Canadian professor Dr. Julie Ponesse is an expert in ethics who has been eloquently teaching college students for twenty years. Her story is one story, a profound story; and it is our story.
It is the story of a world gone mad, and the people within it – strong enough to recognize the brutal insanity.
https://youtu.be/7ZapO8imfuA
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This is the professor I want teaching my grandchildren. This is the teacher they deserve….
I despise those in power of every stripe who have put our world into this place of darkness. A place devoid of common intellectual sense, created by weakness, and driven by ideological minds with no regard for freedom, humanity or human purpose. Participation in evil enterprise it itself evil. My tribe will not participate. We stand defiant and resolute.
..”In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
Welcome to the revolution.
She is like the soldier that gets left behind with a machine gun.
A hero!
Something’s gotta give, folks…
It already is; all of what has happened and is still to come is test for the Remnant of God.
Unfortunately, Satan, and his soon to be condemned stooges are just warning up.
BoJo is pulling back on his UK clotshot mandate. Progress.
Until it is the skulls of our Overlords and their Enablers nothing will change.
This brave woman was a danger to her employer. Resistance cannot be tolerated.
Resistance CAN be TOLERATED — We,WE, need to STAND STRONG! If we are united – we are strong.
Which suggests that tolerating tyranny produces slavery.
Don’t resist, destroy.
I saw this earlier today, and forwarded it to everyone I know.
Clarity, sincerity, succinct.
Everything needed in a teacher of critical thinking.
That indoctrination mill does not deserve her.
But our children do.
Brilliant and heart wrenching.
The world has indeed gone mad.
And will continue to until we destroy the mad bulls leading the herd.
vaccine zombies gonna zombie!
Zombies leave you 3 choices. Burn them, blow them away, be eaten by them.
This made me cry. I feel her pain. She’s a gentle soul, and her heart is broken. Now, she needs to get angry, find a tribe of like-minded professionals, and fight back. Typically, anger precedes grief. in this case, I hope grief precedes anger.
Anger will help, grief will not.
Anger makes the authors of one’s grief have to experience grief themselves.
If they are not badly hurt they will hurt others more and more badly.
Where do I contribute to help Dr Ponesse?
I was encouraged that there were only 40 dislikes when I watched it which were far outnumbered by the likes of 1.7k
I find those odds encouraging.
I hope she ends up on Rumble teaching a class.
The reasonable man conforms to the world, the unreasonable man seeks to conform the world to themselves, thus all progess is the result of the unreasonable man.
All tyranny is the result of men who don’t care about reason, but do enjoy making others conform to their world.
So what you’re saying is that everyone should just bend over and take it up the ass? Go to hell.
No, he is saying the opposite of your poorly reasoned and poorly voiced conclusion.
There’s something nefarious behind these vaccines. In order to pull off what looks like could be a dastardly deed though, there would have to be a sizable amount of people involved. It seems it would be impossible to have this number of people involved in a scheme without someone breaking down and giving up the goods on what’s really going on.
Unless they are all zealots, brainwashing has been going on for more than two generations.
Normally I would agree, that someone would have spilled the beans. Unless they are all within a closed group, an echo chamber. No outsiders, who knows.
People HAVE spilled the beans – many doctors have told us the truth. Is anyone listening?
Only the ones that have brains or are willing to do some critical thinking.
Exactly! What we are seeing is just how much control over the channels of communication they truly have. And the power of the deployed concept of “conspiracy theorist” controlling the information leakage seen on sites like this one.
What is coming that they know but we dont???
5G brains
hg wells spent a good bit of his writing carreer studying the phenomenon of hoaxes..that humans are inclinde to react irrationally even with the perceived distant threat of a crisis.
his opus was well known. War of the worlds.
Now, I am not saying hg wells was maccavellian, but it is factual that many people divorced, left their families, committed suicide after listening to a one time radio show.
now…for the most interesting part….most of the tragic and surreal reactions happened months even years AFTER the hoax was clear and announced…multiple times.
there IS something unusual about hoaxes….where existential threats, even of the most absurd has a big impact. And this isn’t just related to stupid or poorly developed people.
it’s an observational phenomenon.
watching or listening or reading something, anything DOES HAVE AN EFFECT on a person.
The bible discusses this. Science also touches on it.
When I was young child…My parents refused to allow horrow shows..period end of story…
I would complain…Mom, it’s just all made up. It’s not real.
She would tell me: this is not what you want in your mind. There ARE BETTER THINGS to find your interest.
yet, I would sneak out and watch it anyway.
the nature of the absurd makes us all WANT TO BREAK RULES. even the most common sense rules.
is this what you want in your mind?
that’s really something to think clearly about.
Mom WAS right. Of course she was. She was intelligent and obedient to God.
to be clear, I never felt “good” watching things that shock. It always felt like something was being taken from me.
when you stare into the abyss, the abyss stare right back at you.
GOD BLESS AMERICA
Good Mothers with common sense are a blessing to our lives… especially the ones gifted with wisdom. Glad you had one… I did too. I had a double bonus, a father with integrity and wisdom to boot. God gave me a lucky draw.. I will forever be grateful. Too bad it took me until my 20’s to figure it all out.
The lower line workers are the ones giving up their employment.
When the higher level executives do the same, then things will change.
Imposition comes from above, with enforcement from the side, under duress from above.
The rank and file enforcers have JOBS to do, and in a declining economy they are BOUND to their jobs.
NOW IS IT CLEAR WHY THE ECONOMY IS BEING CRATERED? IT’S SO THAT THE ENFORCEMENT ARMS HAVE NOWHERE TO GO WHEN THEIR CONSCIENCE SAYS “DON’T DO THIS EVIL DEED.” But, their families are the lynchpin to their situation, so they remain in their roles and baton the citizens, literally and–in the case of OSHA–figuratively.
Actually, it takes surprisingly few core players for an outbreak of Lysenkoism to occur.
They are quickly joined by fellow travellers, who support the narrative seeing that the “good crisis ” is also advantageous to themselves.
For example: many players joined the Gorebull Warbling hoax, not because they really believed they were “saving the planet” but because they saw that supporting the pseudoscience furthered their interests.
The globalists wanted carbon trading.
The politicians and governments wanted carbon taxation.
The socialists wanted an excuse for ending free market democracy and Instituting unelected “global governance”.
The UN craved extra-sovereign guaranteed income and to be the bureaucratic mechanism for global governance.
The environmentalists wanted a “cause” that was global in scope.
And the climastrologists craved money, cameras, microphones, fame and academic advancement.
This is how Lysenkoism plays.
And note and note carefully: with the Rona, most of the players seeking to end freedom and democracy are the same ones who championed the Gorebull Warbling hoax.
The movement to make USA a Marxist country probably traces back to 1945 with UN & UNESCO, making it a multigenerational effort.
Look no further than the last 50 – 60 so years of education & the crap poured into young eager minds.
What do we think supporters so brainwashed would actually own up to? They believe what they’ve had drummed into them & their offspring & see nothing to reveal.
Those of us not so indoctrinated must stand for our God-given, & Constitutionally stated rights. These Marxist have no argument or conscious, as openly evidenced by the Military & civilian murders, injuries, abandonment, arming of the enemy in the Afghanistan debacle. They divert our attention to non-essential issues while tearing us apart, illegal mandates by illegal mandate.
Stand up to them! Preserve our Constitutional Republic!
The Communists were messing with America before the Twentieth Century even started.
Yes. Very hard to believe. As hard as believing that the FIB is not filled with traitors top to bottom and yet where are the whistle blowers? As hard as believing that the military that just made our enemy the 10th most powerful military in the world is not corrupt top to bottom (of the command structure) and yet, where are those whistle blowers?
I look at it like a Venn diagram, how different groups have different agendas to promote. CDC/Fauci is monetary and to keep hidden all the unethical things he’s funded, Gates would be population reduction, Biden control and to make the Liberal agenda so deeply engrained there’s no turning back, hospitals is money from government, etc. So there’s no vast conspiracy rather an overlapping of evil. And don’t forget human nature. Remember the Gestapo had a small work force, they mainly functioned by letting the common Germans report to them who was a Jew, and report they did.
Yes, overlapping evil motives, but also overlapping grand conspiracies as well.
This is one brave and principled woman. You are not alone, professor.
These nazis will meet the fate of nazis everywhere.
Her story could be told by hundreds of thousands of good people just like her who will lose their job because, like her, they refused the jab.
This is Nazi Germany 1939. And we know what happened to millions of jews.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Instead of being afraid, turn to God. I don’t mean to suggest that He saves us from tribulations here on Earth, but rather, He gives strength, peace, joy, and perseverance to His children.
I started to say “screw that [being afraid] but I have promised to act nice.
So permit me to rephrase.
It is my opinion that very deep and uncontrolled rage would be more effective in De-Nazifying us than fear.
Rather than thinking “oh I couldn’t possibly do that”
the mindset of “I’m gonna get you sucka, you gonna pay!” would end our Nazification in short order.
Our aesthetics—the drive to play nice—will serve us ill.
Channeling our Inner Mr.T/BA Baracus will quickly end the threat to our wellbeing and restore our peace and prosperity.
I expect my sister to lose her job soon. We just aren’t sure if her company has 100 or more employees. We are the few in our extended family that say No to the poison jab. THIS IS OUR LINE IN THE SAND!
That takes a willingness to kill Nazis.
The Dresden protocol.
If I enter brutal honesty mode, no Nazis are bleeding yet.
Wow She was awesome! She is a teacher I would have wanted my kids (years ago) to have
Thank You Dr. Julie Ponesse for speaking out!
I’m tired of the sadness and the fear they try to foist upon us every day. It turns my stomach and every day I despise them more. When do we fight, when do we celebrate, when do we put them on trial and make them feel the pain and suffering they’ve put millions through? In my mind there is only one good ending, where they pay for what they’ve done. And the list of what these evil people have done is long.
Ok fight, but what beyond what we can all do to put sand in the gears?
I don’t know. I don’t even know how to put sand in the gears. But I’m willing to learn.
Sugar in the gas tank does interesting things to an internal combustion engine. Just Saying. ??
All of these edicts from the high and mighty require lower level brown shirts to enforce. None of us has the reach or clout to return the pain to the rulers, but each of us knows someone who is a lower level management enforcer of these edicts. All the cops and health officials who were shutting down restaurants have neighbors who know where they live. All store managers forcing their employees to kneel to this cult have neighbors. All the antifa terrorists have neighbors. All the judges letting serial violent offenders back out to destroy again have neighbors.
We need to put the pressure on. Speak directly to that neighbor and make clear that until they are part of the solution they are not part of society. And let’s all start sharing their location. It’s time that the plumber, the car mechanic, the butcher all know who they are dealing with so we can each decide if we care to get the water back on, or the furnace running, or the car functional. We are the expendables? Okay, then it’s time they live that reality.
Saw this she lays out such and eloquent argument for her position and our cause.
Our movement up here in Canada is very, very strong.
The professor has been denigrated and shunned by our MSM.
Our Canadian MSM and politicians are shi**ing themselves.
Please check out Rocco Galati..he is an eminently qualified lawyer that is fighting these tyrants all the way.
I am going street level with my personal animus to these max wearing virtue signallers.
God bless her.
We’re going to have to fight eventually.
Does anyone know how to contact her? Lots of emails of support can sometimes bring brightness to the dark and let them know they aren’t alone.
Can they force me? Easily.
Airlines can have whatever conditions of travel they like.
How much more shall we take? I will live (as God allows) free of any experimental chemical injections……my choice.
Ethics are high targets. Can’t have teachers going around teaching critical thought.
Dumb them down at the institutes of indoctrination, and keep them dumb.
God Bless this professor and everyone having to face similar abuses.
Why did she bring up MDs and Medical staff? They have same right to refuse the Jabs.
Why nitpick?
The raw emotion, coupled with her lucid presentation is momentous.
The University she taught at is immense, and her story is reverberating around our ever growing Canadian resistance.
A Practicing dentist friend of mine has formed a group of dentists up here to engage in the fight.
This lady is a beacon of light.
Bless her. She is in my prayers tonight. ??
Because it’s my Right. 🙂
Fair enough. It just seems kinda petty that’s all.
Those of us up here that are pushing back daily ( we have another rally in Vancouver B.C. today.)
Are attempting to become one voice, as the “ other side “ act in unison.
She was highlighting another reason why it is questionable to coerce her to get the jab: why is a teaching position required to be vaxed?
MDs and medical staff have direct patient contact, so hypothetically, if the vax were legit, then it might make more sense for them to be vaxed.
I think her statement had nothing to do with their right of refusal.
Thank you for articulating this – I had the same thought – initially – as Sabreman, but then I thought it through some more and arrived at the conclusion you’ve outlined here.
I disagree but I respect your opinion.
This is deeply moving, heart-breaking, and enraging.
I thought this comment on the YouTube thread nailed it:
“The safety of the vaccines, their experimental nature, or their effectiveness is irrelevant. The inviolable principal is self ownership and “informed consent”. Nothing else matters. The ethical argument is actually quite simple… Given that no medical intervention is “zero risk”, is there a moral imperative on you to acquiesce to a medical procedure and accept that risk in the hope it might reduce the risk to someone else? In other words are “all risks equal”? Given we are “equal”, is your health risk more or less important than someone else’s? Is there a moral imperative to increase the risk to your health to reduce the risk to someone else’s?”
I concur that this is heart-breaking and enraging Sarah, but I fail to follow the logic of the quote. In fact, it appears as a straw man argument.
If “no medical intervention is ‘zero risk'”, then all decisions at the individual level are independent of each other. You choose to do nothing, then how does that adversely impact another?
This is the logical fallacy the White House occupant stated “of protecting the vaccinated from the unvaccinated.” If the vaccine offers protection, then the vaccinated are already protected. Theoretically, it makes no difference whether those around them are vaccinated or not.
Further, it assumes or implies that the unvaccinated are the unaware, asymptomatic spreaders of Covid whereas vaccinated people are not. This is not true in actual practice as the vaccinated are capable of carrying heavier viral loads while being asymptomatic (due to their enhanced immunity from the vaccine) than unvaccinated. Thus, the irony is that it’s the unvaccinated that need protection from the vaccinated, not the other way around.
The Decision Tree Risk matrix is that if I remain unvaccinated I have Q% chance of contracting Covid x X% chance of dying or suffering permanent disability vs taking the vaccine and having R% chance of contracting Covid x Y% chance of dying or suffering permanent disability (where it’s assumed that R<Q and Y<X) + Z% chance that there are long term detrimental effects from the vaccine.
Thus, taking the vaccine comes down to a probable reduced risk in the short term with completely unknown (Z%) long-term adverse effects. If one thinks their Q% x X% is low (which it is for the vast majority of people), then it’s probably best to not take the shot. If there’s a 20% chance of catching Covid and 1% chance of dying or suffering permanent injury–loss of hearing, lung damage etc., then one’s risk is only 0.2% which is less than cancer or heart disease.
“If the vaccine offers protection, then the vaccinated are already protected.”
Here’s your problem. If you dig deep enough, the Vaccine Pushers admit that the vaccine does not protect the same way the Smallpox did, it only lessens the symptoms of the virus if and when you get it. The vaccinated can and do still get the virus. They are using the same logic for mask usage, “My mask protects you, Your mask protects me.” And we all should know by now that studies on mask wearing show masks to be useless.
The tipping point is near….I do not think the tyrants are prepared or even aware. But soon they shall be.
i have to agree.Here in Australia the pressure is building.The more time that passes the more the current data concludes these vaccines are a mistake.Something has to give
They think we are a small group. We are not.
Kamala Harris faking getting a vaccine shot. Watch the nurse have to unfold the fake needle back out after she bends it down against the syringe in the fake injection.
With all due respect, the nurse is applying the protective needle cover that prevents the nurse from accidentally jabbing herself. I don’t believe Kamala got the CRISPR GMO experiment though, But we can hope…
Yes, it’s just the jab protector.
Yep, she probably didn’t get the real poison.
Yes, hope is good, even hoping for bad to befall evil.
Kamala may have got the real injection. Lots of competition to take her spot, you never know.
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Strange this is happening simultaneously in USofA and Canada. Educational institutions, hospitals, large corporation, military, and more.
There must be hundreds of thousands of people about to have their careers, livelihood, all their training, seniority and experience, put at risk of a sudden rug pull.
Yuri Bezmenov said one of the steps to lead a Nation into communism was to get everyone working for the government. Watching this dramatic video, it’s easy to see why
This professor plus this https://www.crisismagazine.com/2021/vaccine-mandates-violate-catholic-moral-teaching make it so clear that even the 5 -12 year olds about to be needlessly subjected to this medical malpractice can understand it.
welcome to the revolution.
do not despair.
THIS IS WHAT FREEDOM LOOKS LIKE..
NOW..GET TO WORK TO PROTECT THAT SACRED HONOR.
GOD BLESS AMERICA
Yes remember the movie: the patriot.
And braveheart.
This is a powerful video. Hurray for her. Heroes are starting to appear everywhere. The rebel alliance is gaining new recruits with every new demand. As great as this video is, I have to wonder if she probably wasn’t left leaning politically simply by being in education that long or at least in agreement with all their declared and noble intentions if not always with the methodology. Is this vaccine the red pill we have needed? God works in mysterious ways.
One of the clearest, best articulated short lessons on covid ethics I’ve yet seen.
She is grieving for her loss but she will quickly realize her actual triumph. IMHO she will reap a very positive reward in the near future.
I’m praying for this woman. I wish I was as tough as her.
“This is the teacher they deserve….” But very sadly will not get. This overshadowing darkness must be stopped someway, somehow.
I love Canadian professor Dr. Julie Ponesse. …..
In the usa
vaccine mandates for federal employees don’t apply to members of Congress or those who work for Congress or the federal court system.”
And
mandates do not extend to the USPS, a federal agency that employs over 644,000 people.
And
mandates do not extend to illegal border crosser
or refugees.
Understanding right from wrong is hard for many people.
There will be thousands of lawsuits filed, and all these exemptions from “protected classes” undermines the credibility of urgency so important that mandates were needed.
People are fired, their words and thoughts censored, their tweets deleted, their presence on social media banned, their nonconformity fined. They are arrested, removed from their homes, forbidden to dine out, denied entrance to school, forbidden visitors…they are hushed, not permitted to ask question, denied reassurance, all in the name of public health.
I have seen a few videos of people beaten by police for noncompliance of mask mandates (not in the US). Actually beaten. This madness must be stopped.
But, they are doing “Good”.
Didn’t Hitler’s followers buy into the pogrom?
Then + now, they are – Saving Mother Earth from elements of Humanity that threaten to destroy the planet.
There isn’t enough Living Space on this Over-populated planet. “Soon” the planet will pass a “point of no return” beyond which all life has no way to escape extinction.
Soon, we will discover what Final Solution they have researched + developed to solve the same problem the correct-thinking Germans were fighting…
The parallels are truly frightening if you just let them speak for themselves….
My point being — there has been well over 100 years of social conditioning + 50 years of it being the Green Earth religion – also known as Climate Change —— telling each new generation of young minds – our fellow humans are a Cancer on Mother Earth. —- You would do Good if you destroyed our Dangerous Greedy Civilization + got rid of billions of Useless Eaters.
The Good Germans thought their government was doing — God’s Work….
Why would any “reasonable” person listen to the people who have been Demonized? Why should people standing in the way of Saving Mother Earth even be tolerated? These non-vaccers + non-Progressives are a mortal threat to all life on Earth, right? Getting rid of them is just common sense. It is even Noble to eliminate them from your institutions + then the planet….
Don’t forget the conditioning that we have all been forced to endure from microsucks and others. How else would the public be conditioned to accept a product that does nothing it promised, and then be forced to accept endless “fixes” (call them patches, boosters, or 2.0, 3.0…)?
I really hope someone from Hillsdale is a Treeper, sees this video and can get this brilliant woman hired.
Wow…That is just wrong and already becoming more and more common.
I’m still giving them my middle finger though…
Keep up the pressure, dear fellow RNs.
Good girl! You will be glad you stood strong and they will be sorry you are gone.
This is like something out of a Hollywood horror movie. Soylent Green or something like that. Forcing people from their jobs while “they” are secure in their jobs! We are cutting our own dicks off because our balls itch! It makes no sense!
The difference between Canada and the US is real: @2:55 she says she is “entitled” to decide. That implies a power handed down to her from above.
Americans have reserved to ourselves the right to make medical decisions for ourselves. Our rights come from God. They are acknowledged in the Bill of Rights; our rights do not come from the Bill of Rights.
Therefore, our Rights cannot be revoked. Anyone attempting to revoke our God given rights is ipso facto not only a criminal, but also a heretic.
Our Founding Fathers were very smart.
The destruction of the US Constitution has been the progs’ objective for well over a century, for the reasons you state so clearly.
And by “progs”, I mean all of the Uniparty. They all increase in power and wealth with that destruction, as does the globalist oligarchy that pays them.
And yet there is constant talk of “exemptions”. What form do I fill out for my religious exemption from a mandate to submit to rape? (asking for a friend)
Very courageous lady. Especially given the fact that Canada is trying to catch up with Australia to be the Most Authoritarian State on Earth.
We are in a desperate struggle to be sure..that said our current P.M. Is struggling and his snap election call for September 20 may see him out of office.
The U.S.A. appears to be little better.
Your fake President just flipped the country’s citizens the middle finger with his mandates, mandates that have excluded his “ pets”
Too bad the Governors of Red States would not aggressively revolt against the blatant fraud.
For every action there is a complete and opposite reaction.
So hard to watch what’s happening worldwide in the name of evil. I feel her heartache and pray the next door opens quickly for her and brings forth the reward & recognition she so rightly deserves. These are such dark times testing our willpower. We must all stand united and as bravely as she is, and pray to our Heavenly Father for guidance and protection. He told us multiple times to not be afraid. Trust in Him unconditionally!
This is why leftism is always fundamentally an immoral, amoral value set.
The Left says morals, ethics, right and wrong will be set aside until after we win the revolution.
After we win, says the Left, after we win morals will count again. After we win right and wrong will matter again, because the world will be a different place.
Apocalyptic Christians get this logic. Christ will change the human heart. Atheistic leftists have no such engine driving their profound conceits.
For atheistic leftists, the bottom will remain the bottom.
Good Germans
It would seem to me if the Domiciles of “The employer”, all who were part of the decision to mandate, suddenly and inexplicably combusted, we would see far fewer of these mandates.
Bullies bully until burned.
Just the way they are.
Cause and effect operates both ways here.
You get more of what you tolerate, less of what you punish.
That’s just the way people are.
You can tolerate them punishing you, or you can punish them until they can’t tolerate it anymore.
Just the way it works.
The Nuremberg Code of 1947 (which came out of WWII and declares certain things to be Crimes Against Humanity) : “The voluntary consent [to a medical treatment or procedure] of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision.”
Having done some work for a federal contractor a few years ago, I received an email this morning inquiring about my availability for more work.
Those availability emails come on a regular basis and have the same template verbiage. The one today sounded so desperate. It was more of a sales pitch/guilt trip rather than a question along the line of “don’t you want to help people in need?”
Sounds like their deployed contractors must have filled up some inboxes.
It boils down to —Trust.
After 2020, I have no trust in our Institutions. I have moved over to much Distrust.
I knew before 2020, all the primary institutions (MSM, Hollywood, Teachers Unions, Academia + so on) had been systematically taken over + have weeded people like me out for a long time.
I also knew – the people they do hire, retain + promote – want me dead – in an academic sense. I knew they bought into the Climate Change religion that preaches humans are a Cancer on Mother Earth.
After 2020, I know, the $$$ that led the effort in corrupting all those institutions is — deadly serious. It is not an academic thing anymore. It’s Life + Death.
And only one side has been allowed to flourish in our institutions for so long, none of them can be trusted, because Deceit was a primary tool in taking them over. Lying for the greater good is a cherished resource.
I will never gamble on trusting the Health Care Institution again until something worse than Smallpox is out there (which killed 30% of the infected.) I probably won’t trust it even then, because I know the people who released Covid have also kept stockpiles of Smallpox + most likely weaponized it to counter the prior vaccine for it…
The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions (like the FBI, CIA, DOJ and DOD) are extraneous [or worse – dangerous], they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, [become criminal], cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. To be loyal to rags [institutions], to shout for rags [institutions], to worship rags [institutions], to die for rags [institutions] — this is loyalty to unreason, it is pure lower animal; it belongs to monarchy [which our Founding Fathers rebelled against, went to war against], was invented by monarchy; let monarchy keep it.
– Mark Twain
Great quote
I had the great good fortune to have professors like her when I was in graduate school. The knowledge I received from them, the intellectual challenge to grow and examine new ideas has never left me. It was the most exciting time of my life. It was a time when, quite on my own, I moved from being a rather naive member of the Hard Left to completely liberated conservative. My professors—who were mostly intrigued if not bewildered by what I was doing—actually encouraged my explorations. I was so fortunate, so advantaged by the ability to interact with people like this professor. I learned from them. But I also learned that I could do what they could do. I hope this good professor can win her fight against academic tyranny. Probably someone like me would not have survived in the academic environment she’s in. Her fight is going to be hard. Let’s all wish her well.
Germany in 1933, America in 2021, more alike than different.