The Left makes progress as long as it can obscure the horrors the ideology imposes on people.

Talk to most liberals, and they blithely accept the assurances that Leftists make about how following their policies will make the world nicer, more equal, and more just.

Those of us who see through the deceptions of the Left can find this naivete occasionally infuriating and always frustrating because it seems obvious to us that the Left’s promises are false. But there it is. Liberals want to believe that there are no trade-offs, that utopia is possible, and that when people promise all good things, they really mean it.

Silly, I know, but they are like Charlie Brown trusting Lucy with the football. They never learn.

There are critical moments, though, when the mask comes off and the demonic nature of the Left is visible for all to see, and the reaction of Leftists to the attacks on Israel on 10/7 is one such moment.

The glee with which the Left embraced terrorism was shocking, and no amount of rewriting history can erase the fact that, well before Israel struck back, Leftists celebrated Hamas’ brutality. It wasn’t horror at Israel’s military actions that motivated their outbursts of hate; they were just haters. It is who they are.

It was also impossible to ignore that the most vile antisemites have been adherents of DEI ideology, and it’s also clear why: they see Jews as part of the oppressor class, and the oppressed are justified in doing anything they want to oppressors. It is a corollary to the claim that no oppressed person can be a racist because racism is prejudice + power. Power is the key to the moral hierarchy.

Americans noticed and recoiled, and DEI is under threat. Fear not, Leftists, Vox is on the beat.

How Republicans are weaponizing antisemitism to take down DEI https://t.co/XrIZ5GindB

— Vox (@voxdotcom) December 21, 2023

The revolt against DEI got its biggest boost when the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT testified before Congress. Far from rejecting antisemitism, they appeared smug about nurturing the antisemites in their midst. That wasn’t a PR flub; they really were smug about it because they, too, believed that Jews deserved what they got because they were near the bottom of the intersectional pyramid.

Palestinians, being brown, are permitted to rape, murder, and kidnap. Israelis, being “White” in the intersectional hierarchy (they are actually only sometimes of European extraction, and all have roots in the Middle East), deserved to be targets.

Leftists have noticed that their antisemitism is harming their cause, so Vox provides a fallback: the Left’s antisemitism is being “weaponized” against DEI.

To a certain extent, that accusation is not wrong, in the same sense that the United States “weaponized” the German Jewish scientists who were forced to escape Germany during the Nazi era. Just as the Nazi’s antisemitism harmed Germany and allowed its opponents to defeat the Axis powers, the antisemitism that stems from DEI is empowering its opponents to drive a stake into its heart.

What Ben doesn't recognize is that my strategy works because I am telling the truth—a truly frightening prospect for a man who is paid to obscure it. https://t.co/6mIvf4Lqg2

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 21, 2023

Christopher Rufo, for whom I have the greatest respect, explicitly said that conservatives must do that, and the Leftists out there are infuriated by his and others’ success in doing so.

What Vox and the Left are complaining about, though, is not an illegitimate tying of DEI to antisemitism but a genuine connection between antisemitism and other racial and cultural hatred and DEI.

DEI is built on hate. Its primary goal is to set people against each other. Its proponents are constantly talking about “Whites” and “BIPOC” and LGBTQIA+/- and all sorts of other divisions, ensuring that the people it considers more “oppressed” are empowered to harm those it considers oppressors.

People are opening their eyes to this connection; they already had a vague sense that it was wrong but thought it was benign, and they don’t like what they see.

Pointing to basic facts and forcing people to confront them is not “weaponizing” something. It is opening people’s eyes up to a fundamental reality. DEI is not only misguided; it is evil.

If conservatives don’t seize this moment and use it to destroy the Devil in our midst, it will be a tragedy. And, almost as bad, we will make Vox writers happy.