Posted on 04/26/2024 4:58:42 AM PDT by Rummyfan
ight key things to understand about the cacophony on campus
Hypocrisy projection: When someone who generally only cares about the free speech rights of people they agree with asserts that everybody ELSE is a hypocrite, usually without actually bothering to check if their opponent has, in fact, been consistent.
In my book with Rikki Schlott, “The Canceling of the American Mind,” we coined the term “hypocrisy projection” to describe the tactic of critics who look to dismiss people or organizations (like FIRE) by accusing them of being inconsistent in their principles. The irony, of course, is that the accusers themselves tend to lack consistency, and they use this tactic to divert attention away from their own unprincipled behavior.
As campuses continue to be plagued with protests and unrest in response to the October 7 attacks on Israel and the war in Gaza that followed, there’s a ton of hypocrisy projection going on. We’ll get into that in a moment, but first we want to make a few other important points very clear.
1. The situation on campus for free speech has been bad for a long time.
If you’re tired of hearing it, believe me, I’m tired of saying it — but it needs to be said, over and over, until people finally get it and start doing something to fix it.
I’ve been fighting for free speech on campus since I started at FIRE back in 2001. Indeed, FIRE was founded in response to a growing free speech crisis in higher education, and that was in 1999! The situation was worse than I thought back when I started, and it has reached crisis level over the past decade.
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Whose running these protests at the national level?
I doubt its the DNC, since Democrats also seem to be a target.
Stuff like this doesn’t just happen without there being a hidden objective.
BTTT
Let’s crack some skulls.
Other than the civil protests, what does 2020 and 2024 have common?
Hint: color revolution
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