Posted on 12/13/2023 9:11:18 AM PST by Angelino97
The testimony of three university presidents before a House committee last week provoked outrage after they suggested that calls on their campuses for Jewish genocide might not have violated their schools’ free speech policies. One of them, Liz Magill, was forced to step down on Saturday as president of the University of Pennsylvania, where I am a faculty member.
But their statements shouldn’t have come as a surprise. Congress could have assembled two dozen university presidents and likely would have received the same answer from each of them.
This is because the value of free speech has been elevated to a near-sacred level on university campuses. As a result, universities have had to tolerate hate speech — even hate speech calling for violence against ethnic or religious minorities. With the dramatic rise in antisemitism, we are discovering that this is a mistake: Antisemitism — and other forms of hate — cannot be fought on university campuses without restricting poisonous speech that targets Jews and other minorities.
University presidents are resisting this conclusion. Rather than confront the conflict between the commitment to free speech and the commitment to eliminating the hostile environment facing Jewish students on campus, many simply affirm their commitment to both or buy time by setting up task forces to study the problem. Some have attempted to split the difference by saying they are institutionally committed to free speech but personally offended by antisemitism. Others have said the answer to hate speech is education and more speech.
Countering speech with more speech might just mean adding to the hateful rhetoric on campus and would not solve the problem.
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Thanks for pointing out their quisling.
The answer to hate speech is more hate speech.
For some reason, the left abhors enforcing existing laws.
-PJ
Imho the more free speech, the more you find out the crazy and evil people in society. That way you can either avoid them or shoot them.
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The Moooslims have kept the great tradition alive in America. Part of Americana now.
“To fight Islamaphobia, perhaps we should restrict the practice of Islam.”
A phobia is an unwarranted or unreasonable fear. It is neither unreasonable nor unwarranted to fear a socio-political system masquerading as a religion which demands that you be subjugated, enslaved or killed if you reject it.
What about positing, not that they are subhuman, but evil? Scholars have been positing that Christians and whites are evil for several decades now. Not at campus protests, but as official classroom lectures.
You’re right of course.
I think if we mandated open carry throughout the college campuses, including classrooms, speech would return to the level of thoughtful discourse almost immediately.
Might be synonymous with untermenschen, just another way of saying it. That was used against Jews in the Middle Ages. Blood of infants in matzah, poisoning well waters, etc. Also used by the Nazis along with inferiority; they are also trying to take over the world, and stabbed Germany in the back, etc. I’d say it’s the same.
utter bullshit
in a crowded auditorium.
No, we don’t need to restrict speech. We could instead just fire the professors who indoctrinated the students with antisemitism.
And withhold federal funding from any institution that won’t fire such professors.
Anyone who’s been paying attention knows that speech is already restricted on university campuses. Just try saying men can’t become women (nor women men) or criticizing affirmative action. Who do they think they’re fooling, other than their fellow Rats, who would support them anyway?
Actually, calls to censor anti-Semitism came from the Israeli government as early as 2015:
Government anti-Semitism conference endorses net censorship.
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