Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content #367 - Campus Protests, Antisemitism, and Western Values
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May 13, 2024 Sam Harris discusses campus protests, antisemitism, and Western values. Topics include double standards in activism, influence of Qatar on universities, challenging perceptions of anti-Semitism, and balancing security with freedom.
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Universities' Double Standard On Harassment
- Sam Harris argues university administrations have tolerated antisemitic behavior they would never tolerate toward other groups.
- He calls the administrations' double standards hypocritical and insists violent or exclusionary student actors should be expelled.
Qatar's Funding And Campus Influence
- Harris recounts Qatar's vast donations to Western universities and links that funding to Islamist influence on campus.
- He cites Charles Asher's work exposing money trails to student groups organizing protests.
Identitarian Framing Distorts Global Conflicts
- Harris ties campus activism to identitarian moral panic that maps global conflicts onto oppressor/oppressed frames.
- He warns this framing has led students to support groups like Hamas despite their genocidal aims.