There is something f’n rotten in major student orgs on campuses

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None of this is surprising if you've interacted with any of these college leftist types over the past seven or eight 43* years. Most of them are bloodthirsty, angry, and depraved.

*Strikethrough and asterisk are mine.  I started college in 1981, and the "Progressive Student Union" was like this when I arrived.

[longtimelurker]

Wow my post about liberalism being a mental disease got deleted and the nonsense in the Gaza thread survives. Liberalism in a nutshell.

None of these people are liberals. They hate liberalism just as much as you do!

They are clearly liberals

Lmao they are not liberals, they are leftists.

If you called any of these people liberals, they'd have a stroke.

I don't care what these idiots would suffer from. It's clear they are liberals.

I just found out that the son of an old family friend, a soldier in the IDF, was killed in the first day of the war.  He was a liberal, just like his parents.

You deserve to apologize to the Atlas Forum for your slanderous troll posts.  I won't hold my breath.

[longtimelurker]

This is the most concerning one of them all:
https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1711765773142614335

GWU may not be Harvard in terms of prestige, but there is still no university that sends a larger number of alumni to work on Capitol Hill and to the Foreign Service. Today's Hill staffers are tomorrow's congressmen. Today's FSO trainees are tomorrow's Ambassadors and Undersecretaries of State.

As a GW alum (graduated in 2019) I thought my thoughts may be worth posting.

In my experience, the students who go on to the Foreign Service, State Dept, even much of the Hill are not the people who get involved in organizations like Students for Justice in Palestine, or similar groups like Progressive Students Union and the like.

GW students are quite liberal but they mostly lean "establishment liberal" - the type that want to work in the system and change it. However the minority who are genuinely radical/genuinely leftist are very vocal, but they are a minority.

This statement is reprehensible, but it hasn't come out of nowhere sadly. Tensions on this issue have always been high. since there was always a small minority of very vocal anti-Israel activists, as well as very pro-Israel groups that came from both the large Jewish-American population at GW and also some non-Jewish students. A candidate for Student Body Vice President was disqualified a few years back for making anti-Israel comments on Facebook, and a decent number of people defended him.

SJP was a small group while I was there - one thing I noted is that this statement kept using "our/we"us" though the vast majority of SJP members were (surprise!) white Americans. I don't know if that changed or not, but that seems strange.

I was a visiting professor at GWU 2001-2003.  I arrived on campus just 10 days before 9-11.  The student newspaper regularly published anti-Semitic editorial cartoons, depicting GW Jewish students as either smelly animals or sexually depraved (the latter category even had cartoons that were XXX-rated).  Mind you, these cartoons had nothing to do with Israel or Israelis, but American Jews.