As an ex fraternity man and Greek, I really enjoyed this episode, but I’m kinda torn on a few things but I would say I agree with you 95% on your take.
First, My biggest concern is that these young men are being used as pawns by the _____ to fight their battle for them, but at the same time, these groups would discard them and force them to die overseas for interests that are clearly not America First. Secondly, stuff like this would add on to more anti white, anti American sentiments that these leftists already have. It wouldn’t be a big deal, but I do recall GDI’s, BIPOC’s LGBT mafia and other weirdos trying to come to our parties and they already were semi hostile (this was 2015) I can only imagine them being more hostile going forward (not an issue at SEC campuses or schools with large Greek life, but yes at smaller schools) I agree with standing up for the American flag but as you pointed out, it didn’t help they paraded that ADPi/ ZBT guy all over Fox News.
With that being said, even though I sympathize more with the Palestinians, these people hate the very culture Greek life represents as well as any semblance of Americana. Like these people would never get bids in their lifetimes and I used to pick on them in college too lmao. Like you, I would stand up for these guys because we understand and can both 1) be critical of Israel and 2) support frat culture/ ridicule the protestors. Unfortunately, most normies and Boomer Fox Viewers will interpret frat life as being pro Israel and won’t see the big picture.
Though, I put myself in those undergrads shoes, and I would probably be doing the same thing to counterprotest and probably Zyn all day and gamble on Draft Kings too.
Great episode
PS: you strike me as a KA man, you got Old South vibes lol. What fraternity were you in?
I’m not sure you really addressed what I took to be the core issue of the frat brouhaha: that these guys were defending an institution which works at every turn to undermine and limit them.
The white, middle-class right generally has this issue - it is naturally patriotic and loyal, but the USG uses it by turns as tax cattle or cannon fodder. Until well-meaning normie cons can differentiate between their own interests and those of the USG, we’ll keep getting these ultimately sad, futile displays.
Would reducing the length of college change this left wing intellectual capture, non institutional intellectuals are largely conservative and due to the way media is distributed it doesn’t even matter because their audience is larger.
The university system is what filters our elites leftward. Canceling general ed and masters degrees, putting lower divs online, weekend classes, defunding woke majors, reducing administrators, requiring business classes in high school…. This would shorten college down to less than 2 years and reduce its social impact
As an ex fraternity man and Greek, I really enjoyed this episode, but I’m kinda torn on a few things but I would say I agree with you 95% on your take.
First, My biggest concern is that these young men are being used as pawns by the _____ to fight their battle for them, but at the same time, these groups would discard them and force them to die overseas for interests that are clearly not America First. Secondly, stuff like this would add on to more anti white, anti American sentiments that these leftists already have. It wouldn’t be a big deal, but I do recall GDI’s, BIPOC’s LGBT mafia and other weirdos trying to come to our parties and they already were semi hostile (this was 2015) I can only imagine them being more hostile going forward (not an issue at SEC campuses or schools with large Greek life, but yes at smaller schools) I agree with standing up for the American flag but as you pointed out, it didn’t help they paraded that ADPi/ ZBT guy all over Fox News.
With that being said, even though I sympathize more with the Palestinians, these people hate the very culture Greek life represents as well as any semblance of Americana. Like these people would never get bids in their lifetimes and I used to pick on them in college too lmao. Like you, I would stand up for these guys because we understand and can both 1) be critical of Israel and 2) support frat culture/ ridicule the protestors. Unfortunately, most normies and Boomer Fox Viewers will interpret frat life as being pro Israel and won’t see the big picture.
Though, I put myself in those undergrads shoes, and I would probably be doing the same thing to counterprotest and probably Zyn all day and gamble on Draft Kings too.
Great episode
PS: you strike me as a KA man, you got Old South vibes lol. What fraternity were you in?
Guy who self-inserts as Chudjak: 7/10, White, not autistic, academically and financially successful
Guy who self-inserts as “Nordic Chad”: 3/10, Mexican, low income, autistic
Why is the online right like this?
I’m not sure you really addressed what I took to be the core issue of the frat brouhaha: that these guys were defending an institution which works at every turn to undermine and limit them.
The white, middle-class right generally has this issue - it is naturally patriotic and loyal, but the USG uses it by turns as tax cattle or cannon fodder. Until well-meaning normie cons can differentiate between their own interests and those of the USG, we’ll keep getting these ultimately sad, futile displays.
Scott
Would reducing the length of college change this left wing intellectual capture, non institutional intellectuals are largely conservative and due to the way media is distributed it doesn’t even matter because their audience is larger.
The university system is what filters our elites leftward. Canceling general ed and masters degrees, putting lower divs online, weekend classes, defunding woke majors, reducing administrators, requiring business classes in high school…. This would shorten college down to less than 2 years and reduce its social impact