No, my headline isn’t from the satire site The Babylon Bee, and no, it’s definitely not comedy.
So a university president called former President Donald Trump, of all things, a “threat to higher education” in a Wednesday op-ed. (See: “pot calls kettle black.”) Even more absurd, Wesleyan University President Michael Roth criticized “institutional neutrality” with respect to political views.
President Roth, you’re joking, right?
The no-longer-hallowed halls of academia abandoned institutional neutrality decades ago. Today’s university campuses are infested with radical leftist professors, including full-blown Marxists, preaching everything from Critical Race Theory to systemic racism to antisemitism to hatred of America to mush-mind students.
“This is exactly the wrong time for such a retreat,” Roth wrote, continuing:
As one of the most consequential elections in American history approaches, we must do everything we can to help students work on campaigns and facilitate voting.
Help students? Indoctrinate students with radical leftist dogma, that is.
The delusional president continued (emphasis, mine):
Although academic leaders usually stay neutral about a candidate’s political statements, today’s campaign rhetoric is not politics as usual. The threats to higher education made by former President Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance are not subtle.
Although for decades schools have interacted well with Republican and Democratic representatives, the brazen VP candidate has declared that “universities are the enemy.” The Trump agenda promises to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion departments and to punish those schools who do not live up to a right-wing version of civil rights standards.
Trump has promised to close down the Department of Education and fire the accreditors who now certify which schools are eligible for governmental support…We must not be neutral about this.
Hang on.
Eliminating the Department of Education is not a threat to higher education. In addition to Trump and Vance, 24 other Republicans, including former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, want to eliminate the department.
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Not only is radical leftism a threat, but so is DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) indoctrination.
The ugly non-secret secret of DEI is not only its inconsistency with excellence, merit, and just reward, but often, the exclusion of more qualified college applicants in favor of those less qualified, as well. Bottom line: replacing equality with equity is not only racist by definition; it also smacks of the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Roth also urged “institutional leaders” to condemn the “mass deportation the Republican nominees threaten,” as “schools have made a place for Dreamers.” Translation: The left supports the mass importation of as many illegal aliens as it can get away with.
Roth even went so far as to compare the “attitude” of Trump and Vance to the teachings of German philosopher Martin Heidegger during the Nazi rise to power. So there it is. You just knew we were going to get around to Nazi comparisons, right?
Roth also suggested that “some” university leaders should “keep their heads down” if Trump wins the election, perhaps in reference to the Democrats’ ridiculous trope that Trump would put his “enemies” in “camps.”
The Bottom Line
This stuff never gets old, gang.
Somewhere between end-stage Trump Derangement Syndrome and outright lying in a desperate attempt to convince low-information Democrat voters that Trump is Adolf Hitler reincarnated and Vance is the Führer’s chief propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, the left is in apoplectic meltdown over the possibility of a second Trump presidency.
Just imagine their mental state if Trump does win.
