There's a striking silence on this matter from liberals and centrists who claim to cherish free speech, with a few notable exceptions (credit to @bendreyfuss for being principled on this).
There's a striking silence on this matter from liberals and centrists who claim to cherish free speech, with a few notable exceptions (credit to @bendreyfuss for being principled on this).
@HeerJeet @bendreyfuss FIRE is closely monitoring this situation. Despite the provost’s claims that “this decision has nothing to do with freedom of speech,” FIRE disagrees. thefire.org/news/usc-cance…
@HeerJeet @bendreyfuss Maybe you should expand the list of accounts you follow - because I have seen plenty of posts from the very types you claim are not posting about it. Example: x.com/tpcarney/statu…
@HeerJeet @bendreyfuss Maybe you should expand the list of accounts you follow - because I have seen plenty of posts from the very types you claim are not posting about it. Example: x.com/tpcarney/statu…
@HeerJeet @bendreyfuss Have you seen the Instagram posts she liked? Does cheerleading the October 7th massacres sound healthy? Can you understand why some Jews at USC might feel uneasy about fantasies of globalizing the intifada? Or why demonizing Zionists seems incompatible with a tolerant university?
@HeerJeet @bendreyfuss This is just a lie. There are tons of liberals and centrists taking Asna's side, including FIRE. You always do this, pointing out some hypocrisy that the other side is apparently silent on, without bothering to check. It's all just clickbait to you.
@HeerJeet @bendreyfuss And if she were a white Christian and it was discovered that, say, she had written a wildly ahistorical paper calling for the return of Jim Crow (a reasonable, indeed, tame analogy to her call for the dismantlement of Israel), you would be calling for her head.
@HeerJeet @bendreyfuss if jihad micro hitler was white and a member of the kkk, you wouldn't be defending her
@HeerJeet @bendreyfuss I guess you don't follow this account?x.com/TheFIREorg/sta…
@HeerJeet @bendreyfuss I guess you don't follow this account?x.com/TheFIREorg/sta…
@HeerJeet @bendreyfuss What hogwash. I haven’t seen one free speech person celebrating this. Get a grip.
@HeerJeet @bendreyfuss What principle is even being upheld here? Does anyone know what she was going to say? Did USC get an advance copy of her speech before nixing it? Or is this really just, “eh, she wears a hijab so she’ll probly bring up Palestine and make everything awkward?”