Salem on the Thames : : Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate Speech at Connecticut College / / Richard Landes.
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; ins...
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Place / Publishing House: | Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Antisemitism in America
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (218 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Andrew Pessin's Facebook Post during Operation Protective Edge -- Condensed Timeline -- Part One. WHEN CRITICIZING HAMAS BECAME A CAMPUS HATE CRIME -- 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 -- Part Two. STUDIES IN PESSINOLOGY -- 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 -- Part Three. REFLECTIONS: SALEM ON THE THAMES- STAMPEDING A HERD OF CATS -- 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 |
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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781644691007 9783110688207 9783110696295 9783110704716 9783110704518 9783110704730 9783110704525 9783110696301 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781644691007?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Richard Landes. |