The all-white seminar, “From Integration to Anti-Racism,” cost $360 to attend and met six times between February and June, according to a description of the program that has since been scrubbed from the university’s website without explanation. Organized by NYU’s Steinhardt School of Education, the workshop was “designed specifically for white public school parents” committed to “becoming anti-racist” and building “multiracial parent communities.”
But to promote solidarity with all races, participants were told, it was necessary that the seminar include only one. …
“It’s quintessentially illegal,” said Ilya Shapiro, the director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute. “This episode illustrates the horseshoe theory whereby left- and right-wing radicals end up agreeing on race-based societal balkanization. It’s like that social media meme: ‘woke or KKK?’”
[It’s an outcome with a stronger relation to another part of a horse’s anatomy. One has to wonder what impact the recent Supreme Court decision in SFFA v Harvard will have on such campus activities. The case related to admission policies, but the opinion was broader than that — even broader than higher education, for that matter, but especially applied to Academia. — Ed]
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