Ah, fine people on both sides. We are going in circles, my friends.

Now let’s make Biden disavow anti-Semites as many times as Trump had to disavow white supremacists. All other problems are solved, so let’s play the disavowal game.

Nobody asked this but I still want to ponder if going conservative was worth it.

I’m still in academia, and it’s very lonely. Whenever I’m in a room with people, they are together and I’m separate. They don’t know it, for the most part, but I do. I miss talking to colleagues. I miss having friends at work. I miss going to lunch or for coffee. But I can’t because we are not equal. They can say anything they want and I can’t. We have a “bias response team” that considers my beliefs bias but the opposing ones virtue.

On the positive side, I had the best time of anybody I know during COVID. I was unafraid and free. I can explore my curiosities without having to bring them into alliance with any sort of a party line.

Most importantly, I’m not confused like everybody else I know in academia. Like the professor of mathematics who is publicly yelled at and branded as a racist because most of the students who fail Calc I are black. Like the professor of Gender Studies whose organization removed the word “woman” from every communication. Like a friend from Romania who was booed by the students in his own classroom when he started answering a question about his experiences behind the Iron Curtain. Like a gay colleague who after a few drinks at a bar said, “I’m gay, I like dick” and is now shunned as a transphobe. Like a Jewish friend whose students organized a mass walk-out during her class on the Holocaust. These people are all so left-wing, it’s almost comical. And they don’t understand what they did wrong. My exclusion is voluntary and a result of a consciously made set of decisions. I don’t feel lost and betrayed. I left the group first and wasn’t kicked out against my will. And that’s a net positive.

As a person who has been both on the left and right, here’s the main difference. Both sides have an extremist wing that’s very nuts and completely divorced from reality.

But cuckoo right-wingers who believe in adrenochrome and a global Jewish conspiracy sit at home in front of a screen in their underwear. In the meantime, cuckoo left-wingers who believe that men can give birth and that there’s a global Jewish conspiracy sit on the Supreme Court and run colleges. Three people from my own department signed an open letter about the “global capitalist institutions that advance the Zionist agenda.” Groypers are scum but they don’t teach college. They have no impact. The left-wing equivalent of Groypers are rioting at Columbia and the President of the US adjusts his foreign policy to please them.

Do Canadian Jews have the right not to watch crowds celebrate Jew murder in the streets of Ottawa?

Clearly, they don’t. The same government that immiserates people for not wanting to call somebody “zer” upholds the rights of others to make streets scary for Jews.

Might is right, as usual.