What we need is a recognition that the academy is a metastazing tumor called anti Semitism and finding ways to recognize that fact-whether by not giving as an alumnus, seeking higher education in other universities and ensuring that the next generation of American Jews are sufficiently educated in their traditions to know how vital the Land and State of Israel are to their Jewish identity
"The members of the elite did not object at all to paying a price, the destruction of civilization, for the fun of seeing how those who had been excluded unjustly in the past forced their way into it. They were not particularly outraged at the monstrous forgeries in historiography of which all totalitarian regimes are guilty and which announce themselves clearly enough in totalitarian propaganda. They had convinced themselves that traditional historiography was a forgery in any case, since it had excluded the underprivileged and oppressed from the memory of mankind.
The temporary alliance between the elite and the mob rested largely on this genuine delight with which the former watched the latter destroy respectability."
…” Torres introduced a bill that would allow the Department of Education to subject universities that receive federal funding to “third-party antisemitism monitors.”
Maybe instead, a group should be created to monitor Congress’ strict adherence to the Constitution, they so love to play fast and loose with.
Where I disagree is about your claim that colleges and universities have the right to tell students what to think, rather than how to think. Your assertion leaves the US populace with nowhere to go to learn how to think. Kids certainly won't learn it in grade school, or middle or high school. They won't learn it from reading books, since so few have the capacity to read for comprehension, let alone critical thinking about the text. The result is something like folks who identify as Democrats will not see anything amiss regarding your would-have-been-exploding-off-the page-to-a-previous-generation expose (can I even call it an expose when it appears so blase?) regarding Obama/Biden foreign policy attitude that not only sees us as never fighting a war to actually win it but to favor our supposed enemy (Iran) in order to keep things fair in that part of the world? Animal Farm, Catch-22, and most books by Vonnegut were prescient.
Your editorial makes sense in a world governed by adherence to the values of the First Amendment , but it can be argued that conduct can be prosecuted and that the sources that finance that conduct can be prosecuted and sued despite substantial legal obstacles without jeapardizing the First Amendment, which is by no means an unfettered and absolute right to say and print anything . Right now, we see that the academy and Big Tech are staffed by people who have an absolute loathing of the First Amendment and its values. We need real penalties against those who are financing hate speech , not the speech in and of itself. Those students who are American and whose parents are homeowners can and should be sued. Any student that participated in a riot and who is here on a visa can and should be deported forthwith
What we need is a recognition that the academy is a metastazing tumor called anti Semitism and finding ways to recognize that fact-whether by not giving as an alumnus, seeking higher education in other universities and ensuring that the next generation of American Jews are sufficiently educated in their traditions to know how vital the Land and State of Israel are to their Jewish identity
"The members of the elite did not object at all to paying a price, the destruction of civilization, for the fun of seeing how those who had been excluded unjustly in the past forced their way into it. They were not particularly outraged at the monstrous forgeries in historiography of which all totalitarian regimes are guilty and which announce themselves clearly enough in totalitarian propaganda. They had convinced themselves that traditional historiography was a forgery in any case, since it had excluded the underprivileged and oppressed from the memory of mankind.
The temporary alliance between the elite and the mob rested largely on this genuine delight with which the former watched the latter destroy respectability."
"The Origins of Totalitarianism" Hannah Arendt
…” Torres introduced a bill that would allow the Department of Education to subject universities that receive federal funding to “third-party antisemitism monitors.”
Maybe instead, a group should be created to monitor Congress’ strict adherence to the Constitution, they so love to play fast and loose with.
Where I disagree is about your claim that colleges and universities have the right to tell students what to think, rather than how to think. Your assertion leaves the US populace with nowhere to go to learn how to think. Kids certainly won't learn it in grade school, or middle or high school. They won't learn it from reading books, since so few have the capacity to read for comprehension, let alone critical thinking about the text. The result is something like folks who identify as Democrats will not see anything amiss regarding your would-have-been-exploding-off-the page-to-a-previous-generation expose (can I even call it an expose when it appears so blase?) regarding Obama/Biden foreign policy attitude that not only sees us as never fighting a war to actually win it but to favor our supposed enemy (Iran) in order to keep things fair in that part of the world? Animal Farm, Catch-22, and most books by Vonnegut were prescient.
Your editorial makes sense in a world governed by adherence to the values of the First Amendment , but it can be argued that conduct can be prosecuted and that the sources that finance that conduct can be prosecuted and sued despite substantial legal obstacles without jeapardizing the First Amendment, which is by no means an unfettered and absolute right to say and print anything . Right now, we see that the academy and Big Tech are staffed by people who have an absolute loathing of the First Amendment and its values. We need real penalties against those who are financing hate speech , not the speech in and of itself. Those students who are American and whose parents are homeowners can and should be sued. Any student that participated in a riot and who is here on a visa can and should be deported forthwith