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2023-12-08 -Great Cultural Revolution

[Townhall] After October 7, the public was shocked at what they saw and heard on America's campuses.

Americans knew previously they were intolerant, leftwing, and increasingly non-meritocratic.

But immediately after October 7 -- and even before the response of the Israeli Defense Forces -- the sheer student delight on news of the mass murdering of Israeli victims seemed akin more to 1930s Germany than contemporary America.

Indeed, not a day goes by when a university professor or student group has not spouted antisemitic hatred. Often, they threaten and attack Jewish students, or engage in mass demonstrations calling for the extinction of Israel.

Why and how did purportedly enlightened universities become incubators of such primordial hatred?

After the George Floyd riots in 2020, reparatory admissions -- the effort to admit diverse students beyond their numbers in the general population -- increased.

Elite universities like Stanford and Yale boasted that their so-called "white" incoming student numbers had plunged to between 20 and 40 percent, despite whites making up 68-70% of the general population.

The abolition of the SAT requirement, and often the comparative ranking of high school grade point averages, have ended the ancient and time-proven idea of meritocracy. Brilliant high school transcripts and test scores no longer warrant admissions to so-called elite schools.

One result was that the number of Jews has nosedived from 20-30% of Ivy League student bodies during the 1970s and 1980s to 10-15%.

Jewish students are also currently stereotyped as "white" and "privileged" -- and thus considered as fair game on campus.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-08 05:13|| || Front Page|| [24 views ] Top

#1 When they stopped being institutions of higher learning and become a stepping stone to financial success*.

*There is nothing wrong with earning money - but that's not that universities are for.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-08 06:13|| 2023-12-08 06:13|| Front Page Top

#2 When the wall came down, there should have been a hard reckoning in this country with the allies of communism. The universities should have been among the first institutions subject to accountability.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-12-08 07:21|| 2023-12-08 07:21|| Front Page Top

#3 College presidents at Harvard, MIT, UPenn slammed for equating rising antisemitism with rare Islamophobia

Posted by Skidmark 2023-12-08 09:22|| 2023-12-08 09:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Elite universities like Stanford and Yale boasted that their so-called "white" incoming student numbers had plunged to between 20 and 40 percent, despite whites making up 68-70% of the general population.

Maybe that's a good thing. Spare the white kids from worthless liberal arts degrees that will saddle them with debt.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-12-08 12:19|| 2023-12-08 12:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Some start w/ Descartes and then trace his subsequent influence on Western thought.

Posted by Blackbeard Oppressor of the Munchkins8736 2023-12-08 18:51|| 2023-12-08 18:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Were Islamophobes wary of sharks,
They could say so in schools and in parks,
And terrified women
Could freely go swimming
With dogfish and fear only barks.
[toot toot]

Posted by Shons Grundy1855 2023-12-08 19:57|| 2023-12-08 19:57|| Front Page Top

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