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penн REFUSE to say whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” is bullying and harassment according to their codes of conduct. Even going so far to say it needs to turn to “action” first. As in committing genocide.
Never thought I'd be on Stefanik's side in this election cycle.
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Date: 2023-12-06 11:06 am (UTC)"The problem of Hitler was not that he spoke, but that he was allowed to shut people up" was the "free speech" argument that started the Federalist Society https://tijd.dreamwidth.org/91906.html
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Date: 2023-12-06 02:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-12-07 03:03 am (UTC)“In that moment, I was focused on our university’s longstanding policies aligned with the U.S. Constitution, which say that speech alone is not punishable,” she said in a video. “I was not focused on, but I should have been, the irrefutable fact that a call for genocide of Jewish people is a call for some of the most terrible violence human beings can perpetrate. It’s evil — plain and simple.”
She added, “In my view, it would be harassment or intimidation.”
She also said that Penn would “initiate a serious and careful look at our policies.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/06/us/donors-and-alumni-demand-that-penns-president-resign-over-remarks-at-hearing.html
A lawyer as the university president is not a good idea.