Quote Originally Posted by Sanlmar View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
If they're receiving federal funding, AND are forced to adhere to various standards in order to get that funding (which they are), then it definitely is Congress' business to get involved here..
I have no idea what creepy standards the Fed’s would impose on a private institution for research or whatever. You cannot support these kinds of restrictions as a conservative

Of course, there is the whole Federal student loan debacle that has ruined higher education. That’s an opportunity for the Federal pathogen to invade the host too.

I reiterate that ideologically Congress should not involve itself in state or private education - despite some fine print. You should be ashamed as a conservative.

You are cherry picking your hate speech. It’s illogical

The message you and everyone should be promoting (including your representative in Congress) is that Zionism should not be confused with Judaism. No Jewish American should be subject to fear because Netanyahu is a corrupt dumbass.
Your line about Zionism/Judaism has been the exact excuse used by left wing antisemities for the last decade. "We don't hate the Jews, we just hate the government of Israel."

It's nonsense. They also hate the Jews because Israel is a Jewish state, and thus most Jews have a fondness for it (and a connection to it). The only Jews who get a pass are the ones whose leftism supersedes their Judaism, and loudly denounce Israel.

The cheering about the murder of 1400 Jewish civilians, the tearing down of posters of kidnapped children, the calls for genocide... these are all direct and blatant antisemitic feelings, NOT simply the support for supposedly oppressed Palestinians.


I am not cherry picking hate speech. I am not a fan of the term "hate speech" in general. I have taken shit at the WSOP each year, and more recently on Twitter, for allowing "hate speech" on this site. My response was always that I am pro free speech, even if I don't agree with such speech. That response is getting less and less popular over time.

But I do believe that you can't take the position that you aggressively restrict so-called hate speech in some cases, but completely allow it in others.

These colleges need to go one way or the other. If they want to make their campuses into safe spaces, then they have to protect everyone, not just the minorities they like. If they want to commit to free speech, then it has to be completely free -- not just free when they agree with it.

Consistency is the goal.

There is a lot of federal funding going to these schools. You may not like it, but that's a fact. There are certain standards tied to this federal funding. If you accept it, you need to adhere to those standards. These schools want the federal funding, and that comes with Congressional hearings when they decide to protect certain minority groups over others.