If you haven’t realized it yet, that congressional hearing last week that continues to make news wasn’t about solving antisemitism in America.
That was the given context for the hearing, but it really served as a platform for an outright attack by right-wing MAGA-types on the thing they believe has destroyed higher ed the last 30 years.
What would that be? Diversity, of course.
Emil Guillermo
And with that comes everything else that in their view that has crippled higher ed, from hiring to curriculum, including the emergence of race, gender and equity studies that have made people more aware of issues heretofore ignored on American campuses, and in society in general.
What better way to bring about the attack but in a hearing with three elite university presidents?
The main instigator was fourth ranking Republican, Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, a Donald Trump acolyte, and herself an Ivy League-educated Marjorie Taylor Green wannabe.
Stefanik is a Trump enabler who voted to invalidate the 2020 election and has maintained the “Big Lie” on election fraud. That puts her low on any sane person’s credibility scale. But not if your Donald Trump.
