Scamherst

 

A cross of flowers in front of Northampton's First Church on Easter. 

 

Flowers coming up in front of the North Amherst Library.

 

 

Not everything coming up this spring in Amherst smells like a flower, as is revealed in this article in The New Yorker about the town's snake-pit politics. 

 

Amherst is finally imploding under the weight of its own leftist lunacy. The town is sliding into a severe fiscal crisis, in part due to the approval of a new school and library expansion that Amherst neither needs nor can afford. But the real problem is not the town's fiscal irresponsibility, but the toxic environment the leftist thought police have created in the public schools. 

All the sordid details are in the New Yorker article, which includes several interesting facts that have been left out of local coverage. It adds a fresh twist to the narrative to learn that most of the alleged harassment of the so-called "trans" kids is being carried out primarily by Black and Hispanic students. You mean one oppressed minority being oppressed by yet another oppressed minority? Oh the irony! The cognitive dissonance for the local lefties must be agonizing!

I also don't recall reading locally about allegations that someone put urine in the drinking glass of the school's chief political correctness enforcer. The article reveals that this DEI enforcer also tried to sell insurance to the staff as a side business. Talk about a totally nightmarish work culture! Imagine having to deal everyday with a Stalinist DEI director who also repeatedly subjects you to insurance policy sales pitches! And someone is running around putting piss in people's drinking glasses? And there are accusations that some of the faculty are practicing witchcraft?

I don't know how you fix a school system with that toxic a level of a work environment without firing every single administrator in the district and at least half of the faculty. At the very least, in their search for a new superintendent (applicants have understandably been few) they should reject the resumes from anyone who hasn't been a registered Republican for at least ten years.

Or maybe it would be easier just to disband the entire school department, bulldoze all the schools and then salt the earth. You can decide for yourself whether Amherst has gone past the point of no return by clicking here.

Meanwhile, antisemitic posters surfaced at UMass this week. This poster is just one step removed from calling for genocide - and not a very far step. 

The girls at Smith are acting silly again. 

 

Signs in support of racist hate groups can still be found in Northampton, but at least they're psychedelic. 

 

 This much is true.