China's Trojan Horse Confucius Institutes Persist on Campuses
Plus: 'Science' is now 'Violence'
China's Trojan Horse Confucius Institutes Persist on Campuses
Would any sane nation permit its enemies to freely propagandize at its educational institutions; intimidate faculty into silence, self-censorship, and complicity in enemy information operations; and hold funds over said institutions' heads as leverage?
If the answer is a resounding "No," as it should be, then it is hard to see the American academy as anything other than insane—and dangerously so—when it comes to China and its Confucius Institutes, as a bombshell report from the National Association of Scholars (NAS) makes clear.
The report demonstrates that news of Confucius Institutes' death in America has been greatly exaggerated. The story of Confucius Institutes in America is a cautionary tale illustrating the ability of China to weather efforts to combat its malign machinations, and the corruption of the very institutions that ought to be standing as bulwarks against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
I have the story in a new piece in Newsweek.
For America’s Progressive Elites, ‘Science Is Violence’
America’s progressive elites have transitioned from “Follow the Science” to “Science Is Violence.”
Their senior-most judges will not define what a woman is, nor will their celebrated scholars acknowledge that only a woman can give birth. In fact, to even assert the latter, in our betters’ view, is to render one a dangerous societal menace.
That’s one of the takeaways from the recent dumbfounding exchange between Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and University of California–Berkeley law professor Khiara Bridges during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the legal consequences of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and returned the question of abortion to the states.
I unpack that exchange and put it in proper context in a new piece at the Epoch Times, writing in part that:
The notion that words with which the left disagrees—or truths that if broadly acknowledged would hamper their agenda and undermine their power and privilege—constitute violence, and that therefore those articulating them must be chastised if not punished using force of law or worse, of course arises from the academy. And we’re all living on the campus now.
This can be seen in the whole-of-ruling class War on Wrongthink under which we’re currently suffering, whereby those dissenting from the prevailing orthodoxy over draconian coronavirus policies, critical race theory indoctrination in schools, and on matters of election integrity, immigration, or climate are targeted for censorship and silencing if not treated as domestic terror threats by the world’s most powerful national security and intelligence apparatus.
As conditions in America get worse, and the ruling class’s worldview grows ever more radical, expect the censorship to get worse.
What else can you do when the most ardent adherents of your political movement reject biological sex, promote abortion up to the point of birth (infanticide), celebrate drag queen story hour, indoctrinate kids into believing America is a bastion of racist evil, support the freeing of violent criminals while disarming the law-abiding and throwing the book at them should they seek to defend themselves, throw wide open our borders, and cripple the energy industry on which modern life and prosperity relies—and all to predictable, disastrous effect?
For normal people seeking a normal society, this is indefensible. Silencing and punishing the ever-growing chorus of critics is the only option.
This is precisely why it’s incumbent upon those who reject such a worldview to speak ever more openly, honestly, and boldly. To remain silent in the face of such crybullies is to be complicit in their totalitarian effort—totalitarian in the sense of its expansive aspiration to control every aspect of our society, starting with our speech, and in the means used to achieve it.
For progressives, it’s clear that every norm and civilizational pillar must be transgressed.
Their fragility is best demonstrated in their every effort to stop you from calling them out on it.
Read the whole thing here.