Dying Gazans Criticized For Not Using Last Words To Condemn Hamas on midwest.soical
This really highlights the important role that The Onion increasingly plays in today’s world.
Satire is dead
“The whole [academic] enterprise we’re engaged in rests on the ability to have open intellectual exchange about any topic and express our views honestly,” says Josh Dubnau, a neurobiologist at Stony Brook University and one of the letter’s authors. “Nothing he said was repugnant or hateful. There shouldn’t be consequences for minority views in academia.”
This guy is right, enforced groupthink is incompatible with an earnest effort to engage with reality as it is.
Criticism of Eisen, who is Jewish, for a perceived lack of sympathy for the Israelis killed by Hamas immediately erupted.
“All lives matter,” shout people who think it’s gotta be one or the other.
And then of course he provides beautifully-stated sympathy for the victims of Hamas, and nuh-uh that doesn’t count.
People. What a bunch of bastards.
Reminder. No matter your personal opinions, do not piss off the hands that feed you.
Alternatively, stand up for your principles but be prepared for the consequences.
And the consequences is now a couple weeks of unemployment and struggling to feed their family.
All of that can be done WITH a job, you know?
