Graduation is a day for all graduates to celebrate with their families.Graduation is NOT a place for personal vitriol and hate to be spilled to a captured audience.Nor is a private institution obligated to platform anyone’s political ideology. She was not prevented from mouthing off at any of the hate pro Hamas Iran rallies, or from posting all over social media about how unfair her life is.
This was adults running the school making a decision to have graduation be inclusive and a day for all graduates.
The event in Brussels is a Conservative convention that paid to rent space to so that an audience who paid to be there can hear from one another. The opposing political ideology is in power and sent police ( lots of them) to stop the convention .The cops were armed This is tyranny
Zero sympathy for Tabussum. Zero sympathy for Oliver. Unlike the group in Brussels, Tabussum and her ilk are killing and specifically killing and advocates for killing Jews.
But hey, Oliver, let's not let a bloviating bullcrap "Both sides" cutesy pseudo-thoughtful narrative get spoiled by actual facts. For f*cks sake, Oliver! The FP has had stories about the dangers to Jewish ✡️ students from these people! Safety of Jewish students is a real concern on campuses.
Tabussum and her ideas are a menace, and should be less welcomed on campus than a speech by the KKK. So really Okiver, go f*ck yourself. Take your NYT fake gotcha journo crap and go. This article is appalling.
When someone spews forth vile antisemitism, when you call for the destruction of Israel, when you call for the death of all Jews, when you say awful things, there can be a penalty. Had any valedictorian written "lynch all the blacks" or "LGBTQ have zero right to exist and we must extinguish them", they would not be allowed to speak either. And shame on USC for being too cowardly to call it what it is. She is a raging antisemite and in a time when Jews are being threatened daily across all college campuses, they're not going to allow someone with toxic views spread their propaganda at graduation. PERIOD! See...that's not hard to say. But USC is too chicken to say it. Shame on them! All these people are helping to further the demise of our country and history books will not look kindly on them. Education is ripe for transformation & if any investors want to back new universities, let's get going. We'll have the most impressive professors and students!!! Let's start them and give our children a place to go that isn't toxic. All this DEI has clearly failed --despite being lectured by leaders about the evils of systemic racism, they seem to be woefully inept at identifying and stemming the tide of growing antisemitism. One side wants peace. The other wants the death of an entire people. So, let's move on and get out of this quicksand and advance forward with those who aren't consumed with hate.
The simple solution for USC would be to have a speaker of opposing views on stage and have a good old fashioned debate. That might not be a traditional graduation fare, but I doubt anyone would fall asleep.
Comparing a milestone rite of passage, with parents, friends, and family becoming a captive audience of someone this offensive, with a collegial gathering of peers?
As a USC alumni and session ticket holder....I think we should lie in the bed we made.
She has a minor in resistance to genocide. How the hell is that a minor we offer?
Let her say whatever the hell she wants. She's going to look like an idiot.
What USC really cares about is donor money. They're trying to hide how ridiculous some of the "scholarship" has become at USC.
This is a great time to stick to principles of free speech AND cleanup the unbalanced ideological make-up of the faculty and administration. Let's fix it.
I wonder why she was selected in the first place? Was it because she was a Muslim, or was it because of her views? It would’ve been nice to hear what she was going to say. The mob wins.
I'm not sure what a mayor shutting down an event in Belgium has to do with a university choosing a graduation speaker based on whether they champion the elimination of Israel.
You could maybe write about universities that ban visiting speakers other groups have chosen. That would be more on point.
Sometimes, when both sides aren't perfect, one side is much more wrong than the other. In the case of censorship these days, the left is more wrong. The opposite could have been said 50 years ago.
In my high school, I remember that 2 students had identical GPAs, and the not Chinese one was arbitrarily chosen as valedictorian. In my college, I don't remember any valedictorian selection. USC selected a polarizing person as valedictorian among 100 students with identical GPAs. Maybe USC should drop the idea that one student is better than 99 others simply because she wore a headscarf. The selection process seems to always put Asians last and minorities first, regardless of their extra curriculars and other factors that should be more important.
I really, really liked what a neighboring school district used to do about high school graduation speakers in the early 2000s. You'd have you valedictorian and salutatorian, who would be acknowledged, but they were not automatically the speaker. The top 10% of the class was invited to submit a speech, totally optional, identified only by student ID number, judged by a panel of teachers and a few on the PTA. The winner would be the speaker, and the identity would be shown after the vote.
If the USC Administration 'picked' this young woman among over a 1000 (I believe) equally qualified graduates, they completely made a fully informed and deliberate choice. They should therefore, let her speak and suffer the consequences of her words AND their actions. No Take Backs allowed!
Interestingly, Emir Kir, the mayor who ordered this shutdown, once took part in a rally that denied the Armenian Genocide (that's a pretty rightwing move to make, wouldn't you say?). He also holds the title of "Commander of the Order of Leopold II" - which is named after the king whose rapacious ivory-and-rubber racket inflicted a genocide on the Congolese.
The 1st amendment is often used as a cover to protect hateful speech, speech that could ignite a mob set on doing damage. I, for one, do not believe that people with public platforms, such as Hungary's leader, or Trump, or college students with more money than brains, or anyone who espouses hate, should enjoy freedom of speech. They should be shut down quickly as peacefully. Punto.
It would have been instructive for family and donor attendees at USC to hear Ms Tabbasum parrot the leftist orthodoxies taught and demanded by the vast majority of USC professors and staff who comprise that university's wokeshevik echo-chamber. My guess is that the administration paid close attention to what occurred recently at Harvard, Penn, etc., wanting to keep their woke ideological cat in the bag so as not to have to answer parents and donors disgusted by the intended address...which actually represents the received wisdom of USC leadership and most faculties.
These two events have nothing in common.
Graduation is a day for all graduates to celebrate with their families.Graduation is NOT a place for personal vitriol and hate to be spilled to a captured audience.Nor is a private institution obligated to platform anyone’s political ideology. She was not prevented from mouthing off at any of the hate pro Hamas Iran rallies, or from posting all over social media about how unfair her life is.
This was adults running the school making a decision to have graduation be inclusive and a day for all graduates.
The event in Brussels is a Conservative convention that paid to rent space to so that an audience who paid to be there can hear from one another. The opposing political ideology is in power and sent police ( lots of them) to stop the convention .The cops were armed This is tyranny
Zero sympathy for Tabussum. Zero sympathy for Oliver. Unlike the group in Brussels, Tabussum and her ilk are killing and specifically killing and advocates for killing Jews.
But hey, Oliver, let's not let a bloviating bullcrap "Both sides" cutesy pseudo-thoughtful narrative get spoiled by actual facts. For f*cks sake, Oliver! The FP has had stories about the dangers to Jewish ✡️ students from these people! Safety of Jewish students is a real concern on campuses.
Tabussum and her ideas are a menace, and should be less welcomed on campus than a speech by the KKK. So really Okiver, go f*ck yourself. Take your NYT fake gotcha journo crap and go. This article is appalling.
When someone spews forth vile antisemitism, when you call for the destruction of Israel, when you call for the death of all Jews, when you say awful things, there can be a penalty. Had any valedictorian written "lynch all the blacks" or "LGBTQ have zero right to exist and we must extinguish them", they would not be allowed to speak either. And shame on USC for being too cowardly to call it what it is. She is a raging antisemite and in a time when Jews are being threatened daily across all college campuses, they're not going to allow someone with toxic views spread their propaganda at graduation. PERIOD! See...that's not hard to say. But USC is too chicken to say it. Shame on them! All these people are helping to further the demise of our country and history books will not look kindly on them. Education is ripe for transformation & if any investors want to back new universities, let's get going. We'll have the most impressive professors and students!!! Let's start them and give our children a place to go that isn't toxic. All this DEI has clearly failed --despite being lectured by leaders about the evils of systemic racism, they seem to be woefully inept at identifying and stemming the tide of growing antisemitism. One side wants peace. The other wants the death of an entire people. So, let's move on and get out of this quicksand and advance forward with those who aren't consumed with hate.
The simple solution for USC would be to have a speaker of opposing views on stage and have a good old fashioned debate. That might not be a traditional graduation fare, but I doubt anyone would fall asleep.
Comparing a milestone rite of passage, with parents, friends, and family becoming a captive audience of someone this offensive, with a collegial gathering of peers?
As a USC alumni and session ticket holder....I think we should lie in the bed we made.
She has a minor in resistance to genocide. How the hell is that a minor we offer?
Let her say whatever the hell she wants. She's going to look like an idiot.
What USC really cares about is donor money. They're trying to hide how ridiculous some of the "scholarship" has become at USC.
This is a great time to stick to principles of free speech AND cleanup the unbalanced ideological make-up of the faculty and administration. Let's fix it.
Fight On!
I wonder why she was selected in the first place? Was it because she was a Muslim, or was it because of her views? It would’ve been nice to hear what she was going to say. The mob wins.
I'm not sure what a mayor shutting down an event in Belgium has to do with a university choosing a graduation speaker based on whether they champion the elimination of Israel.
You could maybe write about universities that ban visiting speakers other groups have chosen. That would be more on point.
Sometimes, when both sides aren't perfect, one side is much more wrong than the other. In the case of censorship these days, the left is more wrong. The opposite could have been said 50 years ago.
In my high school, I remember that 2 students had identical GPAs, and the not Chinese one was arbitrarily chosen as valedictorian. In my college, I don't remember any valedictorian selection. USC selected a polarizing person as valedictorian among 100 students with identical GPAs. Maybe USC should drop the idea that one student is better than 99 others simply because she wore a headscarf. The selection process seems to always put Asians last and minorities first, regardless of their extra curriculars and other factors that should be more important.
I really, really liked what a neighboring school district used to do about high school graduation speakers in the early 2000s. You'd have you valedictorian and salutatorian, who would be acknowledged, but they were not automatically the speaker. The top 10% of the class was invited to submit a speech, totally optional, identified only by student ID number, judged by a panel of teachers and a few on the PTA. The winner would be the speaker, and the identity would be shown after the vote.
When you are receiving flak, you know you are over the target.
If the USC Administration 'picked' this young woman among over a 1000 (I believe) equally qualified graduates, they completely made a fully informed and deliberate choice. They should therefore, let her speak and suffer the consequences of her words AND their actions. No Take Backs allowed!
Wait, Europeans are leaning into totalitarianism?
Really?
Well, that is odd. They don't have a history of extreme regimes...
Interestingly, Emir Kir, the mayor who ordered this shutdown, once took part in a rally that denied the Armenian Genocide (that's a pretty rightwing move to make, wouldn't you say?). He also holds the title of "Commander of the Order of Leopold II" - which is named after the king whose rapacious ivory-and-rubber racket inflicted a genocide on the Congolese.
So much for this grandee's moral pedigree ...
The 1st amendment is often used as a cover to protect hateful speech, speech that could ignite a mob set on doing damage. I, for one, do not believe that people with public platforms, such as Hungary's leader, or Trump, or college students with more money than brains, or anyone who espouses hate, should enjoy freedom of speech. They should be shut down quickly as peacefully. Punto.
It would have been instructive for family and donor attendees at USC to hear Ms Tabbasum parrot the leftist orthodoxies taught and demanded by the vast majority of USC professors and staff who comprise that university's wokeshevik echo-chamber. My guess is that the administration paid close attention to what occurred recently at Harvard, Penn, etc., wanting to keep their woke ideological cat in the bag so as not to have to answer parents and donors disgusted by the intended address...which actually represents the received wisdom of USC leadership and most faculties.