13 October 2019, 12:37 PM
Piano*DadI was Protested at Bard College ...
... for Being a Jew
The Opinion Editor of a Jewish magazineFor starters, I agree with her contention that she was shouted down because she is a Jew.
This is the kind of woke leftism that had me voting GOP in the 1990s. And if it becomes a litmus test of being progressive, it'll have me leaving the Democrats again, for write ins or other forms of protest voting.
This is why I think a Jew in Jeremy Corbyn's labor party must really enjoy cognitive dissonance and must secretly think that self-flagellation is pleasurable. If I were a Jew in the UK I would think of labourites the way many of us here in the US think of Trumpists. I would be a Lib Dem. At least they have that alternative over there. The choice between leftist anti-semitism and illiberalism or Trumpist racist populism is no choice at all.
13 October 2019, 01:15 PM
jon-nycWow
13 October 2019, 02:40 PM
CHASWill those fanatics realize what they did when they are 40?
A reminder: The political spectrum is a circle or a horseshoe.
Circle13 October 2019, 02:45 PM
piquéWow, indeed. That is heartbreaking. Outrageous. And, unfortunately, all too predictable.
13 October 2019, 03:10 PM
Piano*DadBut it's not new. This is the face of much of the modern left, and has been for years now. It's the old Zionism = Racism, warmed over and spiced with a side helping of BDS.
13 October 2019, 05:53 PM
Amandaquote:
Originally posted by Piano*Dad:
But it's not new. This is the face of much of the modern left, and has been for years now. It's the old Zionism = Racism, warmed over and spiced with a side helping of BDS.
Not to mention accursed intersectionality.

13 October 2019, 11:47 PM
piquéquote:
Originally posted by Piano*Dad:
But it's not new. This is the face of much of the modern left, and has been for years now.
Which is weird when you consider that much of the leadership of both the old and the new left were ethnic jews.
14 October 2019, 04:21 AM
DanielThis seems to be how students act today.
They seem to want to shout down those they deem to have committed a "transgression," they seem to want those they deem to have committed a "transgression" to be banned from their sight, and they seem to want those they deem to have committed a "transgression" to be punished.
Smh.