Dakota Beacon

We have too many professors.  As one who has been intimately involved with university politics and lifestyle, I am acutely aware of the desperation which develops in those who must find some excuse to continue their employment.  This is especially critical among those who “teach” in the nebulous area of social justice or gender or race “studies”.  There is also the “carrot” to that “stick” of needing to be employed and that is the con game being perpetrated by some in these fields.  Superstars are born out of this attempt to fill space on college faculties, to write “relevant” books on current topics . . . or topics which one might try to make “current” if they aren’t.  

This need among academics to be important at their place of semi-employment combined with an aggressive movement to destabilize our country and bring down our Constitution and government, which we have been witnessing in real time all summer, gives birth to such gems as Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility and the proliferation of programs around it and its kind to destroy our social fabric.  In Tuesday night’s debate, Trump was asked by the execrable Chris Wallace if he would denounce white supremacists.  Answer:  “Sure.”  But Trump went on to observe that in our immediate world the violence being perpetrated on our cities, businesses, people, culture, law enforcement and government has come from the left.  He was immediately labeled a “racist” for this cogent and rational answer.  

Maybe someone out there can help clear this up.for us.  It might help us to understand this if perhaps someone could at least quote some of these white supremacist chants or slogans.  It’s weird, but the only ones that come to mind for me are things like the old reliable, “Pigs in a blanket, fry ‘em like bacon” and more up-dated ones in a similar vein - “AK-47  -  Put the cops in piggie heaven”, “Smoke dope, get high, all pigs are gonna die”.  As we can see, real progress.  One wonders where America went.  I hate to harp on this but it is the adults’ fault.   

For far too many generations, in fact basically beginning with the end of World War II, our nuclear family has been under assault.  It’s no good.  The family unit, nemesis of total state control, should be what it was in the years when America was succeeding.  To understand this you need to realize that the 1960s in America was the America of adults who were raised in the 1940s.  We are not talking about perfection here - we are talking about progress toward high goals.  If you look at a typical rom-com from the early 1960s you will see a lot of youthful energy, but also you will see vibrant culture - music, fashion, clean, safe streets.  True, this is the brightest side of America, and not all neighborhoods had caught up yet but they were getting closer.  That generation, my parents’ generation, that is, had mostly benefited from a decent education, learning accurate history of our country, good language and reading skills, basic manners, for God’s sake.  It was a truly civil society (not a perfect society, which cannot exist).  Our vintage commercials of the period focus on quality - the most effective toothpaste, the best and most luxurious cars, personal care products promoted by attractive celebrities.  Every girl wanted her hair to look like Anita Eckberg’s, so they bought White Rain shampoo.  The competition was fierce for your custom and products kept improving to get it.  

By the 1980s we began to see things deteriorating.  Ronald Reagan was elected president and that was the height of our golden era.  He observed that our culture was kept alive at the dinner table.  Sadly, we really don’t sit at the dinner table anymore.  Maybe that’s the problem.  Too many mothers earning the big bucks somewhere else.  Kids too busy with after-school programs or sports to be bothered with keeping an appointment for dinner with their families.  The daycares have waiting lists and kids are denied the normal upbringing nature intended - two  parents caring for them, guiding them in their choices, providing nurture.  News flash:  daycare does not provide nurturing for children.  We have thus raised a couple of generations of rootless, disrespectful, uncivil, whiny, ignorant Americans and we now find a lot of them in the streets calling for the anarchy which inevitably precedes tyranny.  The kids now progress from daycare to public schools (which are aggressively teaching a form of critical race theory) to our colleges and universities.  And we wonder what went wrong?  

Let’s take a look at a small state college, Midwestern State University.  Today there is a story about a beleaguered teacher there, Professor Nathan Jun, who teaches in the Philosophy Department - “Philosophy of Race and Racism”, “Multicultural Philosophy”, "Philosophy of Horror and Macabre," and other assorted courses.  He would seem to be the embodiment of our present crop of professors - in other words, what we have been brought to.  The reason we have ever heard of him is because he is crying loudly about being threatened and doxxed.  The reason he is supposedly threatened with “hate speech” is because of one of his brave messages on Facebook.  He is such a fearless leader, after all.  He says, and I quote, “I want the entire world to burn until the last cop is strangled with the intestines of the last capitalist, who is strangled in turn with the intestines of the last politician.”  Unfortunately for him he has no guts of his own.  He is now whining that he has had to leave his home, which has been vandalized, and is holed up in a hotel, which shall remain nameless.  I’m not sure I’d have been able to find him a room had I been at the desk when he arrived, since I’m not a fan of burning businesses to the ground, but there you have it.  The intrepid social justice warrior under his hotel bed.  One of the sundry courses he teaches, by the way, is “Anarchist Studies”.  Could it be that this is what leads to lifelong student debt and useless degrees?  Could it be this which emboldens the threateners and the vandals?  He claims he is a member of some suspect class or endangered species or whatever.  I don’t know  He appears to be white.  Maybe he is in danger because of that.  Not sure.   

Here is a guy or some kind of entity (we don’t know his pronouns) which wants to literally burn the world down, murder all police, all capitalists and all politicians.  Well, I suppose he would like the police to investigate his supposed “death threats” - he claims there are 300 of them.  One could have been mine if I’d wasted my college tuition on his course, but I didn’t so I’m off the list of suspects.  Why would he appeal to the public on this one?  Is he trying to raise an army of non-police to defend him?  Does he think the capitalists who underwrite his employer, Midwestern State University, either through their taxes or their philanthropy, should care?  What about those politicians who are running interference for his movement and defending his freedom of speech?  It would appear that the people running the public relations department of the university where he “works” are being pretty political right now.  One wonders if their politics would allow for, say, some “blue lives matter” activism voiced in their organs, or maybe some pro-life activism.  Someone should sit down with Professor Jun and explain some things to him.

First, let’s talk about Capitalists because he seems to have a special loathing for these people.  Jun “teaches” at a small public university described as “average” in Wichita Falls, Texas.  I looked up their website.  On the page where their foundation is described, I read the following:

Since its formation in 1960, the Foundation's total assets have grown considerably. This steady growth is a result of the Foundation's investment program and contributions from individuals, groups, and organizations committed to the continued growth of Midwestern State as a quality institution. The sole function of the Foundation is to support higher education at MSU, and its resources may be used for no other purpose.

So Midwestern has assets.  They have grown “considerably” as a result of the Foundation’s “investment program” and “contributions from individuals, groups and organizations”.  This sounds suspiciously like “capitalism” to me.  Assets! Investements!   And as if this were not enough, Midwestern invites us to contribute even more of our filthy lucre so they can continue to grow and we can all support higher  education - by which they apparently mean classes in “Philosophy of Racism”, “Multicultural Philosophy”, “Philosophy of Horror and Macabre”, oh, and “ Anarchology”, apparently.  It costs about $7.500 +/- in tuition per semester at Midwestern, gifts of donors notwithstanding (but then, these gifts are never, ever used to make tuition more affordable, are they?).  

At any rate, poor Professor Nathan Jun, who claims he represents some kind of minority, is openly calling for the mass murder of all police officers, all capitalists and all politicians.  Presumably he has no problem with arsonists or vandals, because he wants the whole world to burn until his objectives are realized.  Murder, arson and vandalism are okay.  I don't know why he's upset when it is applied to his home or his life.  

I suppose we should applaud the courageous stand for free speech adopted by the politians in charge of public relations at Midwestern State, and I hope that constitutionalist, anti-communist, pro-life and other activists are listening.  Here is where you can go to be heard.  Here your free speech is guaranteed, where it is safe to speak up.  No professor here need fear reprisals for his shared tweets or Facebook postings which support Donald Trump.  Here, if nowhere else, a kid will be free to wear his little red MAGA hat.  Or will he?  Let’s keep an eye on Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, for further updates.  

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