I wouldn't be persuaded to be here if it wasn't for 20 years of being on campuses and seeing this.

I would not be here if I weren't persuaded by 20 years of walking around campuses and seeing this.

He persuaded me,

How do you get there from here? They haven't persuaded me that this is valid, ... You have to have a disruption of civil authority before the military can perform activities such as surveillance.

You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses storming around about this issue.

Jameson is a literature professor but his teaching is based on an uninformed opinion. All he's done is wield ideologies out of a 19th-century theory.