Exporting the Columbia Prototype
Left-wing activists opposition to Israel is so frenzied in part because of that country s small size and relative vulnerability. Campus activists celebrated the October 7 Hamas paragliders because the terrorists drew blood, enacting a brutal form of justice that the radical Left would like to see perpetrated everywhere but lacks the power to implement at home.
While the administration s actions have thus far focused on anti-Semitism, the next step should be to apply this prototype to the entire nesting doll of left-wing racialism. Conservatives have developed a habit of grounding their arguments against racial discrimination in the harms that it visits on model minority groups, such as Jews or Asians. While that may have been tactically prudent years ago, it s time to go further and defend the benefits of colorblind equality for all groups including the racial majority.
The reality is that, in absolute numbers, whites are the biggest victims of racialist discrimination. One can consult almost any university diversity training materials and immediately understand that they are predicated on a domestic oppressor-oppressed narrative, which assigns whites the arch-oppressor role and legitimizes discrimination against them. The success of model minorities, such as Jews and Asians, might scramble the progressive narrative, but those groups are simply suffering collateral damage from the Left s fundamental white-black political distinction.
Christopher Rufo.
This makes a lot of sense.