In this piece from the Free Press, its author argues that the way to stop campus leftist groups from engaging in “extremism” is to pressure donors to threaten to stop donating - using economic power to compel universities to shut down groups that are critical of Israel.

GuyWhite · 2023-10-18T20:46:25+00:00

I stopped donating to my undergraduate and graduate institutions about 10 years ago. I refused to fund the woke shit they were pushing.

The breaking point: The graduate school is run by the Jesuits. But that didn’t stop them from referring to the “Christmas tree”as a “holiday tree” to “avoid offending non-Christians.” If you can imagine attending a school run by Jesuits but being offended with Christian values.

Just today, I received the alumni magazine. The cover story? A puff piece about two law school graduates prosecuting the Jan 6 “insurrectionists.”

And, the magazine had a piece about the start of a $3 billion fundraising campaign. Yeah, like I’m going to pay for more of that shit.

Chipit · 2023-10-18T18:31:09+00:00

Bari Weiss, formerly of the New York Times until they got too woke for even her, runs The Free Press and she’s a passionate Zionist. Which is 100% fine. She and they can print whatever they’d like. But I would gently suggest that what is motivating their coverage is that support for Israel and not an attachment to the abstraction of free thinking. That’s not an accusation of hypocrisy; it’s an observation about what really motivates people. There’s nothing wrong with that. But the shibboleth of free inquiry is powerfully incompatible with this sort of moment, a moment when people are calling for moral absolutism and the insistence that we all pick sides.

P-38lightning · 2023-10-19T00:42:24+00:00

There are a few big donors that already pulled the plug on these universities.

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