Too bad Tucker Carlson is no longer on Fox, so he can't deliver this scathing denunciation of this newfound conservative support for campus censorship to protect Israel.
But vocal dissent from the Murdochs' worldview like this is precisely why he's not on Fox any longer.
Waiting for my invitation from Fox to come on and discuss this latest act of gross political censorship in the US, as I got so many times over the last many years.
It's a good thing I know not to hold my breath waiting for it.
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I don't understand the point of taking a controversial public position, then denying you did it. Media outlets reported Ackman did this because they understood the clear meaning of his words exactly as I did. The steadfastly pro-Israel Larry Summers even condemned him for it.
I should also say that we had on @SystemUpdate_ two of the Harvard students who ended up on the list Ackman called for -- Amari Butler and Kojo Acheampong. Listen to them in their own words describe what has happened since then:
Vivek was absolutely right to compare Nikki Haley to Dick Cheney. They are identical: not only fanatical warmongers but ones who profiteer off the wars they cheerlead.
Haley's candidacy is an attempt to ensure that neocon ideology prevails no matter which party wins next year:
As we've reported, the way that Nikki Haley rapidly compiled her vast personal wealth -- after spending her whole life in debt -- was by running to the permanent neocon war machine in DC, actually sitting on Boeing's board, vowing to serve its interests:
Of all the deceitful and morally bankrupt claims I've heard Joe Biden make over the years, that he's sadly powerless to affect Israeli behavior -- when he just demanded $14 billion for Israel, and Israel has long received more US aid than any other country -- is appalling.
Over several decades, Israel has received more money by far from the US than any other country, and the US has given Israel more aid than any other country.
Biden has long been a fanatical Israel supporter, and is only now pretending to object because they're afraid of polls.
The last US president to leverage US aid to Israel was Bush 41. They told Israel: settlement expansions harm US national security, so you don't stop, we'll withhold loan guarantees.
Obviously that option is available to Biden. He's too sacred to use it and doesn't want to.
Nothing has provoked more mockery and scorn from the American Right than grievances from college students and journalists of feeling "unsafe" due to others' views.
And there's nothing that parts of the Right have done more in the last 3 weeks than express such grievances.
The Right when black NYT reporters said they feel unsafe due to an op-ed calling for the military to crush George Floyd protests:
"Journalism is not about creating safe spaces."
Bari Weiss' site today: A jewish Guardian staffer feels "unsafe" due to anti-Israel reporting.
Conservatives pushing this "safety" rhetoric -- which isn't due to violence but words -- should either apologize to the minority groups they mocked all these years, or realize they're suddenly endorsing such flamboyant victim narratives because a group they like is claiming it.
Absolutely pathetic that frauds like this one spent years parading as free speech warriors -- mocking college students who urged protection from views they find threatening -- only to now exploit this war, that is not even an American war! (😲), to seize broad censorship powers:
One thing that has provoked intense mockery and scorn from the right are victim narratives:
Students weeping, claiming mental trauma from feeling unsafe by bigoted views; depicting college students as children who can't hear upsetting views rather than as adults who must....
Those victim narratives have seen a huge boost in popularity recently, now defended most vocally by exactly the same people who led the mockery and derision when these victimhood claims, and demands for censorship, were invoked by other minority groups:
I'd like to note again that the theory advanced here - that there's no such thing as an innocent Palestinian, or no difference between Palestinians and Hamas, because they elected Hamas (back in 2007) - was bin Laden's view for why all Americans are legitimate military targets:
This was also Hamas' rotted view on Oct. 7: that because Israelis voted for Netanyahu, they are all equally responsible and legitimate targets.
It seems that Americans should be the last people wanting such a theory to take root, given how many countries we bomb and invade.
One last point: there are many arguing that pro-Palestinian protests and petitions can and should be censored and outlawed because some entail calls for violence against Israelis.
Isn't the same true of a theory that says all Palestinians should be treated as Hamas?