Do you wonder why the abuse, tantrums, assaults, and the hurtling of bricks at police in many of our cities seem to be increasingly performed by college-age adults, many of them middle class and white? One contributing factor could be people like Prof. K-Sue Park lecturing your kids. She’s got an impressive resumé with paper from Cornell, Cambridge, Harvard, and Berkeley. After all that matriculation, she somehow uncovered the mental yoga to make freedom of conscience a second-class right. Yep, free speech in her bizaare rendering must be made to conform to the jihad against every sort of inequality that a person can fabricate. Karl Marx was all about it, and so is Georgetown professor Park.
I ran into this jewel of the faculty lounge in my early morning readings. Here you can read the entire screed in her New York Times op-ed from 2017. This is what goes for erudite thought in our discombobulated times and halls of higher-now-lower learning.
In a nutshell, for Prof. Park of Georgetown Law, inequality of condition means inequality of speech. And by all means, everything must be equal … but nothing is, in nature or by the mind and hand of man or woman. Even our attempts to intentionally create it fail. There remained an immense gulf between Stalin and his poliburo and the rest of the inhabitants of the Soviet Union. The drive to the proletarian heaven produced an entire class of privileged government functionaries – the nomenklatura – with a character eerily synonymous with the 18th-century French aristocrats hanging around Versailles.
People like Park can’t get away from inequality even if they try. It’ll certainly empower people like her to the detriment of the proles. She’ll preside over the training of the young folks who’ll later be entitled to dispense judgments on allowable speech – of course, while keeping an eye on the personal assets of the speaker, not the facts of the case. If not in positions of power, her pupils will fill the ranks of the mobs busting into your homes and businesses yelling canned distillations of her teachings.
This isn’t law; it’s lawlessness. The law must be knowable and understandable. Park’s dangerous silliness makes it unknowable and mysterious, a perfect sanction for tyrants, as any decent study of history will show.
It’s amazing that a truly educated person can produce such bunkum. Yet, here we are with our politics roiled by claptrap, and dangerous claptrap at that. All to the tune of $175,000 per year (average salary of an Ivy League professor).
RogerG