Article

2024-02-27 Fifth Column

State Universities Are Teaching Students To Blow Up Oil Pipelines, Records Show

[WIRE] At least sixteen universities are promoting the book "How to Blow Up A Pipeline," which outlines for readers how to commit eco-terrorism — oftentimes making it required reading, a Daily Wire investigation found.

The book was published in 2021 by Swedish professor Andreas Malm and calls for terrorism and overthrowing capitalism, acknowledging that people will be killed as a result. "Demolish them, burn them, blow them up. Let the capitalists who keep investing in the fire know that their properties will be trashed," the book says.

Now multiple state-funded universities took classes that were nominally on unrelated topics, and contorted them into courses that read just four books, including the pipeline manifesto and a communist manifesto. At the University of California-Berkeley, for example, students of Geography & Interactive Biology were required to read the book. Instructors Jake Kosek and Paul Fine took what was ostensibly a biology course and transformed it into one on "decolonization." The syllabus states that the "class focuses on the scientific practice of modern botanical taxonomy as a colonial formation that conditions our modern relations" and how the names of plants "were often forged to be of service to empire-building."

The lessons across the country suggest that universities’ support for terrorism extends beyond the students supporting Hamas on many campuses. In fact, the book looks to Palestinian terrorists for inspiration, advising that, "As part of the mass resistance in the besieged Gaza Strip in the spring of 2018, Palestinians invented techniques for sending kites and helium-inflated condoms carrying incendiary materials across the wall to burn Israeli property."

Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-27 03:23|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top
File under: Antifa/BLM

#1 "State Universities" is it ?

Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-27 03:32|| 2024-02-27 03:32|| Front Page Top

#2 From a legal liability viewpoint, those professors and their classes are making a huge mistake.

Posted by Ebbuger Whuque4103 2024-02-27 07:51|| 2024-02-27 07:51|| Front Page Top

#3 What about a complementary book: "How to appeal to world opinion once the oppressors respond."

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-27 07:55|| 2024-02-27 07:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Do these urbanists understand that their very existence is made possible by these pipelines that cross thousands of unguardable miles of the Redlands? That in order to repair and place back in to operation requires people who probably are MAGA?

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-02-27 08:22|| 2024-02-27 08:22|| Front Page Top

#5 I hope the oil and NATGAS industry isn't giving these universities one thin dime.

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-02-27 08:27|| 2024-02-27 08:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Another Berkeley Marxist:
Jake Kosek received his doctorate in geography at the University of California, Berkeley (2002) and a masters degree at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (1995). After receiving his doctorate, Jake held the Lang Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University and was also a Lecturer there in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology. Subsequently, he received the Ciriacy-Wantrup Fellowship in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley and then worked as an Assistant Professor in the departments of American Studies and Anthropology at the University of New Mexico before returning to the department of Geography at Berkeley. He is coauthor of Race, Nature and the Politics of Difference (Duke University Press, 2003), which explores the intersections of critical theories of race and nature.

Posted by Huputle Cherelet4131 2024-02-27 08:29|| 2024-02-27 08:29|| Front Page Top

#7 The problem is, building bombs that only explode on schedule is hard. Most would-be bomb makers are either dead, missing key bits (Imam Hook-Hand comes to mind), or, like Faisal the fizzle bomber, the proud owner of a bomb-like device that just sits there looking dangerous.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-02-27 10:30|| 2024-02-27 10:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Violent riots erupt at UC Berkeley over Israeli speaker

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-27 14:56|| 2024-02-27 14:56|| Front Page Top

#9 the names of plants "were often forged to be of service to empire-building."

What is Hairy Beardtongue

Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-27 15:35|| 2024-02-27 15:35|| Front Page Top

08:52 Matt
08:38 Gleng Whaick2262
08:35 Gleng Whaick2262
08:35 Gleng Whaick2262
08:33 Gleng Whaick2262
08:32 Gleng Whaick2262
08:31 Gleng Whaick2262
08:28 Gleng Whaick2262
08:24 Matt
08:20 SteveS
07:43 Procopius2k
07:42 BrerRabbit
07:42 Procopius2k
07:39 Procopius2k
07:36 Procopius2k
07:35 Procopius2k
07:34 trailing wife
07:31 Procopius2k
07:30 NN2N1
07:22 NN2N1
07:18 trailing wife
07:14 Richard Aubrey
07:10 NN2N1
07:09 Besoeker