Among the several eerie elements in the DEI narrative and its practical consequences, nothing is deadlier than the transformation of students into full time activists of the Far Left. The methods and processes of this transformation include a wholesale rigging of textbooks at all levels, which are then enforced and dinned into students by a committed faculty. And when they emerge with useless and unemployable degrees, they know of no reality.
But it is even more sinister. Their very capacity of recognise other realities has already been obliterated from a very early age. From this perspective, substantial sections of the American academia resemble madrassas where students are taught only the Islamic scripture and nothing else. It is instructive to read this insightful analysis by V.S. Naipaul on the consequences of such an “education”.
“A convert’s worldview alters… His idea of history alters. He rejects his own… The convert has to turn away from everything that is his… People develop fantasies about who and what they are… there is an element of neurosis and nihilism. These countries can be easily set on the boil.”
We observe precisely these consequences in action across America. The destruction of the statues of America’s founding fathers. The recurrent bouts of campus violence. The repudiation of America’s history and its recasting as a history of nothing else but upper class oppression. And the simultaneous embrace of the worst of the fanatical Islamist elements. All this has happened primarily because of a twofold destruction: history and family. These twin destructions have created at least three generations of rootless Americans.
In 2010, widespread protests erupted in New York and elsewhere in the US against the proposed construction of a mosque and an Islamic community centre just across the site of the Twin Towers which were brought down by jihadis on September 11, 2001. The protestors viewed the proposal as an expression of the triumph of the 9/11 jihad on American soil, dubbing it “Ground Zero Mosque.” Unsurprisingly, a big backer of the aforementioned real estate project named Park51 was Sharif El-Gamal and his partner, Nour Mousa is the nephew of Amr Moussa, the Secretary General of the Arab League.
Around the same period, in 2005, Harvard University received a whopping $20 million endowment from Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal of Saudi Arabia for an Islamic Studies Chair. Fast forward, today, Harvard and other major American universities boast of a slew of academic programmes that teach various aspects of Islam to Americans. Concomitant with this was a steady growth of all kinds of radical Islamic student groups on US campuses. Chief among these is CAIR, which has repeatedly come under fire for having links with jihadi outfits like Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
Elsewhere, American foreign policy in the last two and half decades has embarked on a reckless pursuit of Muslim immigrants. This sounds eerily similar to what the successive Left governments did in Bengal for more than three decades: A wholesale importing of illegal Muslim immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh.
And two plus decades later, the proverbial chickens have come home to roost. A thoroughly subverted education system has created two generations of rootless American youth brainwashed into supporting Islamic terror groups. And this indoctrinated generation has spilled into all realms — tech, finance, education and policy making.
In 2017, a storm hit the tech industry and corporate America when James Damore was fired by Google for “circulating an internal memo asserting there are biological causes behind gender inequality in the tech industry.” This had nothing to do with his job as an engineer at Google. It had everything to do with the stranglehold that the Far Left has acquired in the corporate world. This is what Damore said in a lengthy YouTube interview with Stefan Molyneux, a podcaster.
“I went to a diversity programme at Google, it was totally secretive and shameful. I heard things that I definitely disagreed with in some of our programmes. I had some discussions there, there was lots of just shaming, and ‘No you can’t say that, that’s sexist’ and ‘You can’t do this.’ … There’s just so much hypocrisy in the things they are saying… the left-wing was getting so bad…Lots of upper management was shaming me.”
The Far Left hijacking of corporate America reminds us of Ayn Rand’s bestselling The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, which describe in excruciating detail the methods and tactics that the Left uses to seize economic power from the people and then destroys the whole existing order. While these two novels concentrate their narrative only on economics, what the Far Left-Woke combine is now doing goes far beyond economics — it is a call for total annihilation, and its methods include a conscious support for jihadi terror.
From James Damore’s firing for being politically incorrect to Google employees supporting Hamas, the fall has been swift and deadly in just seven years. In the coming years, this self-perpetuating vicious cycle will only inflict more harm.
But at the moment, Google did the sensible thing by firing the twenty-eight Hamas supporters last week. However, it would do better to vacuum-clean the Far Left gangs that have near completely usurped tech companies in Silicon Valley and corporate America in general.
Sinister job titles like “President: Diversity” in these companies augur a return of a deathly phenomenon that violently exterminated the existing society in Russia in 1917 and China in 1949.
Back then, Lenin and Mao had to unleash vast armies of their communist cadre to do this job. This time around, the same thing is being accomplished through a steady but certain subterfuge both in the government apparatus and the private sector.
It is befitting to conclude this essay series with an excerpt from Vladimir Putin’s brilliant speech delivered in November 2021: “This conservative approach is not about an ignorant traditionalism, a fear of change…it is primarily about reliance on a time-tested tradition, the preservation and growth of the population, a realistic assessment of oneself and others, a precise alignment of priorities… and a fundamental rejection of extremism as a method… for us in Russia, these are not some speculative postulates, but lessons from our difficult and sometimes tragic history. The cost of ill-conceived social experiments is sometimes beyond estimation. such actions can destroy not only the material, but also the spiritual foundations of human existence, leaving behind moral wreckage where nothing can be built to replace it for a long time.”
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The author is the founder and chief editor, The Dharma Dispatch. Views expressed in the above piece are personal and solely that of the author. They do not necessarily reflect News18’s views.
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