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Jeffrey Sachs
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@DouthatNYT argued today that the Left wants to read Jews and Jewish oppression out of contemporary SJ narratives, the better to accentuate black/women/trans/etc. oppression.

He’s wrong, but put that aside. 1/ nytimes.com/2019/03/09/opi…
In fact, accentuating Jewish oppression is precisely how black/women/trans/etc. can get their foot in the door. Here, for instance, we see a rousing argument for greater public education about the historic domination of a marginalized people.

None dare call this grievance studies, and for that I am grateful. But that’s the point.
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@PsychRabble says that one of us is lying and readers should come on over and make up their own minds. I agree. Let us know your thoughts below.
Speaking only for myself, though, I want to express how frustrating it is whenever these sorts of things happen. I go out of my way to convince my fellow liberals that not everyone concerned about campus free speech is a grifter or working in bad faith.
But when someone like @PsychRabble, who is a much bigger deal in these debates than I am, pulls stunts like this, it makes it that much harder for people to take his side seriously. That's really unfortunate.
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@DavidAFrench has your thinking on these issues (the eager hunt for damning quotes, the uncharitable interpretation of a person’s life, tearing someone down for the words of their spouse or associates) changed at all since the days of Imam Rauf and the GZ Mosque?
You opposed the mosque quite vocally, as I recall. You insisted that while Imam Rauf might indeed be a man of peace, he and his associates had said enough damning quotes over the decades that their campaign was unredeemable.

As for NRO, its editors urged a consumer boycott.
So I am curious, @DavidAFrench, whether your thinking on these matters has changed. And if not, what differentiates the two general approaches toward understanding a person’s past, besides the fact that Carlson and Shapiro happen to reside in your ideological camp?
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Jeffrey Sachs
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If state legislatures were passing laws compelling speech on campus for an SJW topic - affirmations of support for trans rights, disavowals of racism - half of my twitter followers would be losing their ever loving minds. dallasobserver.com/news/pro-israe…
It would be all anyone could talk about. It would dominate the debate. It would blot out the sun. Nothing I could say, no excuse I might muster, would be able to hang in the air more than a second before those laws would be thrown in my face. The ultimate and unanswerable retort.
But that’s not how it’s working out, is it?
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