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Salem on the Thames : Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate Speech at Connecticut College / Richard Landes.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Antisemitism in AmericaPublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (218 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781644690987
  • 9781644691007
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.746/5 23
LOC classification:
  • LC89
  • LC89 .S25 2020
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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