Did you ever wonder what goes on in school faculty lounges? As students, we always wondered what was happening in there. What sort of snacks and food did they have? Why was there always a hail of laughter coming through the door whenever you walked by? Did they talk about the students, plan their next impossible test, or what? It was always off limits, but why?
Here’s a question: Are teachers today using the faculty lounge to plan attacks on statues, monuments, and even each other, all over America and to undermine our country’s history and our fundamental rights?
This may sound far-fetched, even crazy. But let’s take a look at a rogue’s gallery of statue attacks over the past few weeks.
“University police at Ole Miss arrested Zachary Borenstein around 4:45 p.m. Saturday.
“The vandalized statue had the words ‘spiritual genocide’ in black spray paint, along with red handprints, along the side of the statue in the Lyceum-Circle Historic District.”
The protest was mostly an orderly affair, but one person crossed the line into an “exclusion zone” separating the two protesting groups and was arrested. That person was Michael Alvard, 61, a professor at the university. The Young Democratic Socialists of America chapter at the school helped raise money to bail Alvard out of jail.
All of these, you might say, happened in response to the killing of George Floyd. But there are several problems with this. First, Christopher Columbus and Sully Ross had nothing to do with George Floyd. Second, what does pulling down historical monuments and statues have to do with anything? Third, some teachers and professors have been in the vandalism and anarchy game well before May 2020, when George Floyd was killed.
Amin Husain is his name, and vandalism is his game. Husain’s group, Decolonize This Place, “called for a free transit system with ‘no cops’ patrolling the subways. Some vandalized stations by pouring glue or honey into turnstiles to jam them up, or chaining doors open.” He hated police and wanted them gone—mostly it seems, so he could get free rides on the subway—before it was hip and fashionable. The Post also reports he was part of the Palestinian intifada as a teen, which raises a question: How did he ever even get into the United States to start his little subway intifada here?
Canceling Colleagues
When woke teachers aren’t going after statues or the police, they’re going after each other to get other teachers, professors, and administrators they disagree with fired.Turley highlights the recent case of a nursing school dean who ended up getting yanked for including the phrase “everyone’s life matters” in an email.
After reporting on several cases just in the past few weeks, Turley says: “[I]t has been difficult to keep up with the rising number of cases of the curtailment of speech or academic freedom on our campuses. What is equally alarming is the relative silence of most faculty members as individual professors are publicly denounced by their universities, forced into retirement, or outright terminated for expressing dissenting views.”
The silence is easy to explain. Those faculty members who aren’t members of the Faculty Lounge Fascistas are terrified of the ones who are. When these intolerant totalitarians aren’t busy plotting attacks on monuments and statues, they’re scanning the emails and social media of their colleagues and superiors to find something they can rat out. They’re a volunteer secret police, using the current unrest as a cover for targeting our history, our way of life, and our constitutional rights. If they’re not countered, they will cancel us all.
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