Dec 7, 2023·edited Dec 7, 2023Liked by Franklin Einspruch
Franklin, you're too kind. Of course all three presidents should resign or be otherwise removed (which shouldn't be too hard with the ones from Penn and MIT, who are conspicuously white), but Gay was exemplary, so to speak. She looked as if she could scarcely believe she was being questioned, not about antisemitism but about anything whatsoever. I mean, the nerve. It was sort of reminiscent of Wife of Bill at the Benghazi hearings, albeit more tony and less truculent. Still, these women aren't in their jobs for nothing, and they're basically symptoms, not the disease.
Dec 7, 2023·edited Dec 7, 2023Liked by Franklin Einspruch
The perception from Dallas, a blue city where money is all that keeps the usual attendant blue woes from undoing everything, is that the three ladies' gleefully smug answers to Stefanik's questions are just more evidence of the left's having again allowed that customary arrogance, one of the left's array of historic Achilles heels, to overplay its hand. The stench of wokeness is now even in the nostrils of the blue vote, and that vote is now torn, such that the question around here is whether the blue vote will California things by continuing to vote blue just because blue isn't red.
I have to ask, if Israel had remained a Norman conquest and it was a bunch of Aryans doing the bad stuff picking on poor innocent Palestinians, I wonder would modern liberalism give a damn? I mean, would anyone side with them, the Normans? After all, Israel was the holy land for them too.
I'm not asking this as an individual. I've simply noticed how modern liberalism ranks people on a scale of victimhood. Who's higher, who's lower. Ask yourselves: are you rooting for Kneeling Nancy or Derek Chauvin? Who's side are you on? Or, do you say, I don't have a dog in this fight?
Chauvin was doing his job in a really rough neighborhood. Maybe he made a mistake kneeling on the neck of sacred victim while being videoed by a very hostile group, who quite frankly, he may have begun to dislike after dealing with them for a long time. Sound familiar? Could Chauvin have been put – like the Jews in Israel – in an impossible position?
The thing is that Gay, who doesn't have to "make up for" being white like Magill and Kornbluth, could have made herself look really good by rising above "progressive" orthodoxy and taking the high road. Of course, maybe she feels she has to dance with the one that brung her, as it were. It's all twisted.
So, in the latest Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) Annual College Free Speech Rankings, released two weeks prior to October 7th, FIRE announced that Harvard achieved its lowest free speech ranking ever, ranking last out of 254 universities, with a rating of 0.00, the only university with an "abysmal" speech climate. Thus, any claim by Gay that Harvard truly respects free speech (by anyone, not just selected speakers) is exceedingly dubious, not to say a contemptible crock--assuming she's not totally clueless about and divorced from what transpires on her campus, which is unlikely.
Franklin, you're too kind. Of course all three presidents should resign or be otherwise removed (which shouldn't be too hard with the ones from Penn and MIT, who are conspicuously white), but Gay was exemplary, so to speak. She looked as if she could scarcely believe she was being questioned, not about antisemitism but about anything whatsoever. I mean, the nerve. It was sort of reminiscent of Wife of Bill at the Benghazi hearings, albeit more tony and less truculent. Still, these women aren't in their jobs for nothing, and they're basically symptoms, not the disease.
The perception from Dallas, a blue city where money is all that keeps the usual attendant blue woes from undoing everything, is that the three ladies' gleefully smug answers to Stefanik's questions are just more evidence of the left's having again allowed that customary arrogance, one of the left's array of historic Achilles heels, to overplay its hand. The stench of wokeness is now even in the nostrils of the blue vote, and that vote is now torn, such that the question around here is whether the blue vote will California things by continuing to vote blue just because blue isn't red.
Some good news resulting from the woke "white man bad, Jew white, thus Jew bad" theme: philanthropist Bill Ackman's letter to Harvard: https://reason.com/volokh/2023/11/05/bill-ackmans-letter-to-harvard-re-widespread-antisemitism-on-campus/
I have to ask, if Israel had remained a Norman conquest and it was a bunch of Aryans doing the bad stuff picking on poor innocent Palestinians, I wonder would modern liberalism give a damn? I mean, would anyone side with them, the Normans? After all, Israel was the holy land for them too.
I'm not asking this as an individual. I've simply noticed how modern liberalism ranks people on a scale of victimhood. Who's higher, who's lower. Ask yourselves: are you rooting for Kneeling Nancy or Derek Chauvin? Who's side are you on? Or, do you say, I don't have a dog in this fight?
Chauvin was doing his job in a really rough neighborhood. Maybe he made a mistake kneeling on the neck of sacred victim while being videoed by a very hostile group, who quite frankly, he may have begun to dislike after dealing with them for a long time. Sound familiar? Could Chauvin have been put – like the Jews in Israel – in an impossible position?
The thing is that Gay, who doesn't have to "make up for" being white like Magill and Kornbluth, could have made herself look really good by rising above "progressive" orthodoxy and taking the high road. Of course, maybe she feels she has to dance with the one that brung her, as it were. It's all twisted.
So, in the latest Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) Annual College Free Speech Rankings, released two weeks prior to October 7th, FIRE announced that Harvard achieved its lowest free speech ranking ever, ranking last out of 254 universities, with a rating of 0.00, the only university with an "abysmal" speech climate. Thus, any claim by Gay that Harvard truly respects free speech (by anyone, not just selected speakers) is exceedingly dubious, not to say a contemptible crock--assuming she's not totally clueless about and divorced from what transpires on her campus, which is unlikely.