This Week in Cancelling Cancel Culture (3/14)
David Shasha
David Project Canceller David Bernstein is Against Cancel Culture
We will recall that Bari Weiss began her career with The David Project, whose primary aim was to cancel Columbia University’s Middle Eastern Studies department and use Arab Jews for Ashkenazi HASBARAH purposes:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/hGbojJTkhB4/m/K4kSTje6BQAJ
One of her David Project colleagues was Rachel Fish, who also found her way in the thicket of mainstream Jewish institutions:
https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/_G925Ai6Ezg/m/dj6JommUAgAJ
Keep that money coming in!
https://www.schusterman.org/users/rachel-fish
On Monday eJewish Philanthropy alerted us to another David Project macher who has moved on to bigger and better Cancel Culture:
David Bernstein was previously the CEO of JCPA:
https://www.jewishpublicaffairs.org/david-bernstein-jewish-council-for-public-affairs/
He is now in the Cancel Culture business for real:
https://twitter.com/davidlbernstein?lang=en
It is always about calling oneself a Liberal while actually espousing Illiberal values:
One of the most depressing aspects of the woke social model is it prevents people from thinking out loud and verbally experimenting. It forces us to maintain the cognitive editing function at all times. It’s another stifling social mechanism to regulate creativity.
The statement is of course a projection, given Bernstein’s long and illustrious career in McCarthyite Zionism:
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Project#What_others_say
Cancel Culture is the New Neo-Con con, as it uses the old reactionary bullying and tries to hide it under a new name.
A David Suissa Special: Thane Rosenbaum Against Cancel Culture
Our self-hating friend at The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles is all for Jewish “Unity”; as long as it is Neo-Con Ashkenazi reactionary:
HASBARAH macher Thane Rosenbaum wants to save Free Speech – from ITSELF!
https://figtreebooks.net/books/saving-free-speech-from-itself/
Here is the usual Neo-Con blather:
Colleges and universities have a mandate to serve as catalysts for mind expansion and the search for truth. They should not become incubators of closed campuses specializing in coddled students who do not wish to be challenged or discomforted by disturbing thoughts or insensitive remarks. The whole point of a liberal arts education is the allure of the rigorous argument, the acceptance of contradiction, and the openness to judgments based on the quality and persuasiveness of ideas. The closing of the American mind under the dictatorial edicts of political correctness is fundamentally un-American. But a sensible rethinking of the First Amendment can be accomplished without contributing to this crusade of censorship that has infected American campuses. Here is just one example: An Egyptian Coptic Christian who wrote a book about Islam’s centuries-old war with the west was disinvited from speaking at the US Army War College in 2019 because an outside Muslim group protested that he was a “racist” and “white nationalist.”
He repeats the usual Neo-Con talking points in a way that once again tries to clothe itself in “Liberal” language.
The madness of this moment is often surreal to contemplate; the relentless expurgations of American culture, the censorship it foretells and the future it forebodes. Dr. Seuss, Aunt Jemima, Huck Finn, Uncle Ben, Mr. Potato Head—all are now relics of a more acquiescent past. We have become a nation devoid of forgiveness.
White Privilege is alive and well:
One might have hoped that with Donald Trump out of the White House, some of the anti-white bigotry of the woke left would have subsided. Instead, the moral outrage has only gotten worse.
The whole shpiel is written in the usual FOX News code and is designed for maximum Scare Grandma shock value.
David Shasha