Ezekiel Emanuel. Remember the name? During the Obama administration he was one of the major proponents of the so-called Affordable Care Act (ObmaCare). In my opinion – then and now – he got that wrong.
But here’s something Mr. Emanuel gets right. And then some.
From Jeffrey Clark’s article for Fox News, via msn:
A University of Pennsylvania professor declared that higher education has failed vehemently anti-Israel students in a recent op-ed.
“We have failed,” Ezekiel Emanuel wrote in a New York Times op-ed published Tuesday after the Hamas terror attacks on Israel that has left at least 1,400 Israeli civilians and soldiers dead.
“When a coalition of 34 student organizations at Harvard can say that they ‘hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence’ and students at other elite universities blame Israel alone for the attack Hamas carried out on Israelis on Oct. 7 or even praise the massacre, something is deeply wrong at America’s colleges and universities,” the professor concluded.
“Those of us who are university leaders and faculty are at fault,” he wrote. “We may graduate our students, confer degrees that certify their qualifications as the best and brightest. But we have clearly failed to educate them. We have failed to give them the ethical foundation and moral compass to recognize the basics of humanity.”
Does Ezekiel Emanuel get this right? You bet he does.
One thin silver lining in the cloud of hamas attacks on Israel and the reactions of “woke” drones in colleges/universities around the United States is that a some of us – maybe a great many of us – may finally realize just how extensively indoctrination-over-education has permeated our institutions of higher learning.
You can’t address a problem unless you recognize the problem’s existence. Let’s hope that is what has happened over the past week and a half….and that some of our colleges/universities – their to-date spineless administrations kicking and screaming, no doubt – will finally be forced to think about and deal with it.
