The conceptual frames that many people use to organize their understanding of the world are crashing and burning upon contact with Middle Eastern reality.
The first paradigm that failed this month was critical race theory or woke-ism.
A group of highly educated American progressives cheered on Hamas as anti-colonialist freedom fighters even though Hamas is a theocratic, genocidal terrorist force that oppresses L.G.B.T.Q.
American universities exist to give students the conceptual tools to understand the world.
It appears that at many universities students are instead being fed simplistic ideological categories that blind them to reality.
Persons:
Mounk, It’s, Israel, —, Boko Haram
Locations:
American, Nigeria