Georgetown s Ivory Tower Becomes a Leftist Citadel – AMAC – The Association of Mature American Citizens

The leftist mob got kicked into gear because of that phrase lesser black woman, as if Shapiro had been making some sort of generalized claim about black women rather than making a case that any black woman or black man or white man or woman would be lesser compared to Sri Srinivasan and that thus we can see how racial discrimination does not even benefit the progressive side. And though Shapiro had deleted the tweets even before the controversy and wrote an apology very quickly for his inartful phrasing, calls for his removal have continued apace and Georgetown Law dean William Treanor pusillanimously offered to pay for food for protesters who organized a sit-in and claimed that they were unable to function because of the horror of said tweets.

Those commenting have noted that Georgetown seems to have extraordinarily flexible standards about such things. During confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh in 2018, Georgetown professor Christine Fair tweeted about her desire for terrible deaths for Kavanaugh s supporters, whose corpses she wished to castrate and feed to swine.  In 2020 Professor Heidi Li Feldman tweeted that the Law School should not support any applications of Georgetown Law students to clerk for judges appointed by Donald Trump and that law firms should not hire anyone who did so.

Fair was briefly suspended for her violent comments but was then vindicated and praised. Feldman apparently faced no scrutiny despite university and city non-discrimination rules forbidding discrimination based on political affiliation.

In short, it s not free speech that s in danger. It s simply speech that purportedly offends I say purportedly because the meaning of Shapiro s tweet, though inartful, in his words, is pretty easily understood the left.

This has long been known and was demonstrated by Eric Kaufmann of Birkbeck College, London, whose research group CSPI released a study in 2021 finding that conservative academics, who make a smaller and smaller share of the professoriate, have encountered more problems with disciplinary action for speech and are much more likely to self-censor. The mainstream academy has become more and more left-leaning and secular. Conservatives and even classical liberals face increasingly high barriers to work in the academy, while those on the left have been finding a safe haven for years.

via amac.us

Seems pretty much true. Oh well.