For decades, our elite institutions and media have treated free speech as increasingly dangerous.
As Alex Berenson highlights in an excellent summary of the situation, they have used their power to put topics off-limits, especially those that expose racial differences.
Like most evils, censorship metastasizes. Universities now police even the smallest offenses against minority or self-declared marginalized groups.
Last year, Harvard declared “misgendering” – that is, referring to transgender people by the pronouns of their actual birth gender – as a form of abuse.
The year before, Columbia had declared it a fireable offense.
This attitude – this “context,” to use a word heard frequently on Tuesday – is what makes Tuesday’s Congressional testimony by three presidents of elite American universities so shameful, fraught, and hypocritical.
At Harvard, “fatphobia” constitutes violence; but now, as Bari Weiss exclaims (Editor of The Free Press), “globalize the intifada” requires context.
Weiss summarizes the utter farce and hypocrisy on display this week in 240 seconds…
At Harvard, “fatphobia” constitutes violence.
But “globalize the intifada” requires context.WATCH:
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