Salem on the Thames : Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate Speech at Connecticut College /
Landes, Richard
Salem on the Thames : Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate Speech at Connecticut College / Richard Landes. - 1 online resource (218 p.) - Antisemitism in America .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Andrew Pessin's Facebook Post during Operation Protective Edge -- Condensed Timeline -- Part One. WHEN CRITICIZING HAMAS BECAME A CAMPUS HATE CRIME -- 1. The Post: On Truth and Metaphor -- 2. The Shameful Dishonesty of It All: An Annotated Chronology from the Perspective of the Victim -- 3. The People: McCarthyism, New London Style -- Part Two. STUDIES IN PESSINOLOGY -- 4. Connecticut College Acts Out a Staged Emergency -- 5. "I Was Rude, You Were Evil": Reflections on Academia, Liberalism, and the Betrayal of Andrew Pessin -- 6. The Pessin Case: The Response of Jewish Colleagues -- Part Three. REFLECTIONS: SALEM ON THE THAMES- STAMPEDING A HERD OF CATS -- 7. What Connecticut College's Andrew Pessin Affair Teaches Us -- 8. Reflections on Academia and Freedom: The Case of Connecticut College, Spring 2015 -- 9. Pessin, Ironic Prophet: The Liberal Emperor's New Clothes of Humanitarian Racism -- Bibliography
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781644690987 9781644691007
10.1515/9781644691007 doi
2019039414
Education, Higher--Political aspects--United States.
Hate speech--United States.
Zionism--Public opinion.--United States
RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict.
Academia. BDS. Connecticut College. Jewish studies. North American colleges and universities. US colleges and universities. anti-Israel. anti-semitism. anti-zionism. antisemitism. college campus. college journalism. education. free speech. hate-speech. hostile learning climates. persecution. public shaming. racism. religious intolerance. social justice warriors. social media. staged emergencies.
LC89 LC89 / .S25 2020
378.746/5
Salem on the Thames : Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate Speech at Connecticut College / Richard Landes. - 1 online resource (218 p.) - Antisemitism in America .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Andrew Pessin's Facebook Post during Operation Protective Edge -- Condensed Timeline -- Part One. WHEN CRITICIZING HAMAS BECAME A CAMPUS HATE CRIME -- 1. The Post: On Truth and Metaphor -- 2. The Shameful Dishonesty of It All: An Annotated Chronology from the Perspective of the Victim -- 3. The People: McCarthyism, New London Style -- Part Two. STUDIES IN PESSINOLOGY -- 4. Connecticut College Acts Out a Staged Emergency -- 5. "I Was Rude, You Were Evil": Reflections on Academia, Liberalism, and the Betrayal of Andrew Pessin -- 6. The Pessin Case: The Response of Jewish Colleagues -- Part Three. REFLECTIONS: SALEM ON THE THAMES- STAMPEDING A HERD OF CATS -- 7. What Connecticut College's Andrew Pessin Affair Teaches Us -- 8. Reflections on Academia and Freedom: The Case of Connecticut College, Spring 2015 -- 9. Pessin, Ironic Prophet: The Liberal Emperor's New Clothes of Humanitarian Racism -- Bibliography
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781644690987 9781644691007
10.1515/9781644691007 doi
2019039414
Education, Higher--Political aspects--United States.
Hate speech--United States.
Zionism--Public opinion.--United States
RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict.
Academia. BDS. Connecticut College. Jewish studies. North American colleges and universities. US colleges and universities. anti-Israel. anti-semitism. anti-zionism. antisemitism. college campus. college journalism. education. free speech. hate-speech. hostile learning climates. persecution. public shaming. racism. religious intolerance. social justice warriors. social media. staged emergencies.
LC89 LC89 / .S25 2020
378.746/5