broadly will need, to quote one reviewer, 'to have recognised perspectives on the world that differ from those of people who are “white, European, neuro-typical, heterosexual, middle class and male". It will privilege the “lived experience” of the humble as against the dogmatic truths and blind rationality of the powerful. In doing so it will draw on the “wisdom traditions” in Taoism, Buddhism, the Song Lines of the aboriginal peoples of Australia, and European Paganism.'
Prof. Cremin, who heads the faculty of Education at Cambridge, rails against the advancements of our civilisation, the scientific method, modernity and the enlightenment, etc - which she only ever describes in negative terms as built upon the supposedly problematic belief in empirical truth and rationality. This is despite the fact that that they have resulted in advancements in human wellbeing and flourishing previously unparalleled in world history.
To quote one reviewer (Dr Nicolas Tate, who I forgot to credit in 1/): 'She asserts that our contemporary world is also one of “violence”, that word being redefined to cover anything the author does not like: hence the “slow violence” of the degradation of the environment and the “structural and cultural violence” of rule by white male elites. In a book of 190 pages the word “violence” occurs 81 times and “emergency” 48 times. Nowhere are the massive improvements that “modernity” has brought to people’s standard of living, health and longevity even mentioned.' In her book, Prof. Cremin, head of the Cambridge Education faculty which hired Arday, 'dismisses the Enlightenment and “modernity” as a backward step, their legacy an unhealthy obsession with rationality and empirical truth, a cult of “humanism” (redefined by the author to mean patriarchy and white dominance).'  That's a quote from Tate again - you can read his article here - dailysceptic.org/2026/09/17/mee…
I've zoomed in on Cremin here but this stuff is absolutely commonplace within social sciences, and more broadly across academia as a whole. From where it seeps into our media, culture and beyond. It's a major scandal, which I'll be doing my best to shine a light on. Follow on here for updates."
We're still told that left wingers don't hate their countries, and Western civilisation

Melissa Chen on X - "So Cambridge University is abandoning its plan to investigate its hiring of Jason Arday and instead focus on whether they were sufficiently POLITE and caring during the process.  Let me help you out, Cambridge. You have been way too polite and compassionate this whole time and this is exactly why Arday is dead and why your reputation is in the toilet.   You abandoned hiring standards, then called any questions vile and scrutiny a hate crime.   That is what put a man in a job he didn't belong in.  I genuinely don’t know how anyone respects Cambridge University after this. If you’re an alum you might as well shred the degree."

Max Klinger on X - "Have just received an astonishing, and very detailed, statement from an esteemed lecturer at Oxbridge. Goes into significant detail about the way that, in this lecturer’s view, their institution has been gripped by deeply illiberal woke dogma. I will be releasing the full thing soon.
Among other things, it includes claims that:
• students are having ideologically-driven conclusions pushed on them
•universities as a whole are hiring people not based on academic excellence but on their conformity with woke zeitgeists and their immutable characteristics
•DEI-style hiring practices are so ubiquitious across the university sector as to essentially amount to a form of discrimination
•Unrigorous, activist-style research and behaviour is commonplace among academics
And much more.
Genuinely quite staggering to read, even though none of it is in any way surprising.  I will be post it soon as part of my efforts to expose and highlight the way that universities are laundering progressive activism through the academy."

Lavinia on X - "At Caius College, Cambridge, attendance of these 1.5 hour-long inclusivity training sessions is mandatory for all undergrads.  The sessions will be delivered by Stop Hate UK, who erroneously state that "gender identity" is a protected characteristic and that "Islamophobia is a crime."  One would hope these are honest mistakes and they will be correcting them @stophateuk.  It will be interesting to hear what they have to say about the hate myself and others experienced at Cambridge for having the temerity to join a society for women that excludes men. Their website talks a lot about The Law and they seem to be very much in favour of the crime of Hate as a category: the word itself is menacingly capitalised throughout their material with the ominous implication that the violence or harassment ordinarily necessary for hatred to constitute a Hate Crime is somehow superfluous, and that simply Hating silently in your head should be sufficient.   I wonder if they like the law so much when it comes to the protected characteristic of belief in the binary nature of sex and the Supreme Court judgment clarifying that sex in law means biological sex. We shall soon find out.   In any case, by bringing them in and mandating attendance, Caius College is at best tacitly endorsing this ideological pressuring of students into being firmly on the woke side of a culture war they are determined not to wade out of, even given recent events. Training will of course include American rubbish about unconscious bias, microaggressions and how to be an Upstander against heteronormative hypermasculinity.   No doubt some administrator has looked over this charity and their session descriptions and decided there's nothing at all controversial here, nothing political, just kindness."
Colin the Barbarian @OXSOC@sciences.social on X - ""...to ensure a collective and unified response." Next step will be the issuing of the little red book. First self-criticism event Friday morning. Struggle sessions on Sunday afternoon."
Clearly, the far left just want everyone's basic needs to be met

Wesley Yang on X - "White male political science PhD's were half as likely to be hired as professors in 2023 as both "underrepresented minority" men and women"
Sam Schulman ن on X - "Hey kids: That young white male prof of yours has had to surmount incredible obstacles in order to have the privilege of teaching you. He is sure to be first-rate."
Brandon Warmke on X - "Apparently, being a woman on the poli sci job market gave candidates a better chance of getting a tenure track job than co-authoring in APSR, the flagship journal. When academics weren't lying about discrimination ever happening, they were lying about it never sacrificing merit."

Thread by @Tool_Being on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "White males are less than half as likely to successfully land a professorship than non-white males. You don't get stats like this without blatant systemic discrimination. If it was against any other group the government would be burning down whole institutions right now.Another way to interpret this is to say a white male applicant is getting compared to other applicants in the most competitive group and you need to to be in top 19% of group to land the job. If you are a non-white male applicant, on the other hand, you’re application is getting compared to others in less competitive group and you only have to be in top 40% of that group to get the job. Big difference."
If you think there's discrimination against white men, you're a far right extremist spreading misinformation

Maarten Boudry on X - "Just the other day, one of the few remaining liberals in my department, Freddy Mortier (now officially retired), made some remarks about @nathancofnas ’s suspension during a graduation ceremony.   After making clear that he has no sympathy whatsoever for Cofnas’s views, he argued that even thorny ideas should be openly discussed rather than shut down.   Predictably, students jeered and booed him, preventing him from continuing his speech. Both students and colleagues then walked out in protest.  So what did the dean do? She took the stage to apologize for her colleague’s “completely inappropriate” remarks, to loud applause and cheers from the students.  In other words, she encouraged and rewarded the hecklers. The level of cowardice is simply astonishing."
Left wingers are terrified of free speech, because they can't control it and bully others into pushing the left wing agenda

Leviathan on X - "The itinerary for Frosh Week at @Concordia University includes Harm Reduction Training to ensure safe consumption of hard drugs, a Palestine solidarity event, and “Queer Antifascist Resistance in Quebec.” The upcoming generation is in the very worst of hands."

Thread by @mboudry on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "My former philosophy department at @UGent banned the teaching of this paper by Anomaly & Faria, in a philosophy class by my colleague Bouke De Vries. Why? Because it discusses demography and migration as potential threats to liberal societies, and something called “biocultural continuity”! The horror! It sounds almost... conservative! Someone please protect the students! If you ask me, one of the main dangers facing liberalism is precisely that (some) liberals want to shut down debate about the threats it faces. So what else could we do? Bouke invited me to join efforts and write a paper in reply, which critically evaluates and challenges Anomaly & Faria's argument. It has now been accepted for publication. So can liberalism survive itself? Anomaly and Faria fear it may not, pointing to low birth rates, cultural fragmentation, mass migration from illiberal cultures, and liberalism’s self-imposed constraints. In our paper, we’re more hopeful. Open societies adapt faster; people defect and switch ideologies when facades crack; technology gives them an edge; and authoritarian regimes have demographic problems of their own. Liberalism ain't finished yet. This was a somewhat adversarial collaboration, which are often the most interesting. Bouke is more pessimistic and tends to think that demography (largely) determines our destiny, whereas I take a more sanguine view of the robustness of liberal democracy and focus more on cultural transmission—which can undermine demographic advantages through the horizontal transmission of ideas and ideological defection. Liberalism is inherently attractive, and will remain so for the foreseeable future. To be published soon—and banned in a classroom near you!
This is what the distinguished “educational committee” had to say about the decision to discuss the paper in class: “a serious error of judgment.” It sounds Orwellian, but this is the state of academia today—or at least of @UGent. The problem of ideological capture has been a long time in the making, and it’s only getting worse."
Brandon Warmke on X - "For those outside philosophy, some backround: This paper appears in Social Philosophy & Policy, a very good and mainstream philosophy journal edited by Dave Schmidtz and published by Cambridge. Top moral and political philosophers regularly publish there from across the political spectrum and by invitation. All papers are blind peer reviewed. This volume on "Global Crises" was guest edited by Allen Buchanan. The paper's topic and method are standard for work in PPE (philosophy, politics, economics), where you try address questions using the tools of each discipline. Hard to see what the complaint could be aside from just political or personal animus. But that's obviously not a reason to disallow a professor from assigning a reading."

Max Klinger on X - "Having studied this stuff at Cambridge, I'm now on a one-man mission to expose the sheer, unimaginable levels of fraudulence and grift within academia. This is even more important now that the people who produce this stuff are trying to attack anyone who does so as 'racist' etc. Here are a few real examples of claims made by esteemed, frequently cited, well paid academics in prestigious journals:
1)Expecting maths students to get the correct answers is racist, and is a form of 'white supremacy culture' as it places an absolute emphasis on getting a single 'right answer'
2)'Time' is a racist concept, and expecting people to arrive on time is racist and a form of, you guessed it, 'white supremacy' (again)
3)Donald Duck cartoons are a key means by which American imperialism operates
4)Childrens' cartoons and pop music are tools of capitalistic domination
5)E = MC squared is a 'sexed equation'
6) Telling kids to take their hoods off in class is racist
 There are so many more I don't even know where to begin. I'll be putting more out on here in the coming days. Jason Arday's death was tragic. But it can't be used to stifle legitimate criticism of this absolute racket.  Follow on here for updates."

The Nation on X - "At the end of Gazelle Mba's time at Oxford, she was told if she "wanted to study anything related to Black people," she "was better off leaving the institution as soon as possible and heading to the United States.""
Cosmopolitan Reactionary on X - "I ask this with genuine curiosity: what explains the monomania some black academics have for writing and researching about themselves?   I mean no offense to my Irish compatriots who dedicate their lives to Irish history, language, etc., but I can’t imagine anything more boring than being Irish in an Irish Studies department full of Irish people talking (whining, really) about being Irish.   In the context of a university (whose very name derives from the Latin universitas, meaning “the whole”) it seems like racial solipsism taken to an absurd, almost sinful degree."
Dotty Gale on X - "Gazelle Mba is from Nigeria. Claudine Gay is from Haiti. Jason Arday's parents were from Ghana. Dr. Ian Andre Roberts is from Guyana.  They voluntarily left their homelands and then made careers writing about black oppression in their adopted countries.  Because there's such a demand for that kind of black scholarship that they're practically imported for it."

Oxford and Cambridge Have Always Been Racist | The Nation - "The summer before I began studying as an undergrad at the University of Oxford, I braced myself for racism. I spent several hours each day preparing by scrolling through blogs, newspaper articles, and social-media posts"
When you prime yourself to see racism, you'll see it, e.g. the Dartmouth Scar Experiment
It's weird how "minorities" are so eager to enter spaces where they will be relentlessly oppressed

Closure of Birmingham City University black studies MA ‘blindsides’ staff (aka "Staff 'blindsided' as black studies MA course axed")
Daniel Friedman on X - "Charging a black person tuition that they finance with debt to receive a terminal master’s degree in black studies is greater cruelty than about 99% of the things actual racists have done to black people since 1960.  A PhD can lead to an academic job and comes with funding. But a master’s degree? Why does such a program exist?"
There were only 8 people enrolled in it too.

The Conservative Pipeline Problem - "The study -- "Left Pipeline: Why Conservatives Don't Get Doctorates" -- argues that the much debated minority status for conservatives in higher education may be the result of differing priorities of graduating college seniors of different political persuasions. The study presents evidence that conservatives are significantly more likely than liberals -- at the point when college students decide whether to apply to graduate school -- to value raising a family and having money. In contrast, liberals at that point in their lives are significantly more likely to value writing original works."
From 2007 (so the ideological bias of academia as a factor wouldn't have been as strong at the time). Left wingers were quipping that historians are liberal because they studied history. So much for that - they were liberal even before studying history
This would also explain the left's long march through the institutions - they value power more than earning money or having a family

Liam Out Loud on X - ""Studied history" doesn't explain why professors are all left-wing. Langbert's survey of 5,000+ professors found Communications and Anthropology at 100% registered Democrat.... literally ZERO conservative faculty.
- Religion 98.6%
- English 98%
- Sociology 97.8%
Even Engineering, the most "balanced" field, was 61.5%.   History teachers aren't left-wing, the entire academic apparatus is.   BUT THIS ISN'T BECAUSE THEY'RE SMARTER.  It's because they are more ruthless.  Marcuse's "repressive tolerance" was put into full force in the mid to late 20th century.   Leftists believed themselves to have moral license to treat right-wing thought itself as harm rather than disagreement.   This led to a hostile environment against anyone Conservative.   Then factor in administration and affirmative action policies that favour left-wing leaning groups (blacks, women, gays, etc etc).   This created two-way pressure: push out conservative faculty and students, while simultaneously stacking the deck of newcomers with leftists.   Andrew Lobaczewski called this "negative selection."   Opposing viewpoints don't get hired, given tenure, and self-select out. Moderates leave. Then all that's left is... the left.   History doesn't teach you to be left-wing. Rather, the institutions were captured at the administrative level, restructured who gets through the gate, and now launder a monoculture with heavy ideological biases as "the expert consensus.""

Max Klinger on X - "Have been asking academics and students to provide examples and evidence of the ideological capture of their universities by progressivism. Here's another: 'Hi Max, I studied Social Anthropology. You step into the building and see the faces of Che Guevara, Castro, Chavez, Lenin, Marx, Engels, native marxist leaders graffitied everywhere, as well as feminist symbols and slogans on the hallway and classroom walls.
'The curriculum is...shaped around Marx and Marxist-inspired thinkers....We engaged very, very little with anything else.
'The biggest difference I could tell from the rest of the world is that my professors were very comfortable about expressing their beliefs and assigned normative judgements to everything. Marxism, socialism, and communism are good, but capitalism and religion are evil, this is in spite of my country's very troubled past with Marxists.
My school routinely mocks the church and conservatives but intellectually it's the most closed off space.'
This example is from South America. This is a truly global phenomenon. I have included an image from one such university square below. I also found academic literature, published in British academic journals, arguing that it's great these walls are covered in these figures, which they deem a form of noble 'resistance'.
As I say, this is not a UK-only phenomenon by any means. Vast swathes of what gets held up as profound academic research is little more than openly partisan leftist/woke activism.  Follow on here for more examples"

Max Klinger on X - "I’m running a project to try and push against progressive ideological capture within academia. The following are quotes from a statement sent to me by an Oxbridge academic: 
 'The rot of hard left-wing, woke ideology has now become clearly embedded within teaching...the students are now being taught that academia is the same as activism. It is a farce. 
‘I thought that universities were hiring people to pursue excellence in research and teaching—instead, they are hiring people based upon conformity to the ideological zeitgeist.’
‘Universities do not want the best academics or teachers: they want ‘yes men’ who will not cause a fuss and only further entrench and spread the EDI drumbeat.’
‘Oxbridge, amongst other universities, has been plagued by the reform of syllabi under the banner of “decolonisation”.’
‘Universities should teach students about how to think in the pursuit of truth. Universities today, however, have descended into relativism. The idea of objective truth has been replaced by the idea that all views are equally valid, and even worse, that conservative and ‘traditional’ views are to be dismissed as outdated and invalid. This is the menacing agenda of ‘decolonising’ the curriculum.’
‘The role of an academic [has been devalued to] nothing more than an ideologue. What on earth is going on? Are universities social justice warriors? What is the point of students attending university if they are simply going to be told that authors are racist, sexist, anti-feminist, old, white men?’’"