Morning Wire Radicalism on College Campuses: Justifying Violence by Hamas | Sunday Extra
Oct 22, 2023
J.P. Green, a senior research fellow at Heritage's Center for Education Policy, dives into the troubling rise of radical ideologies on college campuses. He discusses how many students and faculty have blamed Israel for the Hamas attacks, highlighting the consequences of such beliefs. Green critiques the hypocrisy surrounding free speech claims by universities and the responses of different institutions to these growing ideologies. The conversation also addresses calls for defunding universities that endorse violence and the impact this could have on academic freedom.
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Campus Radicalism
- College campuses have promoted and tolerated radical ideologies for a long time, particularly through DEI bureaucracies.
- These DEI initiatives act like political commissariats, enforcing radical ideologies and contributing to pro-Hamas protests.
Critical Race Theory
- The main ideology fueling campus radicalism is critical race theory, which divides people into oppressors and oppressed.
- This theory promotes the idea that oppressors deserve negative consequences and the oppressed deserve restitution.
Decolonization
- Radicals' concept of "decolonization" is based on Lenin's theory of imperialism and casts Jews in Israel as colonizers.
- This framework mistakenly portrays Jews, who are indigenous to the land, as oppressors.