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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: the Republican anti-anti-Semitism on college campuses bill
Date: Fri, 3 May 2024 18:44:37 -0000 (UTC)
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BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>Thu, 2 May 2024 17:37:44 -0000 (UTC) Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

>>>I'm trying to figure out if I support the legislation that passed the
>>>House yesterday defining anti-Semitism and requiring the Department of
>>>Education to use the definition to determine whether a university has
>>>failed to take action against anti-Semitism. Department of Education
>>>may be required to cut federal funding for universities found to be
>>>disriminating.

>>>Anti-Semitism is an expression of thought. The definition, which
>>>includes in its definition of anti-Semitism the criticism of Israel
>>>that tends to apply uniquely to Israel and no other nation on earth,
>>>is possibly a reasonable one.

>>>The incidents of speech can certainly be labeled as anti-Semitic,
>>>along with incidents in which threats, intimidation, vandalism, and
>>>violence have occurred.

>>>Is the legislation requiring universities to shut down protests or
>>>punish those participating in the protests if there is no finding that
>>>the speech also included threats and intimidation?

>>>. . . 

>>>The bill's sponsors stated that the bill includes language that does
>>>not thwart criticism of the government of Israel. I'm not sure. The
>>>anti-Semitic criticism of Israel they are trying to thwart could be an
>>>expression of anti-Semitism (under the definition) and may not be an
>>>attempt to threaten or intimidate. It's possible to be anti-Semitic
>>>without making a death threat.

>>>These are my concerns. I haven't thus far found concerns stated by
>>>Democrats who opposed the legislation to be all that specific to
>>>concerns they claim to have over the potential for free speech to be
>>>stifled.

>>Yet somehow I feel sure the Democrats would be EXTREMELY unhappy if any
>>new law limited the right of their precious "progressive" students from
>>being as anti-Israel/anti-Semitic as they wanted to be. 

>>>Even if Republicans supporting this legislation have the moral high
>>>ground -- and they do appear to -- I don't want speech stifled.

>>A worthy goal!

>>>Even those students supporting Hamas might have been represented by
>>>David Goldberger to protect their civil right to free speech, in the
>>>olden days in which the ACLU represented Kluxers and neo-Nazis so that
>>>the rest of us might speak freely.

>>That was then, this is now. My perception is that the ACLU has morphed
>>beyond recognition into a hard-core anti-capitalist left wing group of
>>advocates.

>Matt Walsh summed up my thoughts on the bill and the absolute inability of
>Republicans to take a win without cocking it all up:

>https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5FadIjHlYcM&t=608s

I watched the entire video. He persuaded me.

>There's no way I'll support anything that gives foreign governments the
>ability to set the limits of acceptable speech in America.

I had no idea that this organization had governmental members till he
explained who they were.