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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social |
As any historian can tell you, the lasting lesson of McCarthyism was that when bad faith partisans haul you before Congress with demands for punishment of wrongthink, if you just give in to them completely well, that’ll be the end of it.
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Ronald W. Vea̶gan™☭
@movemntgod.vegantifa.de
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Watching this hearing really scared the shit out of me. The combination of pure evil intent from the Congress ppl and unfortunately the complete lack of ways to handle it from the college ppl was crazy. Couldn't they just have answered that they won't let them weaponise antisemitism over and over?
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Buddha Ferret
@buddhaferret.bsky.social
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Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you no sense of decency??
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Cheryl Rofer
@cherylrofer.bsky.social
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Another lesson is that some will always cave.
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A K M Adam
@akma.bsky.social
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Really, no one will remember. It won't hang over you like a dank cloak of fetid shame for the rest of your life.
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Boring Weirdo
@ihavenodomain.bsky.social
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Remember when conservatives and moderates were bitching about college campuses being anti-free speech because hack comedians stopped getting riotous laughter for telling the same five trans jokes? Not sure why I’m bringing this up right now.
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Curt Gebers
@curtgebers.bsky.social
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NYT could maybe acknowledge their part in putting Claudine Gay's metaphorical head on that metaphorical spike.
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Puck the Puddle Pilot
@puckthepilot.bsky.social
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Wait. Lessons? From history??? Everyone knows things were just different then.
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George S
@harmonygritz.bsky.social
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Betcha even MSNBC covers the Columbia story today... instead of all the Orange news that'll fit.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Useful idiots are going to continue to say “well actually I don’t agree with everything they’re doing but they have a point” right down to the bitter goddamned end.
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hammancheez
@hammancheez.bsky.social
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lady was not gonna lose her job no way no how
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Sean O'Hara
@noculottes.bsky.social
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Elia Kazan nods in agreement.
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Downpuppy
@downpuppy.bsky.social
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It's not so hard to get Columbia to do what they've been doing since November - suspending & expelling students, banning groups.
www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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B. Roo Sweinberger
@bruceweinberger.bsky.social
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Right? As everyone knows, if you give a bully your lunch money, he’ll leave you alone the rest of the year
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Marty Olliff
@martyolliff.bsky.social
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“Thank you, Sir, may I have another? And here are the names of 15 people I know who want one, too.”
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Taco Avenger
@tacoavenger.bsky.social
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Shafik's cowardly display shows that her only concern is keeping fundraising dollars rolling in from conservative alumni and the rest of the world can burn, for all she apparently cares.
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Alice
@thealice.bsky.social
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Best possible response is "That's a stupid question, sir."
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Blake Mitchell
@blake.bsky.social
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I forget… is the saying “Give ‘em an inch…” or “Give ‘em enough rope…” ? So hard to keep straight! We’ve been giving the fascists yards upon yards of rope for years now, and I still don’t see any of them hanging. Not near enough, anyway.
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Think. It. Through. 🙅♂️
@cfaller96.bsky.social
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Just lie back and think of stolen elections.
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Norbizness
@norbizness.bsky.social
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University President: At long last, Representative Stefanik, have you no shame? Stefanik: Hell no.
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Jacob
@raoulduke1976.bsky.social
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wtf are the parents of these college kids doing? If my kid got arrested for protesting genocide I’d be at that university so fast. These kids are bound by 100,000s of $s in debt and now they get a record on top.
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Elliott Vanskike
@twonnet.bsky.social
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I had 2 thoughts about her testimony: 1. You know these investigations are bad-faith efforts to generate FOXNews soundbites, so why not give a full-throated defense of the university's role in a well-functioning society? . . . quickly followed by 2. What if the campus or your family gets threatened?
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King of the Suburbs
@jamesbaumann.bsky.social
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Waiting for your "Exhorting McCarthy." re-mix to hit.
youtu.be/gZDGkqXCkSA?...
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❀°。der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆
@sababausa.bsky.social
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In fairness selling out worked out really nicely for Elia Kazan
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Lars Maischak
@larsmaischak.bsky.social
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What lessons? There's been complicity from Day One.
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Joe Meek Till Brooklyn
@telstarman.bsky.social
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As the famous phrase has it, "Give them an inch and they'll stop after taking an inch".
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DrGeophysics
@drgeophysics.bsky.social
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I’m shocked. Clearly this is the board of trustees and executive management at work. Can we talk about Penn too?
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Travis
@travtufts.bsky.social
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“You don’t have to like anti-Israel language or activism to be worried about congressional demands to suppress it.”
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[TLB] Klaus
@tlbklaus.bsky.social
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I consider "have you no decency, sir?" to be the greatest moment of 20C US history, ahead of the Moon landing...
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HoiPollois🦋
@hoipollois.bsky.social
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Did you see the NYTms piece on theatre that Neil Gaiman posted? "What happened instead was that Mr. Dies begat Joseph McCarthy, who begat Roy Cohn, who begat Donald Trump."
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Tom Higgins
@interestedparty.bsky.social
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... but if you resist, your career will be destroyed.
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Joel 🍦
@polyparadigm.bsky.social
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Is anyone hiring tenure-track faculty to a history department?
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Gary Vega
@alphalyraea0v.bsky.social
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We need a new Paul Robeson.
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