"Letās just hope Mahmoud Khalilās not anti-semitic or homophobic or sexist or ableist or fatphobic or gender-normative or jingoisitic or carnivorous in any way." š
... Why are we comparing Mahmoud Khalil's illegal arrest and detention with the failure of privileged people to maintain their jobs?
Being cancelled happens when you go to prison, or you die. Everything else is just called, "Criticism." And as someone who has actually served time, and who has struggled to be eligible for housing or jobs, you don't hear me talk about being cancelled.
Mahmoud Khalil's arrest is the perfect time to do away with false equivalence. The First Amendment is not meant to protect you from colleagues, but from the government's wrath. There are no hypotheticals here -- Khalil's beliefs and agendas are irrelevant to the fact he is not a criminal and he has been arrested, and because we have crossed this Rubicon, anyone can be next., no matter whether they believe in Israel, Palestine, Dumbo, fast fashion, hot meals, the LGBTQ community, the metric system or 70's era giallo.
Debating this, or equivocating about it, is utterly pointless. The government should not be arresting people because of their opinions, and no one should be supporting this. There is no grey area.
This almost works as an argument except you conveniently left out that a large part of the support for Khalil's arrest is based on him being accused of stoking campus antisemitism. So, much like questioning the firing of privileged people that I mentioned gets answered with misogyny accusations, opposing Khalil's arrest will get you labeled antisemitic. A decade of ad hominem attacks paved the way for Trump's current crusade against campus antisemitism. There is a difference but it is a matter of degree not kind. Bad faith is bad faith.
I think youāre granting way too much ideological consistency to Trumpās intentions here. Heās not going to JUST immediately start targeting people who support the Palestinian cause. Heās going to basically chase after whomever he wants, with zero logical consistency, while continuing to employ antisemitic rhetoric any chance he gets. He has allegiance to no one.
Anyone calling opposition to Khalilās arrest āantisemiticā is clearly a dimwit fascist. I think thatās a little bit of a straw man there, and those people donāt deserve a conversational foothold. Best to not give them one single inch of legitimacy. They havenāt earned it. Itās not āSupport For His Arrestā, itās āSupport For Arresting Americans Who Havenāt Committed A Crimeā. The only ideology here is a dictator President with no attention span who will target those who wonāt worship him and whatever idiot whims he has today.
True, I think he will expand this towards people he disagrees with in general. But this first move is a part of the crusade against antisemitism. As for not taking that link seriouslyā¦oh if it only were that simple. You think waving it away stops it?
Also yes we both donāt like Trump but there was precedence for this during the Biden administration.
LMAO the bir about CIA and Jazz really had me ššš
Truly honored. Love your channel (and your Substack it turns out).
"Letās just hope Mahmoud Khalilās not anti-semitic or homophobic or sexist or ableist or fatphobic or gender-normative or jingoisitic or carnivorous in any way." š
Michael Rapaport says hold his beer šŗ
... Why are we comparing Mahmoud Khalil's illegal arrest and detention with the failure of privileged people to maintain their jobs?
Being cancelled happens when you go to prison, or you die. Everything else is just called, "Criticism." And as someone who has actually served time, and who has struggled to be eligible for housing or jobs, you don't hear me talk about being cancelled.
Mahmoud Khalil's arrest is the perfect time to do away with false equivalence. The First Amendment is not meant to protect you from colleagues, but from the government's wrath. There are no hypotheticals here -- Khalil's beliefs and agendas are irrelevant to the fact he is not a criminal and he has been arrested, and because we have crossed this Rubicon, anyone can be next., no matter whether they believe in Israel, Palestine, Dumbo, fast fashion, hot meals, the LGBTQ community, the metric system or 70's era giallo.
Debating this, or equivocating about it, is utterly pointless. The government should not be arresting people because of their opinions, and no one should be supporting this. There is no grey area.
Fromtheyardtothearthouse.substack.com
This almost works as an argument except you conveniently left out that a large part of the support for Khalil's arrest is based on him being accused of stoking campus antisemitism. So, much like questioning the firing of privileged people that I mentioned gets answered with misogyny accusations, opposing Khalil's arrest will get you labeled antisemitic. A decade of ad hominem attacks paved the way for Trump's current crusade against campus antisemitism. There is a difference but it is a matter of degree not kind. Bad faith is bad faith.
I think youāre granting way too much ideological consistency to Trumpās intentions here. Heās not going to JUST immediately start targeting people who support the Palestinian cause. Heās going to basically chase after whomever he wants, with zero logical consistency, while continuing to employ antisemitic rhetoric any chance he gets. He has allegiance to no one.
Anyone calling opposition to Khalilās arrest āantisemiticā is clearly a dimwit fascist. I think thatās a little bit of a straw man there, and those people donāt deserve a conversational foothold. Best to not give them one single inch of legitimacy. They havenāt earned it. Itās not āSupport For His Arrestā, itās āSupport For Arresting Americans Who Havenāt Committed A Crimeā. The only ideology here is a dictator President with no attention span who will target those who wonāt worship him and whatever idiot whims he has today.
Fromtheyardtothearthouse.substack.com
True, I think he will expand this towards people he disagrees with in general. But this first move is a part of the crusade against antisemitism. As for not taking that link seriouslyā¦oh if it only were that simple. You think waving it away stops it?
Also yes we both donāt like Trump but there was precedence for this during the Biden administration.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/1/us-house-passes-controversial-bill-that-expands-definition-of-anti-semitism