Oct 16, 2023 05:50 AM
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How cancel culture not only silences — but also kills
https://nypost.com/2023/10/14/how-cancel-culture-kills/
EXCERPTS: One of the strangest things about fighting cancel culture is the stubborn claim that it doesn’t even exist. But 22 years of combatting censorship on college campuses has shown me that cancel culture is very real, and can even be deadly.
[...] The toll of cancel culture today, however, dwarfs anything we’ve seen over the last half century.
More than 1,000 campaigns to get professors punished for their free speech have occurred in the last decade. About two thirds of those campaigns succeeded, and almost 200 professors ended up being fired or forced out.
And, thanks to polling, we know these statistics are a gross underestimate.
[...] One in six professors report having been disciplined or threatened with discipline for their speech, and a whopping one in three report having been pressured by colleagues to avoid researching controversial topics.
As a result, 90% of surveyed professors say they have self-censored out of fear. During the height of McCarthyism in the 1950s, only 9% of professors did the same. Cancel culture has infected every industry from journalism to publishing to K-12 to comedy.
By “cancel culture,” we mean the measurable uptick, beginning around 2014, of campaigns to get people fired, expelled, deplatformed, or otherwise punished for speech that would be protected by the First Amendment...
[...] When the public knows you can literally lose your career for expressing the “wrong” view on biological sex, DEI, or current events, why should anyone trust our “expert classes?” (MORE - missing details)
A wake-up call for Biden’s woke America: Hamas murder raids
https://johnkassnews.com/hamas-murder-ra...e-america/
EXCERPTS: . . . The universities have long been turned to the political left as the new Bolsheviks conquered institution after institution, from government to media, marching to conquest and destruction of America. Wealthy college students screamed against Israel, against Western colonialism, a favorite trope of “the Squad” and other Democrats–the illiterate among them unaware that even the concept of the university is itself a Greek and therefore Western idea.
Harvard students and those from other elite universities screamed and protested against Israel, and many pro-Palestinian groups celebrated the Hamas massacre of civilians.
[...] “The irony is that the modern university is a creation of the West—Bologna, Paris, Oxford, Harvard. There is nothing to “decolonize” because they are indigenous to Western culture. A truly “decolonized” university would be nothing more than a pile of rubble, a voodoo ceremony.”
The left got its rage and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu initiated Israel’s righteous revenge.
As of this writing a teacher was just stabbed to death in France by some student shouting to “Allahu Akbar!” Think of it. A teacher. And meanwhile, elite American college students–pampered through life–were horrified that their public support of Hamas war crimes might cost them in finding a job. Cry me a river. These are the same left wing students who demand “safe spaces” for them to condemn the West without consequence, from the same universities that allow only preferred leftist speech.
At Saturday’s anti-Israel rallies, many of the young cowards panicked and covered their faces, lest they be held accountable for their ugly hateful words, yet they were encouraged by media to anonymously trash Israel.
Democrat socialists and their unctuous apologists in media have long sought to blame Israel, because the Marxist left hates Jews and always blames Israel. Law enforcement agencies across America were put on high alert... (MORE - missing details)
https://nypost.com/2023/10/14/how-cancel-culture-kills/
EXCERPTS: One of the strangest things about fighting cancel culture is the stubborn claim that it doesn’t even exist. But 22 years of combatting censorship on college campuses has shown me that cancel culture is very real, and can even be deadly.
[...] The toll of cancel culture today, however, dwarfs anything we’ve seen over the last half century.
More than 1,000 campaigns to get professors punished for their free speech have occurred in the last decade. About two thirds of those campaigns succeeded, and almost 200 professors ended up being fired or forced out.
And, thanks to polling, we know these statistics are a gross underestimate.
[...] One in six professors report having been disciplined or threatened with discipline for their speech, and a whopping one in three report having been pressured by colleagues to avoid researching controversial topics.
As a result, 90% of surveyed professors say they have self-censored out of fear. During the height of McCarthyism in the 1950s, only 9% of professors did the same. Cancel culture has infected every industry from journalism to publishing to K-12 to comedy.
By “cancel culture,” we mean the measurable uptick, beginning around 2014, of campaigns to get people fired, expelled, deplatformed, or otherwise punished for speech that would be protected by the First Amendment...
[...] When the public knows you can literally lose your career for expressing the “wrong” view on biological sex, DEI, or current events, why should anyone trust our “expert classes?” (MORE - missing details)
A wake-up call for Biden’s woke America: Hamas murder raids
https://johnkassnews.com/hamas-murder-ra...e-america/
EXCERPTS: . . . The universities have long been turned to the political left as the new Bolsheviks conquered institution after institution, from government to media, marching to conquest and destruction of America. Wealthy college students screamed against Israel, against Western colonialism, a favorite trope of “the Squad” and other Democrats–the illiterate among them unaware that even the concept of the university is itself a Greek and therefore Western idea.
Harvard students and those from other elite universities screamed and protested against Israel, and many pro-Palestinian groups celebrated the Hamas massacre of civilians.
[...] “The irony is that the modern university is a creation of the West—Bologna, Paris, Oxford, Harvard. There is nothing to “decolonize” because they are indigenous to Western culture. A truly “decolonized” university would be nothing more than a pile of rubble, a voodoo ceremony.”
The left got its rage and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu initiated Israel’s righteous revenge.
As of this writing a teacher was just stabbed to death in France by some student shouting to “Allahu Akbar!” Think of it. A teacher. And meanwhile, elite American college students–pampered through life–were horrified that their public support of Hamas war crimes might cost them in finding a job. Cry me a river. These are the same left wing students who demand “safe spaces” for them to condemn the West without consequence, from the same universities that allow only preferred leftist speech.
At Saturday’s anti-Israel rallies, many of the young cowards panicked and covered their faces, lest they be held accountable for their ugly hateful words, yet they were encouraged by media to anonymously trash Israel.
Democrat socialists and their unctuous apologists in media have long sought to blame Israel, because the Marxist left hates Jews and always blames Israel. Law enforcement agencies across America were put on high alert... (MORE - missing details)