In this newsletter: Columbia’s downfall, Federal probe into antisemitism in the University of California system, President Folt’s interview, and a USC-led study on public opinion of student protests.
"though to what extent pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus can be considered antisemitic remains in dispute." LOL
The NYT is a sad joke on the level of Soviet Pravda, packed with lies disguised by Orwellian Newspeak and doublethink.
Using the wrong pronoun or touching a black girl's hair is a hate crime deserving of a struggle session or worse, but harassing Jewish students, tearing down posters of their kidnapped relatives, painting the Jewish state as the world's most evil pariah, and campaigning to "Globalize the Intafada", which can only be construed as a call to attack Jews wherever you may find them, requires "context" and may not necessarily be "anti-Semitic".
The Social Justice faith turns its acolytes and their institutions into the exact opposite of what they claim to be: the most "educated" are the most ignorant, they claim to be tolerant but never tolerate dissent, and they constantly talk about fighting Nazis while defending Jew haters in their own backyard.
Hopefully Columbia is only the first of these Islamo-Leftist madrassas to feel some serious financial pain.
"Critics have warned that cutting off federal dollars is a blunt tool with which to punish colleges, given that most of that money goes to scientific research. As the economist Alex Tabarrok noted last month, “The problem is that the disciplines leading the woke charge—English, history, and sociology—don’t receive much government funding.” "
Sure, Alex. Everyone knows that English, history, and sociology departments are the biggest profit centers universities have. Why didn't I think of that? Where would we be without "critics," aka "experts" ?
As for STEM profs--good ones can write their own tickets at other universities. No one said they're welded to Columbia, or to any other school, for that matter.
The suggestion that universities should be turned into STEM universities has a great deal of merit. The humanities, social sciences, and grievance subjects are corrupted beyond saving. As a long term professor of anthropology, I can affirm that anthropology--once a wonderful field of study--has become little more than a hotbed of feminist, Marxist, and Palestinianist propaganda. The only way to save these fields is for the current professors and graduate students to be replaced by new staff and students devoted to academic goals.
Sounds like there is some progress being made. The partial defunding of Columbia is a good start but this process must be taken further in 2 ways.
1. Universities that have aided and abetted such antisemitic protests should join Columbia in the defunding experience starting with the University of Minnesota with its antisemitic member of congress.
2. Universities that allow such antisemitic protests, often led by foreign students/faculty, should lose the right to hire foreign faculty or admit foreign students for a period of 5 years.
The opportunity to teach/learn in the US is a privilege that non citizens can have revoked for inappropriate behavior. It is time academia was held accountable for importing this antisemitic Fifth column, much of it from parts of the world where antisemitism is mainstream in local society.
"though to what extent pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus can be considered antisemitic remains in dispute." LOL
The NYT is a sad joke on the level of Soviet Pravda, packed with lies disguised by Orwellian Newspeak and doublethink.
Using the wrong pronoun or touching a black girl's hair is a hate crime deserving of a struggle session or worse, but harassing Jewish students, tearing down posters of their kidnapped relatives, painting the Jewish state as the world's most evil pariah, and campaigning to "Globalize the Intafada", which can only be construed as a call to attack Jews wherever you may find them, requires "context" and may not necessarily be "anti-Semitic".
The Social Justice faith turns its acolytes and their institutions into the exact opposite of what they claim to be: the most "educated" are the most ignorant, they claim to be tolerant but never tolerate dissent, and they constantly talk about fighting Nazis while defending Jew haters in their own backyard.
Hopefully Columbia is only the first of these Islamo-Leftist madrassas to feel some serious financial pain.
"Critics have warned that cutting off federal dollars is a blunt tool with which to punish colleges, given that most of that money goes to scientific research. As the economist Alex Tabarrok noted last month, “The problem is that the disciplines leading the woke charge—English, history, and sociology—don’t receive much government funding.” "
Sure, Alex. Everyone knows that English, history, and sociology departments are the biggest profit centers universities have. Why didn't I think of that? Where would we be without "critics," aka "experts" ?
As for STEM profs--good ones can write their own tickets at other universities. No one said they're welded to Columbia, or to any other school, for that matter.
The suggestion that universities should be turned into STEM universities has a great deal of merit. The humanities, social sciences, and grievance subjects are corrupted beyond saving. As a long term professor of anthropology, I can affirm that anthropology--once a wonderful field of study--has become little more than a hotbed of feminist, Marxist, and Palestinianist propaganda. The only way to save these fields is for the current professors and graduate students to be replaced by new staff and students devoted to academic goals.
May their funding go to zero. When they lose their tax-free status on there 14.5 Billion endowment, then things will get interesting. 🙌
Sounds like there is some progress being made. The partial defunding of Columbia is a good start but this process must be taken further in 2 ways.
1. Universities that have aided and abetted such antisemitic protests should join Columbia in the defunding experience starting with the University of Minnesota with its antisemitic member of congress.
2. Universities that allow such antisemitic protests, often led by foreign students/faculty, should lose the right to hire foreign faculty or admit foreign students for a period of 5 years.
The opportunity to teach/learn in the US is a privilege that non citizens can have revoked for inappropriate behavior. It is time academia was held accountable for importing this antisemitic Fifth column, much of it from parts of the world where antisemitism is mainstream in local society.