Antisemitism, Campus Protests, and the Meaning of Education (Also: The Cass Report and Idaho at the Supreme Court)
Breakpoint
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🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
College campuses across the US saw protests and clashes with police by pro-Palestine demonstrators. Oral arguments at the Supreme Court on a Biden administration policy that requires emergency abortion care in states where abortion has been heavily restricted. And a new report urges extreme caution in treating children with gender dysphoria.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Breakpoint this week where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:06.5 | Today we're going to talk about the protests on college campuses across the US in regards to the Israel-Hamas War. |
| 0:13.8 | We're also going to talk about oral arguments |
| 0:15.7 | before the Supreme Court this week |
| 0:17.4 | in a case about abortion law in Idaho. |
| 0:20.3 | We have a lot to get to today. |
| 0:21.4 | We're so glad you're with us. Stick around. |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome to Brinkpoint this week. |
| 0:28.0 | From the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I'm Maria Bear, alongside John Stone Street, |
| 0:32.0 | president of the Coulson Center. |
| 0:33.2 | John, it sort of feels like a little bit of deja vu with regards to Occupy Wall Street. |
| 0:38.4 | Remember those heydays of the kids sitting in tents on sidewalks and protesting and I'm referring of course to the protests that are blowing up across college |
| 0:47.4 | campuses right now but kind of centered at Columbia University in New York as well as... |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah, it's deja vu except a lot more dangerous. |
| 0:55.5 | I mean those were... |
| 0:56.7 | I feel like they were protesting capitalism drinking Starbucks typing away on their |
| 1:01.0 | Macbooks. |
| 1:02.0 | Like this, what we have seen maybe, I think safely we could say a little bit, I don't even want to use the word intense, like dangerous, there's Jewish students fearing for their lives, you know, |
| 1:14.6 | that sort of thing. |
| 1:15.1 | That's true. |
| 1:15.8 | That's true. |
| 1:16.8 | Yeah, the stakes seem a little bit higher. |
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