Koen Van Damme @AllAnglesMath

No student should be denied access to their campus because of their identity or beliefs. Mob blockades against targeted students are illiberal and unlawful and cannot be tolerated.

@RealDarylDavis Thank you for being you.

This is Imperial Wizard Billy Snuffer of the Rebel Brigade Knights. I met with him a few times before this picture was taken. But on this day he was attending a court hearing for a fellow Klan member. As we were talking in front of the court house a crowd was drawing near that…

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A few words about the protests/encampments at Columbia: Back in December 2018, when I was a junior, a white student named Julian Von Abele was filmed going on an ethno-centric rant about how much he loved white people. He said things like: “White people are the best thing that…

We’re in the business of creating light, not heat. Every morning, we’ll make you smarter, not angrier, by helping you make sense of an increasingly upside-down world. @bariweiss and @ollywiseman announce The Front Page, your new favorite news digest: thefp.pub/4bh5Gxw

A powerful illustration of the dictum that the answer to speech we do not like is more speech.

The Persian Jewess @persianjewess

a day ago

An anonymous group has funded and constructed a giant screen with loudspeakers outside the @UCLA Pro-Hamas Encampments showing footage of the October 7 Massacre on loop. Bravo to these geniuses. #StandWithIsrael

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When schools go phone free, this is what always seems to happen: Kids spend far more time talking to each other, playing, and laughing. School is more fun, and, as a side benefit, they learn more. Let's make all schools phone free next fall.

Damian McBeath @damianmcbeath

a day ago

Cally and Daniel talking about the positive impact of a genuinely phone-free school with @BBCNewsnight @JonHaidt 'We are talking with our friends more!' Children @TJWA are now socialising more, they are playing, laughing. It has changed our whole school culture

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The value of one's life is not measured by the number of years but by the impact made in those years.

@TruismsT The Free Press

@TruismsT I just read the guardian and take the opposite position of whatever they like

The parents' revolution has begun in the UK. Parents are rising up to take collective action for a smartphone free childhood. It will happen in many other countries by the end of this year: afterbabel.com/p/the-revoluti…

Look what has arrived!

9/ A second standard exists for the disfavored. Intimidation and harassment of the disfavored are loudly defended as free speech. Jewish students fall into the latter category. Jewish students know it. We all know it.

Get the sense that we talk about on-campus harassment and intimidation differently when the subjects are Jewish students? In 2017, an anonymous jerk put flyers with a Confederate flag and cotton around American University's campus. They read "Huzzah for Dixie" or similar. 🧵

The first rule of activism: It's not enough that your actions are intended to help fix some problem. They must actually help fix it. And you can't take this for granted, because the easiest forms of activism mostly don't.

People have claimed that there is no evidence to support @JonHaidt's campaign against kids having smartphones. And now this:

Derek Thompson @DKThomp

6 days ago

New paper from Norway: Banning smartphones in school - significantly decreased doctors visits for psychological symptoms and diseases among girls - reduced bullying among both genders - improved girls’ GPA and attendance rates - largest effect sizes were among the poorest kids

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I fervently disagree with these @UTAustin protestors, but you can’t put people in jail for misguided and hateful opinions. Unless they are being violent or otherwise breaking the law —on what grounds do you arrest them?

Greg Abbott @GregAbbott_TX

6 days ago

Arrests being made right now & will continue until the crowd disperses. These protesters belong in jail. Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period. Students joining in hate-filled, antisemitic protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled.

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For anything on college campuses, always check the one organization that has a code and applies it equally to all situations. @TheFIREorg is more necessary than ever in this moment

FIRE @TheFIREorg

a week ago

STATEMENT: FIRE is monitoring outbreaks of violence and arrests on campuses nationwide. Sadly, we must again restate a bedrock principle: Violence is never acceptable. Colleges and universities must ensure the swift arrest of anyone engaging in violence on campus, whether…

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The hypocrisy warrants attention. Were the protests interfering materially with the functioning of the university, stopping other students from using the campus, or targeting particular individuals? If not, on what principled basis were they stopped?

jordan @JordanUhl

6 days ago

Incredible stuff.

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This is even more the case with "not a good look." Someone saying "read the room" can at least pretend they're giving advice about how to convince people. But someone saying "not a good look" is just saying "conform."