Massive rioting took place on Wednesday night at U.C. Berkeley in response to a planned campus speech by Breitbart News senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos. The riot at Berkeley exposed “tolerant” liberal students beating Trump supporters, smashing ATM and bank windows, looting of a Starbucks, pepper spraying of innocent bystanders, and setting fires in the streets.
Days later, this protest has come back to bite U.C. Berkeley in a big way.
Truthfeed reported that Scott Adams, the creator of the popular comic strip Dilbert, has announced he will no longer donate money to Berkeley, which is where he had received his MBA. This comes as a major blow to the university, as Adams had been one of their top donors for decades.
Adams explained his decision in a post on his blog:
Here’s the best article you are likely to read about the absurdity of calling ANY American president Hitler. This is the sort of persuasion (sprinkled with facts) that can dissolve some of the post-election cognitive dissonance that hangs like a dark cloud over the country. Share it liberally, so to speak. You might save lives.
Speaking of Hitler, I’m ending my support of UC Berkeley, where I got my MBA years ago. I have been a big supporter lately, with both my time and money, but that ends today. I wish them well, but I wouldn’t feel safe or welcome on the campus. A Berkeley professor made that clear to me recently. He seems smart, so I’ll take his word for it.
I’ve decided to side with the Jewish gay immigrant who has an African-American boyfriend, not the hypnotized zombie-boys in black masks who were clubbing people who hold different points of view. I feel that’s reasonable, but I know many will disagree, and possibly try to club me to death if I walk on campus.
Yesterday I asked my most liberal, Trump-hating friend if he ever figured out why Republicans have most of the Governorships, a majority in Congress, the White House, and soon the Supreme Court. He said, “There are no easy answers.”
I submit that there are easy answers. But for many Americans, cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias hide those easy answers behind Hitler hallucinations.
I’ll keep working on clearing the fog. Estimated completion date, December 2017. It’s a big job.
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