It has been a week
since Elon Musk restored President Trump's suspended Twitter account following his
Twitter poll that showed a majority wanted Trump back.
Despite Trump's pledge not to return, the presence of his Twitter account has caused some leftwingers to quit Twitter while others are red with rage.
There were election
deniers too.
A podcaster and an ex-Republican
claimed that Musk had rigged the poll via Twitter bots.
https://twitter.com/CheriJacobus/status/1594164225626103809
A troll account
claimed that the Saudis and Russians rigged the poll.
https://twitter.com/duty2warn/status/1594183800577146881
But it wasn't just unknown
Twitter trolls making these claims.
During an appearance
on CBS’s Face the Nation, NYU professor Scott Galloway claimed the
following
“I think these polls
are mostly a gimmick, and I would argue the people haven’t spoken, the GRU
has spoken”
“Twitter has become a
playground for bad actors and fake bots. This poll is meaningless. This
decision is meaningless.”
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1594437136731750401
The GRU which stands for Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie is a Soviet military intelligence organization.
During the cold war, the KGB was most known in the West for deploying Soviet agents to infiltrate the corridors of power and foment trouble.
Yet the GRU outlasted
the KGB following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and still operates.
The UK government
blamed GRU for the Salisbury nerve agent attack of 2018 - when a
former GRU officer living in Britain was poisoned along with his daughter
The US government blames the GRU for major cyber-attacks on its infrastructure.
GRU operatives are
also believed to have been active in the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria.
Back to the ad NYU professor Scott Galloway’s appearance on CBS.
The interviewer, Margaret
Brennan should have challenged Galloway for his baseless claim. She should have demanded that he
provide some proof or issue a retraction. If
he remained steadfast, she should herself have informed the viewers that
this claim was baseless.
But instead, she just
moved on to the next question, because in that world any claim, however ridiculous it may be,
that makes Trump look bad is welcomed.
The full interview
can be seen here.
Despite the TV echo chamber,
someone informed Galloway of the obvious that his claims were revoltingly
ridiculous.
Hence Galloway took
to Twitter, not to apologize or retract or offer proof but to double down on
his claim.
He repeated a
debunked hoax about the 2016 elections.
Not the Trump-Russia
collusion but a subset of the conspiracy theory which claims that
Russia-operated troll farms worked on social media to sway the 2016
presidential elections in favor of Trump.
Even if one does
accept the premise that Russian Trolls favored Trump, we must look at the overall situation back then.
The entire mainstream media was cheering and supporting Hillary
Clinton.
https://twitter.com/profgalloway/status/1594450858439237634
Galloway also attempted to diminish the Twitter poll claiming that Trump won by only four percent due to bots and trolls. This is similar to Hilary claiming she won the popular vote and hence deserved to be President.
The professor then made a statement that made a case for why he deserves to be prevented from teaching anything to anybody.
Galloway conceded not
having proof of Russian interference in the poll but when to add it would be
hard to disprove.
Perhaps he forgets that the burden of producing proof is on the
individual making claims
https://twitter.com/profgalloway/status/1594454576073261056
A quick perusal of
the professor's Twitter account shows that he is no different from a random
hateful troll, who uses Trump as a target to rationalize his hateful behavior.
It is almost hilarious how Trump has managed to drive the people
to absolute insanity.
What is concerning is that they have power.
How must the
professor be judging his students’ performances?
Trump-supporting students obviously have no chance of even being admitted, irrespective of how talented they are.
Anybody who disagrees
with him probably also has no chance of receiving good marks.
He probably runs his classroom like a dictatorial regime runs his
country.
How ironic that he accuses other of being Nazis and dictators.
Sadly people have become so accustomed to this politicization of academia that it ceases to shock or cause a scandal.
What a fall this has
been
Educators are
supposed to be individuals of high education, it is therefore expected that
they are knowledgeable, astute thinkers, problem solvers, and proponents of the
principle of causation.
Educators are
supposed to be curious, skeptical, and always open to questions, challenges,
and debates. The expectation is that educators encourage and inculcate these attributes among
their students.
Every syllable
educators utter is often treated by students as the absolute truth.
It is therefore
essential that every claim the teacher makes is backed by proof and that every
conjecture or speculation is made after deep thought.
Alas, these seem like
very distant dreams.
Educators are no
longer role models.
Educators have
devolved into becoming partisan activists who indoctrinate students instead of
enlightening them. They use wokeness and faux political correctness to shut
down any inconvenient questions or debates. Gullible students then take over
and demand safe spaces and insulate themselves from 'wrong' opinions.
Professor Galloway's
certitude and his not feeling any obligation to provide proof are not
restricted to academics only, the powerful in D.C. also display a similar
attitude.
In the matter of the
Trump-Russia collusion hoax, the controversy over the Ukraine call, the
insurrection hoax, and the classified docs at the Mar-a-Lago hoax, the
proponents who spoke with certitude had no evidence, worse they didn’t feel the
need to provide evidence, and evidence wasn't even demanded.
These hoaxes were used as an excuse to either start or continue or
expand probes on President Trump. They ‘investigated’ his finances, his
businesses, and his personal life. They conducted raids on Trump's homes and
the offices and homes of Trump’s allies and even his lawyer.
The goal behind all this was to make the process the equivalent of punishment and to push a narrative that the probe is proof that some guilt was established.
It is not beyond the realm of possibility that Professor Galloway
writes a paper full of speculations about the Russians rigging the Musk Twitter poll and the paper is
used as a ‘credible’ basis by agencies to investigate Trump, Musk, and Twitter.
In a Democracy, every
individual including Professor Galloway has a right to believe or claim what
they want.
The problem occurs when these individuals have power and they use hoaxes to target political opponents.
This is not how academics, politicians, or government agencies should operate in one of the world’s leading democracies.
Also appears in American Thinker
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