"To address the 'Amy Wax situation,' the group called a special 'town hall' meeting. Only students were invited, no faculty, to speak openly amongst themselves about her sins against them"
"This defiance of the we-are-all-exactly-equal dogma had to be punished. Students and faculty soon after began to rain holy hell on the once-esteemed professor in the Penn newspaper, denouncing her for 'hate speech' and 'white supremacy'
"The new rules place no limit to the government’s intrusion on private school autonomy – or the number of times it can “open an investigation” on the say-so of anyone, for any reason, even for schools that already qualified as 'substantially equivalent'"
FYI, I am going to sign off for the day shortly, and not only for the usual Shabbos break: Saturday night this week is the beginning of the (two-day) festival of Shavuos, meaning that I am going to leave you to take care of yourselves for THREE DAYS! >
I'm not going to tell you I'm worried sick over this EVEN THOUGH I OBVIOUSLY AM.
But there is nothing to be done about it. You are going to have to get by on everyone else's lukewarm takes and midwit content until Monday night. >
And I am going to have to hope and pray that THIS TIME you don't let them start another plague or join some war or get into the liquor cabinet AGAIN.
But I am leaving you, at the very precipe of my 72-hour departure, with THIS: >
Now anyone who has followed me for any amount of time knows that for all my talk about free speech, I am n not a free speech absolutist. Nor do I think any platform has to put up with harassment or even a reasonably comprehensible and balanced definition of "hate speech" >
I don't do a lot of tattling, but I do report gross antisemitic trolling.
I did not say I report antisemites or even eruptions of poor taste or prejudice. I don't require everyone, even everyone I associate with, to love all mankind all the time . >