(cont'd from yesterday's post)
A 21-year-old student at Stanford University says that she understands why about half of her peers support Hamas in the shooting, raping and beheading of families in Israel.
Most students probably have parents who decry the attack (yesterday's post). But they've been "carefully taught" in school to condemn groups of people based on ethnicity, race, gender, religion.
"In high school, my homeroom had an exercise where we made a T-chart dividing various ethnicities, religions, and other identities into the categories of 'oppressor' and 'oppressed' Women: oppressed. Straight people: oppressor. Black people: oppressed." It condemns whole categories of people, including Jews in some cases. You're irredeemable if you're white or male. Children are learning this.
"I had a nonacademic weekly homeroom class in which we learned that every white person is racist, and all men are evil. It took me a long time to shake off a hatred of men. It wasn’t socially acceptable to disagree, and no one really tried."
from Free Press
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