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It was the week identity politics ate itself. It was the week we learned that US Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is between 1/1,024th and 1/64th Native American Indian. It was also the week that Harvard University — universally acknowledged as a bastion of American liberalism — was taken to court for discriminating against Asian-American applicants. Similar calculations were being made by Ivy League admissions offices as they sought ways to increase the diversity of their traditionally very white student bodies. Since the mid-1990s, Unz pointed out, Asians had consistently accounted for around 16 percent of Harvard enrollments. Now the advocacy group Students for Fair Admissions, which opposes affirmative action, is suing Harvard for discriminating against Asian applicants. Ninety-nine percent of “progressive activists” believe that “many white people today don’t recognize the real advantages they have.” But 82 percent of “devoted conservatives” reject this, maintaining that “nowadays white people do not have any real advantages over others.” It’s the same polarized story for the whole suite of identity politics issues: immigration, sexual harassment, Islamophobia, feminism. Eighty percent of all Americans, and an even higher proportion of the exhausted majority, believe that political correctness has gone too far. Only 30 percent of progressive activists agree. Only 40 percent of progressive activists agree.

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Alexander, a 25-year-old law student at the University of Pittsburgh, identifies as a Democrat but said he began watching Thursday's proceedings as neither a supporter nor a detractor of the nominee. That changed with Kavanaugh's testimony. Alexander found Ford's account of Kavanaugh and a friend laughing after the alleged attack the hearing's most moving moment, and he wondered if that detail might sway Republicans. Both seemed believable, Jacobs said, but she felt convinced toward the end that Kavanaugh was not guilty. "When you're a true victim, you remember where it happened, you know who was in the room, you also remember every single detail," she said. Almeida said she doesn't doubt Ford was victimized, but believes Democrats convinced her to wrongly blame Kavanaugh for what happened. "I remember one of the questions asked of Anita Hill was something like 'Are you a woman scorned?'" "You aren't going to hear that in this hearing. Jacobson, a first-year law student at Mitchell Hamline School of Law who identifies as a Democrat, watched the hearing with colleagues in a classroom. One of Jacobson's close friends was sexually assaulted in high school, an experience the friend said would scar her for life.

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Cornel West, a Harvard philosophy professor and author of 20 books, speaks at Brown University on Tuesday. PROVIDENCE, R.I. — President Donald Trump is as American as cherry pie. He is an expression of “something deep in the history of this nation” and he “represents the worst,” too, but he “doesn’t have a monopoly on that role,” Cornel West told Brown University students Tuesday night, warning them that “the worst thing you can do is fetishize an individual like Trump.” “He just happens to be running the empire as a know-nothing narcissist,” said the author, political activist and philosopher. There’s a narcissism inside of us. No matter how learned you are.” West’s sizing up of Donald Trump came toward the middle of a lecture that challenged his Ivy League listeners to pay attention to their own faults and to resist “identity politics.” The Harvard philosophy professor and author of 20 books, including the well-known “Race Matters” published in 1993, lectured at Brown as part of the university’s “Politics in the Humanities” lecture series. Identity politics is supporting a politician based on the politician’s race or gender or sexual orientation. Some black supporters of former President Barack Obama, said West, were unwilling to criticize the Obama administration for a weak response to Wall Street entities culpable in the financial crisis of 2008. Some proud supporters, he said, opted to focus on Obama’s peace prize, but were not willing to criticize him for carrying out far more drone attacks overseas than President George W. Bush. “Where is the delicate, difficult discussion that keeps track of the humanity of each and every one of us?” asked West. Look what Europeans did in Australia or New Zealand or the United States.” “How do we keep track of those kind of difficult truths that radically unsettle us but at the same time not push us toward drinking from the cup of hatred and bitterness as opposed to a compassion that tries to connect the humanity of Palestinians and Israelis together.