WASHINGTON POST
Colleges have become hypersensitive to racial prejudice. Why not anti-Semitism?
by Lawrence H. Summers
March 31, 2016
It has seemed to me that a vast double standard regarding what constitutes prejudice exists on American college campuses. There is hypersensitivity to prejudice against most minority groups but what might be called hyper-insensitivity to anti-Semitism. At Bowdoin College, holding parties with sombreros and tequila is deemed to be an act of prejudice against Mexicans…At Yale, Halloween costumes are the subject of administrative edict. The dean of Harvard Law School has acknowledged that hers is a racist institution, while the freshman dean at Harvard College has used dinner place mats to propagandize the student body on aspects of diversity. Professors acquiesce as students insist that they not be exposed to views on issues, such as abortion, that make them uncomfortable. READ MORE