Antifa Professors vs Socrates

One of the most disturbing things I read during the BLM-burn-down-cities summer was a colleague defending Antifa as not violent. He wanted people to mobilize against the “fascists” like Trump and Trump supporters. This was someone who wants to be taken seriously as an intellectual and sit in faculty meetings with people he has called these names.

That’s the difference between the Antifa professors and Charlie Kirk. My Substack began by defending Charlie’s right to speak and debate at ASU. I never imagined that a radicalized Antifa student would be arrested for publicly murdering him (as we have learned today).

Charlie was our Socrates.

They hated Charlie the way the sophists hated Socrates. He refuted them in public and taught their students how to be wise and how to recognize professors who aren’t living the examined life.

I’ve had people tell me, “But why did he say mean things?” I encourage those people to stop watching the mainstream media’s reporting on Charlie and instead watch the video of the entire debate. Charlie was debating university students who were themselves very edgy and provocative. He wasn’t at a retirement home playing cards. He was a master of debate and matched the energy and rhetoric of his opponents.

If you want to see a masterclass in debate, watch the videos of him this summer at the Oxford and Cambridge debate societies. There, LGBTQ advocates called him names, and he responded with logical arguments refuting their position—while using the rhetorical skill needed in public debate. Public debate is not a dry logic lecture. It requires the skills of logic combined with rhetoric and an understanding of your opponent and the audience. And what did the student president of the Oxford debate society do? Rejoice at Charlie’s death. Thankfully, the Oxford Union rebuked him with a public letter.

Parents, you need to understand how bad it is at our public universities. That is why I share what I do here as a warning. Public universities can defend “pro-Antifa” rhetoric by their professors as “free speech,” but that only applies to private time—not to professors as public employees in meetings and in classes. The professor who tells students that Charlie is worse than Hitler and is attacking LGBTQ students needs to take responsibility for that terrible behavior. Take responsibility by apologizing to Charlie’s family and repent to God. It isn’t your job that is at stake; it is your soul.