{"id":110721,"date":"2026-01-24T05:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/110721\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T05:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:21:09","slug":"the-fight-to-purge-wokeness-at-colleges-is-far-from-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/110721\/","title":{"rendered":"The fight to purge wokeness at colleges is far from over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite pushback by President Donald Trump, woke programming at US colleges continues to infect young minds, scarring generations \u2014 and one particularly sickening example is right here in New York, at Brooklyn College.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/20\/us-news\/woke-brooklyn-college-course-lectures-students-about-weaponizing-whiteness-requires-buzzfeed-privilege-quiz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">As The Post\u2019s Ryan King reports<\/a>, the school\u2019s psychologist program requires students to take a tellingly titled course, \u201cMulticultural Counseling and Consultation,\u201d which features \u201ccollective racial healing activities\u201d and \u201ctrauma-informed interventions\u201d to fight injustice.<\/p>\n<p>Course materials unearthed by Defending Education teach that whites are privileged and \u201cweaponize\u201d their whiteness.<\/p>\n<p>The class requires students to identify \u201cmicroaggressions\u201d from options like the phrase \u201cI am not a racist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A mandatory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/regajha\/how-privileged-are-you\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BuzzFeed \u201cprivilege\u201d quiz<\/a> has them cite factors that make them privileged, such as being white or heterosexual or not having been raped.<\/p>\n<p>The class also focuses on \u201cintersectional\u201d identity gripes, such as \u201cnativist, Eurocentric, individualist, heterosexual, patriarchal, cisgender, ableist, and sizeist\u201d influences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should be of major concern\u201d that \u201cfuture school psychologists are required to pass a class that promotes such deeply divisive and caustic ideologies,\u201d warns Rhyen Staley, Defending Education\u2019s research director.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditionally, no student . . . should have to endure discrimination based on immutable characteristics. . . This is blatant ideological indoctrination and needs to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Staley\u2019s right: This kind of skewed, racist brainwashing feeds division and hostility not just on campuses but at corporations, government, the media and other key institutions.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the kind of depraved curricula that fueled the pro-terrorist, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/10\/30\/opinion\/cornell-university-jewish-threats-prove-how-deep-campus-rot-runs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">antisemitic encampments<\/a> after Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7 attack on Israel and surely underlies some of the anti-ICE riots today.<\/p>\n<p>It might also explain the radical, uber-left support that paved the way for socialist antisemite Zohran Mamdani and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/19\/opinion\/how-many-racists-does-mayor-mamdani-mean-to-hire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the racists who surround him<\/a> to rise to power.<\/p>\n<p>Team Trump has made a good start in fighting the scourge \u2014 with DEI bans, civil-rights probes and by targeting the accrediting system.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Yet Brooklyn College is hardly alone in clinging to its perverse agenda: K-12 schools as well as numerous colleges around the country continue to offer similarly race-based courses.<\/p>\n<p>Such as the University of Maryland\u2019s \u201cDecolonizing Medicine: Steps to Actionable Change,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/decolonizing-medicine-class-at-umd-prompts-concerns-about-politicizing-health-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">per The College Fix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities\u2019 \u201cCritical Indigenous Theory,\u201d which offers \u201ccontent such as critical theories, decolonization, Marxism, Queer theory, and Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression\u2019s 2026 free-speech rankings showed some small progress recently among colleges in providing campus environments open to diverse viewpoints.<\/p>\n<p>But of 257 schools surveyed, more than half (166) scored an \u201cF\u201d grade, while only 11 got better than a \u201cD.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, Team Trump has more work to do. <\/p>\n<p>The left \u2014 in education and elsewhere \u2014 can\u2019t be allowed to stand in the way of Americans reaching their own conclusions based on accurate, unbiased facts.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who cares about the nation\u2019s future should rush to purge wokeness everywhere it has reared its ugly head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite pushback by President Donald Trump, woke programming at US colleges continues to infect young minds, scarring generations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,6373,100,99,1692,17446,16471,153,304,67,41781,59,2035,60,9,24,63,299,31802,5271,10403,82],"class_list":["post-110721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-college","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-colleges-and-universities","tag-dei","tag-discrimination","tag-donald-trump","tag-editorial","tag-education","tag-free-speech","tag-hamas","tag-ice","tag-israel","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-opinion","tag-psychology","tag-schools","tag-woke-culture","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}