The new class war is over identity

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A study by the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology finds that 38% of students at liberal arts colleges identify as LGBTQ. At Ivy League colleges, the figure is 27%. The national figure, according to Gallup, is 7.1%, and even that has doubled since Gallup first asked in 2012. We are witnessing a change in human biology more rapid and consequential than any in the history of our species.

Either that or the future leaders of America are lying. The CSPI report uses data from FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. FIRE surveyed 57,000 students across 159 of America’s top universities. These students, FIRE says, are the “elite fifth of undergraduates.” They will “supply most of the nation’s future leaders” and are “an important leading indicator of emerging social and political trends.”

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