This link, via the Manhattan Institute’s Center for the American University (and kindly forwarded to me by Ed Anderson, the author), is (a) depressing, then (as you think more about it) (b) encouraging, then (thinking further) depressing again.
It’s an off-the-cuff interview with a first year student at UC San Diego, about a study unit she was required to take, called Dimensions of Culture.
The interview is (a) depressing, because of the study unit’s pretty undiluted victimological and anti-American content, then (b) encouraging, because most of the students seem to know what gibberish it all is, and take pleasure in mocking it, then (c) depressing again, because they all seem to accept that, gibberish though it is, it’s a thing they have to do without complaining if they’re to stay out of trouble with the university authorities. The mockery is private and informal, as in the old U.S.S.R. … which seems to serve as a model for the modern American university campus.
I’d feel better about the future of our civilization if I’d heard that the students had broken all the windows in the lecture room, made a bonfire of the study materials, and run these odious “Teaching Assistants” out of town on rails, having first comprehensively tarred and feathered them. Alas, that seems not to happen, ever. We are doomed, doomed.