It has been hilarious to watch the campus free speech absolutists twist themselves in knots to explain why criticism of Israel is the only thing that should ever be banned.

I don't think that's what this article says, at all. I read it. It also makes clear that schools should make clear to donors that they can't have political strings attached to their donations.

Can't wait to see how this all plays out at the University of Austin.

Oooh who is this??

The president of Queens College CALLED THE COPS on Muslim students for an INSTAGRAM STORY (that didn’t actually do any of the things he describes in this message)

Safe spaces are good now.

Fearing for one's physical safety is definitely a thing; people who have been run over by bigots are definitely afraid, as are students being threatened/doxxed by faculty for signing pro-Palestine statements. But it's 'you used that phrase that makes me uncomfortable' that gets everyone mobilized.

"Jews should be eliminated or killed in the land of Israel/Palestine" is not criticism. It's hate speech. What schools have prohibited criticism of the *country*, its *leaders*, and its *policies*?

and a year ago the people demanding shut down the current protest were writing articles with headlines like “why hasn’t the left tried making friends with the neonazis?”

I think Yglesias had a newsletter from a few weeks ago where he preemptively tried to pretend like this thing wasn't obviously going to happen. But of course it is.

what is up with these weirdos and their hard-ons for debate? I never once in my years on a university campus thought "you know I'm not having debates with everybody I meet so something is wrong here"