NYU is now withholding this graduate's diploma because he gave a speech about Gaza. I'm again reminded of the debate in 2017-18 over whether or not the University of Virginia should revoke Richard Spencer's degree after he participated in the Unite the Right tiki torch march on the UVa campus. That march ended with an attack that terrorized students and community members, yet very few college administrators at UVa or elsewhere took the calls to revoke Spencer's degree seriously. The response was generally "we don't like his views, but he did the work and earned his diploma. There's nothing anyone can do about it."
There's a lot to dig out of the contrast between these two cases, but it's all obvious enough and not worth writing out. The Western liberal order is in crisis, and the fault lies as much with its most visible representatives as with the fascists themselves.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgxydg11ego
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