Niall Ferguson on College Protests, Hamas, and World War III

[@DadSavesAmerica]

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[@PhilPurkis]

What the hell are we teaching young people in schools, colleges and universities……..one can learn more listening to Niall Ferguson in an hour than a whole year in college

[@airman122469]

I have no idea. I talked about the Soviet revolution to my wife and she had no clue about any of it. Knows about the “lost colonies” but not about the Soviet revolution or any of the other communist revolutions.

[@mfredcourtney5876]

Well.....they are taught to hate their country its history and its people. To love chaos and violence in the name of "progress" . and there is no tolerance for ANY contrary opinions. That starts in first grade.

[@BajatheChickenMan]

We need to close these government daycares. If they aren't full on indoctrination camps then they are shooting galleries. We claim to care about children yet they are only ever used as political pawns to win votes and pass legislation. Then another generation grows up damaged repeating the mistakes of the past and never learning from them.

[@wilhelmdietz4023]

Mostly gender stuff, not anything important that's for sure.

[@MalXcontent]

@@airman122469this is because it has deliberately been kept out of the education system. Why do you think that is? Research the term useful idiots. See who first coined the phrase and you will have your answer as to why the younger generations know little about the history of communism.

[@RaeHemara-o3t]

History repeats itself for those who do not learn

[@b.t.3406]

I wonder if Niall recalls his cheerleading for the Iraq War?

[@airman122469]

@@b.t.3406Many people got sucked into that. Honestly, the US involvement in the first Gulf War was a mistake as well, which directly led to the rise of Hussein in the first place.

[@03143sa]

@@b.t.3406 I agree with this genius. If somebody thought or acted one way 21 years ago, how could it even be possible that they might think and act differently two decades later?? Impossible!

[@spidos1000]

@@airman122469 The Gulf War was to kick Saddham out of Kuwait and to prevent him from invading Saudi Arabia. Totally justified. Not sure what you're on about ''led rise of Hussein''. He had been in power for decades beforehand.

[@ragzilbragzilb6603]

The price for freedom, is eternal vigilance.....

[@mysterioanonymous3206]

10/10 👍

[@adamdouce353]

As a former soldier we all know freedom is not free

[@TTTT-oc4eb]

"Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Against stupidity we are defenseless." Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German priest executed by the Nazis.

[@MalXcontent]

He was very much correct in this statement. Yet again stupidity is wreaking havoc on the west and this time the evil pulling the mor0ns strings just might achieve its goal.

[@gabrielfrank5142]

What a clear view of the reality. Thank you.

[@vangelissotiropoulos7365]

Well said sir

[@trumpius_maximus47]

Thanks

[@tomamitay4559]

Very well articulated. Thanks for this interview.

[@popwer-x2h]

Ha the Red Guards / student analogy - brilliant once again Niall

[@rogeralsop3479]

Excellent man.

[@edwinbeecroft1543]

A well spoken truth on current times.

[@alexandermayer2026]

The failure is far deeper than that of history professors. Kudos to you for acknowledging your part. The failure is primarily and more damagingly on parents who failed to create, teach and develop values their children. “The Greatest Generation” is a myth. These fighters came home too tired to raise their kids, focusing instead on economic success. In 20 years, the boomer children of the WWII victors gave us the student free speech movement, flower power, and the death of God. This inane set of worldviews blossomed as the anarchists carefully focused on tearing down western civilization, while being overlooked by those who knew better. We are now at the end, the logical conclusion, of the neglect.

[@mustang607]

Leftists red guards: “There has never been a real Americanized Maoist style Revolution!”

[@MalXcontent]

The evil cowards hiding in the shadows pulling the strings of the brainless mor0ns in the colleges are trying to make it happen.

[@feverdreamer6870]

Thank you.

[@sandor2960]

Well said. Until people realize that INDIVIDUAL human rights are more important than ascribed/assigned/imaginary 'group' rights and responsibilities, it will be impossible to have true free speech, therefore democracy, therefore freedom. Why shouldn't every human have the same rights and responsibilities? It's insane to ascribe group membership to people and then try to give them special rights, or worse, make them responsible for the imaginary group's past actions. Some losers just need so badly to be a part of a group though - that explains the pro-Hamas protests in spite of their atrocities.

[@yt.damian]

As opposed to them being anti-semitic? No other group of people in the world cop this much hatred from so many quarters.

[@sandor2960]

@@yt.damian Who is 'them'? You think they are that different from you? That they are a 'them'? Wow. Guess what buddy, we are all the same imperfect humans.

[@yt.damian]

@@sandor2960 Oh so cute. You call a group of people losers. I call them anti semitic and suddenly you want to be in that group? Genius.

[@sandor2960]

@@yt.damian I don't want to be part of the anti-semitic loser group. Where did you get that from? 🤔

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[@chokkan7]

For a Western democracy to function at a high level, it's necessary to channel people's better attributes from the start, otherwise, the center will not hold. For an autocratic regime to remain in power, they need only channel people's worst motives (e.g., envy, vindictiveness, fear, complacency, etc.), so the scales would seem to be tilted in favor of the latter.

[@LearnThaiRapidMethod]

The underlying problem is that authoritarianism has taken hold in nearly all democratic countries by dint of the autocratic power of multinational or large national corporations, with their huge financial and logistical resources and vested interests in government institutions (lobbying, private health, judiciary, policing & prisons) and hold over the media (now becoming almost completely centralized, a “capitalist” version of the state control exerted in Russia, China, Iran/Qatar, and N.Korea. Governments kowtow to companies like Amazon, Pfizer, Nestle, etc. They turn a blind eye to blatant misinformation in their marketing campaigns and product labelling, the allow food companies to bulk up their foods with sugars and palm oils, they allow drugs companies to dictate prices and decide what drugs are available on the market (without consequences) and to influence the medical models (synthetic drugs over natural remedies, whole foods and preventative measures). And they allow companies to dictate employment practices, and to outsource labor so as to control the cost of labor & restrict choices in the local labor markets. And don’t get me started on property and housing (and the manipulation of mortgages and the value of property, which bears no relationship to any measure of real value). Even the Chinese joined in on the property pyramid scams.

[@majorgremlin4758]

Lol, as a history teacher, you should know that history is doomed to reapeat itself time and time again.

[@airman122469]

Unfortunately, the difference between now and the 30’s is that the US is weaker geopolitically now than we were then. So… badness.

[@joe18750]

Nonsense. Make your case.

[@seanlander9321]

Incorrect. In the 1930’s America was financially powerful but militarily weak. America today runs the world’s financial system and is the most powerful military ever known.

[@garylake1497]

As Henry Ford once said “all history is bunk”. Churchill once said that “history will reflect well on me, how do I know ? - because I will write the history”. That’s the problem, history is written by the victor, so the truth is distorted at source.

[@gregcooks-qr9wk]

The problem is that we have been at peace the past 85 years. The people on this earth wouldn’t know what it was like. Maybe associate it with a computer game.

[@جایگزینبینام]

Corruption vs Rebellion, who wins?

[@Stealth-InComing]

While watching, I had a great idea. Not many people read books in today's times, so if you broke down sections of the book and made memes for the stupid on social media, like toxic tictok, it could have a profound effect in re-education for those who cannot distinguish with common sense between RIGHT 🌟and WRONG ⚡️

[@OvidiuCotrus-z5n]

Gypsy America Africa

[@bernardbrindley9679]

Some strive to achieve to a future point, but people see they cannot get there. It is obvious they won't, but the media, governments never say why, so things go blindly on.

[@donaldseekins6516]

College protests supporting the Palestinians in Gaza show that the younger generation hasn't lost its moral compass. Ferguson's comparing them to Mao's Red Guards is obscene.

[@MiaK06]

But then how does someone like Trump fits potentially into all this His mindset far more aligns with the likes of Putin than any democratic focused political leader N Ferguson said in an interview recently that he didn’t think that a Trump posed a threat to US Democracy - I would beg to differ So if he says that the aim of the likes of Putin and other autocratic leader is to remove the US from its prime role in the Western world, how can he then at the same time say that a Trump doesn’t pose a threat to US democracy

[@Memini_me_1984]

Is history actually taught at US universities? Or is it simulacrum of history?

[@michaelhelperin4425]

In so short a clip the explanation is inevitably incomplete. In his book War of the World, Feguson goes deeper, identifying factors that predict society going astray. Other authors -- Jane Jacobs, Robert Putnam, ... have examined this, too. I cannot blame the teachers of history alone. It is much easier to absorb the lesson when your grandparents and their friends tell you about the War, and its memory informs even your play, when institutions are strong, and when NORMATIVE threat is low -- that last part being the explanation put forth by Karen Stenner in The Authoritarian Dynamic. There may be a generational factor of some kind. The media certainly play a role. Education is only one part of the explanation.

[@markwaldron8954]

We also had something worse than the Cuban Missile Crisis happen just under a month ago, on the weekend of Friday the 13th of September, which 99 percent of Americans are unaware of, and so, apparently is Professor Ferguson. This is the deadliest time in human history and we will all be very, very lucky to survive it.

[@danielreiss-cy4zr]

Ì remember back when Dad packed fudge.

[@winglo1697]

WWIII, who is on what side????

[@stevecooper2541]

Can you imagine amy western government being so suicidally stupid as to attempt conscription?

[@ido5139]

Is Francis Fukuyama still around?

[@AwakenProtocol]

Oft steps on and off each moment as if we noticed, if only lightly so.

[@richardthurston2171]

I'm Charles Koch and I approve this message. Ferguson's career is important because Niall, more than most historians, recognizes the importance of keeping the world safe for billionaires. Ferguson, as does Dad™, yearns to return to the golden age of Victorian empire, a time when the world was a better, more orderly place.

[@John-c3u9o]

I loved your opening sentence. Really made me laugh.

[@patricksee10]

@@richardthurston2171yeah dude, eat the rich, Viva la revolution

[@Muldoon111]

George Soros approves of your message.

[@DadSavesAmerica]

Oh Richard… you really need to study up on my buddy Charles Koch. He’s as anti-war as they come. You’re too old to sound like you’re doing a copy-and-paste out of Moveon.org fundraising by emails from 2012. Put your thinking cap on, brother. I believe in you!

[@deselby6669]

​@@Muldoon111..George Soros is not the potent boogeyman you all fear..

[@Waverlyduli]

The price of ...

[@lawrencecole6527]

Well it's Palestine really; and the use of the term Hamas is deliberate in dehumanizing the Palestinians and trying to wedge through the Balfor accord into a non-existent space between Palestinians and their country which started in 1942; and so if you're unwilling to actually start at the actual beginning well then it's just selective hearing.

[@assafp71]

No , it's hamas. Before you start mentioning Balfor , learn basic history. When you say Palestinians , are you referring to Arabs and Jews living in mandatory Palestine or are you referring to Muslim Arabs of the 60's?

[@walaaa5337]

I agree!

[@satiricgames2129]

They colinized judea and samria cry they treat us less then animals again crocodile tears

[@megeramilosskaya1]

I’m not sure if I understood your point correctly, so please correct me if that’s not what you meant… Do you have a problem with Israel coming to existence as a country?

[@hagbard72]

@@satiricgames2129 NO such places.

[@Openyoureyes737]

Absolutely delusional and nothing more.

[@GentlemanJack705]

College protests are not that difficult to understand. Those who are protesting on campus know the history, its just that they see the conflict differently. One does not need to be a Hamas supporter to understand that Israel is partially at fault for their creation

[@GentlemanJack705]

@Yamamono9090 I think your first point may apply to a small subset of the group in question, surely, but unlikely to be the case for all of them. The assertion hinges too much upon speculation. You make a better second point. That is indeed the interpretation by much of the public who are unlikely to be so well versed on this topic, and it may indeed be the case. I'm by no means an expert in this area, and I consider myself a big defender of Western values, but from my perspective, which is shared by some of the students in question, is that Israel, and by extension the US and western nations, generally, are doing a disservice to the message of western values by ignoring abuses of international law and human rights committed by one of their own for the sake of ensuring Israeli security. When Western nations do not hold their own to account to the very values they hold dear, it's difficult for people who belong to other non-western nations, who may consider themselves part of the Global South or elsewhere, to subscribe to the model that western nations are trying to promote and that's the big issue for many of those students who have taken to the streets.

[@johngergen4871]

He is a history professor, Historian ? On what planet?

[@aslan_fields]

I’m sure you’re a far better expert. Why don’t you apply for jobs at his universities?

[@rbelf001]

Better question ...What has gone wrong with Germany, Britain and the US?

[@OvidiuCotrus-z5n]

Jewish America Richard

[@satiricgames2129]

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[@Gh0st_Cyn]

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[@charlesgallagher3700]

This guy serves up propaganda like a short-order cook serves up hamburgers.

[@marialygiaquartimdemoraes1945]

Esse é um neo fascista

[@mambowman]

this steaming pile brought to u by AIPAC

[@trumpius_maximus47]

'Muricans are concerned about Russia and China, but we love buying their products. 😂🇵🇰

[@xnihilo64]

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[@trumpius_maximus47]

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[@murryrozansky8753]

I call it ww iii.

[@trumpius_maximus47]

Are you going to enlist?

[@paradigm_conjecture]

Propaganda

[@MrDakotadon]

It's strange being "First Nations" observing European diplomacy and world view while living on Turtle Island.

[@OvidiuCotrus-z5n]

Jew dad Alphastein

[@routinelyrandom9409]

When he says Israel, he means a group of race-loyal people calling themselves "God's chosen people", who created an ethno-state where the constitutional identity is based on racial grounds, to serve one ethnic group. And who created a law that assures that the right to exercise national self-determination is unique to only them. The year prior to October 7th Israel demolished 949 Palestinian homes so jews in Israel could build Jewish-only settlements beyond Israel's border.

[@routinelyrandom9409]

The Talmud claims Jesus is in Hell burning in excrement. Jews are wrong

[@Zensci18]

Race loyal people: that allows converts of any race and is majority brown-skinned God’s chosen people: Chosen by God for a specific mission and responsibility (not a superiority claim) Ethno-state: while majority Jewish, Israel citizenry is made up Muslims, Druze, Ba’hai, Bedouin, Christians, Arabs and Armenians among others. As such, Israel is one of the most diverse countries in the Middle East. As an aside, most Muslims countries have forced their minorities out- particularly Christians and are almost exclusively Arab Muslim. Law of Return: is a de-colonial project to re-populate the area with the descendants of those brutally expelled from their ancestral homeland. Has any other de-colonial project ever been so successful or even attempted? I would submit that the “law of return” will be modeled in other parts of the world where descendants of those expelled from ancestral lands will be encouraged to return especially in light of demographic shortages as a result of low birth rates. Settlements are located on disputed territory acquired after the 6 day war. You or I may not like it but technically laws of war are not being broken. My suggestion is if Palestinians want a state renounce Terrorism, fight anti-Semitic propaganda in their schools, and become total pacifists. Israel would be hard pressed not to evacuate settlements in such a scenario. But that will never happen unfortunately.

[@Zensci18]

@@routinelyrandom9409the Talmud says no such thing. But if you think I’m wrong please provide a reference for which book and chapter of the Talmud you claim says this.

[@matthewgaulke8094]

This guy has never said anything I thought involved individual thought but instead sounds like he's repeating whatever educated Liberals are supposed to say.

[@b.t.3406]

Agree. This idea that Israel and Ukraine are beacons of democracy is misinformation. Both countries have persecuted and censored Christians for years.

[@gerrytyrrell1507]

Your a numbskull

[@joe18750]

Give a couple examples.

[@matthewgaulke8094]

​​@@joe18750I can't take anyone seriously who thinks America is as democratic as they want us to believe it is and this is why Russia and others have a problem with us...they don't like our freedoms. It's the same "our sacred democracy is at sake" mumbo-jumbo. Democracy is an illusion where we are given the candidates they want us to chose from who are already in line with acceptable ideas and we vote one in and it really makes no difference who we vote in because the real power is happening behind the scenes by unelected powers no one can touch. The Liberal mind has an arrogance that thinks it's superior to other forms of government and feels the need to impose it's will onto every country it can in the name of "human rights". There is something really fishy going on with America and Israel. The rest of the world sees it and many Americans do as well. I think people have plenty of reasons to be mad at America and Israel and its not because they are jealous of the precious democracy and human rights.

[@ajdc88]

yay zionism

[@arikkatzenberg4498]

Yay. Obamaism

[@patricksee10]

Yay nominalism

[@satiricgames2129]

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