Salem on the Thames: Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate Speech at Connecticut College
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Andrew Pessin’s Facebook Post during Operation Protective Edge -- Condensed Timeline -- 1. The Post: On Truth and Metaphor -- 2. The Shameful Dishonesty of It All: An Annotated Chronology from the Perspective of the Victim -- 3. The People: McCar...
| Summary: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Andrew Pessin’s Facebook Post during Operation Protective Edge -- Condensed Timeline -- 1. The Post: On Truth and Metaphor -- 2. The Shameful Dishonesty of It All: An Annotated Chronology from the Perspective of the Victim -- 3. The People: McCarthyism, New London Style -- 4. Connecticut College Acts Out a Staged Emergency -- 5. “I Was Rude, You Were Evil”: Reflections on Academia, Liberalism, and the Betrayal of Andrew Pessin -- 6. The Pessin Case: The Response of Jewish Colleagues -- 7. What Connecticut College’s Andrew Pessin Affair Teaches Us -- 8. Reflections on Academia and Freedom: The Case of Connecticut College, Spring 2015 -- 9. Pessin, Ironic Prophet: The Liberal Emperor’s New Clothes of Humanitarian Racism -- Bibliography In the Spring of 2015, a post-modern version of the Salem witchcraft trials took place at Connecticut College on the Thames River. Only this time instead of sorcery it was Zionism; instead of punishing in the name of God’s law it was in the name of anti-hate speech and inclusive excellence; instead of young teenage girls leading the hysteria it was college-aged social warriors stampeding 200 professors into sacrificing one of their colleagues, and thereby contributing to a wave of administration-promoted hate-speech at their college.The Pessin affair offers us a case study in a tendency towards “public shaming” that not only deeply compromises the integrity of academia, but increasingly spreads to many aspects of our society, so susceptible to media-driven feeding frenzies |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (218 p) |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-64469-100-7 |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/9781644691007 |
