Re:Stop Demanding Dumb Answers to Hard Questions
by raincom on Friday December 08, 2023 @02:22PM
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The issue boils down to double standards. When certain opinions are 'reasonable' to those in power, it doesn't "cross the line of what is acceptable in a University environment". Whenever one says "double standard", use that cudgel of whataboutism.
At UPENN a law professor named Amy Wax invited a white nationalist to speak and the law school dean said this [the invitation] "crosses the line of what is acceptable in a University environment where principles of non-discrimination apply,” in a document where he asked the University to impose a “major sanction” on Wax. https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/12/penn-amy-wax-jared-tay...
Amy Wax is currently under investigation by the university https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/01/penn-carey-law-amy-wax.... I would be curious to see what popehat's analysis of this situation is because the talk itself that Wax invited complies with all the guidelines he outlined but yet I get the feeling this talk would be unacceptable but the speech of the pro-Palestinian side is acceptable on campus despite some claiming that it is a call for genocide.