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The ADL’s Medicine Is Causing the Disease

JL;DR SUMMARY Joel Finkelstein critiques the ADL's anti-bias education framework, arguing it exacerbates antisemitism by focusing on identity rather than universal moral principles. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jonathan HaidtAdlEducationIdentity PoliticsMoral EducationBiasDeiUniversal ValuesGrievance Politics

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United States
"In schools across the United States, students are now taught to challenge bias and explore identity through the Anti-Defamation Leagues No Place for Hate curriculum."
New Jersey, United States
"Partnering with Rutgers Social Perception Lab, in a study entitled Instructing Animosity, we exposed thousands of participants to training materials drawn from anti-racist, anti-Islamophobia, and anti-casteist curricula."

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