No Such Thing as Bad Press

At my own peril, I am going to wade back into something I said last week for further clarification.

First, I never meant to minimize my own revulsion towards anti semitism. It is bad, should never under any circumstances be tolerated, and should be taken very seriously by university administrators, USCCR, and anyone else in a position to educate people about it or sanction those who promote anti semitism.

But, my reaction is based on the value judgement that 'Combatting hate speech on campuses' is much more a priority than just that against one group. I think there may be times when it is appropriate to designate priority groups. But given that we just finished Islamofacism Awareness Week and the Jena 6, it is ridiculous to think that Jewish groups are facing these challenges alone.

I will avoid walking into Walt-Mearsheimer territory, but I think the impact of politicisation on priorities - which was my original point - is pretty clear and an especially dangerous thing were this practice of appointing hacks partisans at USCCR to continue and anti Semitism were to reemerge as a very serious problem in America.