It was outstanding, reminds me of Remy’s best parody musicales.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL02D02B9A144182DB

But with Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan now providing “expert” advice, we can rest assured that US foreign policy will be on the correct track.

Just ask the Iranians.

AesopFan, thanks for sharing that link about Dulberg. A courageous, determined, and principled fellow!

I’m down with 1943. Which conveniently overlooks, in a broader scale, what Japan became after the war.

Hey, welcome to human nature over time. You could have been talking about Rwandans, Burundians, Romans, Greeks, Turks, Vikings being only good when dead

//nypost.com/2023/12/13/opinion/princeton-punished-me-for-fighting-to-fix-dei-and-antisemitism-on-campus/

Zachary Dulberg, MD, is a family physician and a fifth-year PhD candidate in computational neuroscience at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute.
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If the words “diversity, equity, and inclusion” mean anything, it’s that hatred is unacceptable no matter what form it takes.

Yet the past two months have made clear to me that institutional DEI tolerates — and thereby encourages — the particularly awful hatred of antisemitism.

What else could explain what’s happening at Princeton University?

Nothing prepared me for Oct. 7.
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I made the mistake of logging onto X and our Graduate Student Government Slack channel.

While I always knew antisemitism found a home in higher education, I still expected my peers to express shock and sympathy — the natural response to obvious evil.

Instead, I found an explosion of Jew-hatred, mere days after Israelis were slaughtered, burned, kidnapped and raped.

The comments were as heinous as they were numerous.
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At first, I felt sick — a combination of shock, anger, grief and disgust rolled into one.

After I calmed down, I felt resolved.

I compiled a list of the most horrific comments and sent them Oct. 18 to Princeton’s DEI office.

I asked it to discipline Princeton students spreading hate.

I got a response Nov. 7: It would take no action because the comments “constitute political (and therefore protected) speech.”

I could understand that reasoning, despite the naked hypocrisy of Princeton faculty members having been previously disciplined for speech.

But what happened next was far more baffling.

I asked the DEI office to meet with me — not to discuss the report I made but rather the problem of antisemitism more broadly.

I hoped we could devise a plan to combat this hatred in Princeton’s student body.

The DEI office’s response was swift and simple: No because “campus community members are not entitled to personal meetings.”

I kept trying, including by getting more influential members of the Princeton community to reiterate my request.

But the DEI office held firm, even as antisemitism became prominent amid campus protests, walkouts and everyday interactions.

To this day, the DEI office has not met with me, though I have been punished for pushing back on antisemitism in the Slack channel.
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DEI ideology has been weaponized against me — and Jews more broadly, as groups like Do No Harm have documented across higher education.

I should have known. For all its talk about justice and the importance of oppressed lives, DEI cares about neither — at least, not in a consistent or holistic way.

It divides groups of people based on superficial characteristics, then assumes they can do no right or do no wrong depending on their identity and relationship to other groups.

Jews, it turns out, are forever damned, deserving no support when victimized.
If silence is violence, then silence about antisemitism at Princeton is driving ongoing calls for violence against Jews.

Someone needs to fight this hatred, which threatens more than just Jews.

On Dec. 26, Princeton graduate students will elect a new DEI officer who will interact with the university’s DEI office and set the tone for the Graduate Student Government.

I’m running for the position.

While I have no illusions about fixing the DEI enterprise as such, I believe in applying diversity, equity and inclusion in their distinct and positive forms.

In fact, my approach to these concepts will be the same as my approach to medicine, giving every individual the best possible treatment regardless of identity.

That means condemning antisemitism while treating everyone equally, based on their innate human dignity and worth.

This unifying vision stands in stark contrast to the divisive DEI that I’ve encountered.

I believe that’s what most of my fellow graduate students want — a DEI officer who respects diversity, practices equal treatment and includes the excluded.

Surely it’s time to confront hatred instead of condoning it.

This liberal has been mugged by reality, but doesn’t want to press charges yet.

Still, getting someone into the office who believes in the (alleged) ideals of DIE, where he will have to deal with the charlatans who know the true agenda, could be the tipping point for conversion.