by Alex Berenson, Unreported Truths:
The same professors and administrators who make careers of defending “microaggressions” have failed to condemn Hamas’s deliberate slaughter of innocents, including Americans
On Saturday, as Hamas terrorists rampaged across Israeli towns, Vanderbilt University issued a statement condemning their atrocities.
I’m kidding, people! Vanderbilt did nothing of the sort. Instead, its chancellor wrote:
The deeply layered and nuanced complexity of today’s incidents reminds us that we must denounce violence, hate and prejudice in all forms…
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(This statement was made from Earth. Maybe.)
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Diermeier’s words were particularly egregious and bizarre, but Vanderbilt was far from alone in its resolute unwillingness to condemn Hamas for its brutal assault. From coast to coast, American universities have spent the last five days making statements that are Orwellian in their vagueness and passivity.
From The Brown School (of social work) at Washington University in St. Louis:
The violence in Israel and Gaza is weighing heavily on all our hearts.
From The University of California at Irvine:
Recent news of conflict in Israel and Gaza is having a direct impact on many members of our campus community.
These institutions aren’t outliers.
The American Association of Colleges and Universities, an umbrella group that represents over 1,000 schools, said it was “saddened by the recent outbreak of violence in Israel and Gaza.”
Yes, violence broke out! Lots of passively committed violence. Safe rooms were burned. Children killed. Women raped. Who knows how it all started? Not the American Association of Colleges and Universities, that’s for sure.
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Of course, the academy’s unwillingness to hold anyone responsible for the “incidents” Saturday – in all their “nuanced complexity” – stands in stark contrast to its willingness to stand strong on other issues.
Like “condemning transphobia and discrimination in any form,” as the Ivy League did in 2022 when female swimmers asked if they should really be forced to compete against (and share a dressing room with) a guy in a one-piece.
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