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Old August 23rd, 2013 #2
Alex Linder
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Alex Bensky | August 22, 2013 at 9:50 am

The answer is indeed easy. Note that the administration knew who was perpetrating this and did nothing to stop it.

To the authoritarian, i.e. leftist, mind, for one thing actual facts are, you know, kind of patriarchal and bourgeois. Like the Duke 88, what’s more important is the underlying reality. Or as Joe Schultz, former manager of the Seattle Pilots, once said, “Tell your statistics to shut up.”

But the more important reason is this: You get to cancel classes and have rallies and seminars and demonstrations, all of which is intended to stir up the base and cause the dissenters to keep quiet. It’s also a chance to show one’s moral superiority which is, I think, an important reason why many people become leftists.

There’s not a lot of psychological difference between what Oberlin did and the Cultural Revolution, is there?