This article was just published on National Review. How on earth are these liberals convincing kids that segregation is OK now? The #ParallelEconomy definitely needs to include alternate forms of education. This is just ridiculous...

Everything old, and bad, is new again — and still bad.

Years from now, students of American history will be taught of the era when college students were kept from living near one another because of the color of their skin. When separate graduation ceremonies were held for students of color because of a group’s unease with the commingling of the races. When students were kept out of colleges because of their ethnicity. And when governors openly questioned the learning abilities of schoolchildren of color.

The history books covering this era, however, won’t be talking about the Jim Crow South or George Wallace’s 1963 declaration urging “segregation now, segregation forever.”

They will, instead, be referring to the last five years, in which colleges have begun separating students by race out of concern that it might damage the “mental health” of non-white students if they are forced to interact with white students.

What was once discarded as an embarrassing remnant of the Jim Crow era has now become de rigueur on college campuses, returning in the form of “affinity groups,” racially separate housing arrangements, and segregated theatrical performances.

Late last year, for instance, Harvard hosted an adaptation of Macbeth that the school designated as “an exclusive space for Black-identifying audience members.” (The performance “examines what it means to be an ambitious Black woman through the lens of one of Shakespeare’s most iconic characters,” according to the announcement.)

The desire for segregation on campus has spread far beyond mere meetings and performances. According to a study of 173 public and private colleges and universities conducted by the National Association of Scholars, 43 percent had programs to segregate student housing by race or sexual orientation, and 46 percent of schools had racially segregated orientation programs. Often, unaware of the inherent irony, schools conduct racially exclusive anti-racism training.

Further, 76 percent of the schools studied by NAS had segregated graduation ceremonies. Columbia University, for example, announced it would be holding six separate graduation ceremonies for students based on characteristics such as race, sexuality, and income level. After word of the graduation ceremonies hit the internet, Columbia backtracked and rebranded the graduation “ceremonies” as graduation “celebrations.”

The pro-segregation rush has grown to encompass physical structures as well, with schools building student unions and dorms so students of color will not have to suffer the apparent trauma that might be brought on by seeing a white person. A 2020 viral video featured a black University of Virginia student giving a “public service announcement” in which she declared there were “just too many white people in here, and this is a space for people of color.” In 2019, Syracuse students submitted a list of demands to the school’s administration that included the right to exclude potential dorm roommate assignments based on the individual’s race. At Washington University in St. Louis, the president of the student union urged the school to seize the campus fraternity houses, evict the “disproportionately wealthy and white” residents, and transfer their buildings to “historically marginalized” groups.

This is all taking place in a culture in which the adult progressives openly champion policies damaging to the academic prospects of African Americans and other minorities. In 2021, Oregon governor Kate Brown eliminated a test offered by the state’s high schools that measured whether students had mastered the “essential skills” they had been taught. Too many students of color were not getting passing grades, so rather than seeking new ways to teach these kids, Brown simply eliminated the test until 2024.

The idea that black students are incapable of learning essential skills is straight out of the segregationist playbook, which posited the inferiority and helplessness of minorities. And it is this ideology that has found fertile ground on college campuses, which remain one of the few places in America where such errant nonsense can gain purchase. It is our elite universities, after all, that are currently standing before the U.S. Supreme Court and arguing that an admissions policy designed to limit the number of Asian Americans in their student bodies is not inherently racist.

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https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/12/colleges-turn-to-segregation-to-solve-racial-ills/