In the wake of October 7, college students across the country responded by praising the resistance against settler colonialism. These elites accused Jewish people of being Zionist oppressors. And leading thinkers justified acts of violence against Jewish students as a proportional response to "genocide" in Gaza.
Should any of these reactions have been surprising? No. These principles have been espoused in CRT and DEI ideologies for decades. Students were merely implementing what they were taught.
When Judge Kyle Duncan was shouted down in the most vile terms at Stanford, Tirien Steinbach, the DEI apparatchik, asked whether his juice was worth the squeeze. But Steinbach was not acting out of turn. She was following DEI teachings. Indeed, two years earlier, DEI programs at Stanford espoused overt anti-semitism.
