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Culture War Roundup for the week of December 4, 2023

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how unfair it is that certain companies are reserving internship spots for Jewish students

Are they? That sounds illegal under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Of course, so are all those "POC" set-asides, but the EEOC and courts like to sing "la la la" loudly when those are brought up.

Palantir the other day, being cheered on by Chief Anti-Identity Politics Influencer, Ben Shapiro:

Students on campuses are terrified and have been instructed by administrators to hide their Judaism.

We are launching an initiative for students who because of antisemitism fear for their safety on campus and need to seek refuge outside traditional establishments of higher education. They are welcome to join Palantir, and we are setting aside 180 positions for them immediately.

Liz was one of the few remaining non-Jewish Ivy presidents, so presumably she will be replaced by a Jew or half-Jew of color.

There is this meme that's been going around about how, now that push comes to shove, Jews are being treated like White people in the oppression Olympics. No they aren't. None of what is happening in response to these student protests is at all thinkable if we assume that Jews are "in the same boat" as White people. They absolutely are not, so the faux attempt at solidarity between some of those on the right, like the BAP sphere, is just so obviously wrong.

I hope my ADHD diagnosis doesn't relegate me to the Oppression Paralympics.

I'll have to think deep and hard whether outrunning the people with Chronic Fatigue syndrome would be a good or bad thing in that context.

Looks like they ran that by their lawyers:

These opportunities will be open to all university students, regardless of background, who stand in opposition to the rising and unchallenged antisemitism at institutions of higher learning.

Emphasis mine. Ideological tests are not covered by the CRA, as progressives like to point out.

What if my ideology is that I prefer being around being like me?

Theoretically, there could be an ideological test which allowed only racists, but they'd have to allow racists of all races.

A compelling argument can be made that the quality of academia would greatly improve, if we replaced the current batch of professors with Jared Taylor and Gazi Kodzo locked in a room.

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