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Antifa or antifa – tiny a, if you will – may have gotten its start in Germany, but it’s flourishing here in the US like never before.
This growth has occurred even though true achievement of the movement’s stated goal – anarchy – would create chaos, leading to civilizational destruction on a scale probably unprecedented in human history in our nation. industrialized and high-tech of almost 330 million inhabitants.
The deeper causes of their violent and more than mildly deranged behavior are undoubtedly personal and psychoanalytic in nature. The story of the Seattle grandmother who identified her bomb-throwing grandson from a video of a protective vest she bought him – he said he was ‘peaceful’ – is a novel just waiting to be written.
But regardless of the psychological profiles of individual Antifa members, nearly all of them share one thing in common:
They went to American schools.
And these schools, with a few notable exceptions, have devalued and continue to denigrate the United States of America to one degree or another, from kindergarten to doctorate.
It is, to my knowledge, unique in history that a country’s public and private education systems are so deeply and systematically critical of the country itself. (China’s Cultural Revolution did this briefly, but Mao’s immediate central government was always supported.)
For decades our schools have been self-replicating machines, preaching to students, directly or indirectly, the leftist gospel according to Howard Zinn (and the Frankfurt School, etc.) and sending them in turn to preach this junior college. , the critical theory of Marxism themselves as teachers at all levels in all kinds of institutions across the country.
The youngest of these levels is perhaps the most dangerous because it is the most impressionable.
So Antifa members are just doing what they were taught all along, get rid of a cancer called the United States.
This connection between Antifa and the teaching profession runs so deep that some insist that the majority of those hiding behind the black masks are indeed teachers. Others, needless to say, including the liberal media, have denied this.
It is impossible to know for sure. Antifa, like some Islamic terrorist groups, has no formal leadership structure; why would they need it? They also don’t keep records.
This, however, is probably a case where the smoke and fire cliche applies. Whether Antifa is 50% teachers or 20% teachers is a lot of teachers.
Any reader of websites such as The College Fix or Campus Reform can see how deeply nearly all of our schools have their tentacles buried in the supposed social justice causes more militantly championed in the streets by Antifa.
The governors and mayors of the localities where the riots take place are themselves from the same educational establishments. This may partly explain their reluctance to crack down. Some of them identify with the rioters.
They want to burn it down, no matter if the violent protests lead to renaming this country New Venezuela, figuratively and literally.
Antifa is an agonizing public manifestation of a very deep-seated infection that has metastasized throughout our society from the schools.
It will only get worse if we don’t change our education system—pronto.
Ironically, the beginnings of this change are one of the few, perhaps the only, good things to come out of the pandemic.
With schools closed or online, many are assessing whether the system serves our young people, practically (career-wise) or ideologically.
What kind of education is it when 95% of college professors vote Democrat, and mostly Democrat?
Diversity of views, anyone? Should I homeschool my child? Should I send him to college, so he can come back on Thanksgiving with an Antifa t-shirt and accuse me of being a capitalist pig when I just spent $50,000 on his tuition?
Something is wrong with this image.
Change is undoubtedly coming. As a wise man once said, “Faster, please. I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of brains throwing firebombs at police stations.
Roger L. Simon is an award-winning author, Oscar-nominated screenwriter and co-founder of PJ Media. He also graduated from two Ivy League institutions that he no longer donates to, not that they need the money. Find him on Twitter and Talk @rogerlsimon.
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