In his No Delusions, No Despair Substack essay “We have met the pigs…,” Benjamin Kerstein enunciates eight tenets of what he calls “the professoriate regime” of the left:
1. Democracy is dismissed as a conspiratorial lie. This is often done by asserting that the American republic is fraudulent, rooted in slavery and genocide, and controlled by a cabal of billionaires.
2. Any form of legal or political authority—except for the professoriate regime—is portrayed as inherently oppressive and evil, thus absolving the regime and its minions of any responsibility to adhere to the law and their own codes of conduct. In particular, the police are depicted as a malevolent force that must be entirely dismantled.
3. Violence is consistently used under the guise of non-violence, leading to the justification of mob actions, physical assaults, incitement to genocide, and similar activities as forms of “protest.”
4. The professoriate regime, its minions, and progressives in general should never be held accountable for their crimes and transgressions. Therefore, absolute impunity is demanded as a moral right.
5. Freedom of speech, except for that of the regime, is considered the enemy of the good and must be suppressed.
6. Rational thought itself is dismissed in favor of “lived experience,” emotional reactions, personal “truth,” and so on.
7. The ultimate goal is fundamentally totalitarian, as evidenced by the totalitarian nature of today’s academia. The regime aims to extend the system it has established in academia to the rest of society by “any means necessary,” including both legal and illegal methods.
8. The term “racist” is used so broadly that it can mean almost anything. Thus, it can be employed to undermine any opposition to the regime and its supporters while also justifying their actions—regardless of their ethical, moral, or legal implications. Whether or not something is actually racist is irrelevant, and questioning it can only be seen as evidence of the questioner’s own racism.
Whole thing here.
