Good morning, everyone.
An important read.
https://forward.com/opinion/572855/calling-for-genocide-is-antisemitic-liz-magill-upenn
@LiberalLibrarian: The calls for her resignation are totally on point. I watched a fair amount of the hearing, so I could get context, and her very purposeful CYA waffling was stupefying. That said, it did not surprise me. It didn't surprise me because that's the thing I noticed even when I was a freshman in 1989 often when academics and politicians in particular were asked "difficult" questions with simple answers.
Q. "Is murder wrong?"
A. "I don't condone murder personally, but it depends...
@LiberalLibrarian: (cont'd.)
...on a variety of important distinctions all taken in context."
Q. "Okay. Is self-defense murder?"
A. "No."
Q. "So it logically follows tyhat murder is wrong. Would you agree?"
A. "It isn't that simple."
Q> "Oh, FFS."
The easy/casual takeaway from her response or lack thereof is that she at least tacitly agrees that Hamas and others in or with interest in Palestine and the Holy Land are justified in their calls for the genocide of Israelis and Jews.
@LiberalLibrarian: (cont'd.)
She stepped into a deep pile of shit while already in dangerous proximity of a very angry hornets nest.
@thedisasterautist The professor who told the author that her discussion of the Holocaust was "inappropriate" because it made her classmates feel "uncomfortable" since so many were "at the protests" is just... God.
We depend on schools to educate. To open minds. Instead, there's so much indoctrination with faddish ideologies.
@LiberalLibrarian: They're not unoften the same people who ridicule others, especially on the political Right, who say some topics make them uncomfortable. I have noticed that in academe since the 1980s as well. The Left and Right are very tit-for-tat like that. They decry the other side being so, and so they escalate it or at least promote the behavior. Then both say "Well, they did it first!" Then neither will stop unless the other side does first.
@LiberalLibrarian the Why? is the essential point. Any university student group that calls for the genocide of a group of people would be shut down.(I was in exec uni teams in 🇨🇦 for over a decade) But if the group of people are Jewish, it’s then “context dependent”? Bullshit.