They will have to figure something out.
I doubt anyone is eager to be the next president to testify in front of a congressional committee.
If this is the first youāve heard of CNN migration to the right on cultural issues, you must really be in a bubble.
As for Gay, of course she isnāt. Thatās why she has been targeted for matters unrelated to her performance.
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Academic integrity is related to her performance. It is one of the key qualifications for her job.
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It was fall ā22 and during the convocation for Penn freshman when Magill was forced to stop. I donāt think she had much of a choice, though. The location for that event was right on Locust Walk, which is a public way, and the group was composed of much more than Penn students. Those students who did participate and were on bullhorns shouting down the speakers were subjected to some disciplinary processes, as I recall.
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Unless subpoenaed, university presidents would be wise to focus on what they could be doing to improve relations on their campuses rather than attending such hearings.
Berkeleyās Christ recently gave an interview to the New Yorker discussing ways to mediate political tensions. She has had to address such issues more carefully than the three who testified given Cal is a public university. Unlike Magill and the others, Christ could better present her position and intentions in that format, which is more helpful and informative than the attempts to grab gotcha sound bite moments as on display at the House.
Frankly, for me Congress would have more authority to investigate fear and intimidation at colleges from words if they actually legislated anything at all resembling gun control. However, Stefanik and her colleagues would rather not talk about how campus shootings terrorize students in the United States and make them feel unsafe when they can divert blame and responsibility elsewhere. This is just my take.
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Presumably there are more votes and contributions to be collected by Congress pursuing this topic rather than others. Or at least they must think so.
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As you wrote:
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Except this isnāt about academic integrity.
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It is antisemetic. Iām Jewish. Why do other minority groups get to define what is bigotry against their group, but non-Jews feel they can gentilesplain to Jews? I have no problem if you want to ask me why that statement is antisemitic.
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That poster is Jewish.
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Hereās a viewpoint from a Jewish journalist:
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Why should members of any group be able to unilaterally define what is bigotry against them? That only leads to the various terms for bigotry becoming meaningless and political.
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Iāll bite. Why is the statement "āNo Normalcy During GenocideāJustice for Palestineā antisemitic.
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āWhile the smear of apartheid has long been leveled at Israel in an attempt to draw a moral equivalency to apartheid South Africa, this newer libel that Israel is engaged in genocide against Palestinians attempts to do the unthinkableāto link the Jewish state with Nazi Germany. This cynical calculus is as wrong as it is obscene.ā
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Media Bias Fact Check found Quillette to be :
QUESTIONABLE SOURCE
āA questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no sourcing to credible information, a complete lack of transparency, and/or is fake news. Fake News is the deliberate attempt to publish hoaxes and/or disinformation for profit or influence (Learn More). Sources listed in the Questionable Category may be very untrustworthy and should be fact-checked on a per-article basis.
- Overall, we rate Quillette Questionable based on the promotion of racial pseudoscience, the use of poor sources, and failed fact checks.ā
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A good idea for any source.
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Thank you for sharing this.
True, but in general wouldnāt a person be better informed by reading a highly reliable, unbiased source such as Reuters rather than a questionable source based on their āpromotion of racial pseudoscience, the use of poor sources, and failed fact checks,ā like Quillette that you cited? The need for readers to fact-check Reuters isnāt really necessary because they have a clean fact-check record and a long history of journalistic excellence. Why read a right-biased blog that doesnāt hold itself to the basic standard of printing the truth?
Because opinions are found in opinion-based venues.
I wonāt argue with the above classification of Quilette (I read many high-quality pieces there over the years), but in any case you should be looking into specific author if you are so inclined.
A question was why accusing Israel of genocide is viewed by many Jews as deeply offensive. I agree with the authorās opinion.
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Accusing Israel of genocide is inaccurate, offensive, divisive, and can have the effect of increasing antisemitismā¦ but the accusation itself isnāt specifically antisemitic. Thatās the question that was asked.
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