Retweeting is not a crime, but murder is – and Brandeis University students have indicated where their sympathies lie.
That’s according to Daniel Mael, whose retweeting and reporting on the anti-cop tweets of a fellow Brandeis student got him targeted by yet another student. (The no-contact order imposed on Mael was only lifted after it went public.)
Mael writes on Time that the Brandeis student body “provided a louder defense of the right to condone the murder of NYPD officers, and her hatred of America, than my right to report on it”:
[Khadijah] Lynch, a Brandeis junior, was an undergraduate representative for the African and Afro-American studies department. As a student journalist who frequently writes about the culture wars on campus, I knew her comments were newsworthy. Here was a student leader at a well-known American university publicly condoning cold-blooded murder. …
Now, however, I am the subject of a nasty and menacing campus backlash. “Kill the messenger” appears to be the “in thing” on the Brandeis campus. Students rallied to have me disciplined. Why? Because I reported a story worthy of public attention. …
I have now been accused of being a racist and being in bed with white supremacists since I made Lynch’s public tweets more public.
He’s been threatened physically, his graduation endangered, and his safety met with a resounding “eh” by the administration:
In my meeting with the Brandeis public safety officials to discuss the threats made against me, I was told that I should consider changing my dorm room, and that it is a reasonable expectation that my car would be vandalized. They also recommended that I purchase mace at the local Walmart. …
That many Brandeis students exhibit selective outrage and are willing to extol the virtues of free speech, but only when that speech confirms their preconceived biases, illustrates their hypocrisy in claiming to care about “civil rights.”
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