‘Destructive virtue signalling’ exposed at American university

Описание: Sky News host Chris Kenny has called out New Jersey’s prestigious Princeton University for virtue signalling after it came under investigation for self-reportedly having racism embedded in its culture.

It comes after Princeton’s president posted an open letter to the college community earlier this month which read, “Racism and the damage it does to people of color nevertheless persist at Princeton as in our society.”

The letter went further, saying “Racist assumptions from the past also remain embedded in structures of the Universities itself.”

The university made these claims despite claiming it “fights against all forms of discrimination,” Mr Kenny said.

As a consequence of this letter, the United States Department of Education opened an investigation into the university, seeing as Princeton receives federal funding, and governments “should not fund racist institutions”, according to Mr Kenny.

“If Princeton is truly non-discriminatory and fights against racism as it has simultaneously tried to argue, then it will have to admit that the open letter from the president was a lie,” he said.

“A pathetic attempt at self-flagellation that denied the truth, that overstated racism for the simple purpose of signalling virtue.

“I wonder which it’s going to be, because Princeton can’t at once be racist and virtuous, those claims are incompatible.”