american enterprise institute scholar, great to have you with us. obviously this goes into a lot of the work and the things that you talked about recently, that probably doesn t surprise you all that much. it surprises me in this sense, that universities should be popular places. historically we think of universities as teaching kids and making great discoveries and all of that. what i think has happened that creates that result of disapproval is a lot of colleges, a lot of departments and colleges have taken up social justice as their cause. it s no longer the search for truth, it s advancing an agenda and it s obviously a left agenda and conservatives are reacting. martha: when you look at the numbers for democrats, they feel an overwhelmingly positive feeling about what s going on on university campuses. it goes to the heart of the division that is so deep in this
understanding of this piece of video of the president, president wolf saying to the kids, when they ask about systematic discrimination, it exists because you don t think you re getting the opportunities to succeed. how do you explain those communities? i think it was i don t know if he misspoke. i think he was probably doing this off the cuff and obviously didn t do it well. i don t believe that this president is in the dark at this point about how bad things are. i think he realizesed huge mistakes have been made and changes need to be made. he s not in front of it. that s for sure. that was a ham-handed way to address these young people. it s not their fault or perception. there is systemic racism and it s important that we look at from top to bottom, on university campuses and the
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was from a philosophy student, and might have been a philosophy professor, and the person didn t really identify himself or herself and this person suggested that is systemic oppression is a far greater and different thing than these individual instances of oppression which are clearly highlighted, these racial epithets and the swastika that was scratched in feces, and i mean, these are awful things, but for systemic oppression, i wanted to get your take on why you believe that the university president was responsible ultimately for systemic oppression, and what your definition of that systemic oppression was at your school. right. well, we have to understand his role when it comes to the state and the students in this state. they have four universities in its system and he presided over the four. and so in order for us to really
lan alumna of the university of missouri. let s talk about that. it s a flash point. do you believe you and other electeds need to do more to fix what s going on on that campus. i want to say how proud i am of the young people on the campus who have decided they are going to make a stand. i m proud of our football team, frankly. if you remember, this is the same football team that where michael sam came from, one of the first athletes that went through the nfl draft as openly gay. openly gay. yes. i believe good things will come to this because of the passion and commitment of these young people. we need to be part of it, too. the challenge for the university obviously is to at the board of curators meeting make a decision about the leadership of the university going forward. that s indirectly talking about who the president is.