Unsurprisingly, the requirement dates back to 2020, when The Great Stupid spread its dark wings across the land, aided and abetted by the dual disasters of the weaponized Wuhan virus pandemic and the George Floyd Freakout. Student organizations began participating in “anti-racist training” through two required workshops titled “Foundational Anti-racism Training” and “How To Create An Inclusive Anti-racism Action Plan.”

Today the required training is administered by Mount Holyoke’s Office of Community and Belonging. (That title: Gag me with a spoon…) Its mission is to foster “a sense of belonging and connectedness for all students by providing services that promote social justice, liberatory consciousness, and identity exploration.” (“Liberatory”? Where’s that wood-chipper?)

In addition to the Office of Community and Belonging, Mount Holyoke maintains a separate Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Of course it does.

“As an outcome of these training sessions, student groups will be creating anti-racist plans for their organization,” the college states. “Many groups have begun to create plans, but it is important for this work to be ongoing and for rising group leaders to have the opportunity to participate in training and bring ideas back to their group.”

All I have left after these gut-punches are futile questions. How can parents allow their offspring and their tender young minds to attend such brain-washing camps? How did we allow colleges and universities to be co-opted by these totalitarians? How much destruction will they wreak on the nation and its core principles before they are stopped, or can they be stopped?

I have had several personal experiences with close friends who left the then free thought committed community of Arlington, Mass. for that nest of radical ideology up north, and witnessed my friends’ return four-years later with hollowed out skulls, vacant eyes and anti-American sensibilities. Naively, I thought it was just them.