I wonder if the students, including the teaching assistant, that Prof. Karchmer found listed in the pro-Hamas groups came to campus with their biases or learned them at MIT. I'm seeing a trend towards blaming faculty and on-campus DEI indoctrination, and I'm certain there's plenty for which to condemn them, but I wonder if the push for s…
I wonder if the students, including the teaching assistant, that Prof. Karchmer found listed in the pro-Hamas groups came to campus with their biases or learned them at MIT. I'm seeing a trend towards blaming faculty and on-campus DEI indoctrination, and I'm certain there's plenty for which to condemn them, but I wonder if the push for skin-deep diversity is also resulting in increasing numbers of students from communities that have high rates of antisemitism already. Is the corrective to both types of campus antisemitism the same?
I wonder if the students, including the teaching assistant, that Prof. Karchmer found listed in the pro-Hamas groups came to campus with their biases or learned them at MIT. I'm seeing a trend towards blaming faculty and on-campus DEI indoctrination, and I'm certain there's plenty for which to condemn them, but I wonder if the push for skin-deep diversity is also resulting in increasing numbers of students from communities that have high rates of antisemitism already. Is the corrective to both types of campus antisemitism the same?
this is an excellent question.