Student Newspaper Editor Calls On Protesters To Embrace Violence
By Robert Gehl, December 24, 2014.
A graduate student and editor of a college newspaper has printed an article calling for violence against police and other authority figures.
In the Advocate, the student newspaper of the College of New York’s Graduate department, Gordon Barnes, a history graduate student wrote that “the time for peace” has passed, and in a screed laced with typical Marxist jargon, advocated protesters turn to violence.
“The problem with the protesters’ violence in Ferguson is that it is unorganized. If the violence was to be organized, and the protesters armed — more so than the few that sparingly are — then the brunt of social pressures would not be laid onto middling proprietors [of looted small businesses], but unto those deserving the most virulent response of an enraged populace,” he writes. ““The acts of looting, destruction of property and violence directed towards state representatives is not only warranted, it is necessary.”
Barnes, a doctoral student, once studied in Cuba, according to the New York Post. It advocates rioters emulate the violent civil rights leaders like the Black Panthers and Malcom X, rather than non-violent leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The attacks on property in Ferguson only need be redirected for a magnificent transformation of consciousness to come out of Michael Brown’s death. If not, then Brown’s death, the deaths of the aforementioned men, and the millions who suffered and died under the jackboot of state oppression in this country would have partially been lost in vain,” he writes.
According to the Post, Barnes is reimbursed upwards of $44,000 per year by the university to write this nonsense.
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