The woman to whom most of Banks questions were directed said in response to his question about folx that perhaps the student didn't know how to spell reminded me of Kamala Harris a bit... the over simplification of the issue, the coyness, the feigning stupidity...
If Banks had been knowledgeable, he could have called her out and put her between a rock and a hard place... he could have started out as he did and then after she feigned ignorance, point out that the language was socialist and that she would have us believe that the school is so out of touch with its students as to not know what ideologies the students are pushing in the name of the college.
Maybe the first thing we should do with the zines is to send them to congress... then maybe they would have a better understanding of the socialist language and can then put some of these ppl between a rock and a hard place.
completely agree. he was so close, yet so far away (and unprepared) in his line of questioning. there was no follow-up on her answers, and there was no exposure of the ideology behind the terminology he was mentioning. (she played that one well as far as the supposed ‘cluelessness’ of ‘folx’…but to question the spelling ability of Columbia students?! that answer was priceless. I laughed so loudly on the way to work when she said that, and Karlyn replayed it.) a priceless hearing, between that and the ‘do you want Columbia University to be cursed by GAWD?’ Congress being effective as always.
The woman to whom most of Banks questions were directed said in response to his question about folx that perhaps the student didn't know how to spell reminded me of Kamala Harris a bit... the over simplification of the issue, the coyness, the feigning stupidity...
If Banks had been knowledgeable, he could have called her out and put her between a rock and a hard place... he could have started out as he did and then after she feigned ignorance, point out that the language was socialist and that she would have us believe that the school is so out of touch with its students as to not know what ideologies the students are pushing in the name of the college.
Maybe the first thing we should do with the zines is to send them to congress... then maybe they would have a better understanding of the socialist language and can then put some of these ppl between a rock and a hard place.
completely agree. he was so close, yet so far away (and unprepared) in his line of questioning. there was no follow-up on her answers, and there was no exposure of the ideology behind the terminology he was mentioning. (she played that one well as far as the supposed ‘cluelessness’ of ‘folx’…but to question the spelling ability of Columbia students?! that answer was priceless. I laughed so loudly on the way to work when she said that, and Karlyn replayed it.) a priceless hearing, between that and the ‘do you want Columbia University to be cursed by GAWD?’ Congress being effective as always.
We should simplify deprive them of all the fruits of “evil capitalism “ and let them fend for themselves in Gaza!
Great review. Thankfully you are able to face the mind poison of Marxism and report on it dispassionately.