This letter is an appeal to Harvard workers to take a stand against the McCarthyite campaign targeting students who expressed their opposition to Israel's attack on Gaza.
If they were advocating, hypothetically, for the wiping out of Gaza, I’d have no problem with them being blacklist. I certainly wouldn’t knowingly hire someone openly arguing for genocide to unclog my sink, much less for some corporate job.
I don’t see what free speech has to do with that. Freedom of speech and association are a thing for all parties.
Companies who blacklist people for signing that letter should be named and shamed/boycotted.
Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. If these students and this letter author believe in their cause, they should have the courage of their convictions. They should put their names out and be proud of their ideals. They should be willing to accept the consequences that that speech brings.
They aren’t being attacked for what they said, they are being slandered as terrorists sympathizers by a media and public that has not interest in critical thinking.
If they were advocating, hypothetically, for the wiping out of Gaza, I’d have no problem with them being blacklist. I certainly wouldn’t knowingly hire someone openly arguing for genocide to unclog my sink, much less for some corporate job.
I don’t see what free speech has to do with that. Freedom of speech and association are a thing for all parties.
Companies who blacklist people for signing that letter should be named and shamed/boycotted.
I 100% agree with you.
Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. If these students and this letter author believe in their cause, they should have the courage of their convictions. They should put their names out and be proud of their ideals. They should be willing to accept the consequences that that speech brings.
They aren’t being attacked for what they said, they are being slandered as terrorists sympathizers by a media and public that has not interest in critical thinking.