"Low self-esteem" is a rallying cry to feminist and race-based activism in education these days; any report on the status of women and minorities on campus is likely to cite it liberally before demanding funds, resources, centers, programs, demographically correct faculty hires, support groups, cultural and historical "celebrations," etc., to redress the "problem." However, in today's Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan makes the perceptive comment that "the crutch of 'low self-esteem' may be the latest analytic tool to infantilize people and groups of people, by denying them full self-determination. It empowers the care-givers and social engineers, and disempowers those deemed to be low in self-love." The goal of campus activists, then, is less to create self-esteem in "historically oppressed groups" than to empower and perpetuate the multi-million-dollar emotional support industry that employs them.