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🗓️ 9 December 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss the recent Congressional hearings on antisemitism and free speech on campus. Plus, NaNoWriMo updates (sorry).
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Jonathan Chait: “The College Presidents Were Right About Campus Antisemitism”
NYT: “College Presidents Under Fire After Dodging Questions About Antisemitism”
“FIRE to Congress, university presidents: Don’t expand censorship. End it.”
Jesse cosplays as an Ivy president:
Representative Stefanik, our conduct codes attempt to balance free speech, which is an important value to our university, with the safety and well-being of students. Because of this balance, which can be tricky, there might be instances in which truly grotesque statements — statements that I, as the president of the university, denounce unequivocally — fall beyond the scope of what we can punish. In certain instances, yes, that could even include calls for genocide. Our conduct codes are written in a manner in which a student or student group could be punished for these statements if they targeted individual students or student groups in a pervasive manner, or if they constituted a true threat or incitement to violence, but it really is context dependent. I know that’s an unsatisfactory answer, but it’s the only answer I can give you as a representative of my university. As an individual, of course I find calls for genocide against any group, and particular a group like Jews that have faced genocide in recent history, unbelievably offensive. But that’s a different question from what powers I have to punish these statements without running afoul of our own conduct code, which could lead to legal trouble for my university.
Shadi Hamid thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1732419156828463382.htmlLee Kovarsky, UTexas law prof, thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1732423346380521593.html
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0:00.0 | Hey folks after we recorded this episode some news broke. So stay tuned after the music for an update |
0:15.6 | Katie you claim that something exciting just happened to you and I'm a little bit skeptical |
0:20.8 | But I want to hear what it is. Okay, you know how you have your pitch and problem. Mm-hmm. Well did did I want I |
0:27.8 | Want you eliminated the threat. Okay, well if you go to the Wikipedia page |
0:31.4 | I will tell you I want so I'm having a similar problem of my own, but instead of pigeons |
0:37.6 | My pest is fucking bears |
0:40.4 | So I was just there's I built all the my my house in North Carolina is on a bunch of woods |
0:45.8 | I've built trails all through the woods not much of it of them of the trails are actually on my property |
0:50.4 | But I figure like this is sort of a socialist situation, you know, and plus nobody else uses the woods |
0:55.3 | So I've just bugged building trails all over the woods |
0:57.7 | So I was just standing in the woods |
0:59.8 | throwing the ball from my his playing fetch with moose |
1:02.7 | And he starts barking and I was like maybe a hundred yards from him and I like looked up and he's barking at a giant fucking bear |
1:10.3 | Oh my god, so yeah, so I went and I ran to him |
1:13.5 | Of course was taking my phone out of my pocket |
1:15.4 | So I could try to videotape this because I would want my I want my last days on earth to be video taped |
1:20.3 | Unfortunately, I couldn't get photographic evidence about this the bear ran away by the time I got there |
1:24.7 | So I figured like this is a good time to probably leave the woods |
1:28.6 | So I did I walked up the trails back up to my house and when I get to the top of the trail at the very |
1:34.7 | Beginning of the trail so in my yard. There is a giant pile of |
1:39.2 | garbage that wasn't there before and |
1:43.6 | Like there's a trash bag and then spilling out of the trash bag is all of this shit that I |
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