With Professor Duke on HBO’s Friday broadcast of “Real Time” new york times Contributing opinion writer Frank Bruni argues that the simple paradigm about the oppression that drives people to oppose Israel is that “the kind of secondary that many secondary schools, perhaps many Ivy League students, have attended. “It’s in the school curriculum,” he said. Curriculum of many elite universities.
Bruni said part of the criticism of Israel stems from “the paradigm that people like to apply to every situation: more power is probably wrong, less power is probably right.” . If you have more wealth, you are probably wrong, and if you have less, you are probably right. ”
Then host Bill Maher interjected: “And skin color.” Bruni agreed.
Bruni added that by applying this paradigm to the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the atrocities of October 7th have been erased.
Later in the show, Maher read aloud about the oppression of UCLA students and asked, “Who would raise a child to feel that way about this country right now?”
Bruni replied: “The question is not just who raised them to feel that way, but who educates them to feel that way. If you look at many secondary school curricula, you’ll probably find that many Ivy League students If you look at the curriculum of a lot of the elite schools that I went to, and I teach at one of them, there’s a lot of these buzzwords that I talked about earlier. This is what is being produced.”
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