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Johannah King-Slutzky, a pro-Palestinian protester who called for humanitarian aid to Gaza during the Columbia University encampments, is now teaching at the institution. King-Slutzky is now a doctoral student at Columbia working as an instructor for the required undergraduate course “Contemporary Western Civilization.”
In the video above, Straight Arrow News contributor Ben Weingarten questions whether King-Slutzky can impartially teach contemporary civilization to “young and impressionable” students.
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The following is an excerpt from the above video:
I highlight the King-Slutzky saga at Columbia because it is so illustrative of the total corruption of our elite institutions of higher education. Entitled Marxist mouthpieces for genocidal jihadists are rewarded by being put in positions to indoctrinate the next generation of woke social justice warriors.
Those who would destroy or minimally cheer on those who would destroy our civilization are tasked with teaching students about our civilization. The response to these civilizational destroyers from elite schools like Columbia, where 18 of the 22 students arrested in connection with the occupation of Hamilton Hall remained in good standing with the university as of August 2024, is not to punish them, but to reward them.
While Columbia’s president resigned, and we’ve seen other leaders leave, and schools claim a commitment to rectifying the takeovers of campus by “Hamasniks” last year, there is little to indicate fundamental change is coming — either at a high level in the ripping out of DEI from schools that is core to and a reflection of the progressive fanaticism driving not only the anti-Jewish or anti-Israel but anti-American and anti-Western agitation, or at a lower level in protecting, if not promoting, students who deserve censure.
The problem ultimately for society is that what happens in the Ivory Tower does not stay in the Ivory Tower. Colleges, elite and non-elite alike, are credentialing institutions. The credentialed matriculate into all walks of life — and at places like Columbia, oftentimes to the corridors of power that have disproportionate influence over the direction of this country. With Marxists like Johannah King-Slutzky guarding the henhouse, what could possibly go wrong?
