New Minority Label at CUNY: ‘Jewish’
4th June 2012
Identity Politics red in tooth and claw.
Touting a move to make its faculty more diverse, CUNY administrators have broken out Jews into a separate minority group: “White/Jewish.”
Hoo, boy. Reap the whirwind.
“It’s an insult and idiotic,” said Hershey Friedman, deputy chairman of the Finance and Business Management Department at Brooklyn College. “Most Jews are brown-skinned. We also have black Jews and Asian Jews. Once you mix religion with race you’re opening a Pandora’s box — and you look stupid.”
‘How dare you call us white people! You racist!’
But Jewish professors told The Post that marking them as Jews won’t make them the chosen people on campus — and may even shrink their ranks if Jews are found to be “overrepresented.”
“White,” said a Jewish professor at Kingsborough Community College, “is in every way a detriment to be categorized because of the push to hire minorities.”
Sharper than a serpent’s tooth is a minority deprived of its Official Victim status.
June 6th, 2012 at 08:47
Funny, I didn’t think “Jewish” was a race any more than “Muslim” or “Christian” are races. Obviously I must need re-education.