You might have seen the old Emory professor getting slammed to the ground, losing her glasses, and being forcefully zip-tied? Hereâs more on that:
Or happily waltzing into it.
Or actively aiding it.
Well, those arenât demos, thatâs just everyday in old woke Portlandia! /s
The ACLU has been on the ground at Columbia, and probably most/all of the other campuses:
Doesnât really say much we donât know. Uses the theme of âovationââŚthat if people in front stand up to give an ovation, everyone else does too:
âThe political balance of all of this was exactly the opposite from where it is now,â said Michael Dorf, a Cornell Law School constitutional law expert. âYou heard people on the right complaining that the colleges and universities had gone overboard in attending to the sensitivities of people being offended by a bunch of things.â
Now prominent Republicans, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, are calling for National Guard troops to be deployed to clamp down on protests.
âItâs not an accident that itâs Mike Johnson, rather than the Democrats in the House, who are going to Columbia to decry it as insufficiently protective of the sensitivities of a minority group,â Dorf said in an interview. âHeâs making the same kinds of claims that the DeSantises of the world were complaining about less than a year ago.â
The earliest I can find Accuracy in Media connected with fighting âantisemitismâ is October 2022. For an organization formed in 1971, thatâs odd. It seems more like they donât really care about it, but can use it as a hammer against students and faculty they view as left-leaning.