Secession. Politically motivated violence. Republicans
and Democrats trading accusations of treason. And the “deep state”
attempting a coup against the democratically elected
commander-in-chief.
America
is unstable, divided and on the brink of tribal conflict. And it’s all starting
on college campuses.
Scott
Greer, author of “No Campus For White Men,” sounded the
alarm about the disintegration of American society in a recent appearance on
“Freedomain Radio” with Stefan Molyneux.
Greer
described the complete takeover of higher education by racial identity politics
and a victimhood culture, including open demands by non-whites to be segregated from whites. Greer
argues history provides a terrifying warning about where all of this
could end up.
“This
is not a stable social model that’s being created on college campuses, pitting
tribes against tribes and basically saying we’re going to have a big
multicultural, pluralistic country that pits one tribe against another,” he
said.
“That’s
never worked in world history. You can look at Austria-Hungary, where the
nationalities were pitted against each other and the Hapsburg dynasty was only
able to stay alive by tactically setting one nationality against the other. If
we have that model in the United States, we’re not going to have a real
democracy. You can’t have a stable democracy with the kind of tribal warfare
that’s brewing on a college campus.”
Greer
urged conservatives not to dismiss far-left college students as a powerless fringe.
They are, he said, the mainstream of the modern progressive movement and the
possible future leaders of the country.
“People
who are coming out, who are the demonstrators and who are the loudest activists
aren’t just some extreme fringe,” he warned. “These could very well be the
leaders of tomorrow. These could be senators, congressmen, judges and possibly
even attorneys generals like Eric Holder, who himself, in the 1960s, was a
protest leader. Look how that worked out. Imagine someone who is now shouting about how Yale University is full of systematic
racism becoming the U.S. attorney general 30 years from now.”
The
left’s use of identity politics guarantees a reaction, said Greer. After all,
those such as white men who are labeled “privileged” and are targeted on
college campuses will not submit forever to an obvious double standard when it
comes to race.
“There
is a greater chance for group conflict, and there’s a possibility for society
in general that there’s going to be tribe against tribe, a war against all,
rather than anyone coming together to keep alive a stable nation-state,” Greer
said of the American future.
“Because
if all [non-white students] are learning is that all they should worry about is
their own specific group interests, then they don’t have to worry about
everyone else. It’s not just that minority students who are gaining all these
benefits are becoming more racist in many ways. It’s also the students who are
not getting the benefits, Asian-Americans and white males who are going to
college campuses, who see these ridiculous things encouraged by administrators
and who might themselves start feeling loathing for their fellow countrymen.”
He
said the divisions have already spilled over into the general culture. Even
where one shops or advertises is now a political action. Just as on college
campuses, there is an obvious double standard in which leftists use the
power of the state to shut down opponents whereas conservatives are
allowed to be discriminated against without consequence.
Greer
also discussed conflict in an appearance on Alex Jones’ program. Jones
said the government is quick to crack down on Christians who don’t want to
provide services to a homosexual wedding, but businesses who refuse
to serve Christians or conservatives are not punished. What’s more, there
is a constant climate of incitement against right-leaning individuals and
organizations, as far-left activists pressure advertisers to cut off any financial
relationships with conservatives.
“Other
companies can refuse to do business with me, saying I’m a subhuman, I’m a bad
person because I’m a conservative or I’m white,” complained Jones about the
double standard. “What’s going on here?”
Greer
said the double standard is no mystery. It’s simply the tactics of the
college campus now being extended to the general culture.
“The
left now is particularly anti-free speech,” he said. “Anti-free speech is a
cornerstone of their ideology. They mark everything as hate speech … and they
try to shut everything down. The place we see this the most is on a college
campus. That’s why I wrote ‘No Campus For White Men,’ because this
is a problem that everyone is seeing. But it’s now going outside of the college
campus, where they are trying to shut down ad revenue.
“There
was just a story from Buzzfeed this week where they got a leaked email from a major corporation
saying that a lot of their clients want to blacklist Breitbart because they
don’t want to be associated with the ‘hateful’ rhetoric there.”
Greer
believes Americans are beginning to lose their traditional liberties as the
left moves to politicize every aspect of American life.
“In
some ways it’s very un-American,” he said. “It’s un-American to try to shut
down a business just for expressing their viewpoints. And they try to claim,
‘Oh, they’re causing hate crimes.’
“There are no hate crimes there. There’s
no violence being caused. There’s no illegality caused. They try to use all
this fantasy. They don’t need any basis in fact. They just need the emotional
appeal that, oh, we think this is dangerous and so we need to shut it down.”
Unfortunately,
Greer said, conservatives are going to have to start responding in kind if it
goes on much longer.
“The
way you have to push back is there has to be pressure from conservatives, from
the right, to say we’re going to support this company, or, we’re going to
boycott you if you are punishing conservatives just for expressing their free
speech,” he explained.
“The
reason they always cater to the left is the left has the greatest
pressure. Whenever they want to push some kind of ideology or agenda, the left
has the biggest platform, and it is going to intimidate and pressure them. What
has to happen now is the right needs to put equal pressure on these companies
such as when Breitbart decided to boycott Kellogg’s when Kellogg’s decided to
pull their advertising.”
What
happens if the process continues? The answer is simple, said Greer.
“It’s
divide and conquer,” he said. “It’s tribal warfare.”
