They threw bottles at Jews, at Yale a girl was stabbed in the eye with a flag, several Israelis were assaulted in NYC. Anyone who got suckered into thinking this was about free speech should acknowledge how wrong they were. As I wrote *four months ago*: commentary.org/seth-mandel/wh…
They threw bottles at Jews, at Yale a girl was stabbed in the eye with a flag, several Israelis were assaulted in NYC. Anyone who got suckered into thinking this was about free speech should acknowledge how wrong they were. As I wrote *four months ago*: commentary.org/seth-mandel/wh…
You can defend free speech without defending mob violence, so the fact that many of you have chosen to do both is quite telling. I don't care what you yell before or after you stab a girl in the eye with your palestine flag because she's wearing a Jewish necklace.
I wish the Columbia students were outliers but then y'all bought what they were selling! So the stupidity is a national problem. We have become an exceptionally stupid country, where as long as a bottle has words written on it you can throw it at someone and call it speech.
The problem on here isn't the bots or anonynazis or whatever. The problem is that the 'moderate, reasonable' centrists on here are too afraid of these feral rich kids to call out horseshit when they see it.
When I was in college someone set our sukkah on fire. I never had to explain to anyone that it wasn't 'speech.' But in the time since, the country has become split between idiots and cowards. No, the Constitution doesn't protect setting the Jews on fire, you donkey.
Respectfully, I don't think it's the normies who aren't calling it out, I think it's the Liberals and democrats. I think it's been pretty clear to Republicans and centris what's been going on for the last 20 years, and for the most part they've been screaming bloody murder but they've been silenced by the left with cries of "racist!". This is almost entirely due to the push on college campuses to expand groups like SJP and the refusal of college administrations to reign in liberal faculty that erase, or advocate for the erasure, of Israel from the world map. I don't think these people are centrist, I think they are heavily Democrat I think it is the Liberals and Democrats who have to come out against this. Just like Republicans need to spank the nuts in their party, so do democrats.
@SethAMandel My sister and her husband put an ‘I Stand With Israel’ sign in their yard…I think it’s great but hesitated to do the same…they’re rural…I’m in a suburb and an HOA…but Seth’s tweet just made me see what a cowardly jerk I’m being…gonna order that sign from Amazon right now…
@SethAMandel More is required than “calling out on social media,” or blaming “centrists.” What are you actually doing? Where is Charlie Kirk and his crew?