Lady, writer (Bones, The Rookie, Nikita, Breakout Kings). Puller of all-nighters and grey hairs spelled the British way. Los Angeles by way of Louisiana.
Imagine that you and your family borrowed the $360k it costs for four years at @Columbia plus interest at today’s rates.
Regardless of your religious or ethnic background, is this what you signed up for?
Private university mismanagement also begs the question as to why private universities should have the benefit of a tax exemption.
Why should Americans who don’t go to college or who attend lower cost public universities be subsidizing high-cost private universities, their endowments, and their poisonous ideologies?
Antisemitism is protean. Whatever you hate, you can transfer to the Jew. Today colonial-settlerism is the evil of choice, so Jews are colonial settlers. Nazism is a perennial hatred, so Jews are Nazis. If you hate communism, Jews are communists, if you hate Capitalism, Jews are capitalists.
You can hate Jews because they are weak and stateless or because they are strong and ethno-nationalists. Because they wear 'regular clothes' and blend in or because they wear long black coats and sidecurls and refuse to assimilate. Because they are subhuman (the Nazis called them 'vermin') and because they are superhumans who control the world. Because they are resolutely secular or stubbornly religious. Because they went like lambs to the slaughter or because they fight too vigorously. The image of the Jew shapeshifts as a dark psychic threat in the hater's mind.
The one thing the antisemite is sure of, however, whether marching at a Klan rally or just hanging out on campus: there is a good reason. They would NEVER hate Jews just because they are Jews.
I worry for the world that so many say, "What did you expect from the Gazans when they've been so oppressed for so long?" There is NOTHING anyone could do that would lead me to kill a child in cold blood, dismember a woman, slice her genitals, blow up parents in front of their children, laugh, sit & eat at their table. Be very wary of people who say this.