At least 300 students have been prohibited from registering for classes at Northwestern University because they refused to watch a controversial antisemitism training video that they said was biased in favor of Israel, contained factual inaccuracies and could inflame campus tension over Gaza.
I hate universities that do this patronising nonsense (which is probably most of them tbh).
Things like this should be taught at school and assumed knowledge at uni. University is (generally) for adults.
Having adults teaching other adults ‘how to respect other cultures’, ‘how not to rape someone’, ‘how to work in a group’, ‘how to be ethical’, is condescending af.
Yet, look at the US and the divide in thinking. Look at the rise of toxic masculinity and incels. Then you can also look at what schools in much of rural America are doing to promote PragerU or even fighting critical literacy and DEI.
These people are all going to universities with some very fucked up beliefs. Sadly, universities need to cover this shit because people still don’t understand lines.
Regarding this particular training? Yeah, not needed. Israel is a state and Jewish people are worldwide so criticizing Israel’s bullshit is not anti-semitism by any means. Morals seem to be difficult for many despite religions claiming they not only understand them, but exemplify them while doing the opposite in reality.
Colleges do that to cover their ass. There is a ton of sexual violence that happens on college campuses, especially fraternities. Clearly some adults do need to be taught not to rape others.
That’s not a university’s job
Except it legally is.
Universities are obliged to keep their students safe. It’s not even a just doing it for compliance thing, it also looks really fucking bad for a university if people are getting raped there. They want students to feel safe, high profile sexual assaults tend discourage from students applying to go there, or even more importantly, donors.
Luckily they’re only teaching adults how to disrespect other cultures, how to rape other people, and to not work with people who aren’t like you. And now these woke pink haired collage students won’t even go along with those basic principles.