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Niall Ferguson: The Treason of the Intellectuals
- morbicer 3y agoThe wokeness of US colleges is stupid and the Hamas support is shameful but overblown. Comparing the current affairs to pre Nazi Germany is ludicrous fear mongering. Politics belong to the universities because politics belong to life and searching for enlightenment. Young have a right to be naive. If someone is arguing for keeping politics out if it he's just making a political stance to keep the stuffy conservative status quo. Ferguson is parading the Red Scare like it's 50s On the other hand uni leadership should fight against antisemitism. Antizionism is fair game tho.
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoThis reads as a bit incoherent, even if you skip Nazi comparisons so I may be picking this up wrong but: He's angry that a dean defended free speech on campus by supporters of Palestine because ... she wrote an open letter saying she felt personally threatened as a black woman and a mother due to racist policing a few years ago? I'm not seeing the logical link there? If she suppressed someone else's letter about feeling personally threatened, that would be hypocritical but this just reads as a random political attack. Like she was guilty of wrongthink and so she had invited any and all consequences, even if it came as a result of protecting the free speech on campus that he's been asking for?