Universities and calls for genocide

[Mick1]

We’ve all seen the Harvard, Penn and MIT presidents resist any kind of limits or discipline on calling for genocide against Israel and the Jews. If you’re curious, here are the official policies from Stanford, UC-Berkeley, Santa Clara, San Jose State and San Francisco State. All have degrees of condemnation, with differing focus on consequences:

Stanford:“In the context of the national discourse, Stanford unequivocally condemns calls for the genocide of Jews or any peoples. That statement would clearly violate Stanford’s Fundamental Standard, the code of conduct for all students at the university.”

UC Berkeley:“UC Berkeley would strongly condemn any advocacy for genocide against the Jewish people. And our response to that hate speech would not stop with condemnation. The campus administration can and will discipline hate speech not protected by the First Amendment. Any speech not protected by the First Amendment would, by definition, violate the Student and Faculty Codes of Conduct. The campus would also urge anyone impacted by that hate speech to report any harassment or discrimination they experienced because of that hate speech to our OPHD. We would promise a campus response to their reports, and we would offer them all of the supportive services at our disposal.”

SFSU: Threats of violence are a violation of the student code of conduct. A few weeks ago, the University received a report of violent antisemitic graffiti in a women’s restroom… SF State University Police Department (conducted) an investigation and a threat assessment. … If it should be determined that a student potentially did this, the matter would then be handled by (the Office of Student Conduct).

SJSU: “The threat of direct violence against or harassment of any individual or group, or actions that endanger safety or disrupt campus operations, are violations of the CSU Student Conduct Code. … Anyone found in violation of its terms will be subject to procedures and possible disciplinary action as identified in the CSU’s Student Conduct Process. As a public educational institution, our commitment to dialogue, debate and open expression of ideas is fundamental, as is our allegiance to free speech and academic freedom. We must counter hate and hateful rhetoric with the courage to engage and educate, even under the most challenging circumstances. We acknowledge that achieving that balance can be very difficult.”

SCU: “Calling for the genocide of Jews — or any people — is abhorrent and contrary to our fundamental values, and would constitute a violation of the University’s community standards and policies. … We have well-established practices for investigating and adjudicating violations, with a range of consequences up to and including dismissal or expulsion for serious offenses.”

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[Mick1]

Good article by Peggy Noonan on the degradation of American universities and their migration from being centers of scholastic excellence to institutions pushing political agendas centered around dogmatic ideology and social engineering rather than academic merit.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-universities-have-done-to-themselves-antisemitism-hearing-dei-woke-history-abf4901b

Covers all the bases…diversity shortcomings, safe spaces, trigger warnings, microaggressions, speech codes, partisanship, silence of the sane Left, sacrifice of the scholar to political fashion, etc.

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