"It’s hard to think of a time since the anti-Communist House Un-American Activities Committee when Congress has made such an effort to investigate disfavored ideologies in academe."
Republicans Wanted a Crackdown on Israel’s Critics. Columbia Obliged. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/o...
As any historian can tell you, the lasting lesson of McCarthyism was that when bad faith partisans haul you before Congress with demands for punishment of wrongthink, if you just give in to them completely well, that’ll be the end of it.
“Disfavored ideologies” is deeply problematic framing. These particular students in question are repeatedly violating the civil rights of their fellow students—and the university is being sued because of it.
Sweet summer child, if you’re striking fear into the hearts of a phalanx of university lawyers, you’ve got a case that involves far more than “mean words”
If you're talking about this, it's not a justification for what increasingly seems like a blanket ban on expressions of one opinion at Columbia.
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Who? The "particular students in question"? Who, exactly, violated which civil rights of whom? Talking shit about Isreal is not a violation of ANYBODY's civil rights.
