When I wrote my first opinion piece as a junior at Pitzer College, I attempted to address a noticeable double-standard within the Claremont Colleges. The campus climate came across as being very liberal and tolerant, but there was not much to be desired about various divergent viewpoints, including those regarding the Arab-Israel conflict. This issue puzzled me immensely. “How can my fellow liberals be so opposed to hearing alternative points of view?” This led me to writing the following lines that were included in my first article:
If, as a community, we cannot take ownership of our collective humanity and start having dialogue with those whose opinions contradict ours, then we will not learn anything and will become the very agents of injustice that Claremont students love to fight against. This does not only go for discussions about Israel, but for discussions about everything.
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