Higher education at work.
It’s hard to be too surprised here.
Everything in the educational system, popular culture and social media influencers have been pushing this idea.
What’s striking is how extreme the generational difference reflected in the Harvard-Harris poll is.
65% to 35% overall oppose the “ideology that white people are oppressors and nonwhite people and people of certain groups have been oppressed and as a result should be favored today at universities and for employment.”
A bare majority, 51% to 49% oppose the idea that white people are “oppressors” and “non-white people” should be favored.
79% of 18-24 year olds support it.
73% to 27% overall oppose the idea that “Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors”.
56% to 44% of 25-34-year-olds oppose the idea.
67% to 33% of 18-24-year-olds support it.
It’s an extreme generational shift. To repeat what I said in my previous post on the poll,
One reason these numbers are so awful is that Harvard-Harris only polled registered voters. Less than half of 18-24 year olds are registered voters and those who are tend to be far left and from lefty areas in the country.
We are seeing the effect of critical race theory and obsessive classroom indoctrination and campus radicalization expressing itself in the worst kinds of racism and Jew hatred.
Higher education needs radical reform and rethinking before it’s too late.
somehistory says
“higher” than what? Teaching lies is the lowest of the low.
People should be able to look around in their ‘world’ and in the world at large and see Truth.
How many black people are in government positions, from the local SSA offices where they seem to be the majority of employees, all the way to State governors, senators, to Fed positions, Congress and the VP. (and pretend president)
And at schools and universities, where they are teachers, professors, administrators and presidents.
Police chiefs, fire chiefs, actors, producers, directors,….everywhere there are blacks in high positions with control of content, policy, etc.
And with the current state of things where blacks cannot be criticized because that’s racist, but whites can be threatened with annihilation, lied about, etc. and that’s hunky-dory, a-ok and all that.
Lies have become the order of the day and Truth is maligned along with all who speak it.
Mike says
Also among many in the left, east asians are also seen as oppressors, because east Asian ethnic groups are disproportionately successful in economic and educational realms in the United States.
somehistory says
“National Review
Half of Young Americans Say Israel Should Be ‘Ended and Given to Hamas’: Poll”
“Roughly half of young Americans say Israel should be “ended and given to Hamas and the Palestinians” amid the ongoing war despite continuing support for the Jewish state among older Americans, according to a new poll.
While 51 percent of 18–24-year-olds in the U.S. want Israel to lose to Hamas, that sentiment decreases significantly among the higher age brackets in the monthly Harvard CAPS/Harris poll. Thirty-one percent of 25–34-year-olds, 24 percent of 35–44-year-olds, 15 percent of 45–54-year-olds, 13 percent of 55–64-year-olds, and only 4 percent of Americans aged 65 and older say Israel should be wiped out.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/half-of-young-americans-say-israel-should-be-ended-and-given-to-hamas-poll/ar-AA1lDlBV?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=249a6003411d4d8da57bf7181cbff568&ei=19
tim gallagher says
What a bunch of brainwashed, braindead wankers these young people are. They certainly have drunk the far left Koolaid which their left wing teachers force on them. Then again it does say the young people in the survey are skewed towards the left. Hopefully, some of these idiots do grow a brain and begin to think for themselves and change their view of the world in later years. It must be pretty depressing for the leftie wankers who happen to be white to get around hating themselves for being people with white skin. They have bought such a load of self-loathing bullshit from their educators.
John M says
Bought the load – more like bought the Farm.
tim gallagher says
That’s about right, John M. What a bunch of gullible fools they are. The march of the left through the institutions, where leftist teachers in schools and universities indoctrinate these young people, certainly seems to have worked and it has turned out a bunch of gullible, brainwashed idiots. I do hope some of these idiots change their idiotic opinions though I’m not hopeful that will occur.
Wellington says
It’s important for sensible people to realize that the Left is still winning—in the educational realm, in politics (look to the pitiful Biden Administration for confirmation here as well as to the EU and UN), in Big Tech (but thank God for Elon Musk who just this week said “DEI must die”), in the woeful entertainment industry, in Big Business and even in the sports world.
There is much to do to correct this rot. Much. And it is possible that we have reached a point of no return but I still hold out hope that this is not the reality. In any case, might as well go down fighting as opposed to simply giving up.
Leftism, like Islam, is a destroyer of so much that is noble and fine, particularly where liberty is concerned. Both are execrable and both I thoroughly despise.
James Lincoln says
Perhaps the United States needs to raise the voting age…
Kepha says
I knew a young man who was always in high dudgeon over the poor oppressed African-Americans and other victims of wicked white people imperialism. Later, after he gradated college, he went to New York and lived in Brooklyn. He came out of that a truly scary anti-black racist. I strongly suspect that the coming group of 25-40 year olds will probably be similarly unsufferable. I have also known people indignant about the plight of the Falastin Arabs who, after getting to know them, loathe them, and start wondering why Israel doesn’t take a leaf from the book of Joshua. I’ve known fiery Dispensational fundamentalists who go to Israel expecting to find people breeding red heifers and collecting stones for the Third Temple with every eye on the sky; they see a flesh-and-blood country with people scrabbling for a living (including fleecing tourists), and end up giving Covenant theology a sympathetic hearing–only to use it as an excuse to say, “gee, we can hate the Jews again!” (I got news–Covenant theology does not give license to hate).
As a teacher, I am more and more convinced that our young need lots of information rather than calls to form opinions and grow passionate about things. The young are by nature easily manipulated by those who come with an emotional appeal. But, sooner or later (for the blessed, sooner), reality has a way of kicking us all in the face.
Walter Sieruk says
That 19% of 18-24 year old’s support the .“ideology that white people are oppressors…. ” does show that the leftists with their politically correct philosophies had thoroughly infiltrated many institutions
of “higher education ” with their PC ideology of CRT abs WOKE.
For those impressionable young people have indoctrinated into this lest -wing mindset regardless of how nonsensical and illogical such ideas are . Those brainwashed people can’t think for themselves .
This is tragic. At least some those ,as myself born in the 1950’s have a more balanced worldview ,not only because we have been around longer but also in past times the politically correct mind-programmers didn’t nearly a much power in colleges and universities as they do today.
Spiro says
All these comments are very interesting but it’s our own fault no one was interested in what was being taught just send the kids off to school and watch the game
Vote for more free stuff don’t think about where it’s coming from or how it’s being paid for
Don’t defend your religion after all who needs faith and morality
I could go on but why
that’s not pessimistic it’s a realist look at our country especially the coastal states
Bread and circus