As the liberal establishment whines endlessly about how unpresidential Donald Trump is, posting memes, trolling with Trump 2028 hats, and dancing to YMCA when not being a fry cook or garbage man, it solemnly trots out credentialed experts to pronounce on various matters.
By now, we roll our eyes every time somebody's credentials are used to bolster the "credibility" of some expert. 97% of all experts agree that their paymasters are right, after all.
But I think we should focus a bit less on their relentless dishonesty and a bit more on the fact that academics, as a group, are even more "unacademic" than President Trump is "unpresidential."
They are, in fact, as a group, very tolerant or even fond of political violence. Academic lovers of violence may not rise to the 97% level, but it is far too close.
Of course there’s a rally today to reinstate Professor Dixon.
— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) October 1, 2025
“Anti-racism is good, actually.”
Okay, but is there anything about Dixon that could reasonably concern the administration or even potentially violate the terms of his contract? pic.twitter.com/yLORKstxxI
Every time a student uprising in support of some horrible cause or another turns violent, countless professors are either participating in the "protest" or applauding and then defending the students who are using our tax subsidies to act out their revolutionary fantasies.
These professors spent countless hours denouncing Charlie Kirk before he was murdered, and countless more justifying that murder, or at least celebrating it. For those who didn't do so out loud, they at least remained silent when their colleagues did so, and lept to their defense when they were called out on it.
What I found on him yesterday was one of the wildest videos I’ve ever seen — and that’s saying something after sitting through calls with the Houthis, ex–Weather Underground, and even former SLA members. https://t.co/5D7atvie8C
— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) October 1, 2025
Once again, the American Association of University Professors is leaping to the defense of a professor who promotes political violence, distorting his record and claiming that his academic freedom is being violated simply because he advocates killing some fraction of his own students and their families, friends, and neighbors.
He is even featured in the IMDB picture for Redneck Revolt. pic.twitter.com/ipjX6ckX7m
— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) September 30, 2025
Any claim that their interest is in academic freedom is belied by the fact that when some professor or another defends students wearing Halloween costumes that overly sensitive people find troubling, their colleagues fall silent or denounce the offender. Few of these professors defend the rights of conservative students to even hear from conservative speakers, so spare me the blather about the First Amendment. There are entire departments in colleges and universities dedicated to determining who should get censored for doubting the Narrative™.
When Riley Gaines was briefly kidnapped at San Francisco State, the administration expressed pride in the students who did so, calling the attacks on her "speech."
Speech is not violence, and violence is not speech. Academics as a class--not in every individual case, obviously--have abandoned the distinction.
Antifa has a home on many campuses, and a significant number of professors embrace political violence. Hamas is routinely lionized on campuses as decolonizers, and college professors expressed their "exhilaration" at October 7th's attacks.
Universities famously embraced domestic terrorists and placed them in tenured sinecures--Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, most famously. I use them as an example for an obvious reason--the overlap between academic terrorists and Democratic Party politicians is most vividly shown in their close relationship with President Obama.
Academia is not the home of free thinking and free speech. It is a fairly closed environment where political violence takes place, and where future violent "protesters" learn the finer points of why they should commit violence in the service of their political goals.
Of course, I don't believe that the universities should be closed--training some fraction of their students on the finer points of political revolution is not their only function, and some of those functions are vital for the continuation of our society.
But at least I would like to see the worst offenders tossed out of academia in exchange for our continued support, and strict standards of behavior enforced on students who commit illegal acts.
And...I want everybody to laugh whenever an academic "expert" is trotted out to lecture us about politics. Chances are good that they are a communist revolutionary or fellow traveler.
