OPINION:
Generally speaking, America’s elite universities frown upon religion. Unless, of course, it’s a religious war against the right people.
You know, it’s “context-dependent,” as ousted University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill told Congress last week.
It’s important to remember that Ms. Magill was not removed from her Ivy League post because she failed to muster a hint of outrage against faculty and students on her campus calling for the genocide of Jews. She was ousted because she cost her university $100 million.
And they say it’s Jews who care only about money.
“Context-dependent?” Always with the antiseptic euphemisms, these people.
“Final solution.”
“Identity politics.”
Last week’s congressional hearings with university presidents — the highest paragons of elite thinking in the Democratic Party — laid bare the true, black souls of these people.
Asked if calling for the genocide of Jews violated her university’s student code of conduct, Ms. Magill explained that it is “context-dependent.”
In other words, sometimes it’s OK to call for the genocide of Jews at the University of Pennsylvania and sometimes it is not OK.
It just depends. You know, on the “context.”
In truth, her testimony was much worse than that.
Pressed by shocked and horrified Republicans on the committee, Ms. Magill further explained — and this is an exact quote — that “if the speech turns into conduct, it can be harassment.”
Yes, she chose the word “can.” And, as any academic knows, words matter.
So, not only is calling for the genocide of Jews acceptable at the University of Pennsylvania — depending on the “context” — actually carrying out genocide against Jews “can” be considered harassment under the right circumstances. Or not.
Like, you know, “open-air prison” or “occupation” or self-bombing Palestinian hospitals. More euphemisms.
Now, mind you, Ms. Magill warned that committing genocide at the University of Pennsylvania CAN be considered “harassment” under certain circumstances. But not always.
Maybe, you know, just to be safe, you should not commit another pogrom against the Jews on campus. But who knows? Maybe it will be OK. In the right “context.”
These people are the sickest moral degenerates to ever emerge from a civilized world. And they are in charge of educating and instilling moral character in the best and most promising students in America.
They are also the very tip of the spear of thought leaders in the Democratic Party today.
Another one of their diabolical euphemisms after “context-dependent,” “final solution” and “open-air prison” is “identity politics.”
That’s where Democrats segregate voters by race, gender and religion and use political messages for each group to turn groups of voters against one another — all in the name of giving more power and more money to the Democratic Party. (Again, these people and their money. Or, as Rep. Ilhan Omar calls it, “the Benjamins.”)
They openly talk about “identity politics” as if it’s just a type of television ad buy or a style of political mailer. But it’s not.
It is actually pure, undistilled racism. And it is ruthlessly effective in politics.
The pro-genocide protests on college campuses today and in cities across the country are simply the natural result of the Democrats’ long march of “identity politics.”
The fault lines now are between supporters of Israel and supporters of Hamas. This moral equivalency is so deeply heinous that it strains credulity for civilized people. But those really are the fault lines of debate within a major American political party today.
Some in the Democratic Party support the right of Israel — a longtime U.S. ally — to defend itself against terrorist attacks. Others in the party support an internationally recognized terrorist organization that is dedicated to eliminating Israel and using the rape, murder and kidnapping of innocent civilians — including women, children and babies — to achieve their goal.
Please read that paragraph again. And then read it again. Keep reading it over and over again until you wrap your brain around the insane evilness of this debate raging in the Democratic Party today. And at the highest levels of elite American academia.
• Charles Hurt is the opinion editor at The Washington Times.
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