Cynical and opportunistic politicians are using the horrors in Israel and Gaza to lean very hard into vague and unprincipled demands for broad censorship. www.politico.com/news/2023/12...
Nearly half a dozen times, lawmakers deferred the rest of their time to Elise Stefanik, who proved to be the leader of Harvard’s toughest critic on the panel.
Reminds me of the Vietnam war era. They want to silence dissent and going after colleges is the easiest way make that front and center. But it was also the reason Harvard and Yale had an acrimonious relationship with the armed services for a few decades. The fall out will be different this time.
The horrors they're leaning into are actually occurring on college campuses in America.
Not sure asking that prohibiting threats of Genocide to a specific group of people falls into “broad censorship”. Correct me if I’m wrong, but there are limits to speech when it comes to threats, no?
You mean these 'fine people' spent most of their time questioning a black woman about discrimination? Really? While not questioning Christians whose end goal is for Jewish people to convert or burn in hell?
My name is Greenleigh and not Greenberg because in the first half of the 20th century, elite colleges were *actually* antisemitic and we had to anglicize. I suspect these politicians wouldn't have done shit back then when there was true and harmful discrimination against Jewish people.
I'm somewhat skeptical about a Congresswoman who campaigned for a Hitler-praising candidate suddenly being concerned about anti-Semitism.
What’s notable to me is that Penn—which, contrary to the bullshit FIRE rankings, has fairly consistently protected speech across the political spectrum—has gotten absolutely no credit with the right for refusing to fire extremely racist right-wing law professor amy wax
I’m wondering what the heck is going on in this paragraph. Stickers calling *for* Israeli apartheid? Like, someone describes Israel’s policies as apartheid, *and also* they’re in favor of it? Also noting the attempt to erase the distinction between flying a flag and allowing one to be flown.
