Dear Cornell Friends :
See below email from Cornell on the 4pm ET Nov 16 Cornell livestream event addressing “The Intersectionality of Antisemitism, Islamophobia and Racism” (LINK = livestreamed as a webinar on eCornell). Heretofore, identified as a “White Colonialist Oppressor” group, Jewish students have become the target of DEI hate and bias on the Cornell campus. As is no surprise, to address this latest outburst of DEI / Antiracist inspired animosity, Cornell leadership has reacted to the outbreak of antisemitism at Cornell with new plans to further expand DEI training and programs in order to belatedly add Jewish students (with bias against practicing Christian and Muslim students also not far behind) as the latest subjects of antiracist training. Indeed, all traditional religious beliefs are facing intense bias and antagonism on campus as the forces of DEI-driven “secularist intolerance” rage.
Here is the inevitable result which DEI has now brought: Virtually every Identity Group and all students at Cornell are now defined as VICTIMS – with DEI programs offered as the method to first highlight this victimhood and, then, to agitate feelings of endless alienation and victimization within the student body and among the plethora of Identity Groups. Thus, DEI turns “student against student” in an endless circle of accusation and animosity. As this pervasive DEI ugliness unfolds, the only “non-victims” remaining on campus today (per Cornell’s own DEI definitions) are White, Male, Able Bodied, Non-LGBTQ, Not-Tall, Not-Fat, Not-Short, Non-Trans, Atheist students. Based on simple demographic analyses and by its own definitions, the Cornell Admin must conclude that less than 5% of students are not horribly afflicted with hateful oppression – with 95%+ of students now falling into the horribly oppressed super-majority – who are trained by Cornell to point their fingers at one another as despised oppressors.
OBSERVATION & QUESTION: We are now seeing that the underpinnings of DEI & Intersectionality are based upon, and work tirelessly to amplify, the sentiments of GRIEVANCE of one Identity Group (the “Oppressed”) against another (the “Oppressor”) at Cornell and within the US. Such foundations, of course, lead to increased inter-group HATRED, ENMITY & SUSPICION. The recent outbreak of ANTISEMITISM on college campuses is a direct result and clear example of such DEI-inspired inter-group hatred and suspicion. Given this, how can more DEI (as now being proposed as the predictable knee-jerk reaction at Cornell and other elite universities) be the solution to ANTISEMITISM ?
Of course, more DEI continues to make the problem of HATRED within the US and the World worse – not better. Yet, “MORE DEI” is the prescription now being offered to counter antisemitism by the Cornell Admin. Seems like dousing a fire with gasoline. The idiocy never ceases to amaze….
How To End This DEI Madness ? See this podcast of a few days ago featuring a Cornell Professor which illuminates this idiocy:

Here is the latest From Cornell :
A Nov. 16 talk sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the College of Arts and Sciences will shed light on the history of hate movements in the U.S.
“The Intersectionality of Antisemitism, Islamophobia and Racism,” a talk by Ross Brann, the Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies & Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow (A&S), will begin on Nov 16 at 4 p.m. in the Alice Statler Auditorium in Statler Hall.
President Martha E. Pollack will offer an introduction, and the event will be livestreamed as a webinar on eCornell.
“We have come to witness incidents of antisemitism and Islamophobia on our own campus,” Brann said. “The first necessary step in combatting all forms of hate and intolerance is to call them out. What else can we do right here, right now? What we always do at Cornell, which is to interrogate, to question and to learn.”
The talk will be followed by a question-and-answer period with the in-person audience.
“For more than 35 years, Professor Brann has guided Cornell students to understand, and talk about, hate and bias directed against others – particularly Jews and Arabs,” said Provost Michael I. Kotlikoff. “An expert on the Middle East, Ross helps students understand the complex history of the region and the deep emotions that it provokes. I am extraordinarily grateful to him, and so many other Cornell faculty, who are helping to educate us and foster respectful communication at this particularly challenging time for our community. We condemn hatred and bias of any form at Cornell and are committed to making every effort possible to understand and counter it on our campus.”
“The humanities and interdisciplinary studies help us understand the complexities of conflict while we seek deeper meaning and understanding,” said Rachel Bean, interim dean of A&S and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Astronomy. “I am grateful for the thoughtful engagement of our faculty and the mutual respect and care for our collective humanity that is so needed at this time.”
The talk is sponsored by the Office of the Provost; the Provost’s Office of Faculty Development and Diversity; the College of Arts and Sciences; the departments of Near Eastern studies, government, history and anthropology; the Religious Studies Program; the Jewish Studies Program and the Comparative Muslim Societies Program (in the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.)

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