Never Again, again

Jeff Goldstein Substack ^ | 24 Oct2023 | Jeff Goldstein

[Rummyfan]

In a post to X yesterday, Meghan McCardle, lately of The Washington Post (but to me, always a fellow old-school political blogger), tried threading the same Gordian knot many coastal intellectuals have been keen to thread of late — namely, the supposed difficulty of reconciling support for free speech with the uncomfortable, or at least, inconvenient, specter of the educated elite, from whom their kind routinely draws the next generation of ideological reinforcements, protesting in support of a government explicitly dedicated to ethnic cleansing and genocide. Using the context of calls by some business people to make publicly available the identities of Harvard students who have joined with Hamas in condemning the Jews — whether the “villains” are couched as “Zionists” or “Israeli colonialists,” et. al. — McCardle, in reaction to a New Yorker piece exploring the fallout for the “courageous” students at Harvard who publicly supported the terror group whose stated goal is genocide, performs the intellectual prestidigitation favorited by her media colleagues:

I am against cancelling students who issued tone-deaf statements downplaying Hamas atrocities. But I am also goggling at the assumption that what protects them is not free speech norms, but the scandalous impossibility of firing too many Harvard alums.

[Rummyfan]

The truth is, these students didn’t offer “tone deaf statements” in the laudable and courageous course of free speech activism. Rather, as the presumptive future leaders of a pluralist country — adults who have access to more information faster than any others like them in history — these self-satisfied virtue groupies got a charge out the transgressive stance of blaming the Jews for the slaughter, rape, and kidnapping of their own civilians, many of whom were killed in door-to-door sweeps whose object was their complete extermination.

[ClearCase_guy]

threading the same Gordian knot

What?

[Terry L Smith]

The Arabs and Israelis have been in mortal combat since 1948.

That alone is the definition of generational warfare, which is something any of the afore-mentioned pinheads are galactically removed.

Historically, the land belongs to the Israelis,, and always has. Whether it is a mahmet, ottoman, or pince nez wearing pinhead, it is still the Israelis’ land.

[knarf]

EXCELLENT breakdown of CONSTITUTIONAL explanation of Free Speech

[central_va]

In 1948 it was 3 way battle, Muslim v Jew v Brit.

[Boogieman]

Not a fan of mixed metaphors??? Well, we’ll burn that bridge when we get to it.