UNLESS YOUR IDEA OF HUMAN RIGHTS IS BOLSHEVISM: Cathy Young: Sorry, Angela Davis is No One’s Human Rights Hero.

The Davis kerfuffle reminds me of when Davis came to speak at Brandeis when I was a student there. I got to ask the first question. She had given a rather moving account of she and her family being denied voting rights as black people in the Deep South, so I asked her why, given that history, she would join the Communist Party when that party deprives *everyone* of the right to vote when they take power. She skillfully avoided answering the question, but I heard through the grapevine that my question caused quite a stir in left-wing classes in sociology and whatnot, as students wondered why I would think that her American communism had anything to do with communism elsewhere. In other words, the leftist students were utterly ignorant of the widely-known fact that the USSR controlled the American Communist Party. From what I can tell, the current generation of leftist student activists are that much more ignorant about relevant matters, as incredibly insipid “intersectional” analysis substitutes for actual knowledge of history, economics, philosophy, and other forms of knowledge.