New York University Archives

Before I get to the video of Tucker Carlson politely eviscerating Erin Schrode, an ignorant, hysterical special snowflake, I think you ought to get to know more about her. Her background goes a long way to explaining how we’ve lost a generation to the cultural dead-ends of identity politics, group victimization, scientific ignorance, an absence of logical reasoning, and a generalized hysteria. So please bear with me for a few minutes before we get to the video itself.

Twenty-five year old Schrode is a very high-profile typical Progressive millennial, in part because she set up a climate change hysteric organization, in part because she’s pretty so she got hooked into the MSM as someone worth interviewing (ABC, NBC, Glamour Magazine, Teen Vogue, Seventeen, etc.), and in part because she recently ran for Congress and, thank goodness, lost. During her candidacy, she came in for a lot of grief from Alt-Right antisemites, which is inexcusable. Like all Leftists, though, she seems incapable of understanding that America’s academic institutions long-ago gave the green light to antisemitism — so what started and became mainstream on the Left is now seeping into a small, disgusting corner of the hard Right.

Schrode’s bio reads almost like a parody of a young Leftist. She grew up in deep Blue Marin County and attended New York University where she got a degree in Social and Cultural Analysis. I took the time to go to the NYU website to learn what this type of degree means. Not a lot, as it happens. Someone holding that degree is entirely ignorant about everything except for a hardcore indoctrination in identity politics victimization:

The Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (SCA) is trans-disciplinary in nature, incorporating critical methodologies and theoretical insights from such fields as social geography, feminism and queer studies, ethnic studies, critical race theory, labor studies, and cultural studies. Our courses combine topics and methods spanning the humanities and social sciences, and are organized around themes such as urbanization, commodification, movement of peoples, transnational exchange, identity formations, and ethnic and disaporic cultures.

You will not be surprised, after reading that description, to learn that the areas of study for a Social and Cultural Analysis major are limited to the following:

Africana Studies
American Studies
Asian/Pacific/American Studies
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Latino Studies
Metropolitan Studies
Social and Cultural Analysis

You will also not be surprised to learn the careers the Social and Cultural Studies department considers appropriate for its graduates:

Students completing work in the Department are well prepared either for graduate study or for careers in such fields as education, international relations, law, non-profit administration, community organizing, public policy, and urban and regional planning.

They are going to remake the world in ways most of us would view with complete horror.

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My dear friend Lulu, who is an astute social and political observer, has some comments about everyone’s nightmare college roommate and the roommate’s disgraceful enabler, the New York Times.

Romaissaa Benzizoune is the worst roommate in America. She deserves to be publicly called out for it. As does her callous enabler, the New York Times.

I suppose we’ve all had some better and worse roommate situations in our lives. I once shared a house with someone who, in retrospect, must have had a form of OCD. She couldn’t put things away in her room. Her piles of possessions drove her out of her own cluttered bedroom and to the shared living room sofa, which became her de facto bedroom. While that was a pretty difficult situation, she had no meanness to her. We were annoyed, yes, but also had compassion for her.

I know a young man whose roommate his freshman year was the dorm drug dealer. My niece’s freshman roommate had severe mental health issues that were both frightening and dangerous. It’s a crapshoot. Two or three total strangers are thrown together into a dorm by chance and sometimes they’re lucky and enjoy a great situation with thoughtful, considerate, stable people who become friends, or at least develop a healthy dynamic. This is the situation my daughter, thankfully, enjoys now with her roommates in her freshman dorm.

Some people have less luck. Take K.N. Pineda. She was unlucky enough in her freshman year at college to Romaissaa assigned as her roommate at New York University because, as I mentioned, Romaissaa is the worst roommate in America.

Imagine, if you will, an 18-year-old Pineda adjusting not only to college life but also to living in NYC while attending NYU. The roommates have different backgrounds, not surprising in a cosmopolitan school like NYU, but chat, braid each other’s hair and have a cordial relationship. Then one day, Pineda, in a conversation, reveals something about herself that is so shocking and horrible that Romaissaa’s only recourse is to flee her home and write an editorial in the NYT about her deep psychic wound upon discovering that her roommate is a disgusting idiot who believes horrible things and about how deeply, deeply traumatizing it is to continue to live with her. The horror is made worse because, as Romaissaa states, she is a Muslima who covers her hair and for her this makes her roommate’s sinful thought so much, much worse. I should mention that Romaissaa never mentions her roommate by name, but how hard would it be for all the other kids in the dorm at NYU to figure out who her roommate is?

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