It amuses me to see the reactions of so many to the testimony of the Presidents of Harvard, MIT and Penn before Congress this week. To any who have missed this, if that's possible, when asked if calling for genocide against Israel was abuse or harassment, these leaders of elite schools equivocated like President Clinton when asked if he had sex with "that woman."

It depends on the context, was their reply.

Double standards, is now the outcry from all who are outraged by the unwillingness to give a simple yes or no answer. As was pointed out by the members of Congress, Harvard has cautioned undergraduates that “cisheterosexism” and “fatphobia” helped perpetuate violence and that “using the wrong pronouns” qualified as abuse.

This is a classic double standard, right?

No, not in my opinion.

These "elite" educational institutions, who will DIE on the hill of DEI, do not have a double standard at all. They have but one standard.

It is fine to malign, abuse and denigrate “oppressors” and forbidden to do so against the “oppressed.”

This is the binary world view of Marxist critical theory and is central to the Progressive DEI movement. Misgendering a trans person is verbal violence and grounds for expulsion. They are the oppressed class while cisgender persons are the oppressors. But calling for the genocide of Israeli Jews is merely supporting the oppressed Palestinians against the Jewish oppressor, and is therefore not only fine but laudable.

Single standard. If you're not one of the oppressed then you are an oppressor. This has been the centerpiece of progressive academic thought for decades.

Also, people who are seemingly now just becoming aware of this remind me of Captain Renault in Casablanca.