Princeton Sophmore tears the bark off the Ivy League for anti-semitism, and the dominance by Leftists who encourage ideological conformity, dividing the world into the Oppressed vs Oppressor, while justifying actions against the Left's perceived Oppressors. Not able to discern moral right and wrong. Author asks for a reckoningt ... "before my generation's morally confused graduates take the helm as your governors, senators and presidents, dragging their dangerous ideas into the halls of power.....".
https://nypost.com/2024/12/19/opinion/maximillian-meyer-why-my-ivy-league-campus-is-rooting-for-luigi-mangione/
https://nypost.com/2024/12/19/opinion/maximillian-meyer-why-my-ivy-league-campus-is-rooting-for-luigi-mangione/
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I'm an Ivy League undergrad here's why my campus sides with Luigi Mangione
By Maximillian Meyer Published Dec. 19, 2024, 7:14 p.m. ET
Americans reacted with horror this week to a new poll that found young voters evenly divided on the righteousness of Luigi Mangione's cold-blooded assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
To me, the result was no surprise: I'm seeing far worse on my Ivy League campus every day the logical result of the morality crisis running rampant throughout "elite" academia and among many of my generation. ....
....But here at Princeton, a poll of nearly 1,500 students on the Fizz social network revealed that 25% found Mangione's action "completely justified," with another 22% saying Thompson's death was "deserved."
Only 13% managed to say the killer was purely "in the wrong." ....
....Others refer to Mangione as "next level based," or attempt to rationalize the slaying: "In essence, a serial killer got murdered."
This shocking response has been widespread among a vocal segment of the online left.
Of course, leftist college students particularly Ivy Leaguers have for generations fancied themselves revolutionaries.
But this outright glorification of violence marks a significant escalation.
And I believe I know why.
To far-left young Americans, on any given issue, the world is divided into two buckets: oppressor and oppressed......
....."You don't go around asking oppressed people why they don't have conversations with their oppressors," a pro-Palestinian senior scolded the paper.
Of course it's ludicrous to suggest that pro-Israel students at Princeton are the "oppressors" of anyone, much less of our anti-Israel counterparts.
If anything, the evidence suggests the contrary: Jewish students were attacked and told they "don't deserve to live" at Columbia, blocked from going to class at UCLA and harassed on campuses nationwide, including mine.
And while this oppressor-oppressed dynamic is not new, the extent of its application absolutely is.
Throughout the West, anti-Israel protesters have chanted for the past year that "All resistance is justified."....
.....This is not just a campus problem, but one with far-reaching consequences.
The institutions tasked with educating our (supposedly) brightest minds have instead become breeding grounds for moral equivocation.
Universities that once championed critical thinking and open inquiry are now dominated by ideological conformity and simplistic binaries and we risk raising a generation that cannot distinguish right from wrong.
The reckoning, from elementary school on up, must begin now, before my generation's morally confused graduates take the helm as your governors, senators and presidents, dragging their dangerous ideas into the halls of power.....
....Maximillian Meyer is a sophomore at Princeton University and president of the advocacy group Tigers for Israel.
