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Cluelessly useful idiot privileged children whose strings are pulled by Communist hoodlum community organizers like FILTHIAN who in turn have been brainwashed to do the bidding of MARX, LENIN, HERBERT MARCUSE and SAUL ALINSKY.

It's all about how it feels so very special and edgy, to be part of the hordes throwing a mass public temper tantrum in their safe spaces

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Spot on!

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I see you're still lurking around The Stacks, I sincerely hope Twitter AKA the X files is turning out to be all you dreamed of and more in the 'absinthe' of a substack gig. Sometimes a bit of

absinthe is exactly what's needed to appreciate it for what it is.

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Thanks for the history lesson on the keffiyeh. I was actually looking for some background on it today and this was very informative. It bothers me that so many people are wearing them. As a child of the ‘80s. I have always associated them with terrorism and to see students not only donning them but using them to obscure their faces - it’s really unsettling.

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It is unsettling. I'm glad the article was helpful.

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This phrase popped into my head when these protests started: borrow sorrow for power and profit. A friend pondered why I have always leaned towards Israel when I am usually very nuanced in my views. I explained I see Israel as a canary in the coal mine for women. I don't know if it is a logical take, but it is something I sense. The more I have re-thought the Judeo-Christian concepts - thanks to atheist James Lindsay and Catholic Rene Girard, I have come to conclude that this tradition has elevated the status of women. Feminists wrongly critique only within the system instead of doing a comparative analysis. Unfortunately, looking at things through a Neo-Marxist/decolonization lens is a deadly vision for women.

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Feminists hate the only system of living which has given honor and respect to women.

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protesting is kind of racist. All I see is white kids out there in those chain link looking scarves.

I heard on the radio a few days ago about how they teach the chants, something in their language, one related to Barbeque to help with pronunciation and then the other word meant kill or something?? "Barrr" meaning kill or violence, and some word and then also teaching them to use the word.... jihad?

hmmm I can not recall but it was shocking and nauseating that these college kids are so absolutely stupid and obey such horrible acts of hate and being pretty racist too.

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The dilussion is frightening. They just can't see it.

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gosh I wish I could remember the chant to share. Chris Plante on WMAL shared it and I believe also Dan Bongino

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“Marg bar Amrika ” “Marg bar Israel”. Death to America, Death to Israel. Really enlightened stuff from the religion of mostly peaceful massacres.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_to_America

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thank you so much for sharing this Tanto. It was shocking to hear on the radio. I do believe I learned about this on Dan Bongino's radio program last Thursday or Friday!

And the "teacher" of the chant related Margarita the drink, to Marg! just shocking.

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Thank you for writing accurately about this. The drooling screeching infants have no idea.

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The new Saul Alinsky!

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And these are the hypocrites who accuse others of 'cultural appropriation'.

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Great, on point article.

The length to which the U.S. and, by default, Israel went to demonstrate the commitment to the two- state solution was impressive; Arafat got Nobel Price for Peace, ah the irony. But he didn’t know how to be a statesman - terrorism was his calling, and so all the peace talks failed, inflicting years of intifada and horrendous violence against Israeli civilians.

In 1969, protests against the Vietnam War grew on college campuses and produced Weather Underground, a domestic terrorist organization. One of its members, Kathy Boudin, was a radical leftist who served 23 years in prison for murder. Her son, Chesa Boudin, went on to graduate from Yale and became the San Francisco DA in 2019. Under his “leadership” the crime statistics in the city has gotten so out of control he was recalled! He became the first district attorney in San Francisco to be recalled, and the first district attorney in California to be removed from office.

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Being 63 years old Ms. Fithian is too young to have started her organizing activities in the 1960's. She may have in the 70's when she was a teenager but more likely she got going in the 1980's. I've been aware of her for years and she's bad news.

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Oops, thanks for the correction. Meant to write 70s.

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I added a comment at the end to the same effect. But we withdrew in 1975 from Vietnam and she was 12 then. No way she was protesting Vietnam.

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I think the youth are just ignorant of the truth. The reason I know about Yassar Arafat, and all the terrorism, it was on the TV and in the papers. At that time, the political propaganda was to show the evil of terrorists, so it was put out for everyone to see. It provided the support the politicians needed to go to war in the middle-east. Of course we supported stomping out evil.

The current college students were not alive then, and they haven't been taught what happened only 30 to 50 years ago. Some of these colleges are funded by rich Arabs or rich from the Middle-East. They have such limited experience and knowledge, and looking for a cause. They need to go to Gaza or any country in the middle-east on a mission to help. They would be surprised and shocked, but it would be a valuable lesson. I probably shouldn't say that, because it is too dangerous, however, I find it hard to be kind to not "just an ignorant fool' minding his own business, but a dangerous radical trouble making fool.

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Totally agree with your free speech approach.

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I"m pleased to know you understand where I'm coming from.

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As I've said a bunch of times, we don't all have to agree. I don't mind a heated debate, I think it's healthier than an echo chamber.

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...another "amusin' " thought just struck me--after the whirled of "western civilization" wuz attacked with accusations of horrible so-called "cultural appropriation!"-- to the extent that no non-Hawaiian child could wear a grass skirt an' be a hula girl for halloween---then HOW COME all these white kids now git a pass wearin' these "Caffy-yaz?"

(a clearly un-peecee message from a gal who proudly performed "We're goin' to the Hukilau" in 7th grade dance class with a mix've fellow "cultural appropriators!")

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Wow, should be Lisa FILTHian as IMHO those are filthy (dangerous) tactics... She could care less if those kids git kicked outta college an' end up on the dole. Frankly, this ain't a stew-dent revolt at all--as ya show, it's a (well-paid) OP/operation an' the partici-pants are jus' gullible fools that don't know their history OR the history of their freedom garb (dang, thanks fer the hist'ry of the keffiyeh--I knew it evoked AraRat but didn't know the entire story--ugh). I know quite a few adults that'r donnin' that "fashion accessory" too. double ugh! I say this no matter whut their poly-ticks are.

An' tho' I DO disagree with the rhetoric goin' on--I'm all for folks bein' able to speak their minds. There are spaces on most campuses ta do this an' not shut down a skool, not prevent kids from attendin' classes. BUT for windows bein' smashed, chewish students bein' blocked from goin' ta class an' profs like Prof. Shai havin' his campus pass revoked so he cannot "teach due to bein' jewish"--wull that's too far. An' takin' a janitor as a "hostage?" HOW is this bein' cheered? I'm not for sicc'in' armed police on students--golly that's a bad look--but it's also not right (IMO) ta let'em take over--it's indeed very BLM-tacky-cull of them... no surprise if Soros is fundin' it all... I jus' cain't see how this helps the Gazans? (the BLM riots didn't help blacks in America either...)

Re, Ms Filthian.... I had no idea that "Occupy" wuz "Occupied" (the movement that seemed all grass-rootsy ta me at the time--an' then fell flat... so I wondered wha'happened...) Mebbe it wuz intended ta flop an' Ms F was paid ta be a part of that too? Who in heck knows? Like I said, peaceful protest EVEN if I disagree is OK given the 1st--but this got violent, destructive... who knows if there'll even be colleges for the next generation--but of course that too fits in with the NWO where we'll all sit passively like pager the chimp with the brain implant, behind screens, suckin' on banana shakes, playin' video pong until we hackable animals all die... either way it don't bode well (for any side in this war as it's we human beans that are the losers....)

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The college kids are being indoctrinated by their Marxist faculties. They need to be fired.

I’m sure there are some antisemites in the crowd, and some people who just want to be where the action is, and some real honest to God islamofascist sympathizers, but nobody would be out there without the encouragement of the” revolutionaries” in the faculty, the tenured revolutionaries with assured income and the benefits of living in a free society. Such phonies.

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My post did not apply to you! It was written as a comment/question to your your diversified readers.

Oddly enough, no one commented on my question. I'll dispense with making any more comments related to your essays. Drum me out of your distribution list if you believe I personally attacked you.

You made one-hell-of-an-attack on me by scolding me unmercifully for trying to make a point.

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Oops. I apologize. In a thread like that I assumed it was directed at me. I will adjust my comment.

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