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Democrats, liberals in academia, progressive hypocrites and radicals know what they are doing. They are full of guile, clever and dangerous:
Critical Race Theory at Stanford Leads to Antisemitism
Complaint From Jewish Faculty
This is an old problem with a critical new urgency in the age of critical race theory.
Jews may be the target of a disproportionate amount of hate
crimes, but they're not an official minority. As critical race theory rolls out
in organizations, people are pressured into joining segregated groupings.
Official minorities go to minority Oppressed Victim caucuses, while designated
white people go to the White People are Evil Oppressors and Must Apologize Every
Day for Their Existence caucuses.
And that means the descendants of Holocaust survivors being
told they're guilty of white supremacy.
That's how things went over at Stanford.
Dr. Ronald Albucher, a psychiatrist and associate professor
in the medical school, and Sheila Levin, a therapist specializing in
eating disorders, describe being pressed into joining a “whiteness” affinity
group by staffers with the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion program, being told
they were “privileged,” and seeing antisemitic incidents downplayed.
The university responded inadequately to their concerns,
made over the course of a year, Albucher and Levin say, thereby fostering a
“hostile and unwelcoming environment” for Jewish employees working for
Stanford’s Counseling and Psychological Services office (CAPS).
The justice of their case is pretty clear whether it will
lead to any meaningful response in the era of critical race theory and under
the Biden regime is another matter altogether.
The trouble began in November 2019, Albucher and Levin say,
when CAPS employees were asked to join weekly seminars run by the Diversity,
Equity and Inclusion program within the clinic, formed earlier that year.
The seminars predictably began with Robin DiAngelo and
concluded with segregated groups.
Before their first meeting, CAPS staff were asked to read
“White Fragility,” the 2018 New York Times bestseller by Robin DiAngelo.
Albucher said the assignment did not appeal to him as an introduction to DEI
training because it is deeply pessimistic about race relations in the U.S., and
it argues that all white people are fragile on race issues, no matter what.
When he expressed that view, according to the complaint,
“several CAPS co-workers verbally harassed and intimidated” him.
That's how struggle sessions begin.
To discuss “White Fragility,” the complaint says, DEI
members split up CAPS staff by race, facilitating “space for white staff” to
“process [their] reaction” to it. The group was later named the “Whiteness
Accountability group/book club.”
First you join a 'white' group, then the group is defined as
guilty and forced to engage in accountability.
“No affinity group was ever created for members of Jewish
ancestral identity,” it continues. “As a result, there was no ‘space’ in the
DEI program for Dr. Albucher and Ms. Levin to safely express their lived Jewish
experience.”
Albucher said he was deeply uncomfortable with the
discussion groups reserved for white people and refused to join them, although
he continued to attend DEI seminars.
“As a gay Jewish man, I have have my own perceptions on
white supremacy, and the history of this country,” he said. “My family has had
to contend with white supremacy,” he said, adding that he has family members
who died in the Holocaust.
Levin also did not want to join the whites-only group,
telling a DEI member that “as a Jewish person, she does not feel an affinity
with white identity,” according to the complaint. She said the individual
responded that “this was the direction the clinic was going” and she needed to
participate if she “wanted to be part of a collegial environment.”
You must join our segregated group if you want to
work on campus. Critical race theory quickly morphed into straightforward
antisemitism.
DEI committee members “justified the omission of
anti-Semitism,” the complaint says, “by insisting that unlike other minority
groups, Jews can hide behind their white identity.” During the meeting,
Albucher and Levin say they were “subjected to anti-Jewish stereotypes,” such
as that Jews are “wealthy and powerful business owners.”
On May 30, 2020, Levin emailed a DEI leader asking how she
could support the program. According to the complaint, the person responded
that “as a Jewish, White cis woman you have immense power and privilege. It is
important to understand how you are a part of the systemic racism and
oppression that takes place in this country.”
On June 24, 2020, the complaint alleges that during a
seminar that Levin attended, participants “lamented that the group was
comprised of privileged people,” specifically “white, pass for white and Jewish
people.”
There was also plenty of intersectionality between
antisemitism and anti-Israel.
On Jan. 8 of this year, the complaint alleges, Levin was
again subjected to a hostile environment when, during a seminar for psychology
students – prospective CAPS interns – a DEI program facilitator said the
program would “explore how Jews are connected to white supremacy and will
address anti-Semitism.” Another DEI representative said she “takes an
anti-Zionist approach to social justice.”
The kicker goes well beyond what's happening here. These
tactics create paradigms that affect people far beyond those at Stanford.
Albucher said it concerned him that it appeared politics
were being infused into health care.
“How are they going to work clinically with Jewish students?
We need to be improving our skills within the mental health field,” he said.
“It’s clear these people will put politics ahead of science.”
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