Young Americans, starting in grade school, are bombarded with “diversity” messages stressing that the world is divided into oppressor and oppressed classes and it’s up to government to restore “equity” by favoring the latter while tearing down the supposed privileges of the former.
One implication of this belief system is that Jews (because they’re generally quite successful) are oppressors. Recent polling shows that younger Americans strongly believe that, whereas older Americans (who better understand the world and weren’t subjected to DEI training in school) don’t.
In this Liberty Unyielding article, Hans Bader explores this ugly development. A slice:
To be fair, they have had these ideas pounded into their heads by schools and universities. That’s where the real blame rests,” says Loren Thacker. “This reflects the toxic ‘oppressor-oppressed’ ideology being pounded into the heads of young people by progressive ideologues.” As Rudy Auerbach observes, “The kids didn’t create the Intersectional Oppression Olympics that has our children rejecting Western Civilization.
Leftism needs enemies to rally supporters to its authoritarian agenda. Antisemitism works in that regard, so we now have hordes of college students chanting “From the river to the sea . . .” It’s odd that the people who always trumpet their compassion have created lots of students who are fine with brutality when they think the cause is just.