Absolutely. There's definitely a major gap between the many harms that can be done -- which are very real, and may even increase in the near term -- and the political change/blowback that they're incurring, which is also very real, but takes time to be heard and take effect. No easy answers to that.

We're going to see a lot of norm-violating behavior as the ship sinks, or at least as the admin suffers a major blow Some of it will be genuinely worrisome. A lot of it will range from "this is bad but will probably be laughed out of court" to "Four Seasons Total Landscaping" moments

Like if your reaction to this kind of news isn't closer to "pathetic, they've got nothing" than "oh my god, we're all doomed!" you probably need to stop posting through the midterms

Yes, this should be vigorously opposed. But don't also forget that it should also be derided as another desperate, flailing, and most likely entirely unsuccessful effort to target opponents and distract from looming political defeat

Quick story. My op-ed on how corporations that kept their DEI programs performed just as well financially was accepted & factchecked at TIME Magazine. Just needed "pro forma review by the legal department." Suddenly the piece is spiked Why? Benioff owns TIME and wants to ingratiate himself to Trump

No but seriously, what a desperate and gross swipe And it‘s kind of amazing how the nation’s most prominent, ascendant Muslim politicians — AES on the one hand, and Zohran on the other — have been both attacked as antisemites and attacked *with antisemitism,* that is as controlled by Jews. Wild

I mean, please. The guy doesn’t even know that Sunni jihadist fundamentalists and Shi’a sectarian revolutionaries never donate to the same candidate!

Did I hear that right? Did Mike Rogers just shout out “you’re bought off by George Soros family, you’re bought off by Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda” at Abdul El-Sayed?

Experts say this will have the same pacifying effects on our society that the execution of Saddam Hussein had on Iraq in 2006

The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.

pew? 30/68? adults???? the bottom is really falling out

(Not to mention hurting the very causes you claim to care about, by playing into every terrible narrative about academia, the left, the pro-Palestine movement, etc.)

Anyway, I guess I have the same basic reaction I did to the partisan rape case yesterday — I just don’t understand what’s wrong with some people How could you work so hard and then torch your whole academic career and life to terrorize a colleague on X

It seems he was a relatively serious academic too, amazingly A scholar of Islam in China, he was a recent Columbia Ph.D. and won the 2023 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion for a book he’d written I mean, it’s not easy to get hired TT at a school like Haverford in recent years

The harassment continued after the victim took precautions, with Ha posting ”blurring your home on Google map and installing a security camera next to your mailbox won’t help.” Ha also posted “Heil Hitler” and used the N-word repeatedly, and exposed info about the victim‘s wife, child, and address.

Some posts: “Jew, get the fuck out of my country” “Jew pig, get the fuck out of Lower Merion” “@[Victim] Eliminate the jewish cockroaches. Exterminate the jewish state. You will have nowhere to go. Your family has no future in the US. Give it another 10 years, and you shall see a true holocaust.”

Pretty upsetting story A Haverford religion professor named Guangtian Ha posed as a MAGA anon on X to harass a Jewish colleague with dozens of virulent antisemitic posts and personal threats

[Ducks]

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