Victor Davis Hanson compares college protests taking place in blue, red states

BRIAN: THEY'VE SEEN THE PRESIDENT NOW. GREAT REPORT. THANK YOU FOR THAT. JACKIE: SOME PROTESTERS ARE NOT FAZED BY REST, SOME WEARING IT AS A BADGE OF HONOR, LISTEN TO THIS. >> WE WILL DO WHAT WE'VE ALWAYS DONE, WE WILL GET ARRESTED JUST LIKE THE CRIMINALS ON THE SUBWAY, THEY WERE ALWAYS RIGHT BACK OUT IN 24 HOURS. JACKIE: THIS WHILE NEW YORK CITY MAYOR ADAM SAYS I GOT A HEAVY-HANDED HEATING THE CHAOS WE SAW MEDIA. YOU. HOOVER INSTITUTION SENIOR FELLOW VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, GREAT TO SEE YOU AGAIN. I SAW YOU ON TELEVISION LAST NIGHT, COMMENTING ON LIFE PICTURES AND CHAOS THAT WAS OCCURRING ON CAMPUS. NOW THAT IT HAS HAD TIME TO SETTLE, KIDS ARE USING THAT AS A BADGE OF HONOR AND VOWING TO CONTINUE ONWARD EVEN IF IT IS NOT NECESSARILY ON-CAMPUS. I USE THE TERM KID USUALLY BECAUSE OF THE AGITATORS THAT ARE MIXED IN. IT'S VERY ORGANIZED. WHAT IS YOUR TAKE AWAY WHAT WE SAW LAST NIGHT AND WHERE WE STAND TODAY? >> THEY ARE A PHENOMENON, MOSTLY ELITE UNIVERSITIES, NOT ALL BUT ELITE UNIVERSITIES IN BLUE STATES AND BLUE CITIES, NOT HAPPENING IN FLORIDA OR TEXAS OR GEORGIA AND WHEN THEY HAPPEN THERE IS A RESPONSE. THE PROTESTERS IN THESE PARTICULAR PLACES FEEL THAT THE FACULTY IS ON THEIR SIDE AND THEY KNOW THAT. THEY FEEL ANYBODY WHO CAN BECOME PRESIDENT AT YALE OR HARVARD, LEFT-WING OR UNTIL RECENTLY HAD TO BE, THEY FEEL THE MAJORS IN THESE CITIES SYMPATHIZE WITH THEM. THEY LOOK AT 2020, ANTIFA AND BLM, THEY FEEL EMPOWERED AND SOMEBODY STANDS UP -- THEY WILL CONTINUE. JACKIE: I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE HISTORY OF THIS. IS THIS IMPLANTED IN UNIVERSITIES AND FACULTIES FROM THE 60s FROM THE 80s, HOW ARE PROFESSORS AND FACULTIES GETTING IN THESE INSTITUTIONS AND CREATING THIS MOMENT? >> THE GENERATION OF 1968, ROGER KIMBALL WROTE A BOOK CALLED TENURE RADICALS, PREDOMINANTLY LEFTIST IN THE 60s AND THEY ARE IN THEIR 70s NOW BUT UNDER DEI PROTOCOLS OF THE LAST FOUR TO SIX YEARS, IT'S INCREASINGLY RADICALIZED IT AND THEN WE HAVE DON'T FORGET WE HAVE 1/4 MILLION PEOPLE FROM THE MIDDLE EAST, THE FACULTY ADDRESSES THAT COMMUNITY AT THE UNIVERSITY SEES THEM AS EXEMPT, THAT IS ANOTHER PORTION OF IT. THE OTHER PROBLEM, THIS IS AN ARCHAIC INSTITUTION, ONLY PLACE WHERE WE HAVE TENURE, PEOPLE IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR DON'T HAVE IT, THESE PEOPLE GO TO GRADUATE SCHOOL, THEY ARE INDOCTRINATED TO A FACULTIES VILLA AND AFTER FIVE EASY YEARS THEY GET A LIFETIME 3 PASS. THEY KNOW ANYTHING THEY SAY OR DO, CANCEL CLASS, POLITICIZE, SEPARATE JEWS FROM NON-JEWS, THEY WON'T FACE MUCH SO I DON'T THINK -- THEY ARE JUST CALLED OLDER STUDENTS, THE SAME MORALITY. BRIAN: SOME PLACES IN AMERICA HAVE NOT DESCENDED INTO CHAOS. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA SAYS THIS IS NOT DAY CARE. STUDENTS AT UNC CHAPEL HILL RAISED THE AMERICAN FLAG, THAT IS WHAT SHOULD FLY AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY. DO YOU HAVE SOME HOPE THAT SOME PLACES FIGURE IT OUT AND SET A NEW MODEL FOR THIS OSSIFIED INSTITUTION? >> YOU PUT YOUR FINGER ON IT WHEN THEY SAID SOME HOPE. ALL OF THESE EXAMPLES ARE IN WHAT WE WOULD CALL PURPLE OR RED STATES SO THEY GET REINFORCEMENT FROM THE MAYORS, GOVERNORS, STATE LEGISLATURE AND GENERAL POPULATION SUPPORT, 65% OR 75% OF AMERICA SUPPORTS ISRAEL AND THAT SUPPORT IS MANIFEST. THE COLLEGE PRESIDENTS EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE ON THE LEFT SIDE ALLERGIC, THEY FEEL IF THEY WERE TO APPEASE THE STUDENTS AND THAT THE VIOLENCE CONTINUE THERE WOULD BE A PUSHBACK FROM THE PUBLIC FROM THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL AND THE GOVERNOR AND THAT IS NOT

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Length: 4min 48sec (288 seconds)

Published: Sun May 05 2024