We’re Experts in Fascism. We’re Leaving the U.S. | NYT OpinionI post this as an example of Jewish Leftist hatred and paranoia. The complainers are mostly Jewish, but their complaints include the Trump administration deporting foreigners who advocate killing Jews.Legal residents of the United States sent to foreign prisons without due process. Students detained after voicing their opinions. Federal judges threatened with impeachment for ruling against the administration’s priorities.
In this Opinion video, Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley, all professors at Yale and experts in authoritarianism, explain why America is especially vulnerable to a democratic backsliding — and why they are leaving the United States to take up positions at the University of Toronto.
... Their motives differ but their analysis is the same: ignoring or downplaying attacks on the rule of law, the courts and universities spells trouble for our democracy.
For more unhinged academics, see the physics-related blogs of Peter Woit and Scott Aaronson. They are both fanatical leftist Trump-haters, and regularly rage about how he is destroying universities and becoming the new Hitler.
So you think they agree? Nope. They disagree like Stalinists and Trotskyists. Woit says Aaronson needs psychiatric help, and Aaronson says Woit is an antisemitic piece of s**t.
What is going on? The dispute concerns protests at Columbia U. that disrupted the college, and took the side of Gaza against Israel.
In my opinion, Columbia should not put up with disruptive protests about foreign issues that have nothing to do with the college.
Columbia gets billions in federal aid, and should stop refusing to comply with Trump administration demands. The demands are things that Columbia should be doing anyway, such stopping discriminatory policies.
The broader issue is whether Jews should be held accountable for the death and destruction in Gaza. I don't want to put words in the mouths of these guys, but I think they are not being fully straightforward.
Jews believe in protecting what is good for the Jews, above all else. The view Gaza-Hamas and their sympathizers as a threat to the existence of Israel, and hence to the security of worldwide Jews. That cannot be tolerated. If necessary, they will kill a thousand enemies to retaliate for the death of one Jew.
Others, such as many modern leftists and much of the Islamic world, see Jews as evil and the Gaza destruction as proof.
A lot of influential Jews are Trump-haters, but Trump and his supporters are mostly pro-Jewish, and do not see Jews as evil.
I sometimes blame Jews on this blog, but I do not blame them for destroying Gaza. Gaza is at war with Israel, and continues to hold hostages while it refuses to surrender. I do not have have any opinions about what Israel should or should not do, and I do not think anyone should be surprised at what it is doing.
Israel defenders like Aaronson like to say that they favor a two-state solution for the Palestinian Arabs, but that appears hopeless to me. Woit appears to want the Jews to surrender Israel to the Arabs in the way that South Africa surrendered the nation to the Blacks. That also appears hopeless. They both pretend to be holding the moral high ground, but I see nothing moral about advocating something impossible, or about resisting Trump when he is making constructive proposals.
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