Replies to post #471315 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[newmedman]

well since you're using Bari Weiss's news again we must first consider the source. The only problem with the narrative you are trying to push is that ivy league schools all have a conservative bent to them. There is no giant faction of liberal professors included on their rolls. On top of that nobody is indoctrinating these students to think in a certain way, they do what they want to do.

My opinion shouldn't matter in this but it's not happening at every university and you can't just cherry pick a few and make it into a whole. For that matter, large college campuses are actually towns and cities so they just can't build a fence around them like a grade school. People come and go, quite possibly don't even live near to them or even attend classes there. They are the agitators that come to spread their hatred and it catches on with some, no matter what their political beliefs might be..

It's a very thin tightrope that needs to be walked between university staff, local authorities and the students. Do I condone it? No I don't, but I'm not in my twenties anymore and don't have to make those types of decisions in my line of work. If you pulled that type of shit around me, you'd be gone wether you're chanting for either side. What you do in your own time is your business only.

To blame it all on one side of the spectrum or other is pure racial profiling in my point of view. Of course, better decisions could be made at the administrative levels of these few universities but they need to balance right vs. wrong, first amendment rights of their students and members of the community which gets back to the tightrope walking.

I don't envy them but to turn this into some DEI type of nonsense is a faulty argument at best. I read that whole story you posted only just a snip of because you're just as disingenuous as the author and what disturbed me the most was how the comment section devolved into a race war.. If that's what you're going for, then that's up to you but I don't see it that way.

We can't all be white, god fearing Christians in a nation of immigrants. It's just not going to happen now or ever again. You need to get used to it and be part of the solution, not the problem. That's what you fail to grasp in the whole meaning of that piece.

[zab]

One dead, 35 injured, and like always that makes you happy to make a comparison to students protesting at Columbia University.

[fuagf]

conix, Weiss certainly has a tendency to simplistic superficiality at times

Political views

According to The Washington Post, Weiss "portrays herself as a liberal uncomfortable with the excesses of left-wing culture",[70] and has sought to "position herself as a reasonable liberal concerned that far-left critiques stifled free speech".[71] Vanity Fair described Weiss as "a provocateur".[6] The Jewish Telegraphic Agency said that her writing "doesn't lend itself easily to labels".[72] Weiss has been described as conservative by Haaretz, The Times of Israel, The Daily Dot, and Business Insider.[73][74][75][76] In an interview with Joe Rogan, she described herself as a "left-leaning centrist".[77] The Times of Israel recounted that her public fight with the New York Times made her a hero among some conservatives.[78]

Weiss has expressed support for Israel and Zionism in her columns. When writer Andrew Sullivan described her as an "unhinged Zionist", she responded saying she "happily plead[s] guilty as charged".[79] As of 2024, Weiss had visited Israel over 15 times, including after the October 7 attacks, and compared pro-Israel social media commentators to former Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky, whose years in prison made him an icon of the movement to free Jews from the Soviet Union.[78]

In 2018, she said she believed the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh, but questioned whether they should disqualify him from serving on the Supreme Court because he was 17 when he allegedly committed the assault against Christine Blasey Ford.[75] After backlash in the press, Weiss conceded that her sound bite was glib and simplistic, and said instead that Kavanaugh's "rage-filled behavior" before the Senate Judiciary Committee should have disqualified him.[6]

Following the Tree of Life synagogue massacre in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, Weiss was a guest on Real Time with Bill Maher in early November 2018. She said of American Jews who support President Donald Trump:
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I hope this week that American Jews have woken up to the price of that bargain: They have traded policies that they like for the values that have sustained the Jewish people—and frankly, this country—forever: Welcoming the stranger; dignity for all human beings; equality under the law; respect for dissent; love of truth.[80]
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In 2019, The Jerusalem Post named Weiss the seventh most influential Jew in the world.[81]

In January 2022, Weiss was criticized by a doctor appearing on CNN for her comments on the late night talk show Real Time with Bill Maher criticizing COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, citing that the COVID-19 pandemic response had resulted in mental health issues and that as a result she was "done with COVID".[82]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bari_Weiss#Political_views