The "My Year at Harvard" certainly was a sobering read, but there should have been no surprise.
Among the many good quotes: “The ideology that works only along axes of oppression and oppressed places Jews as oppressors and therefore intrinsically evil, is itself evil."
Very true! But an ideology that works only among axes of oppression and oppressed--separating people by their group rather than by their individual actions--is evil: no matter what groups they demonize.
In other words, the problem was not just that they picked on Jews: the problem that they demonized ANYBODY for group identity.
The "My Year at Harvard" certainly was a sobering read, but there should have been no surprise.
Among the many good quotes: “The ideology that works only along axes of oppression and oppressed places Jews as oppressors and therefore intrinsically evil, is itself evil."
Very true! But an ideology that works only among axes of oppression and oppressed--separating people by their group rather than by their individual actions--is evil: no matter what groups they demonize.
In other words, the problem was not just that they picked on Jews: the problem that they demonized ANYBODY for group identity.