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Our campuses are corrupt — and higher education is due for their comeuppance

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One industry in America pumps out toxic waste day and night, but suffers no penalty for the damage it causes. 

It operates at enormous public and private expense, sucking up hundreds of billions of dollars in government money. 

Its toxic bilge poisons much of society, but those who complain about it are often dismissed as ignorant or bigoted. 

Its product is largely free of state and federal regulation.

That industry is higher education.

And the toxic waste it emits isn’t chemical but intellectual sludge, in the form of racial bigotry, antisemitism and crude Marxism.

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“It’s amazing,” constitutional scholar Ilya Shapiro said a few days ago in testimony to a committee of the US Commission for Civil Rights: “The heart of antisemitism in America lies on campus, among the most educated and progressive people in the country.”

This isn’t the workplace bias and schoolyard name-calling that once marked antisemitism in this country — it’s now reached the performance stage. 

Like the recent incident in which antisemitic Cornell student Austin Franco rejected a job offer from a Jewish-owned startup with the hateful message “Not interested in working for a Jew” —........

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