Your Survival Guy has said it before, there’s a reason China’s Communist elites send their children to America’s top schools, the campuses are a socialist’s dream. John Ellis, an emeritus professor of German literature at UC Santa Cruz and the author of the book “The Breakdown of Higher Education,” explains in The Wall Street Journal:
In the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, it’s often said that people with differing political opinions must to learn to disagree respectfully with one another. A sensible admonition—except that it doesn’t begin to get at what political hatred on college campuses is about, or what it is doing to us.
If all that was involved were doctrinal political differences—say, free markets as opposed to central planning—it might be enough to say that the two sides of that argument should learn to be more tolerant of each other. But the politics that dominates college campuses is a different kind of beast.
It begins not with traditional issues of governance but instead by pitting different groups of people against each other. It starts off by identifying a group of people who are wronged and another who are the wrongdoers—the “oppressed” vs. the “oppressors.”
The former group are innocent and praiseworthy, the latter are evil and wrong. Mistreatment of the oppressed means that the other side must be condemned, hated, vilified. The radicals who dominate college campuses adopt Karl Marx’s oppressed vs. oppressor groups of workers and capitalists, but they also add others of their own making—such as people of color oppressed by “white supremacists” and homosexuals by heterosexuals. Conservatives are evil enough to be labeled fascists and Nazis, which makes them an oppressor group worthy of hate.
Ellis concludes:
Assassinations are made more likely by the politics of hate that has been slowly spreading from college campuses to national culture. How much longer can we tolerate a system of higher education that is poisoning America? When will we take our campuses back from the destructive radicals who now control them?
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