Why Academics Leftists and Elitists Need to Treat Ordinary Americans With Respect

Jaw said:
The issue is not their failure to speak out about the harassment of Jews. The issue is their failure to speak out about the harassment of Jews when visiting speakers, faculty, or students get kicked out for statements or views that a favored group can find something to complain about.
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I can only speak about the situations I have some knowledge of. There was a controversy at MIT involving a speaker who was disinvited because of his views (I believe on affirmative action in hiring). MIT went through a lengthy examination of what happened and concluded it did something wrong and inconsistent with its values and mission as an educational institution. And put in place procedures and policies whose goal is to promote freedom of expression and prevent something like that from happening again.
 
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Jaw said:
Yeah. I saw someone say that this story has blown up because the Jewish community thought they were seen as one of the protected classes, but now they realize the protected classes just see then as white. There is some truth in that.
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Jews are a high status and generally privileged group within our society. I married into the tribe. Most know and acknowledge this. But like anyone else they don't want to be intimidated or harassed. And they especially don't want their children intimidated or harassed.
 
nsacpi said:
or Muslim

or Mexican
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You think a large protest screaming "Death to all Muslims" or a professor saying that all Mexicans should be killed or deported would be treated the same as the same statements about whites?
 
nsacpi said:
Jews are a high status and generally privileged group within our society. I married into the tribe. Most know and acknowledge this. But like anyone else they don't want to be intimidated or harassed. And they especially don't want their children intimidated or harassed.
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Something something "when they came for the whites, I said nothing. And when they came for me..."
 
Jaw said:
You think a large protest screaming "Death to all Muslims" or a professor saying that all Mexicans should be killed or deported would be treated the same as the same statements about whites?
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i don't think i expressed those views in responding to thethe's post
 
You know what, I dont blame people for plagiarizing college work. Its bull**** to begin with. 95% of college work has nothing to do with the degree you are seeking in most cases. The only thing most degrees tell you about a person is they can push through a lot of bull**** without giving up. I also want to send a personal **** you to all the professors in college teaching business majors to ask customers to fill out surveys. I just want a ****ing hamburger I dont want to fill out ****ing surveys for every business that I buy something from. I would fill them out to give them the lowest rating possible but I know that would just cause hardship for the low paid workers employed there.
 
cajunrevenge said:
You know what, I dont blame people for plagiarizing college work. Its bull**** to begin with. 95% of college work has nothing to do with the degree you are seeking in most cases. The only thing most degrees tell you about a person is they can push through a lot of bull**** without giving up. I also want to send a personal **** you to all the professors in college teaching business majors to ask customers to fill out surveys. I just want a ****ing hamburger I dont want to fill out ****ing surveys for every business that I buy something from. I would fill them out to give them the lowest rating possible but I know that would just cause hardship for the low paid workers employed there.
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i have passed on your feedback to my colleagues in the marketing department
 
nsacpi said:
I agree with this. But it misses the point that a lot of the criticism of the school presidents is their failure to speak out. The criticism started very early after October 7. As far as I'm concerned school presidents were right to be silent on this.

I think where they have failed has been in the tepid response when pro-Palestinian demonstrations have targeted Jewish students and Jewish student organizations. They needed to act forcefully against that and largely failed to do so.
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I think it was fair game to call out the blatant hypocrisy when many of them stayed silent. My alma mater sent me communications after George Floyd was killed, SCOTUS overturned Roe, Russia invaded Ukraine, etc. (You can guess where they stood on all)

Then more Jews are killed in a single day since the Holocaust at the hands of terrorists, and my school (smack in the middle of the city with the largest Jewish population outside of Israel) decides now is the time for neutrality? It very transparently wasn’t a new institutional policy of staying out of the issues of the day; silence was driven by the specific issue in question.

So it’s a fork in the road moment. I agree that universities should be neutral forums for debate without their own point of view. Hopefully they choose that path.
 
One of the greatest things to have happened over the last several years is the complete collapse of institutional trust from the public.

Everybody gets it now. Nobody trusts them anymore. And without trust, they will eventually completely collapse

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You gotta pump up your victim score. Tell them you are trans but your parents won't let you dress accordingly and need to get in so you can be free enough to be the real you.......
 
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