I'm sure all of the FREE SPEECH CHAMPIONS on the American right will be speaking out loudly in defense of this Columbia Professor's free speech and against the university that silenced and, effectively, sacked her. Right? RIGHT?? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/u... - ThreadSky

mehdirhasan.bsky.social • 43 days ago

I'm sure all of the FREE SPEECH CHAMPIONS on the American right will be speaking out loudly in defense of this Columbia Professor's free speech and against the university that silenced and, effectively, sacked her.

Right? RIGHT??
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/us/columbia-professor-katherine-franke-retires.html

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ggdepa.bsky.social•43 days ago

Many people asked themselves: who would i have been in Germany in the 1930's with fascism on the rise. We know who Musk would have been: the combination of a hysterical Goebbels and a calculating, profiting Krupp. Zuckerberg? The archtypical sycophant willing to kiss everyone's arse to save his.

markduffy.sh•43 days ago

Thank you, for all you do.

nls5.bsky.social•43 days ago

The speech is only free when it reflects the maga views. otherwise it’s hate speech. it’s going to get worse.

unkaren.bsky.social•42 days ago

Isn't Franke's exit another feather in Stefanik's Red MAGA cap?

pthoege.bsky.social•42 days ago

Mehdi? do you know that Trump is brain dead?

https://youtu.be/ZVOzr70yjv4?si=0rNtY-jAM0LPw1Ex

juddburrows.bsky.social•43 days ago

Funny. Yeah. No. When the right screeches about, “freedom of speech” it’s all lies. Musk is the biggest example.

americananastasia.bsky.social•43 days ago

...and then you woke up from your dream.

oneplanetleft.bsky.social•43 days ago

So why is she not suing? Let's move it up the ladder of First Amendment arguments to Supreme Court. See if the judges walk their originalism talk

brexodusrex.bsky.social•43 days ago

Err. No

countbern.bsky.social•43 days ago

Horrible. So which group is forcing her out I wonder?

suse-official.bsky.social•43 days ago

On the upside, she could always sell her soul and start a fake anti-cancel culture podcast. Its not like the target audience would bother learning that she was on the left. Plus, "Franke-ly Speaking" is up there with "So To Speak," "Triggernometry," etc. from a marketing perspective

chapulinenojado.bsky.social•43 days ago

Just like Amy Wax, of UPenn. Oh, wait ….

zoecorgi.bsky.social•43 days ago

This professor as well…

https://theintercept.com/2024/09/26/tenured-professor-fired-palestine-israel-zionism/

thejoshuawilner.bsky.social•42 days ago

Antizionism is antisemitism.
Replace Zionist with Black/Asian and try saying the same thing- you’d rightly be attacked.
She earned her consequences.

meanbeakin99.bsky.social•43 days ago

Cultists don't operate with principles other than "Follow the leader"

plantsmandorstenia.bsky.social•43 days ago

Are you kidding, I doubt it since many repubs hate professors since they think we are all
maniacal progressives looking to indoctrinate our students.

afresistance.bsky.social•43 days ago

America and Free Speech under Biden. Hopefully your liberal friends can sense some shame.

moreacomment.bsky.social•43 days ago

You’re right, and the shoe is also on the other foot: would you champion the rights of anyone who disparaged a group *other than* Israelis?

hawkwind65.bsky.social•42 days ago

This shit is frigging sickening…and as for the new weapons hand over…this is to Biden what El Salvador was to Carter.

burtonad.bsky.social•43 days ago

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha [… pauses, breathes …] ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha no.

thrifty-chimp.bsky.social•43 days ago

You actually sat and typed all of those ha’s??? Don’t you feel kind of stupid now?

ahgarofalo.bsky.social•43 days ago

Free speech only works for conservatives, got it yet?

frozenbinary.bsky.social•42 days ago

Taking right wingers at face value is like punching yourself in the dick.

You really shouldn't but there's that one sick fuck that enjoys it.

connierr.bsky.social•43 days ago

Wow. I went to camp w her years ago. Excellent camp mate!

dcdiversity1.bsky.social•43 days ago

jimmycarl.bsky.social•42 days ago

The supposed liberals won't defend her either.

ba55fr33k.bsky.social•42 days ago

Freeze Peach!!

careyp123.bsky.social•43 days ago

Don’t hold your breath!

tomcopp.bsky.social•43 days ago

Good sarcasm, Medhi.

Not a hope, though

thejoshuawilner.bsky.social•42 days ago

There are limits to free speech and you’re not free of the consequences. She earned this.

wethepeoplestill.bsky.social•43 days ago

Nope

yoqueray.bsky.social•43 days ago

So, to be a professor now at one of the ivy leagues, you have to pledge loyalty to Netanyahu?

grrrldoctor.bsky.social•42 days ago

If free speech= triggering the libs then, yes. If not, no

johncairns.bsky.social•43 days ago

Free speech for me but not for thee.

lainydapain.bsky.social•43 days ago

Yeah we all know that's not happening

lycanthropiclenny.bsky.social•42 days ago

Not THAT kind of free speech

bebetr.bsky.social•43 days ago

I’m sure they will not.

travanoid.bsky.social•43 days ago

No, they'll just call her Hamas and go back to bullying trans people on Meta.

millie29.bsky.social•43 days ago

When they said Hamas were in Amsterdam😂 I mean it’d be funny I guess if they were t exterminating Palestinians trapped in a concentration camp, right?

While we DO FUCKING NOTHING

ghostdoggtv.bsky.social•42 days ago

The right never means anything they say, the left does. That's the difference in how each side approaches politics.

brownsimple.bsky.social•43 days ago

American left wing also supports genocide. Assuming NYT is left in America. And Columbia Zion University is also traditionally left.

sanfele.bsky.social•43 days ago

Disgraceful

burndiggity.bsky.social•43 days ago

Free speech only applies to the right wing. Every other form of speech is un-American and dangerous.

gaspar1319.bsky.social•42 days ago

There is only one way to turn this around, we need to organize!

hombrelibre.bsky.social•42 days ago

I detect some sarcasm and skepticism in your post.

lordrevbigmike.bsky.social•43 days ago

Paywall. Whomp whomp. Legacy media supports and sane wash/whitewashes all the babbling bullshit spewed onto the peasants of this oppressive fiefdom. Shame on you for supporting the lies and propaganda.

drgigib.bsky.social•43 days ago

Let's ask our free speech queen, @alyssafarah.bsky.social, for her take on this.

used2balawyer.bsky.social•43 days ago

Right. /s

philip-mach.bsky.social•42 days ago

Here in South Africa, academic freedom has constitutional protection.

https://scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0038-23532010000200018#:~:text=Academic%20freedom%20and%20the%20freedom,is%20considered%20to%20be%20unique.

theaporkalypse.bsky.social•43 days ago

I don't even feel the sting of sarcasm anymore.

It's been beaten out of me, apparently.

lianas712.bsky.social•42 days ago

🤣 Mehdi, Mehdi, Mehdi....smh. I love you, you've got jokes today! 😉

elizabethangela.bsky.social•43 days ago

More to the story.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/probe-finds-columbia-university-professor-discriminated-against-israeli-students/amp/

ahgarofalo.bsky.social•43 days ago

I’m sure THEY are not slanted, right? Times of ISRAEL?

elizabethangela.bsky.social•43 days ago

“The investigation into Franke was conducted by an outside law firm. In November, the investigators determined that Franke had violated university anti-discrimination policy … and violated university policies barring retaliation…”
Sounds like facts.

haidarthespider.bsky.social•43 days ago

Very little that mouth piece for a genocidal regime publishes sounds like facts.

paulbaker9.bsky.social•43 days ago

Propaganda often sounds like facts. Your source is hardly impartial.

elizabethangela.bsky.social•42 days ago

They quoted findings of a 3rd party investigation.

oktrav.bsky.social•42 days ago

Free speech for me but not thee

grunteledboomer.bsky.social•43 days ago

💔

millie29.bsky.social•43 days ago

Yet no one is saying a word to this guy. James Wood called for the extermination of all Palestinians. ALL OF THEM.
Israeli govt and ambassadors openly say on camera to kill even the babies bc they’ll grow up to become terrorist anyway.

citizenleica.bsky.social•43 days ago

Beyond absurd 🫣🤬!

davek67.bsky.social•43 days ago

haidarthespider.bsky.social•43 days ago

When I was watching the fires my first thought was how can this happen? Then I heard about Wood’s house burning down and then I thought maybe there is god.

millie29.bsky.social•42 days ago

I hope the home of every Zionist burns. Every one who’s actively influencing and advancing the genocide of Palestinians, whose only crime was to live in land someone else wanted to steal

semperperatus.bsky.social•42 days ago

Ms. Franke would be an excellent candidate to join the International Court of Justice

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