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To fight antisemitism on campuses, we must restrict speech
Washington Post ^ | December 10, 2023 | Claire O. Finkelstein

Posted on 12/13/2023 9:11:18 AM PST by Angelino97

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To: Angelino97

Finkelstein has apparently not realized that incitement to commit murder is already illegal. She’d love to be able to dictate what speech is allowed and what isn’t, but that’s an issue of political power quite separate from suppressing calls to genocide.


41 posted on 12/13/2023 10:34:18 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Angelino97

No matter the problem, be it Jew hatred or hot weather, their solution is less freedom.


42 posted on 12/13/2023 10:40:06 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Angelino97

No matter the question, the answer is always the same.

Ironic isn’t it.


43 posted on 12/13/2023 10:45:45 AM PST by redgolum (We are not going to make it, are we. )
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To: Angelino97
No.

Now Clair dear, go screw your head up a duck's bum.

Cheeri-O!

44 posted on 12/13/2023 10:53:23 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( In a quaint alleyway, they graciously signaled for a vehicle on the main road to lead the way. )
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Nice try. Besides, conservatives are already aware that we don't have free speech. So, y'know, be fruitful and multiply, just not in those words.

45 posted on 12/13/2023 10:57:42 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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Claire de Looney is just pizzed that anti-semite termites are infesting the woodwork of the Ivy wokedom and she simply wants to turn down the volume so they can be managed interally.

She needs to will f off. They imported these termites, they bred these termites, they know the termites will bring down their house, and conservatives MUST maximize this moment as a once-a-decade #MeToo opportunity to punch down on the neomarxists.

46 posted on 12/13/2023 10:57:52 AM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: SunkenCiv

Dude, don’t encourage them to breed. Have unproductive orgasms with yourselves would be more appropriate.


47 posted on 12/13/2023 11:02:02 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: TornadoAlley3

We already know that they’re fruits. But more free speech. Less thuggish suppression of free speech.


48 posted on 12/13/2023 11:07:44 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

That’s not quite what that means. :^)


49 posted on 12/13/2023 11:09:40 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Angelino97

even hate speech calling for violence against ethnic or religious minorities I call BS. Tenured prof are being dumped just for “using the wrong pronouns”. Speakers on the right are regularly cancelled or made near impossible for them to speak on campuses. The post is living in some alternate fantasy world.


50 posted on 12/13/2023 11:31:38 AM PST by pas
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To: SunkenCiv

I know. Can’t I have any fun?


51 posted on 12/13/2023 11:40:09 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: lastchance
As a result, universities have had to tolerate hate speech — even hate speech calling for violence against ethnic or religious minorities.

In reality, this is a patently false statement.

The Ivys are being called out for SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT. Conservatives and Jewish folks…no protection. A leftist burning down a lecture hall? Well, that’s frustration.

May I present as evidence, Harvard University Anti-Bullying Policy

To wit:

A. Definition of Bullying

Bullying, used as a shorthand for hostile and abusive behavior or power-based harassment, is defined here as harmful interpersonal aggression by words or actions that humiliate, degrade, demean, intimidate, or threaten2 an individual or individuals. For a violation of the Policy to occur, such aggression must be sufficiently severe or pervasive, and objectively offensive, that it creates a work, educational, or living environment that a reasonable person would consider intimidating, hostile, or abusive and denies the individual an equal opportunity to participate in the benefits of the workplace or the institution’s programs and activities.

Harvard could have easily shut down the antisemitism, per Policy. INSTEAD, HRVARD LET ANTISEMITISM RIDE.

53 posted on 12/13/2023 11:44:13 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: ClearCase_guy

We must keep the tradition of head chopping for those who draw the Great Dead Prophet, or for those women caught in public without a FULL burqa.


54 posted on 12/13/2023 11:50:06 AM PST by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there , a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: alstewartfan

“A guillotine (/ˈɡɪlətiːn, -loʊ-/ GHIH-lə-teen, -⁠loh-) is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted and angled blade suspended at the top. The condemned person is secured with a pillory at the bottom of the frame, holding the position of the neck directly below the blade. The blade is then released, swiftly and forcefully decapitating the victim with a single, clean pass; the head falls into a basket or other receptacle below.”

It was used in France until 1981


55 posted on 12/13/2023 11:52:50 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Hamascide is required in total)
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To: Eleutheria5

Hmm, well, FR does stand for FunRepublic... ;^)


56 posted on 12/13/2023 12:01:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Restrict Free Speech? Great. Another democrat/totalitarian idiot notion from the Compost.

They are trying to blur the lines between free speech and inciting violence which is not free speech.

57 posted on 12/13/2023 12:02:47 PM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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Only if you regard the putative object of the violence as human. If you are inciting violence against alley cats or cockroaches, it is still free speech. And if you are positing that Jews, Blacks or the Chinese are subhuman, that would be free speech, but free speech for the purpose of being allowed to incite violence against them, based on the proposition that they are an inferior species. That’s how the Nazis did it, and what differentiates a mere nationalist, asserting the legitimate prerogatives of nationhood, and a Nazi. I’m just waiting for the Harv-tards to articulate that “free speech” hypothesis. They’re supposedly smart.


58 posted on 12/13/2023 12:10:17 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Angelino97

The problem is that certain “protected classes” are free to spew whatever hate they want while others are silenced.

I favor free speech. But if there is going to be censorship for “hate speech” it needs to be applied across the board (See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78ICiQKdO-Q)


59 posted on 12/13/2023 12:12:32 PM PST by Tipllub
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To: Angelino97

Walk around an Ivy League campus wearing a MAGA hat. See their commitment to free speech in action.


60 posted on 12/13/2023 12:14:45 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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