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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
The article leaves out a couple of key facts there: Goldie's has been raising money specifically for Israeli soldiers and there are allegations that it fired an employee for wearing a pin showing the Palestinian flag.
When it comes to randomly targeted protests at Synagogues or against any restaurant simply because it serves Israeli or Jewish food or is run by Jews, I think it is crazy, anti-Semitic, and ineffective to boot. (I'm actually going out of my to eat at Israeli or Jewish and Palestinian restaurants these days (lots of people are harassing Palestinians restauranteurs, too). It helps that I love the food of course.) But I don't think this one was a random target.
Still, I'd rather see people targeting Bill Ackman. Dude needs to go back to pushing runs on banks.
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Ackman seems to be everywhere these days. You'd think a busy hedge fund manager would have less time on his hands.
Yeah, Goldie's did fire the folks who wore pins and he donates to Israeli military. And I think that's a basis for protestors to picket the place. But accusing him of genocide? Let's pump the brakes a bit.
Back to Ackman, there are three problems with what he's doing. First, it's naked cancel culture. Second, among the kunckledragging actual anti-semites out there (and we all know there's a healthy number of them), firing of the Penn President and possibly Gay will be seen as "Rich Jewish financiers controlling everyone." Third, isn't the whole idea of free speech and expression to allow people to say foolish shit so that: (a) The popularity of dumb thoughts will be known to all; (b) The identity of people who think dumb thoughts will be known to all; and, (c) The dumb thoughts can be publicly countered. Call me nuts, but I want to know not only who around me is a bigot, but who around me is nuts or just plain fucking stupid. Is is better to have that sort of thing fester underground?
Final thought: Academic Admin's problem is not only having dumb ideas, but being in perpetual CYA mode. Those Presidents looked like fools because they endlessly dissembled. All one had to answer Stefanik with was, "Yes, someone stating a desire to commit genocide on any group violates our code." Nothing more, nothing less. But they couldn't, because they were so used to searching their minds for something to say that wouldn't upset someone they missed the one thing they could say that would have shut up Stefanik.
