Beware the Spread of 'Liberated' Ethnic Studies

Those of us who have suffered the unspeakable horrors of Marxist ideology tend to develop a keen sense of danger that stems from our understanding of the far Left. The rhetoric of “class struggle,” “critical consciousness,” demonization of the bourgeoisie (or, in today’s parlance, “the privileged”), and Manichean notions of the oppressed versus the oppressors arouses traumatic memories. We came to this country to escape such misery and to enjoy the fruits of a free society. When we hear radical voices in America spout uncannily familiar ideas, our internal warning systems go off. When we see these ideas institutionalized in K-12 public schools, we go on high alert, fearful that the society we fled to is starting to sound like the one we fled from.