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    OT: Look out, here comes some free advice…

    You really think many people in this generation can drive manual transmissions?? I can't remember the last time I saw a recent model car that has one.
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    President Holloway to Yale?

    Perhaps it's the other way around. Protesting because you're afraid of being drafted is protesting out of concern for your own safety. Protesting an issue is, if you will, altruistic -- it's being done to help only someone else, not yourself.
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    President Holloway to Yale?

    I'm sure you're right -- but I thought perhaps my reply would cool the dialogue a little. But maybe not.
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    OT: Look out, here comes some free advice…

    I didn't; my wife is tremendously impressed that I can drive a manual transmission precisely because she can't!
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    President Holloway to Yale?

    There was no greater opponent of double-think and tyranny than Orwell. I would feel complimented if someone said I was a big fan of his.
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    President Holloway to Yale?

    I know I'm taking us *way* astray here, but reason and religion are not necessarily in conflict. Many prominent theologians over the ages have tried to reconcile reason and revelation. They felt this necessary because, after all, theology consists of reasoning and its goal is to justify belief...
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    President Holloway to Yale?

    There was an interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal last December which reported that many of those chanting "from the river to the sea Palestine shall be free" had no idea either which river or which sea they were referring to, or that their slogan was inconsistent with the existence of...
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    President Holloway to Yale?

    I want to particularly endorse these statements. Let me add one other thing: it is not either-or. As hard as it is to imagine right now, there can be both an Israel and a Palestine. That's what we need to be working for. Slogans like "from the river to the sea" obscure this and only make it...
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    President Holloway to Yale?

    I have put the gentleman on ignore. Perhaps you should do the same. He is so extreme that it is not possible to have a useful discussion with him.
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    President Holloway to Yale?

    In theory, it is possible to be anti-Zionist (that is, to oppose Jews returning to Israel) but not anti-Semitic. But there are seven million Jews in Israel. The end of Israel means that they will be either dead, oppressed, or exiled. That's a pretty anti-Semitic result.
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    President Holloway to Yale?

    Maybe it helps to consider the indictment of Trump for conspiring to overturn the election. The indictment does not charge Trump for his speech to the crowd on January 6; the special prosecutor concedes that the speech is protected by the First Amendment under the Brandenburg...
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    President Holloway to Yale?

    Let's put it this way: the speaker must not only be advocating imminent unlawful action (e.g. violence) but also must be doing so under circumstances likely to bring it about.
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    President Holloway to Yale?

    It seems obvious to me that someone at the Yale Daily News does not want Holloway selected as president, and so generated an article to make him look bad. I know of faculty who praise Holloway highly and it would not have been difficult at all for the reporter to have found some.
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    President Holloway to Yale?

    Basically the people pushing the slogan found it was unpopular even with Black voters and did their best to walk away from it. Blacks don't want to be victims of police brutality -- but they also don't want to be victims of criminals. I cannot, btw, resist the temptation to post this (to me)...
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    President Holloway to Yale?

    I don't want to intervene in a private debate, but I remember being absolutely unable to convince a Black activist that the idea and slogan were terrible.
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    President Holloway to Yale?

    The Supreme Court is also OK with it -- except that the government can't punish you (criminally or otherwise), e.g. you can't be fired by Rutgers because you were at the rally. Nor can you be punished for speaking at the rally so long as you don't incite imminent unlawful action.
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    President Holloway to Yale?

    FYI . . . I mentioned above the Brandenburg case. There Ohio tried to prosecute the sponsors of a Klan rally for advocating violence. The Supreme Court said it couldn't constitutionally be done unless Ohio could show that a speaker intended to incite "imminent unlawful action" and that the...
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    President Holloway to Yale?

    Here's the list of the members of the AAUP negotiating committee: Rebecca Givan, the chair, is an associate professor, not a full professor; Sarah DeGiorgis is an instructor (e.g. not even tenure-track) at Camden; Carla Katz is an associate teaching professor (again, not tenure track); Jim...
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    President Holloway to Yale?

    Brown is an associate professor at Camden who is the campus AAUP leader. He has continually been a vigorous opponent of Holloway. Everyone else quoted in the article is also a continual opponent of Holloway -- no doubt that's why the reporter selected them to be interviewed. That's why it's a...
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    OT: Anyone ever use a service like “A Place for Mom” for getting someone into assisted living?

    As I understand it, an assisted living place is unlikely to accept a patient who they consider demented. If they do accept a patient, it is important that you understand what they will do if the patient does become demented -- do they have a memory unit or will they just tell you to take the...
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