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The Enormous Costs of the Exploitation of George Floyd’s Death

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The Enormous Costs of the Exploitation of George Floyd’s Death
A photograph of George Floyd (C) is displayed along with other photographs at the Say Their Names memorial exhibit at Martin Luther King Jr. Promenade on July 20, 2021, in San Diego. Mario Tama/Getty Images
John M. Ellis
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It’s been more than two years since George Floyd died on May 25, 2020, and if we look at all that has followed from that death, one conclusion seems inescapable: Left radicals had been looking for a pretext to mount an all-out ideological offensive, and they used this one with great success.

John M. Ellis
John M. Ellis
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John M. Ellis is a distinguished professor emeritus at University of California–Santa Cruz, chair of the California Association of Scholars, and the author of several books, the most recent of which is “The Breakdown of Higher Education: How It Happened, the Damage It Does, and What Can Be Done.”
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