When a celebrity occasionally says something that makes sense, it’s usually advisable for normal people to wait a minute, a week, or a month before heaping praise on that luminary to see what else her or she has to say.
In this context, recent history offers a number of examples of when certain high-profile types subsequently stopped making sense, if they ever did in the first place.
On that cautionary note, TV psychologist Dr. Phil has released a nearly six-minute editorial in which he condemned the “intellectual rot” in the form of campus activism at “woke universities.”
Admitting that he is no expert in geopolitics, Dr. Phil explained, in part:
“The unconscionable attack on Israeli civilians by Hamas gunmen on October 7 was marked by murder, rape, torture, and kidnapping…
“Many of America’s most respected elite universities are not only indulging, but actually endorsing, sanctioned student organizations holding celebrations for the murders…
“The leadership of these supposedly highly sophisticated schools are so busy virtue signaling and coddling students who think that words are violence, but violence, horrific, inhumane violence, is social justice, that they have forgotten it is their job to teach their students to think and to test reality.
“Instead of training tomorrow’s leaders, they are profoundly demagnetizing our culture’s moral compass among the college population…
“The heads of the schools need to simply say, on this campus, we don’t celebrate racism, anti-Semitism, baby killing, and murdering,..”
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Dr. Phil’s website published a slightly longer version of the editorial.
Along similar lines, HBO host Bill Maher, with a more satiric tone, called out ignorant far-left college activists and spineless administrators.
He started out by advising high school graduates not to go to college, particularly elite bastions, because “it just makes you stupid.”
In a monologue that also bashed Republicans (which seems to be a CYA move given his liberal audience), Maher went on to say the following:
“There are few, if any, positives to come out of what happened in Israel, but one of them is opening America’s eyes to how higher education has become indoctrination into a stew of bad ideas, among them a simplistic notion that the world is a binary place where everyone is either an oppressor or oppressed…the same students who will tell you that words are violence and silence is violence were very supportive when Hamas terrorists went on a rape and murder rampage worth of the Vikings…
“College life today is a day spa combined with a North Korean reeducation camp… the fact that college presidents who usually love to speak out about anything couldn’t find their voice to condemn the worst attack since the Holocaust says a lot about who really controls colleges…Elite schools should no longer be called elite; just say expensive…”
