Twitchy was all over the horribly anti-Semitic statement issued by 36 anti-Israeli Harvard student groups in the wake of the Hamas terror attack on Israel.
The pushback didn't end there, however. People wanted names, because they wanted to hold accountable the students who signed this abhorrent statement, and that included businesses asking for names:
I have been asked by a number of CEOs if @harvard would release a list of the members of each of the Harvard organizations that have issued the letter assigning sole responsibility for Hamas’ heinous acts to Israel, so as to insure that none of us inadvertently hire any of their… https://t.co/7kzGOAGwp9
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) October 10, 2023
No business would hire anyone who was openly a Nazi; why should they hire someone who supports equally anti-Semitic sentiments?
Washington Post reporter Megan McArdle had to jump in and complain about 'cancel culture' at the mere suggestion of holding these students accountable for blaming Israel for Hamas' acts of terrorism.
These statements were reprehensible, but cancel culture was bad when they did it and it's still bad now. https://t.co/Ebv1ZxfeMe
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) October 10, 2023
'Was bad', as if the Left isn't still engaged in cancel culture.
And yes, cancel culture is bad. We've said that for a long time, but the Left didn't listen and kept mowing people down over baseless accusations, years-old tweets or Facebook posts, or even the most innocuous statements.
The were warned. But if these are the rules they want, then we're going to apply them to the Left as well.
If you can't draw a distinction between supporting the Republican candidate, using the wrong pronoun, or vociferously endorsing a group that would happily murder coworkers, clients, or colleagues, then organizational leadership may not be for you.
— J (@ARaised_Eyebrow) October 10, 2023
She can't, apparently.
Someone accidentally calling someone with a beard "He" instead of "She" is not the same as the dude in the cubicle next to you celebrating the deaths of Jews.
— Whatever (@MIFrenchieMom) October 10, 2023
It's incredible this needs to be spelled out for some people.
I think there’s a pretty big different between firing someone for a poorly worded tweet or an opinion shared by half the country—especially when that opinion is not relevant to their job—and firing someone for endorsing terrorism.
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) October 10, 2023
There is. It's night and day.
This isn't cancel culture. How do you not understand that?
— JWF (@JammieWF) October 11, 2023
Because she doesn't want to. She doesn't like it when the rules are applied to her side. Those rules are always for other people.
It is not cancel culture for a company to fire someone for doing something objectively horrific that directly affects them.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) October 11, 2023
Digging up decade-old posts to get someone fired for something unrelated or getting someone fired over an out of context video. That’s cancel culture. https://t.co/iyETnGyojL
Exactly.
Actually I'm fine with a company not hiring someone who endorses mass murder of Jews on their resume. https://t.co/WRzzFUTksB
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 11, 2023
So are most people, because it's the right thing to do.
Don't feel like this is a hard one. Not really struggling with this one here.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 11, 2023
It's not hard. Blaming Jews for their deaths at the hands of Hamas terrorists is abhorrent. It's pretty cut and dry that the position of the Harvard student groups is wrong.
"Look you're clearly qualified and I'm not personally a fan of your pro modern day Holocaust endorsement but I think we can work around that."
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 11, 2023
But, as others pointed out, the tune would be very different if this was a statement that, say, endorsed female-only spaces and female-only sports, or criticized the pronoun game the Left likes to play.
tbh, these firings by corporations and fancy law firms are PR bulwarks against their clientele. every one of these hires has a social media trail a mile long, every corp does a full background check. they knew who they were getting, but now that it’s public, they’re embarrassed https://t.co/4cZwaXZx6a
— Emily Zanotti 🦝 (@emzanotti) October 11, 2023
This is also true.
So, if someone says ' My goal is to kill you and your entire family'... Is it cancel culture to make people know you said that?
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) October 11, 2023
I don't know. I think we are being silly to blur the lines here. https://t.co/IkphnLiV5Q
The Left argues words are literal violence, until they're not. It's beyond silly to blur lines here. It's egregious and hypocritical.
I’m trying to envision how the workplace functions when you hire people who want your Jewish employees dead https://t.co/uHrSkoTnNp
— Son of Dr. Spengler (unintentional self-parody) (@spengjr) October 11, 2023
Not well at all.
Definitely don’t cancel these people. Just think of the entertainment value when they undergo corporate sexual harassment training
— Son of Dr. Spengler (unintentional self-parody) (@spengjr) October 11, 2023
“But none of this applies to Zionists, right? I mean, the Zionist whores are colonists and deserve what’s coming to them” https://t.co/uHrSkoTnNp
Imagine the look on the HR rep's face.
This reflects a misunderstanding of "cancel culture" that I think I thought wasn't possible. https://t.co/mZy0TYcD9W
— Blame Big Government (@BlameBigGovt) October 11, 2023
Oh, but it's possible. And this isn't the first time someone on the Left has whined about their rules coming back to bite them on the butt.
“It’s bad to not hire people who openly support the extermination of Jews” is quite the take, but we should consider it par for the course in today’s corporate media. https://t.co/l1qbIp0424
— Mark 🥓🥓🐊 (@PitmasterMark69) October 11, 2023
It is par for the course. And that's a problem.
I think voicing support for a known terrorist organization right after they raped women, beheaded children, and killed thousands is a fireable offense. And we shouldn't compare it to cancellation for wrongthink in the context of American politics. https://t.co/7mSIgyuLKi pic.twitter.com/OmNInhbSOo
— EJ (@Ejmiller25) October 10, 2023
No, we shouldn't. The two aren't even in the same universe.
oh no! won’t someone think of those celebrating the death and calling for the extermination of their perceived enemies https://t.co/Nz8L2Km5Vo
— 𝓁𝒶𝓊𝓇𝑒𝓃 (@FletchMatlock) October 11, 2023
Perfection.
Cancel culture is as bad when they fired a truck driver for resting his thumb against his forefinger and good when people loudly celebrating mass murder don’t get high paying big law and hedge fund jobs
— Emergency Exit Reince Niebuhr (@ReinceNiebuhr) October 11, 2023
This isn’t difficult and if you can’t wrap your mind around it 🤷 https://t.co/OQV68eEBYh
It's not difficult. Remember, the Left likes to point out 'you can't yell 'fire' in a crowded theater' as a defense for their attack on free speech, which is usually saying something politically incorrect or upsetting to them. But when Harvard students support the mass murder of Jews, we're supposed to let it slide? Nah. We're not.
I kind of see the point, but open support for violence/terrorism is in a separate category from ideology. I'd favor firing anyone who supports violence to achieve ends I agree with. https://t.co/tDJGjx26wa
— Holden (@Holden114) October 10, 2023
This is the way. It's not that hard.
There is a vast, gaping wide, intergalactic sized even, gap between punishing a person for saying they don't believe you can change genders... And not hiring a @Harvard grad who celebrates a terrorist attack that murders hundreds, rapes women, and beheads babies. https://t.co/CgwprOs2os
— Magnus (@JacksonTDawes) October 11, 2023
Nailed it.
I always encourage my students to identify limiting principles for their positions. For instance, I’m against cancel culture unless someone is celebrating the beheading of babies. See how easy that is? https://t.co/xcybkGxsmD
— Chad Ragsdale (@caragsdale) October 11, 2023
There's always a line, and the Harvard students crossed it. Blaming Jews for the atrocities inflicted on them by Hamas is that line. And now they get to reap what they sow.
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