Having been reunited with the moral compass she left at home before setting off for the Capitol, President Magill of Penn released a straight to camera apology for misunderstanding the confusing genocide question she had been faced with there.
In effect she blamed the very location for having overpowered her common sense with the miasma of Constitutional supremacy, specifically the leeway laid down by the First Amendment.
The way she tells it, you'd think she'd never have thought to intervene even if undergrads dressed in Klansmen robes were burning crosses outside the dorms of African American students.
But now she gets it, apparently. For how long is anybody's guess.
David Frum argues here that "Progressives who once argued that free speech is violence now claim that violence is free speech." And concludes…
“Everybody should be free to express his or her opinion about the Middle East as an opinion. Everybody should be equally free to express opinions about other people’s opinions, including by exercising the freedom to peacefully boycott or to lawfully refuse to hire. But what the great majority of tolerant and law-abiding citizens are abruptly discovering is that some progressives define their rights as including the power to threaten, coerce, and harm others. This is not behavior that a free and democratic society can accept if it hopes to survive as a free and democratic society. If the public condemnation of their violent behavior comes as a shock to people incubated in progressive spaces, the shock will be a salutary one.”
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