A vote for Biden won’t bring true democracy
As long as we buy the logic of lesser evil and the rationales of civic duty, any risk to that order will be inconsequential.
As long as we buy the logic of lesser evil and the rationales of civic duty, any risk to that order will be inconsequential.
The reality is, nothing will be done for the students and campus workers who need change, so long as the venal relic of an antidemocratic administration hoards the University’s assets and the Board of Trustees are compelled by their very job descriptions to relieve anti-racism of whatever fangs it might carry.
When Wilson alleges that Princeton “bends over” backwards for the sake of anti-racist activists and leftist revisionists, he is fictionalizing a widely covered event for which he cares to neither learn of nor represent fairly.
Recently, it was announced that the Department of Education would investigate Princeton’s self-admitted propagation of systemic racism. First, even if the DOE fails to push Princeton around, its efforts will send a message to other, less prominent institutions that might one day step out of line, and second, it exemplifies the legalistic mind games that exist as surely at the University as in the Trump administration.
As part of this University, we should be tied together more by seriousness regarding racial justice than by the disciplinary matters that many of us promote and pride.
The critique that Lee levels at individualistic thinking is an astute one; it is long past time that a higher sensibility be cultivated. Yet, the reality of the situation is harsher than how Lee imagines it.
We must remember that the crisis we face is societal, not biological. Its solution lies not in moral principles, but in political struggle.
The inevitable question then, when all is said and done, is the following: if not ours, whose interests does the University serve?
There are points at which the way we discuss destructive behavior, whether of ourselves or others, becomes the abuse, as opposed to the use, of the language that should represent a tool for validation and resolution.
Collective crises require collective solutions, rather than the appropriation of agency, responsibility, and credit by so narrow a source as a well-funded, and often ill-advised, financial titan.