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  • JollyJ Offline
    JollyJ Offline
    Jolly
    wrote on last edited by
    #169

    And you're for anti-semitism?

    Well, I was always told Asians were the biggest bigots on the face of the earth.

    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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    • AxtremusA Axtremus

      @Jolly said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

      Now, let's drag a few more college presidents to Congress.

      Now you're for big government meddling in private schooling.

      CopperC Offline
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      #170

      @Axtremus said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

      Now you're for big government meddling in private schooling.

      Me too!

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      • JollyJ Jolly

        Now, let's drag a few more college presidents to Congress.

        George KG Offline
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        George K
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        #171

        @Jolly said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

        Now, let's drag a few more college presidents to Congress.

        ...and let the markets and donor$ decide.

        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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        • AxtremusA Axtremus

          @George-K said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

          @jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

          FIRE President Greg Lukianoff with a principled take as you would expect.

          More from FIRE. A little less nuanced.

          She just resigned from UPenn's presidency, but keeps her tenured position at the law school.
          UPenn will be looking for a new President.

          George KG Offline
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          George K
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          #172

          @Axtremus said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

          She just resigned from UPenn's presidency, but keeps her tenured position at the law school.
          UPenn will be looking for a new President.

          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          • George KG George K

            @Jolly said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

            Now, let's drag a few more college presidents to Congress.

            ...and let the markets and donor$ decide.

            JollyJ Offline
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            Jolly
            wrote on last edited by
            #173

            @George-K said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

            @Jolly said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

            Now, let's drag a few more college presidents to Congress.

            ...and let the markets and donor$ decide.

            Pretty much.

            This stuff has been headed downhill for over a decade. It should have corrected years ago. Universities should be about academic excellence first.

            “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

            Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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            • JollyJ Jolly

              @George-K said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

              @Jolly said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

              Now, let's drag a few more college presidents to Congress.

              ...and let the markets and donor$ decide.

              Pretty much.

              This stuff has been headed downhill for over a decade. It should have corrected years ago. Universities should be about academic excellence first.

              George KG Offline
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              George K
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              #174

              @Jolly said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

              Universities should be about academic excellence first.

              And free and unrestrained exchange of ideas second.

              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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              • George KG George K

                @Jolly said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

                Universities should be about academic excellence first.

                And free and unrestrained exchange of ideas second.

                Aqua LetiferA Offline
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                Aqua Letifer
                wrote on last edited by
                #175

                @George-K said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

                @Jolly said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

                Universities should be about academic excellence first.

                And free and unrestrained exchange of ideas second.

                You can't have the former without the latter. And no I think colleges are epically failing in both.

                Please love yourself.

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                • George KG Offline
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                  George K
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #176

                  More from FIRE:

                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                  The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                  • jon-nycJ Online
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                    jon-nyc
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #177

                    Good for them.

                    Only non-witches get due process.

                    • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                    • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                      Good for them.

                      Aqua LetiferA Offline
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                      Aqua Letifer
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                      #178

                      @jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

                      Good for them.

                      In this fraught moment, colleges and universities must ensure student safety and well-being by taking action against violence, true threats, incitement, discriminatory harassment, and other unlawful activity.

                      I would say that line is particularly fuzzy in these circumstances.

                      Please love yourself.

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                      • jon-nycJ Online
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                        jon-nyc
                        wrote on last edited by jon-nyc
                        #179

                        Some say that about people who say trans women are not women.

                        Who do you want to decide where that line is?

                        Perhaps more importantly, who do you think will get to decide if we let it be drawn?

                        Only non-witches get due process.

                        • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                        • HoraceH Offline
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                          Horace
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                          #180

                          FIRE is of course right in its directional principles. It's just unclear whether this discussion leads towards, or away from, a single coherent standard of allowable free expression on campus.

                          I think we were all getting used to the microaggression stuff being condemned, and now we're being asked to think clearly, because of course, thinking clearly is what people do. Left unsaid is that thinking clearly is what people do when the left's free expression is impinged upon. If it's the right being contained, then a handy moral panic will do for justification. Let's not be hasty with all the thinking, as long as a moral panic is sufficient to guide the history we want to be on the right side of.

                          I know the principled people are reveling in their principles, but if there's no clear future where those principles are applied fairly, then the principles are not the only important part of the discussion. We need to consider the people who will be applying those principles.

                          Education is extremely important.

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                          • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                            Some say that about people who say trans women are not women.

                            Who do you want to decide where that line is?

                            Perhaps more importantly, who do you think will get to decide if we let it be drawn?

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                            George K
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                            #181

                            @jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

                            Some say that about people who say trans women are not women.

                            And some will say that burning a cross on your front lawn is protected speech.

                            So, yeah, where's the line?

                            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                            The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                            • George KG George K

                              @jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

                              Some say that about people who say trans women are not women.

                              And some will say that burning a cross on your front lawn is protected speech.

                              So, yeah, where's the line?

                              HoraceH Offline
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                              wrote on last edited by
                              #182

                              @George-K said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

                              @jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

                              Some say that about people who say trans women are not women.

                              And some will say that burning a cross on your front lawn is protected speech.

                              So, yeah, where's the line?

                              Somewhere after microaggressions, might be the most common denominator.

                              Education is extremely important.

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                              • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                Some say that about people who say trans women are not women.

                                Who do you want to decide where that line is?

                                Perhaps more importantly, who do you think will get to decide if we let it be drawn?

                                Aqua LetiferA Offline
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                                Aqua Letifer
                                wrote on last edited by Aqua Letifer
                                #183

                                @jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

                                Some say that about people who say trans women are not women.

                                Who do you want to decide where that line is?

                                Okay how about we not pretend that this here is the line and we just crossed it. Were you so quick to cite FIRE during the Evergreen College shenanigans? Compelled speech laws?

                                Perhaps more importantly, who do you think will get to decide if we let it be drawn?

                                Again, that's already happened, so we already know the answer to that question. In the past 20 years we've done and codified exactly the thing you say is at stake here. At universities, in online kangaroo courts, in every HR department in America. The answers to your questions are all behind you.

                                Please love yourself.

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                                • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                                  @jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

                                  Some say that about people who say trans women are not women.

                                  Who do you want to decide where that line is?

                                  Okay how about we not pretend that this here is the line and we just crossed it. Were you so quick to cite FIRE during the Evergreen College shenanigans? Compelled speech laws?

                                  Perhaps more importantly, who do you think will get to decide if we let it be drawn?

                                  Again, that's already happened, so we already know the answer to that question. In the past 20 years we've done and codified exactly the thing you say is at stake here. At universities, in online kangaroo courts, in every HR department in America. The answers to your questions are all behind you.

                                  HoraceH Offline
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                                  #184

                                  @Aqua-Letifer said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

                                  @jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

                                  Some say that about people who say trans women are not women.

                                  Who do you want to decide where that line is?

                                  Okay how about we not pretend that this here is the line and we just crossed it. Were you so quick to cite FIRE during the Evergreen College shenanigans? Compelled speech laws?

                                  Perhaps more importantly, who do you think will get to decide if we let it be drawn?

                                  Again, that's already happened, so we already know the answer to that question. In the past 20 years we've done and codified exactly the thing you say is at stake here. At universities, in online kangaroo courts, in every HR department in America. The answers to your questions are all behind you.

                                  Yep. FIRE was always here doing the ACLU's job for it. Only now is FIRE a thing anybody is talking about.

                                  Education is extremely important.

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                                  • George KG George K

                                    @jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

                                    Some say that about people who say trans women are not women.

                                    And some will say that burning a cross on your front lawn is protected speech.

                                    So, yeah, where's the line?

                                    jon-nycJ Online
                                    jon-nycJ Online
                                    jon-nyc
                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #185

                                    @George-K said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

                                    @jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

                                    Some say that about people who say trans women are not women.

                                    And some will say that burning a cross on your front lawn is protected speech.

                                    So, yeah, where's the line?

                                    The ‘on your front lawn’ part makes it with the intent to intimidate. “Death to Jews” on a sign in front of the synagogue will cross well established first amendment lines.

                                    Only non-witches get due process.

                                    • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                    • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                                      @jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

                                      Some say that about people who say trans women are not women.

                                      Who do you want to decide where that line is?

                                      Okay how about we not pretend that this here is the line and we just crossed it. Were you so quick to cite FIRE during the Evergreen College shenanigans? Compelled speech laws?

                                      Perhaps more importantly, who do you think will get to decide if we let it be drawn?

                                      Again, that's already happened, so we already know the answer to that question. In the past 20 years we've done and codified exactly the thing you say is at stake here. At universities, in online kangaroo courts, in every HR department in America. The answers to your questions are all behind you.

                                      jon-nycJ Online
                                      jon-nycJ Online
                                      jon-nyc
                                      wrote on last edited by
                                      #186

                                      @Aqua-Letifer said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

                                      @jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

                                      Some say that about people who say trans women are not women.

                                      Who do you want to decide where that line is?

                                      Okay how about we not pretend that this here is the line and we just crossed it. Were you so quick to cite FIRE during the Evergreen College shenanigans? Compelled speech laws?

                                      I didn’t have to, no one here was on the other side of the debate.

                                      Only non-witches get due process.

                                      • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                      • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                        @Aqua-Letifer said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

                                        @jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

                                        Some say that about people who say trans women are not women.

                                        Who do you want to decide where that line is?

                                        Okay how about we not pretend that this here is the line and we just crossed it. Were you so quick to cite FIRE during the Evergreen College shenanigans? Compelled speech laws?

                                        I didn’t have to, no one here was on the other side of the debate.

                                        Aqua LetiferA Offline
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                                        #187

                                        @jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

                                        @Aqua-Letifer said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

                                        @jon-nyc said in Meanwhile, at Harvard...:

                                        Some say that about people who say trans women are not women.

                                        Who do you want to decide where that line is?

                                        Okay how about we not pretend that this here is the line and we just crossed it. Were you so quick to cite FIRE during the Evergreen College shenanigans? Compelled speech laws?

                                        I didn’t have to, no one here was on the other side of the debate.

                                        Fair enough, but your framing of the issue here makes it sound as if this is your first introduction to the "who decides" problem. We already know who decides. They've been deciding for years now.

                                        Please love yourself.

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                                          jon-nyc
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                                          #188

                                          Jolly - I’m curious what you think, as someone who has repeatedly called for genocide against Gazans. Do you agree with FIRE here? Or do you envision some rule that allows such calls against some people but not others?

                                          Only non-witches get due process.

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