[Image connected to Daily Mail article here ] Everyone has seen the clip from the House Committee on Education and the Workforce in which NY Republican Rep Elise Stefanik deftly corners three prestigious university presidents into revealing their ambivalence toward not just garden-variety antisemitic rhetoric, but to genocidally antisemitic rhetoric. It's an instant classic in which smart and powerful folks feel so trapped by the easy moral "yes" they could have unequivocally offered on a question of whether calls for genocide constitute bullying or harassment that the only escape hatch they see under the light of scrutiny is "it depends on context ". As if calling for genocide is somehow not inherently a call to violence. Harvard President Claudine Gay's testimony is not technically inaccurate that Harvard's recently revised anti-bullying and anti-harassment policies and procedures don't operationalize a way to address even strong speech callin
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