Interrogating the university's posture of institutional entitlement, bureaucratic self-regard, and selective moral indignation it so vividly—and unwittingly—puts on display.
Excellent logic and rhetoric on full display. That last line....with the cocktail metaphor is stellar-- "served over crushed credibility" great wrap up!
I totally agree, but let's not stop with academic institutions. We should end tax breaks for all millionaires and billionaires whose politics we don't like! Discrimination be damned - they're rich, they can afford it!
Let's not forget that it is often the most odious of people who represent the best test cases of our freedoms. It was neo-Nazis in Skokie, IL who enshrined our right of assembly, a "Satanic" school club in Pennsylvania that protected students' rights to have religious clubs in public schools, and a pair of Jehovah's Witness sisters in WWII who refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance who helped illumine the contours of the separation of church and state. It's easy to protect rights when they are aligned with the cultural zeitgeist - it's much harder when the subject in question stands against the prevailing cultural winds. An attack on the Constitutionally protected freedoms of even the most repugnant is an attack on the Constitutionally protected freedoms of all.
I guess it comes down to whether these actions by the president are unconstitutional or not. That's certainly what Harvard, Brown, and others are claiming. I'm no expert - we'll see what the courts have to say.
Brown is the canary in the coal mine. Brown is the University of Heidelberg in 1933. The Martin Heidegger of 1933 would be proud. Brown, et al, has forsaken itself. Beware the Brownshirts and The Enabling Act of 1933.
Excellent response.
It is difficult for me when my students get accepted to my Alma Mater (The University of Michigan).
I still hold affection for her, but she was on the leading edge of the destruction of our culture.
Thank you, I’m stunned again by your message and your method.
Well said! Bravo!
Well done.
Excellent logic and rhetoric on full display. That last line....with the cocktail metaphor is stellar-- "served over crushed credibility" great wrap up!
Harvard just released its report upon the effects of antisemism on campus. Brown should take note.
I totally agree, but let's not stop with academic institutions. We should end tax breaks for all millionaires and billionaires whose politics we don't like! Discrimination be damned - they're rich, they can afford it!
Let's not forget that it is often the most odious of people who represent the best test cases of our freedoms. It was neo-Nazis in Skokie, IL who enshrined our right of assembly, a "Satanic" school club in Pennsylvania that protected students' rights to have religious clubs in public schools, and a pair of Jehovah's Witness sisters in WWII who refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance who helped illumine the contours of the separation of church and state. It's easy to protect rights when they are aligned with the cultural zeitgeist - it's much harder when the subject in question stands against the prevailing cultural winds. An attack on the Constitutionally protected freedoms of even the most repugnant is an attack on the Constitutionally protected freedoms of all.
I guess it comes down to whether these actions by the president are unconstitutional or not. That's certainly what Harvard, Brown, and others are claiming. I'm no expert - we'll see what the courts have to say.
Brown is the canary in the coal mine. Brown is the University of Heidelberg in 1933. The Martin Heidegger of 1933 would be proud. Brown, et al, has forsaken itself. Beware the Brownshirts and The Enabling Act of 1933.