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Remember when our nation’s colleges and universities were actual institutions of higher learning, where ideas were accepted or dismissed on their merit, and rational, evidence-based discussion and debate were encouraged? Yeah, I know, I’m dating myself, as those days recede ever farther into the distant past. Davidson College in North Carolina has just demonstrated yet again that today, these once-great institutions are nothing more than radioactive wastelands of far-left indoctrination: it has rebuked the school’s Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter for daring to distribute a pamphlet refuting some of the pro-Hamas crowd’s lies about Israel.
That’sright.Davidsondidn’tmakeanyattempttoshowthatthepamphlet,“TheFiveMythsAboutIsraelPerpetratedbythePro-HamasLeft”(whichIwrote),waswrong.Itdidn’tencouragestudentstoengageinmutuallyrespectfuldiscussionoftheissuesathand.Instead,accordingtoYAF’scommunicationschiefSpencerBrown,itclaimedthatmerelybymakingthepamphletavailabletoDavidsonstudents,YAFmemberswereguiltyof“harassment.”
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