The reckoning has come for the bizarro-world political climate that’s taken hold at these universities in the last decade or two. This patently offensive equivocation — when the correct answer was obviously an unambiguous “Yes” — makes sense in the context of the insular far-left worldview where the oppressed are viewed as inherently just, but comes across as absurd to everyone living in the real world. All three of these elite university presidents are obviously utterly tone-deaf and detached from the real world.
[The disease has risen all the way to the top. Imagine substituting another race, creed, religion, etc. for the word “Jew”. I believe the answer would have changed. Thank goodness there were only a couple of these sorts of people teaching when I went to college. Most of my professors were/are brilliant. ]