The premise is that intellectual life is ipso facto enriched by diversity, a premise that even the Supreme Court has embraced.

The manifesto is pasted at the end of this commentary, but it is strongly suggested that you read this critique instead of the actual document, so you can maintain your mental health.

If you still insist on reading the manifesto, get a leather belt from your closet to bite on during the reading, as the students' tortured grammar and thinking is akin to the medieval torture in which a victim's head was slowly squeezed in a vice.

The manifesto is an inchoate mix of Marxist class warfare, black liberation theology, and harebrained social justice theories, as swallowed whole and then regurgitated by self-absorbed, idealistic, and poorly educated students.  Unfortunately, such toxic thinking can be found across academia and is leaking into the larger society, where it is poisoning other impaired intellects, especially in the pop culture, where an impaired intellect seems necessary for success.

The manifesto was addressed to the outgoing president of Pomona College, in response to a letter he had sent to the student body on academic freedom and free speech.  His letter was precipitated by the student protests (near riots) that had stopped Heather Mac Donald from speaking at Claremont McKenna College.

Mac Donald is a columnist and author who has published scholarly studies that debunk some of the canards behind the Black Lives Matter movement, chief among them that cops are a danger to black communities.