Posted on 11/11/2023 4:51:47 AM PST by MtnClimber
It’s not about diversity, equity, or inclusion. It is about arrogating power to a movement that threatens not just Jews—but America itself.
Twenty years ago, when I was a college student, I started writing about a then-nameless, niche ideology that seemed to contradict everything I had been taught since I was a child.
It is possible I would not have perceived the nature of this ideology—or rather I would have been able to avoid seeing its true nature—had I not been a Jew. But I was. I am. And in noticing the way I had been written out of the equation, I started to notice that it wasn’t just me, but that the whole system rested on an illusion.
What I saw was a worldview that replaced basic ideas of good and evil with a new rubric: the powerless (good) and the powerful (bad). It replaced lots of things. Color blindness with race obsession. Ideas with identity. Debate with denunciation. Persuasion with public shaming. The rule of law with the fury of the mob.
People were to be given authority in this new order not in recognition of their gifts, hard work, accomplishments, or contributions to society, but in inverse proportion to the disadvantages their group had suffered, as defined by radical ideologues. According to them, as James Kirchick concisely put it: “Muslim > gay, black > female, and everybody > the Jews.”
I was an undergraduate back then, but you didn’t need a PhD to see where this could go. And so I watched, in horror, sounding alarms as loudly as I could.
I was told by most Jewish leaders that, yes, it wasn’t great, but not to be so hysterical. Campuses were always hotbeds of radicalism, they said. This ideology, they promised, would surely dissipate as young people made their way in the world.
It did not.
Over the past two decades I saw this inverted worldview swallow all of the crucial sense-making institutions of American life. It started with the universities. Then it moved on to cultural institutions—including some I knew well, like The New York Times—as well as every major museum, philanthropy, and media company. Then on to our medical schools and our law schools. It’s taken root at nearly every major corporation. It’s inside our high schools and even our elementary schools. The takeover is so comprehensive that it’s now almost hard to notice it—because it is everywhere.
Including in the Jewish community....
Jews have a right to protect themselves but so do others. Didn’t see too much concern when Whites specifically and the West in general were under attack. This is not a new thing.
Yes, it’s been the universities that have been indoctrinating their students. But don’t forget the big billionaire donors who are cutting ties with those universities are Jewish and Democrats. They were okay with supporting liberal and woke causes until *their* ox got gored.
Yes. This is important. Jews are a very powerful and savvy segment of the American population. Pray that benevolent but misguided leftist Jews will come to their senses and reject the left and the evil Democrat Party and thus help save the USA from destruction.
“we should not gloat to people like this that we were correct but, instead, we should welcome them.”
Absolutely! Like Roseanne Barr. Whatever else she is, she was a rabid lib for most of her life. When she saw the light, she “converted”, and has mentioned how shocked she was when she was embraced by the right. (I’ve heard that she has had a conversion to Christianity (gave her life to Jesus), too, but am not sure about that.)
Agree....and, Dr Naomi Wolf.
Many more, we could add to the list.
getting canceled is an eye opener
no dissent
resistance is futile
tyranny requires absolute compliance
jk rowling
glenn greenwald
david schorr
matt taibbi
off the top of my head
“What I saw was a worldview that replaced basic ideas of good and evil with a new rubric: the powerless (good) and the powerful (bad). It replaced lots of things. Color blindness with race obsession. Ideas with identity. Debate with denunciation. Persuasion with public shaming. The rule of law with the fury of the mob.”
This is the key. This is why it needs to be ended.
The DEI crowd is racist, authoritarian, and hateful.
Her resignation letter to New York Times in post #35 is worth a read.
Privileged versus Oppressed is only a particularly primitive social model but it plays on the human emotion of resentment very effectively. It used to be common sense that switching the roles does nothing to reduce the oppression, which is the real object of a just society, and that institutional revenge only prolongs the cycle. Now revenge is serious social policy. That won't end well.
Thanks. That is something to think about.
“Nothing consumes a man more completely than a passion for resentment’’.- Frederic Nietzsche.
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