.@DavidSacks is questioned about the congressional testimony of the Presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT and whether students should be able to march around campus chanting phrases like "from the river to the sea" and "intifada"?
"I have a very high bar for free speech. So I would allow almost everything. The problem that these university presidents have is that's not their position.
They're trying to wrap themselves in the cloak of freedom of speech and academic freedom, but that has not been their practice on campus for many years.
On a previous program, we talked about the FIRE survey, which polled students about how free they feel to express opinions on campus. The results were dismal for the Ivy League...
And in fact, remember that Harvard got the Blutarsky, a zero point zero. The students there reported that speakers were shouted down, they weren't even invited, and they weren't allowed to continue and finish their speeches.
So, Harvard has an abysmal record on freedom of speech. So it's hard to believe the President of Harvard when she claims that she's standing up for freedom of speech.
And if you were to apply that same standard to other groups... Imagine if representatives at that hearing had said to the President of Harvard, are you allowed to advocate for genocide of black people or trans people?
I mean, would the answer have been the same? I think absolutely not. So the question is, why are Jews being treated differently than these other groups?
And I think this all goes back to woke identity politics, where in the woke ideology, certain groups are victim groups, and certain groups are oppressor groups.
And if you're in a victim group, you get special protections. And if you're in an oppressor group, then it's just assumed that you can't really suffer discrimination or injustice in that same way.
And I think that Jews have basically been put in an oppressor group. They basically are being placed in the same group as all white people.
And I think this has come as a great surprise to a lot of donors to these university campuses, who I think we're okay with woke identity politics to some degree when they believed that Jewish people were a potential victim group and that antisemitism was being treated as real.
And lo and behold, they found out that no, they're an oppressor group, and they're not protected. And even very explicit cases of antisemitism are not being recognized by these universities.
Because, again, it doesn't match up with this woke ideology. It would have been a lot better for a lot of these donors to realize that woke identity politics was a cul de sac. It was something that they should have wanted to avoid participating in.
But I think they're now waking up to the realization that in this, again, oppressor-oppressed dichotomy, they're on the wrong side of that."
Via @theallinpod:
"I have a very high bar for free speech. So I would allow almost everything. The problem that these university presidents have is that's not their position.
They're trying to wrap themselves in the cloak of freedom of speech and academic freedom, but that has not been their practice on campus for many years.
On a previous program, we talked about the FIRE survey, which polled students about how free they feel to express opinions on campus. The results were dismal for the Ivy League...
And in fact, remember that Harvard got the Blutarsky, a zero point zero. The students there reported that speakers were shouted down, they weren't even invited, and they weren't allowed to continue and finish their speeches.
So, Harvard has an abysmal record on freedom of speech. So it's hard to believe the President of Harvard when she claims that she's standing up for freedom of speech.
And if you were to apply that same standard to other groups... Imagine if representatives at that hearing had said to the President of Harvard, are you allowed to advocate for genocide of black people or trans people?
I mean, would the answer have been the same? I think absolutely not. So the question is, why are Jews being treated differently than these other groups?
And I think this all goes back to woke identity politics, where in the woke ideology, certain groups are victim groups, and certain groups are oppressor groups.
And if you're in a victim group, you get special protections. And if you're in an oppressor group, then it's just assumed that you can't really suffer discrimination or injustice in that same way.
And I think that Jews have basically been put in an oppressor group. They basically are being placed in the same group as all white people.
And I think this has come as a great surprise to a lot of donors to these university campuses, who I think we're okay with woke identity politics to some degree when they believed that Jewish people were a potential victim group and that antisemitism was being treated as real.
And lo and behold, they found out that no, they're an oppressor group, and they're not protected. And even very explicit cases of antisemitism are not being recognized by these universities.
Because, again, it doesn't match up with this woke ideology. It would have been a lot better for a lot of these donors to realize that woke identity politics was a cul de sac. It was something that they should have wanted to avoid participating in.
But I think they're now waking up to the realization that in this, again, oppressor-oppressed dichotomy, they're on the wrong side of that."
Via @theallinpod:
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