Basically what I wrote in the newsletter. Though it's interesting that Friederdorf never mentions that this all started, supposedly, over antisemitism on college campuses. Nor does he mention Rufo by name once.
This is incredibly disappointing from you. You don't address the issue that brought all this to the fore – her inability to stand up against antisemitism and extremism and protect her Jewish students. It doesn't matter if whatever "white male mediocre" bogeyman pushed at an open door. The point is that the door was opened by Gay's "mediocrity". You claim to be upset about moral panics when you are clearly drumming up a moral panic yourself about "the Right", when this is actually just a glaring example of the failure of the Left to stand up for Jews. Unsubscribed.
I wrote about this in December and was critical of all the Presidents, Gay included. I also linked to that post in this one. https://www.altrightdelete.news/p/congressional-hype-house antisemitism on the left absolutely is an issue that hasn't been addressed, and I've talked about that even before the current conflict when the UK Labor Party was dealing with similar issues. And the biggest problem with the grandstanding around these hearings and Gay is that it does nothing to address antisemitism on college campuses or with the left more broadly.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/01/the-debate-that-claudine-gay-is-evading/677032/
I am curious how you would respond to Conor Friederdorf's article.
Basically what I wrote in the newsletter. Though it's interesting that Friederdorf never mentions that this all started, supposedly, over antisemitism on college campuses. Nor does he mention Rufo by name once.
This is incredibly disappointing from you. You don't address the issue that brought all this to the fore – her inability to stand up against antisemitism and extremism and protect her Jewish students. It doesn't matter if whatever "white male mediocre" bogeyman pushed at an open door. The point is that the door was opened by Gay's "mediocrity". You claim to be upset about moral panics when you are clearly drumming up a moral panic yourself about "the Right", when this is actually just a glaring example of the failure of the Left to stand up for Jews. Unsubscribed.
I wrote about this in December and was critical of all the Presidents, Gay included. I also linked to that post in this one. https://www.altrightdelete.news/p/congressional-hype-house antisemitism on the left absolutely is an issue that hasn't been addressed, and I've talked about that even before the current conflict when the UK Labor Party was dealing with similar issues. And the biggest problem with the grandstanding around these hearings and Gay is that it does nothing to address antisemitism on college campuses or with the left more broadly.