Finished copy edits on a chapter and realized I hit a milestone: my censorship working papers folder is empty for first time since I started this work 6 years ago. Four papers done. I mean, sure, I'm working on two censorship books simultaneously, but I'll focus on the good news.
And this is the goal, never forget. To Republicans better a dead trans kid than a happy trans kid.
Amy Wax: is an open racist who is accused of being racist directly to her students in class. Get's vacation for a year as "punishment" Here: Jewish prof is declared antisemite for opposing Israeli public policy in purely outside personal speech. Tenure revoked.
I've been quiet about this publicly out of respect for my colleague who was going through a legal process, but now that she has spoken on the record, I am sharing it here.
Maura Finkelstein was terminated from Muhlenberg College following a pressure campaign that seized on an anti-Zionist Instagram repost.
This is what I find so frustrating. Defenders acting like this is solely about her many racist comments in the public sphere. As I've argued in the misgendering cases, academic freedom doesn't let me call a student the N word in class so why would it let me pick their gender?
AFA has done important work to date, but it persistently ignores institutional & collective dimensions of academic freedom. Wax has individual academic freedom rights to teach controversial material, but her colleagues also have collective academic freedom rights to enforce professional standards
A rich dude aligning with conservative policies that protect his wealth and power. Shocking.
And I'm guessing her full pay is somewhere nearish $250K so half pay is more than most of us make anyway.
Why couldn't married couples use them? Well, you see, they already have a penis between the two. Single women? Well, women didn't desire sex, it wasn't all that pleasurable. One guy would later share how his wife reported that childbirth was more satisfying than sex.
Starting obscenity in free speech today and that means I get to cover Anthony Comstock's struggle to understand who bought dildos in the late 1800s. They cost a lot and only poor people were immoral. They couldn't be used by married couples, and no proper single lady would. So who?
This is what makes the free speech wars so fun. Left: maybe you shouldn't wear blackface at Halloween (or ever) Right: We want to throw critics of Republican judges in prison. NYT: Both sides are a threat to free speech!
