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Consequences does not have to mean coercion

AJ Edelman, OLY, MBA
@realajedelman
I received an email asking me to contribute to Yale for my class reunion.
My response:
“Last year I faced suspension and a trespassing charge if I returned to campus without proof of a 5th COVID shot.
Perhaps you can ask one of the fine Yalies bravely harassing their Jewish peers instead. They’re easy to find; they’re hosting a Jew hatred festival in the middle of campus and calling for violent intifada.”
12:30 AM · Apr 30, 2024

Now that’s what I call an effective non-violent protest.

5 comments to Consequences does not have to mean coercion

  • Paul Marks

    I believe the last piece of writing that Ayn Rand produced before her death in 1982 was “The Sanction of the Victim”.

    This contained the point that people should stop giving money to institutions that taught evil.

    I believe this point of Ayn Rand to be both true and important – and that is not well answered by saying “I have got to get my child into Yale [or where ever] so they can network and get a Good Job in the government or Corporate bureaucracy!”.

    If the institution is teaching evil, which it is, and stands for evil things, which it does, then sending your child there is not a good thing to do. “But the Good Job – the Good Job!” – perhaps you should consider if a job with the government or Corporate bureaucracy really is good. Perhaps your child should be encouraged to learn a trade – and if you react with horror to such a suggestion, perhaps you should consider the possibility that you are showing snobbery.

    You know these places are NOT places of high culture and traditional learning – you know they teach evil and represent evil, stop giving them money and stop sending your children to these places. And stop supporting government and Corporate bureaucracy that is dominated by people who are “educated” in these evil “values”.

    The idea that modern governments defend the nation (America, Britain and so on) is false, and the idea the Corporate bureaucracy (dominated by Critical Theory and supported by endless Credit Money created from NOTHING) is free enterprise, is absurd.

  • Paul Marks

    William F. Buckley denounced Yale (in “God and Man at Yale”) some 70 years ago, but then sent his own son to a similar despicable “elite” institution – the result “sorry dad I am voting for Obama” was predictable.

    The town around Yale, New Haven Connecticut, follows the Big Government Progressive doctrines that Yale stands for – it is not well governed.

    And modern (modern) Chicago follows the Big Government Progressive doctrines that both Barack and Michelle Obama stand for – it is not well governed either.

  • Paul Marks

    I was mistaken – Christopher Buckley, the son of William F. Buckley, did not go to a “similar” institution to despicable Yale, he want to despicable Yale itself – graduating in 1976.

  • I sneeze in threes

    The ever on point Patrick Bateman had Yale sussed.

    https://youtu.be/1NyzQwwO4Os?si=fBSFjFJ9w-RSnrCA

  • Paul Marks

    I sneeze in threes – not “closet” any more.

    Remember we now live in the “I am the proud parent of a Gay child” stage of cultural (societal) collapse – and by “child” they mean child (not post 18 year old student), and “Gay” is not enough – now we have the “Trans Kids” cult – pushed by “President” Biden in the State of the Union speech. “Trans Kids – we have your back!”

    I suspect that Karl Marx and Frederick Engels would NOT have gone along with all this – the Frankfurt interpretation of Marxism (now called “Critical Theory” or “Intersectionality”) has got totally out of control – the movement that dominates virtually all Western institutions (government and Corporate) is insane – criminally insane.

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