All over America, we are now watching a recurrent tired script play out daily:
A mediocre American academic—apparently desperate to win any sort of attention by outdoing the escalating campus hatred of Israel—spreads utter lies about that country, ostentatiously performs his…
— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) October 20, 2023
…A mediocre American academic—apparently desperate to win any sort of attention by outdoing the escalating campus hatred of Israel—spreads utter lies about that country, ostentatiously performs his pro-Hamas credentials, and exhilarates in the news of the death work on October 7, whether on social media or with a bullhorn at a rally.
And then his gruesomeness is met with popular outrage.
And then on cue—apparently terrified for his career—he drops the cowardly braggadocio, backpedals, and offers a temporary, weepy, groveling and completely insincere and disingenuous apology of the “I don’t know what got into me” sort.
And then his university president will soon blather on that the university is devoted to free expression, BUT is concerned about any call for violence or hate speech, BUT cannot comment on a “personnel matter,” BUT reminds all of us not to fan the “cycle of violence” at “this sensitive time”…
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