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Radley Balko
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Journalist. Author of Rise of the Warrior Cop. Co-author of The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist. Substack: radleybalko.substack.com
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Stunning how seamlessly and shamelessly heterodox types pivot from “free speech!” to gleefully championing aggressive crackdowns on Palestine protesters, with no attempt to explain the discrepancy. theracket.news/p/the-free-s...

The free speech event that wasn't
The free speech event that wasn't

Bari Weiss came to Charlottesville to talk about the future of free speech. She revealed more than she intended to.

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The explanation is that when you express hatred toward "Zionists," it's hate speech against people of Israeli national origin and the 85% of the Jewish community who consider themselves Zionist (as in wanting Israel to go on existing.) So they get treated like any march hating a nationality.

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NGkduffchicago.bsky.social

Yes weird how there's no lecturing pro-Israel college students who "feel unsafe" that out in the real world, they're gonna have to deal with people thinking that Israel is an apartheid/settler colonial state

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Radley Balko
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Journalist. Author of Rise of the Warrior Cop. Co-author of The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist. Substack: radleybalko.substack.com
21.6k followers521 following1.6k posts