We Salute Judith Butler

And we find some of her UMass Boston disciples repugnant

We thank Judith Butler wholeheartedly for remaining who we always thought she was: a mistaken scientist, the 1998 Bad Writing Competition winner, the vessel that brought the Old World post-modern witchcraft to our shores, and a decent human being. This is her, coherent and consistent this time around, in London Review of Books, twelve days after the 10/7 pogrom:

I … condemn without qualification the violence committed by Hamas. This was a terrifying and revolting massacre. That was my primary reaction, and it endures…

Incidentally, there is no daylight between Butler and the Palestinian Authority who’ve just said that “[t]he policies and actions of Hamas do not represent the Palestinian people.”

…But there are other reactions as well.

And indeed, one of Butler’s UMass Boston’s disciples, Prof. Khayke Scottish, disagrees:

Khayke is determined to push decolonization forward “by any means necessary.” Even if it involves following this “sound” advice. We are disgusted. The Devil agrees with us:

Men’s wretchedness in soothe 
    I so deplore,  
Not even I would plague 
    the sorry creatures more. 
                               (Faust 25)

To make sure, he refers to both Hamas and Khayke Scottish.