Columbia Univ. Prof.: Columbia Has Tried to ‘Dampen’ Anti-Semitism, Universities Do Have a ‘Problem with Wokeness’

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McWHORTER: "Now, I should say, the kind of student you‘re talking about, in my experience, is a minority of the students. I don‘t -- I don‘t see the whole campus as this, but there is a problem. I mean, frankly, Columbia has tried, for example, this year to eradicate or at least dampen anti-Semitism. I mean, Minouche Shafik did get 100 students arrested. You now cannot get onto the campus without a card, which is in order to protect, especially Jewish students, from having to listen to anti-Semitic protests all day long. The three administrators who were nakedly anti-Semitic in their texts were justifiably fired. But the thing is, I don‘t think this is really about anti-Semitism from the Trump Administration. I think they care about as much about anti-Semitism as a kitchen cabinet or a spoon.

(Laughter)

What they are really upset about is this wokeness in general. And universities do have a problem with wokeness. That is — that is a real problem."