The point of this article is not political but civil. I don’t need the authors to identify the political affiliations of the violent protesters - we know what they are. But this behavior should and does concern people from across the political spectrum. The violent students should be expelled and others should be punished. Non-residents/citizens should be deported. Enough of this anti-democratic, anti-liberal, anti-Western violence, which manifests itself as antisemitism. The Jews are just on the front line of this battle for the soul of Western liberalism.
"Since 2014, more professors have lost their jobs for expressing an unpopular viewpoint than at any point in the past 80 years—especially in 2020 and 2021."
Unpopular?
Don't you mean "conservative"?
This article contains the word "right-wing" twice. The word "leftist" doesn't appear even ONCE...
Lukianoff is a godsend... but let's call a spade a spade... These "institutions" have been infested by ONE group. Nearly ALL of the people committing this harm to these colleges are Democrats. There are few exceptions. But Lukianoff is or as, most likely a Democrat. And Bari Weiss and the crew at the Democratic Party Rehabilitation Project (aka The Free Press) are or were, Democrats...
There is ONE source for the poison that is killing the tree of American liberty...
We know what it is.
Why not call it out?
American liberty is being hunted down by the Democratic lynch-mob just like they did when they started the KKK...
Why is it stories of violent rioters on the left are just "people", "protestors" or "students". Every time.
Meanwhile any simple protest (like silent praying outside an abortion clinic) is always described as "conservative", "alt-right", "MAGA", "Republican". "Right-wing".
Call these students what they are: "Democrats", "left wing", "radical left wing" or "progressive".
This is how the media, even TFP, lies by slanting and omitting part of the truth.
Greg Lukianoff is doing some of the most important work happening in the world right now. I’m a big fan. And I 100% agree these kids need to be thrown out. They broke windows to enter a locked building? They threatened the physical safety of other students who had to flee through tunnels? Honestly, how is this even a question? In what other context would these actions receive nothing but a slap on the wrist via a “statement”?
Come on, Berkeley. This is your chance to get it right this time so you don’t have more of these events in the future.
Democrat civil war. Absurd how much the media covers up democrat riots like this one and illegal immigrant murders like Laken Riley. College campuses and cities are cesspools of democrat Anarcho-tyranny, proceed with caution.
It is not just on college campuses - it is everywhere. Where one side of the political aisle is allowed to beat the crap out of the other with impunity. And the other side gets imprisoned for stepping a toe out of line. This might seem great until it starts to happen to you. But any moral person knows it is wrong
I believe FIRE is not a politically based organization. They accept cases that cross the Democrat/Republican lines. The danger to our society is less an issue of political opinions than the loss of freedom of speech. When dissenters on either side lose the ability to express their opinions, we have all lost.
The leaders at UC. Berkeley and the local government are either cowards or they really do want all Jews dead. Either way, they’ve got to go before it is too late. What’s most sickening is that if this has been a BLM speaker there would be burning and looting by now; for Jews, silence. I wonder how many Jews are planning to leave for Israel as a result.
These campus protests are organized. Iran and China, among others, target the useful, purposeless idiots at these campuses as part of their Western subversion tactics. They literally have agencies devoted to doing this.
The students, for their part, like students of every generation, are hot to find some purpose to their lives and to do something relevant. They are duped into thinking this is it, even though most know absolutely nothing about the history of the Middle East.
One journalist, I believe it saw this in the Wall Street Journal, interviewed 100 students screaming "From the river to the sea!" and found that 68 of them didn't even know which river or which sea. They had not connected the fact that they were, themselves, screaming for genocide, and most changed their minds once they understood. The other 32 who knew what they were saying were hard core "Kill the Jews."
Thirty-two is a shocking number. There must be consequences for their violence, as well as for the university administrators who coddle these criminals, if we are to survive as a nation.
I used to wonder how a "civilized" society like Germany's could go so far off base as to slaughter Jews, disabled people, the Rom, homosexuals, and other entire groups. How the Serbian Army could kill men, rape women to death, and literally chase down refugee children. How Stalin could starve 11 million Ukrainians to death, stealing their harvests from them. Now I see how it begins.
It is hubris to think the US and other Western countries would not, ourselves, become an Axis of Evil. Crushing free, non-violent speech, is the first step down that path. Not opposing such suppression is the second. It's a short road from there.
I would like to see some moral clarity from our leaders to reclaim free speech and American values from the evil that is invading our country. Why the hesitation to speak the truth? There is no genocide by Israel--this should be repeated ad nauseum by university presidents, governors of affected public universities, mayors of the cities in which these riots are taking place, etc. It needs to start from the top--President Biden and Vice President Harris must call out these terrorists in our midst and loudly refute again and again the accusations of genocide against Israel. By not pushing back on this egregious lie, the Biden administration and the university administrations are showing weakness--perfect fuel for bullies..
And many of these bullies are not even Americans. This article from Tablet magazine does a good job exposing some of what is going on at university campuses.
Thank you, Greg and Angel, for an excellent piece. If we don't have freedom of speech and thought, we don't have a civilised society. Equally, if we don't act strongly against violence and physical intimidation, we cannot be considered civilised. The way of the barbarian is unacceptable to the vast majority where I live (UK) as I'm sure it is in the USA.
The point of this article is not political but civil. I don’t need the authors to identify the political affiliations of the violent protesters - we know what they are. But this behavior should and does concern people from across the political spectrum. The violent students should be expelled and others should be punished. Non-residents/citizens should be deported. Enough of this anti-democratic, anti-liberal, anti-Western violence, which manifests itself as antisemitism. The Jews are just on the front line of this battle for the soul of Western liberalism.
"Since 2014, more professors have lost their jobs for expressing an unpopular viewpoint than at any point in the past 80 years—especially in 2020 and 2021."
Unpopular?
Don't you mean "conservative"?
This article contains the word "right-wing" twice. The word "leftist" doesn't appear even ONCE...
Lukianoff is a godsend... but let's call a spade a spade... These "institutions" have been infested by ONE group. Nearly ALL of the people committing this harm to these colleges are Democrats. There are few exceptions. But Lukianoff is or as, most likely a Democrat. And Bari Weiss and the crew at the Democratic Party Rehabilitation Project (aka The Free Press) are or were, Democrats...
There is ONE source for the poison that is killing the tree of American liberty...
We know what it is.
Why not call it out?
American liberty is being hunted down by the Democratic lynch-mob just like they did when they started the KKK...
Free Press, it’s on you guys to continue follow up reporting to publicize what Berkeley does about this. Don’t let the story die.
Free speech is the technology of a civilized society. Vigilante mob violence is its antithesis.
Why is it stories of violent rioters on the left are just "people", "protestors" or "students". Every time.
Meanwhile any simple protest (like silent praying outside an abortion clinic) is always described as "conservative", "alt-right", "MAGA", "Republican". "Right-wing".
Call these students what they are: "Democrats", "left wing", "radical left wing" or "progressive".
This is how the media, even TFP, lies by slanting and omitting part of the truth.
Greg Lukianoff is doing some of the most important work happening in the world right now. I’m a big fan. And I 100% agree these kids need to be thrown out. They broke windows to enter a locked building? They threatened the physical safety of other students who had to flee through tunnels? Honestly, how is this even a question? In what other context would these actions receive nothing but a slap on the wrist via a “statement”?
Come on, Berkeley. This is your chance to get it right this time so you don’t have more of these events in the future.
Democrat civil war. Absurd how much the media covers up democrat riots like this one and illegal immigrant murders like Laken Riley. College campuses and cities are cesspools of democrat Anarcho-tyranny, proceed with caution.
The lack of expulsion and punishment, as well a silence on the parts of the admin, speaks volumes.
It is not just on college campuses - it is everywhere. Where one side of the political aisle is allowed to beat the crap out of the other with impunity. And the other side gets imprisoned for stepping a toe out of line. This might seem great until it starts to happen to you. But any moral person knows it is wrong
I believe FIRE is not a politically based organization. They accept cases that cross the Democrat/Republican lines. The danger to our society is less an issue of political opinions than the loss of freedom of speech. When dissenters on either side lose the ability to express their opinions, we have all lost.
The leaders at UC. Berkeley and the local government are either cowards or they really do want all Jews dead. Either way, they’ve got to go before it is too late. What’s most sickening is that if this has been a BLM speaker there would be burning and looting by now; for Jews, silence. I wonder how many Jews are planning to leave for Israel as a result.
These campus protests are organized. Iran and China, among others, target the useful, purposeless idiots at these campuses as part of their Western subversion tactics. They literally have agencies devoted to doing this.
The students, for their part, like students of every generation, are hot to find some purpose to their lives and to do something relevant. They are duped into thinking this is it, even though most know absolutely nothing about the history of the Middle East.
One journalist, I believe it saw this in the Wall Street Journal, interviewed 100 students screaming "From the river to the sea!" and found that 68 of them didn't even know which river or which sea. They had not connected the fact that they were, themselves, screaming for genocide, and most changed their minds once they understood. The other 32 who knew what they were saying were hard core "Kill the Jews."
Thirty-two is a shocking number. There must be consequences for their violence, as well as for the university administrators who coddle these criminals, if we are to survive as a nation.
I used to wonder how a "civilized" society like Germany's could go so far off base as to slaughter Jews, disabled people, the Rom, homosexuals, and other entire groups. How the Serbian Army could kill men, rape women to death, and literally chase down refugee children. How Stalin could starve 11 million Ukrainians to death, stealing their harvests from them. Now I see how it begins.
It is hubris to think the US and other Western countries would not, ourselves, become an Axis of Evil. Crushing free, non-violent speech, is the first step down that path. Not opposing such suppression is the second. It's a short road from there.
These rioters DO want to UNfound civilization. That is their entire point. In their minds, Western civilization is the root of all evil.
Berkeley doesn’t want to protect free speech
I would like to see some moral clarity from our leaders to reclaim free speech and American values from the evil that is invading our country. Why the hesitation to speak the truth? There is no genocide by Israel--this should be repeated ad nauseum by university presidents, governors of affected public universities, mayors of the cities in which these riots are taking place, etc. It needs to start from the top--President Biden and Vice President Harris must call out these terrorists in our midst and loudly refute again and again the accusations of genocide against Israel. By not pushing back on this egregious lie, the Biden administration and the university administrations are showing weakness--perfect fuel for bullies..
And many of these bullies are not even Americans. This article from Tablet magazine does a good job exposing some of what is going on at university campuses.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/american-universities-foreign-students-antisemitism
The wave of hatred can be turned around, but only by the truth.
Thank you, Greg and Angel, for an excellent piece. If we don't have freedom of speech and thought, we don't have a civilised society. Equally, if we don't act strongly against violence and physical intimidation, we cannot be considered civilised. The way of the barbarian is unacceptable to the vast majority where I live (UK) as I'm sure it is in the USA.