Ep. 1956 - Time To DEFUND The Universities
The Ben Shapiro Show
The Daily Wire
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🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, folks, the professors at Columbia are fighting mad at the administration because the administration dared to call the cops on the good little cosplay terrorists. |
| 0:08.8 | Take, for example, Columbia professor Joseph Slaughter. Here's what he had to say. |
| 0:13.4 | I can understand that the building occupation is a different matter than a completely peaceful, nonviolent encampment that had existed on the campus for the last 10 days or so. |
| 0:23.6 | But the fact that the building can be occupied is due partly to the gross mismanagement of this administration. |
| 0:32.6 | It has escalated consistently for the last seven months. |
| 0:35.6 | These students have been attempting to get |
| 0:37.9 | what they understand to be a human rights message about justice for Palestine out for seven months, |
| 0:42.7 | and at every turn they have been met with repressive actions to shut down their ability to speak, |
| 0:48.2 | to demonstrate, to try to make their voices heard in what they see as the greatest human rights |
| 0:52.6 | crisis of the moment. |
| 0:58.3 | Yes, the administration is at fault. According to the faculty, according to the faculty, |
| 1:05.1 | the good little cosplay radicals, the good little cosplay pro-hamas, pro-terrorism radicals, |
| 1:10.2 | they must be protected by the university. That's the job of the university, which does raise the question, |
| 1:16.2 | what is the purpose of these universities anymore? Well, the purpose of Columbia was originally clear when it was founded as King's College in 1754. According to the very first president of |
| 1:21.4 | King's College, William Samuel Johnson, quote, the chief thing that is aimed at in this college |
| 1:25.9 | is to teach and engage the children, |
| 1:32.2 | to know God in Jesus Christ, and to love and serve him in all sobriety, godliness, and righteousness of life with a perfect heart and a willing mind, and to train them up in all virtuous habits, |
| 1:36.7 | and all such useful knowledge as may render them creditable to their friends and family, |
| 1:41.6 | ornaments to their country, and useful to the public wheel in their |
| 1:44.4 | generations, that they may be qualified to make orderly and tractable members of this society. |
| 1:49.6 | In short, Columbia University was founded to teach eternal truths, to pursue the knowledge |
| 1:55.7 | of nature and nature's God, to create good citizens and good men. |
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