John Ellis is a professor emeritus of German literature. This is so spot on.
From the Wall Street Journal:
America’s Campus Left Is Hateful to Its CoreIn the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, it’s often said that people with differing political opinions must learn to disagree respectfully with one another. A sensible admonition—except that it doesn’t begin to get at what political hatred on college campuses is about, or what it is doing to us.If all that was involved were doctrinal political differences—say, free markets as opposed to central planning—it might be enough to say that the two sides of that argument should learn to be more tolerant of each other. But the politics that dominates college campuses is a different kind of beast.It begins not with traditional issues of governance but instead by pitting different groups of people against each other. It starts off by identifying a group of people who are wronged and another who are the wrongdoers—the “oppressed” vs. the “oppressors.”The former group are innocent and praiseworthy, the latter are evil and wrong. Mistreatment of the oppressed means that the other side must be condemned, hated, vilified. The radicals who dominate college campuses adopt Karl Marx’s oppressed vs. oppressor groups of workers and capitalists, but they also add others of their own making—such as people of color oppressed by “white supremacists” and homosexuals by heterosexuals. Conservatives are evil enough to be labeled fascists and Nazis, which makes them an oppressor group worthy of hate.In this kind of politics, hatred isn’t a matter of style, of making arguments too aggressively, or of carelessly insulting people who think differently. No, campus radicals make hatred part of the substance of their political thought. Hatred is at its core.If you ask a campus radical to give up hating, you would be asking him to give up his political framework, and that would be equivalent to telling him to give up his beliefs and his radicalism. You can’t ask radicals to seek common ground with intellectual opponents when the whole point of their political thought is to alienate people from one another.
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