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Mike McNamee's avatar

Nice piece, Joe, but you need to go further. Longer-term, the necessity is to root out “critical theory” and its hierarchy of oppressions and return to American values -- equality of opportunity, not “equity”; shared culture, not multiculturalism; color-blindness, not “antiracist” racism.

That can start by eliminating DEI offices, but it’s going to require changing the academic environment as well. Fortunately, there ARE a lot of academics who can do it -- if they can escape the heavy hand of the DEI censors.

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Dan Trigoboff's avatar

While I appreciate that your experiences with DEI have been positive and, indeed if CRT were to be judged only on the character of its political opponents, it would be much easier to accept and support. But if you're looking at DEI and/or CRT--or "intersectionality"--as solutions to antisemitism on campus, I believe you'll be disappointed. I encourage you to read and explore experiences on other campuses and institutions. Much of current college antisemitism is based on a historically inaccurate view of Jews as white colonizers and oppressors--used to justify the attack on merit which naturally targets identifiable groups that over-perform their proportions of the population. All antisemitism is based in conspiracy theory; left isn't all that different from right in this respect.

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