https://www.chronicle.com/article/scholars-who-study-the-middle-east-are-afraid-to-speak-out
Does this show that more senior academics are freer or are more likely to toe the line?
Tenure is probably responsible here. Makes it much harder, though not impossible, to get rid of professors who don't fall in line with the ADL's demands.
I would have assumed ADL was the counter to tenure, as any criticism of Israel policy shall receive a free upgrade to racism.
Yo i just wanna appreciate you and your use of 'toe the line' the right way. You almost never see it yaknow? I'm all excited about it
I'd bet it's both. Older folks tend to align more with Israel, and so won't feel any threat to saying so. Tenured professors also have substantial protections, so even if they do disagree (which among professors is probably most of them) they have more opportunity to express so.
The American liberal, faced with this reality, tends to concede that truth is in fact drowned out by a relentless tide of spin and propaganda. Their next move is always predictable, however. It’s another lesson dutifully drilled into them in their youth: “At least we can dissent, however unpopular and ineffectual!” The reality, of course, is that such dissent is tolerated to the extent that it is unpopular.
Big-shot TV host Phil Donahue demonstrated that challenging imperial marching orders in the context of the invasion of Iraq was career suicide, when a leaked memo clearly explained he was fired in 2003 because he’d be a “difficult public face for NBC in a time of war.” [5] The fate of journalists unprotected by such wealth or celebrity is darker and sadder. Ramsey Orta, whose footage of Eric Garner pleading “I can’t breathe!” to NYPD cops choking him to death went viral, was rewarded for his impactful citizen journalism by having his family targeted by the cops, fast-tracked to prison for unrelated crimes, and fed rat poison while in there. [6] The only casualty of the spectacular “Panama Papers” leak was Daphne Caruana Galizia, the journalist who led the investigation, who was assassinated with a car-bomb near her home in Malta. [7] Then there’s the well-publicized cases of Assange, Snowden, Manning, etc. That said, I tend think to such lists are somewhat unnecessary since, ultimately, most honest people confess that they self-censor on social media for fear of consequences. (Do you?)
In other words, the status quo in the West is basically as follows: you can say whatever you want, so long as it doesn’t actually have any effect.
from https://redsails.org/brainwashing/
In other words, the status quo in the West is basically as follows: you can say whatever you want, so long as it doesn’t actually have any effect.
The freedom to say anything, so long as you are saying nothing.
No wonder American Foreign policy is running like dog shit. The academia and Policy making department are running like a failson's vanity project
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