Commentary
The word “weaponized” has rapidly sprung into widespread usage in the last year or two. The dollar has been weaponized as an instrument of foreign policy. The Department of Justice has been weaponized by identifying parents concerned about what their children are being taught in schools as “domestic terrorists” (even as the DOJ has been eerily reticent about “domestic terrorism” in regard to the rash of possible attacks on food processing plants and key parts of our electric power infrastructure). The FBI is seen to have been weaponized for partisan political purposes.
There are many other ways in which the Biden administration has reportedly weaponized various federal departments and bureaucracies against segments of the American population. But one of the oldest examples of weaponization involves our education system. For the better part of a century, but particularly since the 1960s, leftists have progressively weaponized both K-12 education and higher education….