Excellent piece! It’s also refreshing to read independent journalism (which is sorely lacking at other papers on campus.) My guess is there are many people on campus who have opinions outside the progressive bubble and hopefully you will inspire greater dialogue with less fear.
Great post ! I graduated from Yale in 1996 back when we still talked and debated instead of screaming and engaging in violence. Praying for your safety and grateful for your principled leadership.
I liked this article and have a lot of respect for students like yourself openly disagreeing with orthodoxy on campus, but my one disagreement is with the idea that professors and others, in their own time, should not be able to describe the current administration as authoritarian, etc, since they have a right to voice their opinions in the same way that you have a right to voice yours. (That's not to say that those characterizations are always totally helpful or accurate, just that people should not stay silent if/when the administration does act in authoritarian ways.)
Really? You really think Charlie Kirk made “mincemeat” of his opponents in a debate? You must have been a watching different videos because every time I saw one Charlie Kirk came out looking like he dropped out of community college. Which he did.
Do you really think Trump is not an authoritarian? Really?
Do you actually think that Trump promotes “conservative values” of any kind? If so I would love to hear which ones.
The whole premise of “the trumpist/zionist point of view is oppressed” is freaking bizarre. Trumpists whine about cancel culture and then cheer when late night hosts get cancelled for thought crimes. Zionists think that stealing people’s land and then imprisoning 2 million of them in a 25 mile prison for 75 years and then bombing them daily for 2 years is some kind of religious right.
We don’t like trumpists or Zionists because you’re morally bankrupt. There’s no debate on whose ideas are better because there’s nothing which can justify the actions of people you claim to admire.
Do you really think black people are stupid? Charlie Kirk did.
Do you really think that women should not have careers? Charlie Kirk did.
Do you really think that if a POC is in a position of leadership they didn’t actually earn it and stole that spot from a white man? Charlie Kirk did.
If you like Charlie Kirk, you might be a white supremacist.
Charlie Kirk’s assassin is the perfect example of someone raised in a hyper religious trumpist gun culture. Charlie Kirk’s parents were centrist neoliberal moderates who did not share his extremist politics.
That should tell you everything you need to know. Columbia is obviously failing to teach you anything of value.
I'm not sure what you're hoping to accomplish with this comment. Your tone comes across as venting anger rather than sincerely trying to persuade, which is your right to do, but I just don't get the point of writing and posting it since I sincerely doubt anyone on the right would change their mind after reading it. Also, re: "There's no debate on who's ideas are better..." it's likely that people who hold positions that you find abhorrent 1) have a different understanding of the relevant facts (e.g. might think that you are misinterpreting Kirk's comments, ignoring relevant history, etc) or 2) might not be familiar with the information that you have (e.g. knowledge of specific comments, historical incidents, etc). By debating them (or engaging in dialogue), you can ensure that your own understanding of an issue or situation is accurate, and you can share your own knowledge and potentially change their mind (or the mind of anyone else paying attention to the conversation). At least that's my argument in favor of discussion. (Plus, it should be very easy to convince them or at least to win the debate if their ideas are indeed completely unsubstantiated and indefensible.)
Excellent piece! It’s also refreshing to read independent journalism (which is sorely lacking at other papers on campus.) My guess is there are many people on campus who have opinions outside the progressive bubble and hopefully you will inspire greater dialogue with less fear.
Great post ! I graduated from Yale in 1996 back when we still talked and debated instead of screaming and engaging in violence. Praying for your safety and grateful for your principled leadership.
I liked this article and have a lot of respect for students like yourself openly disagreeing with orthodoxy on campus, but my one disagreement is with the idea that professors and others, in their own time, should not be able to describe the current administration as authoritarian, etc, since they have a right to voice their opinions in the same way that you have a right to voice yours. (That's not to say that those characterizations are always totally helpful or accurate, just that people should not stay silent if/when the administration does act in authoritarian ways.)
Really? You really think Charlie Kirk made “mincemeat” of his opponents in a debate? You must have been a watching different videos because every time I saw one Charlie Kirk came out looking like he dropped out of community college. Which he did.
Do you really think Trump is not an authoritarian? Really?
Do you actually think that Trump promotes “conservative values” of any kind? If so I would love to hear which ones.
The whole premise of “the trumpist/zionist point of view is oppressed” is freaking bizarre. Trumpists whine about cancel culture and then cheer when late night hosts get cancelled for thought crimes. Zionists think that stealing people’s land and then imprisoning 2 million of them in a 25 mile prison for 75 years and then bombing them daily for 2 years is some kind of religious right.
We don’t like trumpists or Zionists because you’re morally bankrupt. There’s no debate on whose ideas are better because there’s nothing which can justify the actions of people you claim to admire.
Do you really think black people are stupid? Charlie Kirk did.
Do you really think that women should not have careers? Charlie Kirk did.
Do you really think that if a POC is in a position of leadership they didn’t actually earn it and stole that spot from a white man? Charlie Kirk did.
If you like Charlie Kirk, you might be a white supremacist.
Charlie Kirk’s assassin is the perfect example of someone raised in a hyper religious trumpist gun culture. Charlie Kirk’s parents were centrist neoliberal moderates who did not share his extremist politics.
That should tell you everything you need to know. Columbia is obviously failing to teach you anything of value.
I'm not sure what you're hoping to accomplish with this comment. Your tone comes across as venting anger rather than sincerely trying to persuade, which is your right to do, but I just don't get the point of writing and posting it since I sincerely doubt anyone on the right would change their mind after reading it. Also, re: "There's no debate on who's ideas are better..." it's likely that people who hold positions that you find abhorrent 1) have a different understanding of the relevant facts (e.g. might think that you are misinterpreting Kirk's comments, ignoring relevant history, etc) or 2) might not be familiar with the information that you have (e.g. knowledge of specific comments, historical incidents, etc). By debating them (or engaging in dialogue), you can ensure that your own understanding of an issue or situation is accurate, and you can share your own knowledge and potentially change their mind (or the mind of anyone else paying attention to the conversation). At least that's my argument in favor of discussion. (Plus, it should be very easy to convince them or at least to win the debate if their ideas are indeed completely unsubstantiated and indefensible.)