I thought that a Yale speaker giving a public talk disparaging white people where they say they fantasize about shooting white people in the head was pretty extreme[1]. Even more so since it didn’t seem to bother the attendees there, and there was no push back until someone leaked the audio a few months later. If the audio hadn’t leaked, it seems like Yale and the attendees would have just considered that a normal lecture.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/yale-says-lecture-fanta...

People often use “do you have sources, I'd like to read them” to imply “links, or that didn't happen”.

However, sources* for all of the above are easily found, both coverage as the story is breaking and followups. For example:

news campus students chant kill jews classroom locked door

https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-colleges-jewish-students-seen...

https://www.foxnews.com/media/chants-calling-murder-jews-sho...

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nypd-stresses-cooper-un...

Or ...

news fbi memo catholic extremists

https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-internal-memo-warns-against-22142...

https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/new-report-...

https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?sto...

The ease with which links surface suggests if one genuinely wanted to read sources, one could Google with no effort.

* NOTE: Media made broad claims on all of these, and media made narrow “corrections”. It's easy enough to find both types of sources. Asking someone for sources doesn't prove anything. On controversial topics one really needs to “do your own research.”

For the race-essentialist practices described by the original poster, Yascha Mounk's "The Identity Trap," published in 2023, and interviews with Coleman Hughes regarding his college experience at Columbia are insightful resources.

To delve into the philosophical roots that lead to the type of absurd reasoning mentioned by the original poster, "Cynical Theories" by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, released in 2020, is recommended. Despite Lindsay's more recent radical stance, the book provides a critical exploration of these theories. It is also heavy on citations.

For the kind of misconduct in higher education described by the original poster, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) or the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) serve as reliable references. There's no lack of explicit anti-semitism on campus.

The discussion around "woke" culture is often muddled by attempts to obscure its existence, framing it as merely an extreme right-wing concern. For those who genuinely want a quick way to challenge their priors regarding "woke" being some kind of "right-wing" thing, you should give this short piece[0] a read. Does it comport with your notion of "right-wing"? If not, you should start questioning those who use "right-wing" as a boogeymen to convince you that there isn't a radical ideology who've created newspeak for their brand of racism, sexism, whatever-ism.

[0] https://helenpluckrose.substack.com/p/defining-woke-and-woke...