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JDHillFan

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  1. 6 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

    Hmm?

    You guys thought Elise Stefanik was the most brilliant examiner ever. That's where this whole nonsense started.

     

    On 12/22/2023 at 9:42 PM, The Frankish Reich said:

    I took a look back at that famous "gotcha" question and answer. 

    You know what? As a pure matter of logic, the Ivy League Presidents answered correctly!

    The question was: Would calling for genocide constitute harassment or bullying?

    The question was not: Would calling for genocide be offensive speech?

    So the logical answer is: "It depends on the context."

    - If @Doc some bar somewhere far away drunkenly calls for genocide of the white guys born in Buffalo, and he has no reason to think that I'd hear him, has he bullied or harassed me? Of course not. 

    - If he finds out where I live, drives up to my house at night, grabs a megaphone, and keeps shouting "death to the Buffalo white guys" for two hours, has he bullied and/or harassed me? Of course so.

     

    That is, it depends on the context. 

    Congresswoman Stefanik was given far too much credit here. If she wanted to know whether President Gay thinks calling for the genocide of a people is per se offensive speech, well, that's what she should have asked.

     

    On 12/22/2023 at 9:59 PM, JDHillFan said:

    It’s a shame this bit of genius wasn’t provided in time to save Liz Magill’s job at Penn. Hard to believe it cost her such a prestigious position even though she tried to walk back her comments. An unnecessary walking back based on this brilliant analysis. 
     

    A read of the transcript will show the questions posed repeatedly and at the center of the matter were “specifically calling for the genocide of Jews, does that constitute bullying or harassment?“ and “does calling for the genocide of Jews violate (insert school name here) rules or code of conduct? Yes or no”?  Why did you alter the comment to leave out Jews? You must have a reason for doing so. 

    In your lengthy post above you state:


    The question was: Would calling for genocide constitute harassment or bullying?

     

    This is a clear misrepresentation, as the hearing was centered on antisemitism on college campuses. The actual questions were (as shown in my post):

    “specifically calling for the genocide of Jews, does that constitute bullying or harassment?“ and “does calling for the genocide of Jews violate (insert school name here) rules or code of conduct? Yes or no”?
     

    You chose to leave out the very heart of the matter. You misrepresented what was said. You had a reason for doing so. 
     

    I was wrong about you starting the thread. My apologies there. 

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  2. 3 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

    Umm, the only "misrepresentation" came from you.

    Chanting things like "from the river to the sea" is definitely not a threat to Jewish students at Harvard or Columbia any more than chanting "trans women are men" is a death threat to trans students.

    A simple cutting and pasting of your posts from the thread you started defending the presidents of the universities in question would certainly show otherwise. Shall I?

  3. 23 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

    I'm pointing out that a method of analysis - that some types of speech are akin to actual violence - is now so ingrained that it is being used by the right as well as the left.

    The appropriate response to stultifying left orthodoxy in higher education is not to try to try to impose stultifying right orthodoxy. But that's what's happening, because this is all about settling scores and not about intellectual freedom.

    Do you remember when you misrepresented the congressional hearings where the question put forth was “Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate (insert university name here) rules or code of conduct? Yes or no?” You tried to pretend it was about free speech when it was about harassment of Jews and then came up with some weird hypothetical about white guys in Buffalo. That was a good thread. Hopefully this one is as much fun. 

  4. 2 minutes ago, stevestojan said:

    The sad truth is that there will be protests and they will lead to violence, and at least once person will die. I’d bet my next paycheck on it. All for a parade. 

    If it doesn’t happen, can we pencil in your paycheck for a military related charity? 

  5. 13 minutes ago, Niagara Bill said:

    Avoidance still!

    Certainly not from true social. 

    Maybe you can rest easy regarding the election cancellations that are never going to happen. Something tells me that is unlikely. I just ask that you own up to being a fool once the Nov 26 ballots are cast. 

  6. 1 minute ago, nedboy7 said:

    "...The Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C. § 1385) is a U.S. federal law that generally prohibits the use of the U.S. military for civilian law enforcement purposes. Enacted in 1878, it restricts the federal government's ability to use military personnel to enforce laws within the United States. The Act was passed to prevent the military from being used to intervene in domestic affairs..."

    You’ve got this!

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  7. 1 hour ago, Doc Brown said:

    One of his last points stood out to me where he basically compared Trump's followers to flat earthers in his point about the media shouldn't treat everything as a 50/50 debate.  I just hate the arrogance of Costas and many like him.  It's why Trump for all his massive flaws is better able to read a room (or a country in his case) than any other politician in my lifetime. 

    Costas became insufferable long ago and it wasn’t even related to politics when it came to be. 

  8. 13 hours ago, Niagara Bill said:

    Easy to see, escalating protests, caused by ruthless Holman and his boys, being step 3 in the effort to pause elections, that will be a step toward the end of a great democracy.

    Maybe arresting Newsom, and those lefty radical judges will be the significant step of over reaching power. Wow!

    Kent State seems so incidental now. 

     

    This one’s for you Viagara Bill. Be afraid-er. Be very afraid-er!!

     

     

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