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The Ivy League, the envy of the world, with students lining up to try to gain admission
Because who wouldn't want an "education" like this?— Laura עם ישראל חי (@FinstenLaura) April 19, 2024
When people make threats like that, believe them, and act accordingly.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ: Universities like Columbia must end the double standard and stop tolerating campus antisemitism.
Columbia University’s president and other college administrators have stated that the chant “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is permissible political speech.
On an abstract level, they are correct.
It is also permissible for white supremacists to demand all blacks be sent back to Africa and all Muslims to Saudi Arabia.
The First Amendment protects homophobic, sexist and transphobic speech too.
But would any school permit such bigoted chants?
Imagine what would happen if a group of white-supremacist students demanded South Africa be returned to white apartheid control: “From the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, South Africa should be free of BLACKS and returned to WHITE control!”
Would it take action against such racists?
Of course it would.
The racist diversity, equity and inclusion bureaucracy and its bigoted brother “intersectionality” would demand it, and the school would comply.
So the issue is not one of abstract free speech.
It is whether the school applies the same standard to Jews, blacks, gays and other minorities.
And, of course, it doesn’t. “Free speech” is just a slogan to it, not a commitment.
NO. NEXT QUESTION? Arnold Kling: Do Economists Understand Business?
IT’S SATIRE, BUT IS IT?
‘This Is A Place Of Business, Not Politics,’ Says CEO Of Election Rigging Cartel https://t.co/8NNfpVzwOi pic.twitter.com/8AGqo3ogIo
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 19, 2024
Not satire: Google Announces Firing Of 28 Anti-Israel Employees For Protesting In Scathing Memo.
Around the country, adults, or a reasonable facsimile thereof, are taking back control.
WELL, IT’S THE TRUTH:
NPR Says They Always Strive To Feature A Broad Range Of Opinions From Slightly Communist To Very Communist https://t.co/atb27rh03G pic.twitter.com/KVIV7NS9iX
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 18, 2024
JOEL KOTKIN: Mean Girls Rising: Democrats are increasingly beholden to leftist radicals in their midst.
nce the putative party of the people, the Democrats are increasingly the party of political “Mean Girls.” Epitomized by the congressional “Squad,” radicalized women are driving the party ever further to the leftist fringe on issues such as embracing Hamas, apocalyptic climate policies, mass illegal immigration, and transgenderism.
Party organs including the New Republic and the New York Times hail these activists as the “future of the Democratic Party.” Unlike traditional Democrats who won over small business owners, members of industrial unions, and aspiring middle class minorities, the Mean Girls have broken with the New Deal tradition that united the party. Rather than appealing to the aspirations of families, in the new configuration it’s all about “the personal is political,” with lifestyle and sexual orientation as defining issues.
Conservatives of course have their off-key women like Laura Bobert and Marjorie Taylor Greem, but few consider them intellectual leaders or particularly feminist. In contrast, Irving Kristol a half century ago noted the “feminization of the Democratic Party,” a process accelerated by the decline in family formation, marriage, and child-rearing. Some outlets like Salon see the rise of women and the gender gap as providing the keys to obtaining unlimited progressive power. Although married women tend to vote Republican, albeit by a smaller margin than men, single women prefer the Democrats by a whopping 37 point margin, even as young men are shifting somewhat to the Right.
The American Enterprise Institute’s Sam Abrams notes that politically engaged women, particularly those at elite colleges, increasingly stand at the tip of the progressive spear. They are far more likely to support cancel culture than their male counterparts. Overall, the Left’s political Mean Girls follow an agenda shaped largely by feminists and gay activists.
As George Orwell foresaw: “It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.”
NOW OUT FROM HAMPTON SIDES: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook.
His Ghost Soldiers was a work of nonfiction that read like a thriller novel.
(Bumped).
OPEN THREAD: Thank God It’s Friday.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China to leverage growing commercial space sector to launch megaconstellations.
VITAMIN D UPDATE: Could Vitamin D Be The Secret to Slowing Human Aging?
2024 JURISPRUDENCE: Left Freaks After SCOTUS Rules 9-0 That Reverse Discrimination Is Good Cause for Lawsuit. “The left should be celebrating a lawsuit extending employees’ right to sue over discrimination based on skin color or sex. Instead, they’re alarmed. Because this will limit their ability to discriminate against whites and men.”
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: When Earth’s Magnetic Shield Faltered: Cosmic Ray Invasion 41,000 Years Ago.
FLASHBACK: Prosecutors And Our “Ham Sandwich Nation.”
IT’S A SHADY PROFESSION: Tennessee Teacher Says Her Profession Can’t Be Trusted With Guns.
I GUESS I’LL HAVE TO BUY ONE: First Look: Smith & Wesson Tennessee Edition Pistols.
SKYNET SMILES: Boston Dynamics New Fully Electric Humanoid Robot.
AN INTERVIEW WITH MY FRIEND, SECOND AMENDMENT SCHOLAR BOB COTTROL: This Professor is Not Politically Correct.
TRANS-RIGHTS ADVOCATES FEAR NORMAL SENSE: Trans-rights advocates decry Scottish clinic’s decision to stop puberty blockers for children.
CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD’S MEMOIR: A Hallucinogenic and Unrepentant Rant.
LOL, EVERYONE THEY DISAGREE WITH IS A RACIST: Study claims ‘racism’ drives opposition to DEI statements.
LOOK OUT RFK, JR., YOU’RE A GENUINE THREAT TO THE MACHINE: Look out, Joe: RFK, Jr. is on the Michigan Ballot.
With no Secret Service protection.
DEI STANDS FOR “DIDN’T EARN IT.” Equal Protection Project Opposes Proposed DEI Amendment to the NY State Constitution.
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