Creating a Campus Climate of Fear

There's been a lot of talk lately about conditions on college campuses. The news and online commentators have covered college protests about all manner of things from 'offensive'Halloween costumes to fecal swastikas  to students demanding that their campus police be disarmed because ofperceived racism, college campuses have once again become hotbeds for radicalism. This radicalism is deeply embedded in the various student leadership organizations of the university campus. To illustrate, let's return to our mythical student government association and watch the process of rule by fear in process:

Scene: Student Senate Meeting. Place: Student Union Building. Date: Wednesday evening, 5pm.

Student senate leaders file in for the meeting, with the senate chair arriving first. We'll call him Daniel, an ethnically mixed male of ambiguous sexuality. He's wearing worn out jeans, a suit jacket, a dress shirt more appropriate for a frat party, and hasn't shaved in several months. He's 20 years old with a scruffy, patchy beard.

He is followed by the 12 members of the student senate, about half of whom have either a Starbucks cup in their hands or a 30oz bottle of water in case they find themselves in a desert unexpectedly. Shortly thereafter the student body president arrives with her VP; both are self-described 'Left Marxists' who secretly harbor anti-semitic attitudes dressed up in a concern for Palestinian suffering.

Shortly after their arrival they are followed by their cabinet members, who are largely radicals. The Equal Rights Advocate and the Multicultural Affairs Director take prominent seats near the President and Vice President.

The Agenda: Watching the presentation of the Alternative Student Union, an unofficial student organization that operates 'outside the system.' The Student Body President and Vice President are both members of the organization, as is about 1/3 of the Senate. The informal leader, a charming young African American woman named Alice, is walks in dressed like a normal and unassuming student. After the preliminary call to order and approval of the agenda, Alice is given the floor.

Alice: “As we know, the university administrators recently armed campus police. They did so because they are racists and are afraid of students of color. Ignore that the small police force has several women and people of color on the force – they armed them because they are racist and fear students of color. The ASU will be taking over the Board of Trustees meeting and stopping their business until they agree to disarm campus police. We'll be doing this Friday. Next Monday, the university president is having a public hearing about tuition. We'll be interrupting that meeting despite the fact that he needs to decide how to avoid raising tuition. The affordable education of every student is unimportant because we know better than the student body. We will keep doing this until they meet our demands. Any questions?”

A senator, we'll call her Maria, raises her hand: “Will this be like the last meeting? Make a lot of noise, no-platform the president and board members, and pretend we speak for the student body even though fewer than 5% of them voted for us?”

Alice: “Absolutely. The ASU was unelected, and we only ask ourselves how we feel about these issues, so we can speak accurately for the whole body of students. Bring signs and drums. The more noise the better. Noise helps intimidate them and the students who oppose us into silence.”

The Multicultural Affairs Director raises her hand: “I know that the police here are racist because they pulled me over while I was driving because I wasn't wearing a seat belt.” She shakes her rainbow colored hair. “They have no right to judge me on appearances or the lack of a seat belt.”

Alice: “Absolutely. I totally agree.”

The Student Body President raises her hand: “Someone make sure to bring snacks in case we get hungry. We need to be in this for the long haul.”

Her Vice President interjects: “I can have a rapid response team of people ready to deliver snacks at any moment. Snacks are essential.”

Obviously I'm making fun of these people but the elements are there. Any area of disagreement is reduced to racism, sexism, the Illuminati – er, I mean Patriarchy, or other forms of 'institutional oppression.' It never occurs to people that those who operate universities have a broader view and more information than students do. Not that logic matters all that much, as fear is the essential tool of Social Justice Warriors.

The federal rate of rape is actually lower on university campuses than it is in the broader society, yet fear of rape rules the day. Why? Either SJWs are ignorant of the facts or, more likely, they just don't care because fear is the ultimate political tool for achieving the revolutionary change that Cultural Marxists so desire. Universities have become homes for institutional collectivism. An essential element of collectivism is the assumption that the proletariat are too dumb to know what their needs actually are, thus enabling an elite (at universities, the activists and student leaders) to speak for them on any issue. It's rare for elected student leaders to not assume a side in a controversial issue and pretend to speak for the entire student body.

Why the focus on campus activism? Student leadership is one entry point into the political pipeline that feeds into the party and wider activist system that serves as the engine of American politics. In some states former student government leaders can become members of corrupt 'non-partisan' student lobbying organizations at the state and federal level – I say 'non-partisan' because while they refrain from endorsing specific candidates and parties, those who run these organizations tend to overwhelmingly be Cultural Marxists; this is reflected in trainings they offer for student activists that are radical and leftist in nature. But that topic I'll save for another day.