In-Case-You-Missed-It: This week, United States Senate candidate Vikram Mansharamani’s op-ed appeared in the Concord Monitor, calling out the Woke Cultural Revolution that is tearing our country apart.
An excerpt of the Op-Ed is below:
Having taught at Harvard for the past five years and Yale for the eight years prior to that, I’ve had a front-row seat to watch the evolution of our culture on campus. And let me be blunt, it’s disturbing.
When I graduated from college, I remember commencement as a celebration of unity, a celebration that brought all together, regardless of religion, skin color or socioeconomic background. The graduation garb was the literal embodiment of commonality. We all wore the same robes, same graduation caps, and same tassles.
Today’s graduations emphasize differences rather than similarities. It’s now commonplace to have separate graduation ceremonies for students who identify differently. Harvard, for instance, doesn’t have one graduation. This year there was a Black graduation, a Native American graduation, and a LatinX graduation (a term that Hispanics detest, by the way). There was also a FirstGen graduation, an APIDA graduation for Asian/Pacific Islander/Desi-Americans, and a Lavender graduation for the LGBTQ+ community.
And Harvard is not alone. This is a growing trend with colleges and universities around the country. Columbia had six “identity-focused” graduations, including an “FLI” graduation for first-generation college graduates and low-income students. Princeton had six, including a Women/Femme graduation and a Pan-African graduation. The list goes on.
