During his latest show, Glenn Loury, an Ivy League economics professor and host of video blog
The Glenn Show, blasted the teaching of identity politics in higher education, calling it a “criminal abdication of our pedagogic responsibilities,” while asserting a teacher’s responsibility is to challenge students’ preconceptions about themselves.
Loury was talking to John McWhorter, an author and linguistics professor at Columbia University, on Tuesday when he began discussing the issue of identity politics in American higher education.
“To teach young people that they are this [the color of their skin] is criminal in my opinion,” he stated.
“We’re to challenge them!” he exclaimed.