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🚨 Columbia Professor Says Campuses Should Develop Students’ “Political Consciousness,” Calls Hamilton Hall Takeover “Nonviolent,” and Blames “Far Right” Collaboration Columbia professor Sarah Haley at Socialism 2026 argues that campuses are not peripheral institutions, but “concentrations of wealth” and “power” that serve as sites for developing young people’s “political... show more
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The students barricaded workers inside of the building and fought with one of the maintenance men as he tried to leave. The hijacking of Hamilton Hall was violent as hell. Police found rope, knives, zip-ties, and Hamas propaganda after they cleared the building 24 hours later.
Its all word salad. Amazing that anyone is willing to pay these people a salary
I am just imagining being you and having to listen to and report on all this. I am exhausted already.
Why the fuck do they need universities for "political experimentation" while they're legal adults with the ability to vote? What a roundabout way of telling that you're grooming young people.
Sarah Haley is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Columbia, with research interests in the history of gender and women, carceral history, Black feminist history and theory, prison abolition, and feminist archival methods. Waste of air.
Anyone that says, “right?!“ after every third word they say doesn’t even believe the shit coming out of their own mouth.
And parents pay $100G for the privilege of listening to this crap. #EmbarrassedAlumnus
Non-violent against you. Telling Jews what they can and cant do? Which beliefs are acceptable. Turning colleges into a one topic of speech zones? This hyper narrow focus described as speech?
This one makes the commies and nazis both angry! 😂
Well, I start to feel that closing those allged humanities departments in the academy, is the right thing to do. Their disconnection from the society/reality starts to sound as a tremendous annoying discord.
@christopherrufo wrote an entire book about the "long march through the institutions" begun in the 1960s on American college campuses:
Stop spouting narratives
Arrest her for subversion
Defund the colleges; they are nothing more than indoctrination camps. That also put you into debt for life.
The spaces these people belong in are padded rooms.
No. Just NO. And, go get a real job.
"She says college has traditionally given students space for “political experimentation” before they enter the 9-to-5 workforce" No one at my university was interested in holding protests and occupying buildings.
Lies. Ayn Rand summed up this bag of mashed potatoes very well
No.
@EDSecMcMahon … we have a problem…. A Sarah Haley communist problem at @Columbia
Violence is nonviolent, men are women, up is down. Communism 101
I want to say something here for the millions of hard working, law abiding students hoping to complete their degrees and join the workforce. This person doesn't speak for them.
Oh so it’s not for education?
Scary sh’t ‼️💥✌🏽🇺🇸
I do not want one dime of my tax dollars to go to any university.
@neetu_arnold Haley needs to go. These people are the problem. Would NEVER let my grandson go to Columbia.
Sarah is angry that too few will be paying for her classes on how to invent excuses to live on other people’s money.
problem is institutions such as Columbia only want to teach THEIR political POV
Leave my kids tf alone!
Fuck this dumb douche. They took two janitors hostage.
![The great Dr Jordan B Peterson praises my work exposing corruption in elite academia, but expresses concern, even opposition, to my work reforming New College of Florida. He's wrong. Let me explain why. First, Peterson implies that "political control" over universities is illegitimate. It is not. New College of Florida is a public university, and public universities are the creation of the state—that is, they belong to and should reflect the values of the public. In Florida, voters elect their representatives, who, in turn, charter, fund, and govern the public universities. The takeover of New College was, in this manner, an expression of the democratic will, moving the public university in line with the wishes of the public. It was always this way. When Thomas Jefferson wrote the charter for the University of Virginia, the first public university in the United States, he explicitly stated that the university should promote the virtues of the broader society and that the ultimate authority rested with the legislature. The university's leadership, he insisted, "should at all times conform to such laws as the legislature may from time to time think proper to enact for their government, and the said University should, in all things, and at all times be subject to the controul of the legislature." As Jefferson might remind Peterson, the alternative to "political control" of the universities is not enlightened self-government but bureaucratic rule. The laissez-faire attitude of legislators, who, in recent decades, ceded control of the public universities to unelected administrators and faculty departments, created the precise problem we are now trying to resolve. It is not a betrayal of classical liberal values to insist that political leaders, rather than permanent bureaucrats, govern public institutions—it is, rather, a restoration of those values. Second, Peterson is concerned that creating a "new conservative university," as he characterizes New College of Florida, could represent "an equivalent error on the more conservative side" to that made by “radical leftist universities." No: The equivalent error would be to propose that conservatives rule all of the universities, systemically exclude progressives from faculty positions, and use academia as a vehicle for political activism. We have done nothing of the sort. We have, instead, created a balanced faculty, fostered debate, and revived classical liberal principles at the state’s smallest university—not an equivalence in degree or in kind. I would interrogate Peterson's position a step further. Does he believe that the status quo of left-wing domination is somehow more legitimate than our reforms? Does he think that Florida voters, who elected Governor DeSantis in a landslide and whose taxes bankroll public universities, should be denied a public education system that represents their values? Why should they be compelled to subsidize DEI and gender studies rather than the classical liberal arts? Third, Peterson warns that the ideological should not permeate the educational. On this, I would agree, but with a twist: America’s public universities are too ideological, but insufficiently political. In other words, we should absolutely reject the status quo of activist pseudo-scholarship and cheap left-wing partisanship, but we should remember—and embrace—the fact that public universities are inherently political institutions, with a duty to promote citizenship, cultivate virtue, and pursue the public good. It is not by accident that Aristotle's theory of education appears in the final book of the Politics. Jefferson concurred. The imperative of the public university, he insisted, is to educate the young, and, in particular, the leadership class, into the political regime. He envisioned America’s universities as a place "[t]o form the statesmen, legislators, and judges on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend." And he saw clearly that this would require strong leadership, able to maintain the republican character and transmit political knowledge from one generation to the next. This brings me to my final point: prudence. Peterson is intimately familiar with the crisis of the academy. Yet, he hesitates to embrace even the most modest reform. He apparently prefers the posture of the critic and, as a result and perhaps inadvertently, defends the status quo. This is regrettable. The prudent line of action, consistent with the principles of classical liberalism—not to be mistaken for non-interventionism—is to support reforms that restore public trust, rebalance the faculty, and reorient the universities toward truth, rather than power. Read the full essay at City Journal:](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1828911726609477689/ext_tw_video_thumb/1828909952649637888/pu/img/GyS4U_oP1HnciuWm.jpg)
