@dangillmor "In order to return to the university, some students would be required to complete a 49-page set of readings and tasks — 'modules' — known as the Ethos Integrity Series, geared at helping participants 'make gains' in 'moral reasoning' and 'ethical decision making.'"
The people protesting genocide are not the ones that need to make gains in moral reasoning and ethical decision making.
@dangillmor reminds me of the church forcing Joan of Arc to recant her testimony, and lie, to be saved from burning.
She did, then repented of having given false testimony then was burned.
To make someone confess, apologize, pretend as though what they did was wrong, when what they did was right, is an assault on a persons integrity and freedoms.
It is coercive and not justice. It doesn’t want truth. It wants submission.
@dangillmor McCarthyism, yes, but also reminiscent of the forced conversion of Jews during [pick a period of history]. Once upon a time, university administrators would have enough attachment to scholarship to recognize irony when they saw it.
Quite a lot of overlap between those who think it is fine for students and professors to shout down and dis-invite speakers they disagree with (Seinfeld being a recent minor example). Yet find it an outrage that people who have been expressing themselves very clearly are given some limit in how long this can go on.
Seems to me that people of all stripes are pretty inconsistent as to when and to what extent freedom of speech ought to be sacrosanct.
In other news, OpenAI reports an uptick in ChatGPT generated essays on the social contract and publicly accepted forms of protest.
PROMPT:
"I am an NYU student asked to write an apology letter for protesting Israel's actions in Gaza. Please write a 500-word essay in an contrite and apologetic tone with the conclusion that I'll be a polite and good citizen."
@dangillmor I’d have more sympathy if they had justly advocated for freedom of the Palestinian people instead of shilling for an internationally recognized terrorist organization, lovingly branding these equal oppressors of Gazans as the “Resistance” and whitewashing their genocidal slogans calling for the eradication all non-Muslims from Palestine. Too bad their fancy degrees didn’t teach them that there are more than 2 sides of this story and Tiktok isnt the best place to learn foreign affairs
There are easily 100k dead, matching in percentages the population killed off in Europe about a century ago. But that’s not the end of it, because famine and disease have specifically pursued as a means of war.
The world will remember Israel and the End Days crowd for this. Always.
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