The Bulwark’s Sam Stein Tries to Claim Conservatives Are Hypocrites on College Speech
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STEIN: “I will say, I find this one not even close. This is such an easy call. And in fact, I’m — I find it chilling, what’s going on. Of course, what Mahmoud Khalil represents to me, as a Jew, I find abhorrent. I don’t have any sympathy for Hamas, and I don’t know if he necessarily does, but he’s certainly advocating for things that are closely associated with what they are trying to achieve. The fact is, the government — the government of the United States went into a college campus and policed protest and policed speech, and if you don’t see a problem with that, that’s a problem. Secondarily, I think it’s stupid what they did, because if the goal here is for them to try to suppress these viewpoints — ultimately that’s what they are trying to do, right, they want to win these arguments — what they’ve done is effectively turn this guy into a martyr and they’ve made him a cause. And I can’t fathom that people who — especially with respect to college culture, there is always cancel culture on college campuses and they made that a huge cause for free speech. I’m deeply disappointed that those voices have not stood up and said this is wrong, this is chilling, and it should stop.”
(via NewsBusters)
