Campus
Reform recently reported that the Swarthmore chapter of Students for
Justice in Palestine (SJP) called the Hamas terrorists who butchered thousands
of innocent Israelis (and others, including Americans) “martyrs” and affirmed
the “right of Palestinian people to resist.”
Which reportedly prompted Swarthmore College President
Val Smith to issue a statement in which she called the students’ praise of
Hamas terror actions examples of the “free exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives”
that “we embrace” as a “liberal arts institution.” (Which renders ridiculous
Smith’s claim that “hateful rhetoric and calls for violence have no place at
Swarthmore.”)
One post on ‘X’ noted: “Val Smith, president of
@swarthmore, calls SJP celebrating the beheading of Israeli babies ‘free
exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives’ and refuses to address the
organization’s abhorrent post or antisemitism by name.”
Branding terrorism and the mass murder of innocents nothing
but the “free exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives” that a “liberal arts
institution” should “embrace” boggles the mind……and sickens the soul.
By that ”perspective,” the Saudis that flew planes
into the World Trade Center and Pentagon were just engaging in the free
exchange of diverse ideas. (As were Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. And Charles Manson.) Isn’t diversity grand?! Who’s
not pro-diversity? And those terrorists were inclusive and equitable in their
attacks, too, rendering nearly 3,000 souls of every color, sex, creed, and
class equally dead. Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity, baby! D.I.E.!
If we’ve “progressed” so far that slaughtering
innocent people is now simply considered to be illustrative of a different
perspective, surely Swarthmore College and its SJP warmly welcomes
conservatives and MAGA types to campus to share their diverse perspectives?
Right?
Right?
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