Posted on 10/14/2023 4:40:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Campus Reform recently reported that the Swarthmore chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) called the Hamas terrorists who butchered thousands of innocent Israelis (and others, including Americans) “martyrs” and affirmed the “right of Palestinian people to resist.”
Which reportedly prompted Swarthmore College President Val Smith to issue a statement in which she called the students’ praise of Hamas terror actions examples of the “free exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives” that “we embrace” as a “liberal arts institution.” (Which renders ridiculous Smith’s claim that “hateful rhetoric and calls for violence have no place at Swarthmore.”)
One post on ‘X’ noted: “Val Smith, president of @swarthmore, calls SJP celebrating the beheading of Israeli babies ‘free exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives’ and refuses to address the organization’s abhorrent post or antisemitism by name.”
Branding terrorism and the mass murder of innocents nothing but the “free exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives” that a “liberal arts institution” should “embrace” boggles the mind……and sickens the soul.
By that ”perspective,” the Saudis that flew planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon were just engaging in the free exchange of diverse ideas, too. As were Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. And Charles Manson. Isn’t diversity grand?! Who’s not pro-diversity? And those terrorists were inclusive and equitable in their attacks, too, rendering nearly 3,000 souls of every color, sex, creed, and class equally dead. Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity, baby! D.I.E.!
If we’ve “progressed” so far that slaughtering innocent people is now simply considered to be illustrative of a different perspective, surely Swarthmore College and its SJP warmly welcomes conservatives and MAGA types to campus to share their diverse perspectives? Right?
Right?
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Praising the true modern version of actual genuine Nazis is ok?
Praising HAMAS is free expression.
Praising Trump is unacceptable.
Around the 1973 Yom Kippur War I heard one college woman asked by another what her checkered black and white scarf meant.
“I actually don’t know. I think it has something to do with wanting peace in the Middle East.”
(The shemagh, also known as the keffiyeh or Arab scarf.)
I have no problem with expressing support for Hamas. I also dont have a problem with expressing support for Israel. It is when people move beyond expression and undertake violence.
Yep. Look at the Canadian Parliament.
For a liberal hate speech all depends on who you are hating. Hating Jews is OK. Hating conservatives is OK. Hating white colonizers (what other kind of colonizer is ther.) is ok. The trifecta is white Jewish colonizers.What you can’t hate is anyone in their intersectional club of commie misfits with the moral compass of a rattle snake.
“Swarthmore College says praise of Hamas is part of the ‘free exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives’”
I have no problem with that as long as
1) the school doesn’t promote Hamas and their atrocities against Jews, and
2) the school permits no violence or intimidation against the jews
Ideas that are adversarial to ours should not threaten us. Our country is founded upon freedom and freedom of speech. As Reagan said, the truth wins in a free society as long as the people are informed and there is a free flow of information. Knowledgeable people will always vote for freedom.
Figures. The head is a woman. And I say this as a woman myself.
Well Swarthmore College they’ll still kill the men and rape the women at your suck up college
My daughter received a full free ride to Swarthmore . . . and turned it down. I am so glad she stayed in Texas. Now, more than ever.
I’m convinced that raw stupidity is all that’s produced at Ivy League colleges. They don’t seem to have any knowledge of history
Your comment is NOT FAIR... to rattlesnakes.
As if Hamas has a “free exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives”.
ANY conservative speaker on campus will get shouted down and forced to leave. Yeah, “free expression and exchange of ideas.”
Their hypocrisy is endless.
I am all for free speech. But Swarthmore should also allow pro-Israeli speech, and any other kind of advocacy that students want to present. We all know they won’t do that though.
Swarthmore.....
A lib bastion....even since the time of The Mamas and the Papas.
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