Safety first.
That’s the approach taken by university administrators these days. On campuses across the country, “safety first” has birthed a whole new moral framework—one that treats rhetorical “microaggressions” as acts of violence.
It’s safety first when it comes to edgy Halloween costumes. It’s safety first when a professor writes an email in which she says, “Black Lives Matter but also, Everyone’s Life Matters.” And it’s safety first when a professor fails too many students in his class.
But when it comes to threats and calls for genocide against the Jews, it’s a different story. Not safety first, but anything goes.
Here at The Free Press, we’ve been reporting on the ways in which college leaders have failed their Jewish students in the weeks since October 7—and pointing out the flagrantly uneven enforcement of their “safety first” approach.
And if that double standard wasn’t already obvious, it was crystal clear in Washington this week, when the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and UPenn testified before a congressional hearing on campus antisemitism.
Instead of more double standards, how about free speech as the standard?
Click below to watch our video on the hypocrisy of the college presidents.
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This sums it up IMHO. I didn't write it but could not agree more:
Leftist progressives and their allies have spent the last several decades gaslighting everyone that our nation is systemically racist. They created articles, books, TV shows and films to overwhelm us with their invented truths. They've pushed their tentacles into every corner of our lives. Corporate HR departments & boardrooms, health care, grade schools/high schools/colleges, religious institutions, every level in media and government, even the military. When people questioned or objected to these ideologies, they were denied straight answers and were instead subjected to racial trainings of every kind. They were lied to and told that this was the difficult work, the difficult conversations that needed to be had in the name of diversity, equity and inclusion. New allies that agreed to put race before humanity were rewarded with cheap lawn signs that virtue signaled their goodness to their friends & neighbors. All the while, these progressives rode their grift along with the exploitation of white guilt to dizzying heights, including the presidencies of our nations best and brightest universities. Why then would anyone expect them to react with integrity and morals when the true and undeniable presence of antisemitism emerged before their very eyes? After all, they long ago they sold their souls and sacrificed their humanity for racial essentialism. The connection of antisemitism and DEI is as clear as day now. This is the moral rot that the world witnessed on full display from the leadership of Penn, Harvard & MIT.
These universities are not elite schools, they are finishing schools for the elite. And, boy, does it show; their headmasters are all dumber than a box of rocks.