The choice of Columbia in particular shows that there's *no* amount of suppression of pro-Palestinian speech a university can engage in that will insulate and protect it; so might as well try to do the right thing, which Columbia has determinedly avoided since October 7.
https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/doj-hhs-ed-and-gsa-announce-initial-cancellation-of-grants-and-contracts-03072025
https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/doj-hhs-ed-and-gsa-announce-initial-cancellation-of-grants-and-contracts-03072025
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This should be a lesson to other institutions that capitulation won’t save them from the BS; it just makes them look weak.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/4/24235213/x-brazil-suppression-speech-elon-musk-india-turkey
So perfectly Trump to fuck up the incentives here. Let's hope people are paying attention.
I didn't offer views on those questions and my views are not what some people are supposing.
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/03/the-fighting-antisemitism-canard