The protesters disrupting college campuses across the country are the schools’ Marxist chickens coming home to roost.
For decades, U.S. universities, especially selective ones, have favored applicants who struck the right “social justice” notes, and hired faculty that reinforced those views. Then they cemented this zeitgeist with the jargon of identity and the “oppressed-oppressor” paradigm.
What did Columbia, Harvard, New York, Yale, MIT, Princeton, and the many other universities now being rocked by pro-Palestinian protests expect? That there would not be consequences?
These will be felt most deeply, and most unfortunately, by the students. The 2024 class, which didn’t have high school graduations because of the COVID mess, may now see their college ones canceled, or at least severely disrupted, because some of their classmates have been taught to oppose Israel’s…
