Massive UCLA Protest Reveals the Leftist Delusion | Victor Davis Hanson

This headline is UCLA Students Protest FedSoc Event with DHS General Counsel James Percival. Josh Blackman has written this. And in case folks have not heard of this story, on Tuesday the 21st this event took place. I'm reading from the blog post. Unfortunately, there was a massive protest that disrupted the speech. Students consistently disrupted by booing and heckling the speakers. There was a non-stop cacophony of ring tones and other sounds, again, which were intended to disrupt the event. They're holding up signs, really vulgar, how's Trump's blank taste, etc. And your thoughts about this, Hector? Hector The thing that's so bad about it, it's so asymmetrical. If there was a liberal justice and he went to the Federalist Society, they would not boo him. They would treat him with respect. So they think they can do this because from time eternal, the left has started out with this deductive premise that they are more moral because they believe in mandated equality of result, and therefore any means necessary or justified. And that's what we saw with that Hasan Piker and the New Yorker interview, that it was legitimate to steal from the loo, to steal from people. Of course, all these people have locks on their doors, and they're multimillionaires. He has got a very nice digs in LA. So at least Karl Marx was not so much a hypocrite. I mean, he was a hypocrite, but at least he said when you come into his house, he has a little pan of gold coins and everybody would put each according to their means and needs. So you would put a little gold coin in and then when you left, if you had to see how much you needed, you would just take what you needed. And he quickly discovered that people were putting in very little coins and taking a lot given human nature. But at least Piker and these people in the law school, they could follow their own ideology in their real life. I mean, anytime they would go anywhere, people could scream and yell at them for what they say, but nobody ever does. So they think they take that magnanimity as weakness and they exploit it. And they're spoiled rotten. They're all the elite of the elite. I said not too long ago, Stanford Law School, I think it was four years ago, only 83% of the number one, it was along with Yale, the number one rated law school, 83% passed the bar on its first attempt. San Joaquin Law in Fresno had a higher, that year, I think it was four years ago, had a higher pass rate than Stanford. So they're not teaching law as we knew it. They're teaching critical legal theory law, critical race theory law. And according, and you saw the result of that, that's why I mentioned Piker. He's a result of that ideology of the new law. Critical legal theory says that the laws are not based on either moral codes across eons, nor are they based on statutes. They're based on a small clique of white Christian male heterosexual oppressors who make laws to cement their privilege. So Hassan Parker is you can go into Whole Foods and steal a bunch of wine because it's the type of wine they don't drink. So they made a law that says it's against the law. Or you can go into some kind of sports locker or sports department store and steal sneakers because Ken Griffith doesn't wear sneakers. You can steal candy bars because rich people don't eat sneakers. And they made laws to outlaw it because it doesn't affect them. That's how that theory goes. It's a simplification reduction, but that's what it is. And all these people, it's so funny, they're all so wealthy. They enjoy such privilege, Mondami, Spanberg, all of them. When I would walk through the Stanford faculty housing, I have an apartment there and I walk to get walks. It was amazing on the Ukraine. This house does not tolerate racism with George Floyd stuff and all that. And then it was Ukraine flags. And then it was DEI. And now when you go by, it's mostly ICE stuff. This is an ICE no-go zone and stuff like that. But those homes, they're very modest looking. If they were in Indiana or Ohio or Wyoming, they would probably go for $300,000, but they sell for three to $5 million. And the people are very, very affluent, but they have this boutique leftist radical ideology because it never affects them. It never affects them. Their only experience with illegal immigration is a little pick, a little kind of irritation that Juanita or Geraldo want cash when they mow their lawns or clean their toilets rather than checks. And they kind of go along with it, but it bothers them. They're breaking the law by doing that. And I say that because almost every nominee from the left that had some problems with paying people in cash that were here illegally and doing their domestic chores for them, but they don't live in the real world. And it's frightening. To put this little civil war on the right in context, you can say that you don't support the war or Tucker's right or this or that, but the alternative nobody seems to see is this. It's this institutionalization of this stuff. And the reason that San Francisco was destroyed and downtown LA is destroyed and Seattle, downtown, and Portland are destroyed is because that filters down and sends a message to the criminal that people feel so guilty about their civilization and culture, they won't enforce the law. And therefore, if they don't enforce the law, it's prima facie a sign that they're guilty of exploitation and class warfare. When we started this, Jack, we said about five years ago, we said, you know, I bet there's going to be mainstream people on the left, and they're going to be patronized by the New York Times, the New Yorker, and they're going to just go right out and say it's okay to shoot an executive and murder him. They would have said, oh, that's divisive, that's such a lie. And that's what this Hassan Piker said about Luigi Mangione. In other words, the left can pick and choose, they can go through the panorama of names and say, he is exactly right out of the Soviet Union. He is a nail that sticks up too high. So I'm going to hammer him down and that guy and that guy, and with no evidence, no court trial, you just go shoot him. And then society approves that you took out an enemy of the people. Yeah. So boring. I heard it all when I was 18 at UC Santa Cruz, the same old stuff. But now, as I said to Sammy, the Democratic Party is the guard dog of hell. It's Charybdis with three heads. And one of them is the socialist communist mandatory equality. The second head of that raging beast is D.I. and race, race, race, race and oppressor oppressed. And the third is neocolonialism, radical Islam and Muslims. And they all intersect because they all have the enemy of white males, Jewish people, Western civilization, successful people among their midst. And it's a nexus. And that's the new coalition of the Democrats, people who hate Israel, people who are immigrants from the Middle East, people who say that their race is essential to who they are and they're not white. And then in addition to that, this people who believe that they have a right to take things from others who have been more successful.