cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4500384

The response from the free speech crowd has been mixed to nakedly cowardly. PEN America and the ACLU have issued statements and filed lawsuits on behalf of the deported activists. But high-profile ā€‹ā€œfree speechā€ advocates such as Bari Weiss, Jonathan Haidt, David Brooks, David Frum, John McWhorter, and Malcolm Gladwell have either remained silent or championed the arrests. A review of the signatories of the now-infamous 2020 Harperā€™s Letter shows that of those who could issue statements (those who are still alive and not retired from public life), only 24 percent who put their name on the letter defending ā€‹ā€œOpen Debateā€ have come out in opposition to Trumpā€™s war on campus free speech. Some, like Harvardā€™s Steven Pinker, have aggressively spoken out about Trumpā€™s withdrawing of funding from higher education, but have been notably quiet on the kidnapping of international students for the supposed crime of political speech.

  • redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    Donā€™t bother with this clown šŸ¤”. Heā€™s either full of shit or genuinely mentally challenged(I really canā€™t think of a nicer way to put this, read those comments). Scroll his comment history for his views on CNN, NYT and WSJ. Guy is living in 2016 šŸ˜‚

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      Actually, Iā€™m kind of on board with @spacecadet@lemm.ee. Except Iā€™ve heard @spacecadet@lemm.ee has ties to the Proud Boys and committed crimes and should also get sent to a prison in El Salvador. This would get anyone deported. Personally, I donā€™t want people in this country who hate it and want me to die. I feel like this shouldnā€™t even be an issue.

      As a matter of fact, letā€™s keep it going but letā€™s pivot away from immigrants and foreigners here on visas. Instead we can just find the people like @spacecadet@lemm.ee who are cheering this on, round them up and go dump them in the ocean to float around with the rest of the garbage thatā€™s already there. Then we can free up space for some people to come to the US who arenā€™t ignorant, racist trash.

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        Yea letā€™s advocate for the people who think the answer to being gay is pushing those people off of buildings. Letā€™s let the people you want in so they can force a theocracy where women are second class citizens and have to wear burkas

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      4 days ago

      lol the mental derangement needed to waste time reading my comment history is why you are in such a delusional state

      • redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        4 days ago

        Your initial comment was so weird I thought it a good idea to see if youā€™re a bot. Which worked out great. You arenā€™t worth a legitimate argument with citations, youā€™re just a common *chan incel I can warn others about and ignore like every does to you IRL.