{"id":6864,"date":"2015-11-10T04:08:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T04:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/10\/abdication-of-authority-5\/"},"modified":"2015-11-10T04:08:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T04:08:25","slug":"abdication-of-authority-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/10\/abdication-of-authority-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdication of Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"

It began in the universities in the '60s.  And now it is in full 'flower.'  I recall Dennis Prager putting it this way: "There is no coward like a university administrator."  Now hear David French<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fortunately for the radicals, our universities are populated by the craven and the cowardly. Push a professor, even slightly, and it\u2019s likely he\u2019ll fold. Demand faculty support for your protest, and dozens will rush to join, self-righteously advancing their own false oppression narratives even as they enjoy lives billions of others would covet. There is nothing brave about these people. They are not \u201celite.\u201d They don\u2019t deserve a single dime of taxpayer money or one cent of student tuition. They dishonor their schools and their country.<\/span><\/p>\n

Closeted campus conservatives are worse than useless. Indeed, their very timidity contributes to the narrative that there is something shameful about their beliefs. To read anonymous letters from professors who are afraid to \u201cout\u201d themselves in a hostile campus culture is to read the sad dispatches of people too pitiful for their profession. Do something else, anything else, than merely sit and watch while the revolutionaries shred the Constitution, reject our culture, and assert their own will to power.<\/span><\/p>\n

The true shame is that it doesn\u2019t even require actual courage to defeat the university Left, just a tiny bit of will \u2014 a small measure of staying power. No one is shooting at trustees. No one is beheading professors. There\u2019s no guillotine in the quad. Instead, campus \u201cleaders\u201d tremble before hashtags and weep at the notion of losing a football team so inept that it couldn\u2019t score a touchdown<\/a> through most of the month of October. Let them strike. With an offense that inept, the SEC won\u2019t even notice.<\/span><\/p>\n

These are the times that try men\u2019s souls? No. These are the times of men without chests<\/a>. The Left has the will to power. University leaders have no will at all. They have earned nothing but contempt.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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It began in the universities in the '60s.  And now it is in full 'flower.'  I recall Dennis Prager putting it this way: "There is no coward like a university administrator."  Now hear David French: Fortunately for the radicals, our universities are populated by the craven and the cowardly. Push a professor, even slightly, and … Continue reading “Abdication of Authority”<\/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":[52,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-decline-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864","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=6864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}