Universities are teaching specific kinds of hate - and the results are fatal ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, September 12, 2025

Universities are teaching specific kinds of hate - and the results are fatal

It has long been established that university graduates tend to be more socially liberal than non-graduates. The question is whether this is causation - do universities actually make people more socially liberal than they would otherwise have been?

Recent studies tend to assume that liberalism is self-evidently good, so they rarely look at negative values that might also be learned on campus. On that basis they conclude that yes, universities make people more liberal and less racist, even if the reasons may not come directly from classroom instruction.

But there is a darker side to higher education. A 2021 study found that antisemitism actually increases with education. So while universities may reduce some forms of prejudice, they intensify one of the oldest and most dangerous.

That would be troubling enough. But recent events show that universities are also normalizing something else: contempt for the basic norms of free society. The past two years' pro-Hamas demonstrations on campuses - complete with vandalism, building takeovers, and the open intimidation of Jewish students - were tolerated, even excused, by administrators.

Now a study on college free speech finds that more than half of all current college students believe it is acceptable to block their peers from hearing speakers they dislike, and an astonishing one-third say violence is sometimes justified to stop a campus event.

That is not a classically liberal attitude.

And that is the point. The left–right narrative misses what is really happening. People don’t become antisemitic because they are more liberal, and they don’t become racist because they are more conservative. Real liberals and real conservatives agree that both racism and antisemitism are wrong, and both agree that violence and censorship are wrong.

The common denominator in these studies isn’t left or right. It is the erosion of basic human values among university graduates. They are more prone to supporting or excusing violence. They are more willing to silence others. They are more comfortable with antisemitism.

This doesn’t come from nowhere. It is the result of how destructive philosophies - social justice absolutism, Marxist frameworks, and decolonial dogmas - have been mainstreamed in the academy as if they were simply alternative moral systems. They are not. They are built on false premises and lead to immoral outcomes. Yet the university gives them the same platform and legitimacy as genuine ethics.

The murder of Charlie Kirk is not a random tragedy. It is the foreseeable outcome of a campus culture that has already normalized intimidation, vandalism, and silencing in the name of “justice.” Violence is simply the next step, and it has already been justified in the classroom itself.

It is long past time for universities to make a distinction between moral and immoral philosophies.

Doing that objectively, while withstanding criticism of politicizing campus on either side, is not a pipe dream. How to do it is a subject for another time.