In a pre-Christmas op-ed, Cornell University Law Professor William Jacobson highlighted a mainstream media-ignored story about the indictment of the radical group Turtle Island Liberation Front.
Two days before Christmas, a grand jury found that the group with (“its heavily transgender membership”) had “plotted to use ‘weapons of mass destruction’ to ‘completely pulverize’ tech companies and other targets.”
Turtle Island members also had been arrested earlier in the month for plotting a New Year’s Eve attack in the Los Angeles area.
According to Jacobson, the group’s “pro-Palestine, anti-law-enforcement, and anti-government” stances are derived directly from UCLA and Columbia Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw’s concepts of “intersectionality” and critical race theory.
“Intersectionality advocates pushing the ‘marginalized’ to take ‘collective action,’ based on a narrative that casts every issue in terms of oppressors and oppressed,” Jacobson writes. This “wolf in sheep’s clothing” has “morphed into a monster, giving birth to diversity, equity and inclusion practices.”
This group-identity mindset urges the “marginalized” to unite against oppressors, using a toxic mix of economic, sexual and racial/ethnic identities as its fuel.
Intersectionality has been the dominant ideology on campus for two decades, and in recent years it’s chosen Israel as its point of attack.
It does so by bringing “marginalized” groups that have nothing in common together — for example, proclaiming “Palestine is a feminist issue” even though Palestinian society is one of the most patriarchal and misogynistic in the world.
It’s what fuels “Queers for Palestine” — even though actual gays and lesbians wouldn’t last a day in any Palestinian city or village.
Jacobson says intersectionality also is what drives race/ethnicity-based student groups on campuses to “organize […] to combat Israel, the supposed white oppressor.”
“We have intersectionality to thank for the widespread rot in higher education,” the professor says, “as it works to ‘dismantle the persistent colonial structures and Eurocentric biases’ of academia.”
