{"id":1345,"date":"2009-03-29T11:11:43","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T18:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/29\/ayers-dohrn-paradox\/"},"modified":"2009-03-29T11:11:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T18:11:43","slug":"ayers-dohrn-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/ayers-dohrn-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ayers-Dohrn Paradox&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But we ran smack dab into what I call the Ayers-Dohrn Paradox, which is:<br \/>\nAyers and Dohrn gained fame as violent revolutionaries willing to commit murder and other terrorist acts in order to overthrow the United States. For that, they were greatly worshipped by the far left. Now, in their sunset years, they\u2019re trying to re-cast themselves as \u201crespectable\u201d left-wing professors with \u201creasonable\u201d opinions, who have long ago sworn off violence. And so, at these events, neither of them ever mentions their violent heyday, except rarely in passing. Instead, they focus exclusively on their current obsessions: Introducing Marxist thought into schools, and closing down the prison system. However, almost no one who goes to see Ayers and Dohrn gives a damn about hearing monotonous lectures on these particular topics: instead, their fans idolize them <em>because<\/em> of their violent revolutionary past. So at these events, the audience (as in this case) is full of far-far-far-left radicals who came in order to hear overheated revolutionary rhetoric. But instead, what they get is a boring professorial monologue. If Ayers and Dohrn were nothing more than your run-of-the-mill leftist professors, no one would go to their appearances. They\u2019re coasting on their violent reputation, while at the same time trying to distance themselves from it. And <em>that<\/em> is the Ayers-Dohrn Paradox.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/?p=359\">Zomblog <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But we ran smack dab into what I call the Ayers-Dohrn Paradox, which is: Ayers and Dohrn gained fame as violent revolutionaries willing to commit murder and other terrorist acts in order to overthrow the United States. For that, they were greatly worshipped by the far left. Now, in their sunset years, they\u2019re trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-education","7":"category-insanity","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}