"There is a common belief at Oberlin that all Jews are white and rich."
May 25, 2016 11:11 AM   Subscribe

...what has been transpiring at Oberlin represents a marriage of deliberate prejudice with empowered ignorance that has increasingly marginalized Jewish students and Jewish life on campus. It will take an administration willing to forthrightly combat misinformed stereotypes about Jews, and to confront anti-Israel activism used as an excuse to intimidate and bully Jewish students, to have any chance of changing this deteriorating climate for the better.
How Oberlin Has Repeatedly Failed To Confront Anti-Semitism on Campus
posted by griphus (3 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: There's a thread from yesterday about Oberlin etc., add this there if it's not in there already. -- cortex



 
Related article from the New Yorker on campus tensions. Mentions the the anti-semitism incident.
posted by lattiboy at 11:16 AM on May 25, 2016 [1 favorite]


Not to belittle this, but it honestly does not sound vastly different than the climate on the Oberlin campus when I spent time there in the early 90s.
posted by ryanshepard at 11:18 AM on May 25, 2016


There's a quote from someone from the class of '97.
posted by griphus at 11:19 AM on May 25, 2016


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