Victor Davis Hanson: Yes, a California University’s President Said He Wanted to ‘Eliminate Whiteness’

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🗓️ 15 August 2025

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Victor Davis Hanson revisits some points he made and reiterates that the real issue is the danger of racially divisive language coming from the leader of a major public university in California on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “ Dr. Luke Wood—I think his full name is Jonathan Wood. Jonathan Luke Wood is upset because he gave an interview in which—and it was not sliced and diced. There's a long segment of 30 seconds or so. And you can see it, that segment has not been edited, when he says he wants to “eliminate whiteness.” The problem is that he's on record saying it. It resurfaced. People saw it. And it spread like wildfire over the internet. Hence, my attention to it and my discourse to you about it. But I can't help it if Dr. Wood has said things in his past that seem to be racialist and divisive. … And yet, nevertheless, he suggests that he's not responsible, I guess, for saying what he did because he said it in 2017 and it's been reappearing, most recently, in clips. ” 🫵 The Daily Signal is funded by readers like you. If you would like to support our honest reporting and commentary from a conservative perspective, activate your tax-deductible monthly donation today. 👇 https://secured.dailysignal.com/support-the-daily-signal-today/?utm_campaign=TDSaugust&utm_source=organic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=fb_ads 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 👉If you can’t get enough of Victor Davis Hanson from The Daily Signal, subscribe to his official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273 👉He’s also the host of “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” available wherever you prefer to watch or listen. Links to the show and exclusive content are available on his website: https://victorhanson.com (0:00) Introduction (2:19) Dr. Wood's Claims (4:02) Addressing the University's Corrections (5:57) The Broader Implications (7:42) Conclusion and Final Thoughts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Recently, we discussed Dr. Luke Woods, the president of Sacramento State and a video that has been
0:36.7	recently circulating in which he says
0:39.2	he plans to eliminate whiteness. And there was a discussion whether whiteness is separate from
0:45.1	or synonymous with being white. I suggested to you that this was a very deleterious and stupid thing
0:51.5	to say, but I can't help it if Dr. Wood has said things in his past that
0:56.5	seem to be racialists and divisive, and that now he's a president of a major California
1:01.7	State University campus, and he has a responsibility to all different groups to be disinterested
1:06.8	and treat people as people in which race is incidental, not essential.
1:11.1	But he and his university were upset that there were things that I said to you that he thought were factually incorrect.
1:17.6	Three or four of them, I'd like to go through them and I want to make sure that everything I say is accurate and factual. Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal.
1:37.1	Recently, we discussed Dr. Luke Woods, the president of California State University of Sacramento,
1:44.6	and a video that has been recently circulating in which he says he plans to eliminate whiteness.
1:52.3	And there was a discussion whether whiteness is separate from or synonymous with being white.
1:59.3	And I suggested to you that this was a very deleterious and stupid thing
2:04.4	to say and it was divisive in a multiracial democracy. In other words, it's like saying
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