{"id":1165,"date":"2023-10-29T14:22:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T14:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/29\/billionaire-donors-withholding-loot-from-leftist-seminaries\/"},"modified":"2023-10-29T14:22:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T14:22:32","slug":"billionaire-donors-withholding-loot-from-leftist-seminaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/29\/billionaire-donors-withholding-loot-from-leftist-seminaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Donors Withholding Loot from Leftist Seminaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Long-time donors are finally waking up to the wokeassery* of once-great universities that have for decades been transmogrifying into leftist seminaries. (&#39;Seminary&#39; is etymologically related to &#39;semen&#39; and in the seminaries in question the origin of the jism is masturbatory: nothing productive comes from these seed beds.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2023\/10\/harvard-will-pay-a-price-.html\">predicted<\/a> the donor revolt on 13 October about a week after the Hamas savagery of 7 October. Case in point: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/jewish-billionaire-donor-leon-cooperman-threatens-to-cut-off-columbia-university-for-anti-israel-activity\/ar-AA1j2AVj\">Leon Cooperman<\/a>.&#0160; He&#39;s given some $50 mil to Columbia but will give no more citing the cranial feculence (my polite phrase, not his) of the Hamas-supporting&#0160; students.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">What is astonishing to many of us, however, is how the Cooperman cohort could be so clueless for so long. Cooperman <em>just now<\/em> discovered what has been going on since the &#39;60s, namely, the &quot;long march through the institutions&quot;? <em>Only now<\/em> you decide to stop funding the anti-civilizational scum?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Better late than never, but no fool like an old fool. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Copperman&#39;s 80. The elderly tend to live in the past.&#0160; They tend to be fat, lazy, complacent, inattentive, and lost in the petty particulars of their self-centered quotidian round, even if they are not, like Joey B., physically decrepit, <em>non compos mentis<\/em>, morally corrupt to the core, and a disaster for the USA and the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">___________<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">*A coinage of mine which I am sure has occurred to others. Modelled on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/jackassery\">jackassery<\/a>, a word recognized by Merriam-Webster. The donkey or jackass is the symbol, an <em>aptro-symbol<\/em> if you will, of the Democrat party in the USA which, once respectable, is now hard-Left and destructive of our republic as she was founded to be.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time donors are finally waking up to the wokeassery* of once-great universities that have for decades been transmogrifying into leftist seminaries. (&#39;Seminary&#39; is etymologically related to &#39;semen&#39; and in the seminaries in question the origin of the jism is masturbatory: nothing productive comes from these seed beds.) I predicted the donor revolt on 13 October &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/29\/billionaire-donors-withholding-loot-from-leftist-seminaries\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Billionaire Donors Withholding Loot from Leftist Seminaries&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[236,445,180,163,216,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ageing","category-charitable-giving","category-decline-of-the-west","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-money-matters","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}