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Salem on the Thames : moral panic, anti-zionism, and the triumph of hate speech at Connecticut College /

"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 excellenc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Landes, Richard, 1949- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2020.
Colección:Antisemitism in America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 202 pages)..
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:1644691000
9781644691007