"A strange paradox: in his freshman year, my former student ... was required by Martin to read a book insisting that free society tolerates Nazi protests. A year after [he] graduated, Martin had him arrested for pro-Palestinian protest."
These contradictory standards display what activists call “the Palestine exception.”
Thanks for posting; this is excellent.
We call that "Muskian free speech absolutism".
The hypocrisy is stunning. Right-wingers argue that we need to tolerate hate speech and Nazis as a twisted form of "free speech", but they clamp down on conversations about Palestinian human rights.
i don't think we can call this hypocrisy. this is standard authoritarian behavior. promote tolerance for nazis and white supremacists, and bash down anyone promoting justice any alleged hypocrisy is not a bug like it would be for a normal person, it's a feature
That's not "a strange paradox", that's just some fucking asshole who is wholeheartedly pro genocide
"Administrators like Martin typically rationalize these contradictions of their professed values through strategically vague abstraction. Having long decried undergrads for anti-speech illiberalism, they now discover abundant boundaries on expressive speech."
"A strange paradox: in his freshman year, my former student ... was required by Martin to read a book insisting that free society tolerates Nazi protests. A year after [he] graduated, Martin had him arrested for pro-Palestinian protest."
These contradictory standards display what activists call “the Palestine exception.”
Diversity of viewpoints*