When students and professors applaud murderers and rapists as academic administrators meekly look on, as has been the case in Canada ever since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel, it’s clear that something is wrong in the academy.
Universities need to get serious again — a characteristic that was abandoned by adopting the ideologies of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), identitarianism, decolonization and anti-racism. Instead of pursuing free inquiry and judging people for what they do, not what they look like, post-secondary institutions now pursue any system of thought that attempts to redistribute benefits and privileges from “oppressors” to the “oppressed.”
