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Guilford College President Carol Moore has offered a plan that would cut majors in areas such as chemistry, physics, political science and economics, while retaining majors in social sciences like gender and sexuality studies and African and African American Studies, according to a statement released by the school last Friday.
The plan, which has been submitted to the school’s board of trustees, will include 15 tenured professors being let go from the school, as well as five other faculty members. Moore said the cuts are necessary to close a $7 million budget gap, but it has led to a backlash by students and alumni.
Moore told The College Fix that the cuts were necessary due to 12 years of declining enrollment and because COVID “strained already strained budgets.”
“There are so many small private colleges that don’t have the large resources in reserve that larger institutions do,” said Moore on a Zoom call Wednesday with The College Fix. She said the school underwent a process to determine “which programs were perhaps not as popular any longer” and to “make adjustments to make room for investments in new programs.”
But at the “Save Guilford College” Facebook group, efforts are being made to reverse the school’s budget cuts. Students and alumni have also penned an open letter to Moore urging her to reconsider her proposed elimination of majors.
“The draconian cuts that are currently being considered threaten to destroy the very identity of the school we love,” write the signatories. “We fear that this new ‘version’ of Guilford will be so academically impoverished that it will have lost its credibility as a true liberal arts institution, and it will fail to attract the necessary number of students to even sustain the debt that recent administrations have incurred.”
Moore said next week she will be having a Zoom meeting with a small group of the Facebook group’s members, saying there’s a lot of “emotionality” involved in their objections.
“It’s very hard to say, ‘Oh, my major that I love so much and my professors that I love so much at Guilford are now no longer popular,’” said Moore, “but when you get down to the numbers, the college has the budget, and like everyone else, we have to pay our bills.”
Moore said she applauds the efforts of those in the Facebook room to raise money to offset the cuts, but she noted the $7 million hole is a structural budget deficit that would need to be filled every year going forward.
She said the school would “graciously accept” any money raised, but an ongoing private fundraising effort would not be “feasible” going forward.
Guilford College is a small, private school in Greensboro, North Carolina, founded by the Quakers in 1837. It enrolls just over 2,000 students.
As part of her plan, Moore has proposed dropping majors in physics and chemistry as well as community and justice studies, comprehensive secondary science education, creative writing, forensic biology, geology and earth sciences, history, mathematics, modern language, peace and conflict studies, philosophy, religious studies, sociology and anthropology.
The school would continue to offer 23 majors in areas such as art, music, theatre, environmental studies, sustainable food systems, biology, psychology, criminal justice, accounting, business administration, and sports management.
Thom Espinola, chairman of the Guilford Physics Department, said he was “perplexed” by the school’s decision to cut physics as a major, adding that a cost-benefit study he commissioned demonstrated that “laying down” the department would actually cost the school more money.
“This plan does not reflect on the school’s philosophy in any way,” Espinola told The Fix.
“Historically, Guilford has maintained a peaceful balance among science, arts, humanities, and social science as is appropriate for both a Quaker school and a liberal arts institution. If this plan represents any philosophy or vision, it must be the president’s,” Espinola said.
Moore rejected the idea that keeping Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and African and African American Studies at the expense of physics, chemistry, and other sciences reflected a change in philosophy for the school. She noted that the former majors are “interdisciplinary majors,” meaning there are no dedicated faculty assigned to those programs.
“The students that wish to follow those paths take a smattering of courses from multiple different disciplines and departments, so therefore there’s not a defined associated cost with that,” she said.
Small private schools around the nation were struggling with how to retain revenues even before COVID-19 began shutting down campuses and online instruction began to grow. At the University of Tulsa, for instance, the school axed a number of its social science and liberal arts programs in favor of science and technology majors, believing those programs helped students increase their chances of employment post-graduation.
“I love Guilford College, and when you love an institution, you’re not afraid to tell it when it’s making a mistake,” writes history major Bryan Dooley in the Save Guilford College Facebook group. “There has to be a better option, because this isn’t the way to go,” writes Dooley.
The board of trustees will meet in February to review individual appeals for professors.
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On one hand, it's obviously circling the drain- worthless degrees in grievance studies will only speed it up. On the other hand any graduate with a decent degree will have it devalued.
On a third hypothetical hand, I've never heard of this college in the first place so it's probably a degree mill that costs far more than any degree it provides is worth, so burn fuckers.
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Goodnew their is one kiwi account & he center & josh off the radar of both transpency tube & Calforina commies.
SO, expect another far right purge in january.
SO, expect another far right purge in january.
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Ok whitey, it's pretty disgusting that you won't harass and rape blacks. Are you really that racist?
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newsletter.byroncrawford.com
Internets,
No one wants to be sexually harassed in the workplace, but everyone would like to think that they’re worthy of being sexually harassed in the workplace.
When I was sexually harassed at White Castle, back in the mid ‘00s, causing me to walk off the line mid-shift, it was one of the most difficult times in my life, but it was nice to know that someone wanted to take advantage of me.
My concern is that not enough black women are being sexually harassed in the media. In the past few weeks, literally hundreds of women have come forward to allege sexual harassment—and worse—against Harvey Weinstein, James Toback, Brett Ratner et alia, and few, if any of them, have been black.
Lupita Nyong'o accused Harvey Weinstein of trying to pull the legendarily effective massage gambit after spotting her in a play while she was still in college, prompting Weinstein to take a break from his one-week stint in Sex Rehab to declare that he would never sexually harass Lupita Nyong'o.
Some of our most astute cultural commentators, including, possibly, people from the since-shuttered Teen Vogue, pointed out that Weinstein never issued individual rebuttals to any of his white alleged victims. This was literally untrue, in much the same way that it’s not true that the RZA waited a year to reveal that Russell Crowe spit on Azealia Banks, but it felt true, which is all that matters.
Why wouldn’t Harvey Weinstein sexually harass Lupita Nyong'o? She’s adorable!
Nyong'o won an Oscar a few years ago, albeit for acting in one of those slave movies. In one of the most memorable scenes (for me personally) from 12 Years a Slave, Chiwetel Ejiofor is forced by Michael Fassbender to whip Nyong'o for leaving the plantation to get some soap, thus reinforcing the idea that black men are incapable of, or unwilling to, protect black women.
A few years later, Gabrielle Union’s character in the movie the Birth of a Nation fell victim to what’s known in obscure fan-fiction writing communities as steamy non-con sex. She wasn’t rewarded for her effort with an Oscar in part because Birth of a Nation was blackballed after a false rape accusation against director Nate Parker from the late '90s resurfaced.
Once it was clear that the movie wasn’t going anywhere, Union publicly distanced herself from Nate Parker, despite the fact that he’d been found not-guilty in a court of law, raising the question: Why should black men feel obligated to protect black women, when black women aren’t willing to return the favor?
Gabrielle Union has been cited, in many an asinine think piece, as the second most prominent example of a black actress being sexually harassed, behind (again) Nyong'o, but arguably her incident—a non-acquaitance rape at a Payless Shoes in her teens, back in the late '70s—doesn’t count because it took place long before she was famous.
Union, who has a book to promote, has been making the rounds sharing her story, along with the fact that Dwyane Wade likes to lie on the bed with his legs in the air like Lamborghini doors and have his asshole eaten out with either jelly or syrup. (Publishers will give you a larger advance if you agree to say something sexual about a celebrity.)
To hear black feminists tell it, black actresses are sexually harassed just as often as white actresses, if not more so, but they’ve been reluctant to come forward because people are less likely to believe a black woman, maybe in part because black women have been known to steal. But obviously that’s not true (the part about the harassment).
Most likely, black women aren’t forced to have a seat on the proverbial casting couch as often because there’s less competition for black female roles in films. There aren’t very many black-interest films, and most of them, if you notice, are ensemble pieces with seemingly every black actor there ever was, like a cinematic version of the BET Awards.
You don’t have to try out for a role in, say, the Best Man Holiday; all you have to do is show up. If Maia Campbell could set aside “that narcotic” for long enough to show up on set looking halfway decent, she almost certainly could have had a role. Would she have made very much money? Maybe not, but it’s still a step up from the gospel play circuit, let alone walking a stroll
.
There’s only a handful of roles for black actors in prestige films each year, most of which involve either slavery or domestic work for rich white people, and the people who cast for those roles are generally loathe to hire someone with a thick blaccent (which wouldn’t make sense in a period piece). That’s why so many prominent black actors these days are from Europe.
The only way a black woman could be sexually harassed on a film set is if Harvey Weinstein were to produce a black-interest film that was neither lowbrow holiday-themed BS nor slavery-related, and alas, Harvey Weinstein is legally not allowed to produce a film anymore. He might not even be able to shoot pr0n.
Take it easy on yourself,
Bol
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#UsToo: Why haven't more black women been sexually harassed?
Internets,No one wants to be sexually harassed in the workplace, but everyone would like to think that they're worthy of being sexually harassed in the workplace.When I was sexually harassed at White Castle, back in the mid '00s, causing me to walk off the line mid-shift, it was one of the most...
newsletter.byroncrawford.com
Internets,
No one wants to be sexually harassed in the workplace, but everyone would like to think that they’re worthy of being sexually harassed in the workplace.
When I was sexually harassed at White Castle, back in the mid ‘00s, causing me to walk off the line mid-shift, it was one of the most difficult times in my life, but it was nice to know that someone wanted to take advantage of me.
My concern is that not enough black women are being sexually harassed in the media. In the past few weeks, literally hundreds of women have come forward to allege sexual harassment—and worse—against Harvey Weinstein, James Toback, Brett Ratner et alia, and few, if any of them, have been black.
Lupita Nyong'o accused Harvey Weinstein of trying to pull the legendarily effective massage gambit after spotting her in a play while she was still in college, prompting Weinstein to take a break from his one-week stint in Sex Rehab to declare that he would never sexually harass Lupita Nyong'o.
Some of our most astute cultural commentators, including, possibly, people from the since-shuttered Teen Vogue, pointed out that Weinstein never issued individual rebuttals to any of his white alleged victims. This was literally untrue, in much the same way that it’s not true that the RZA waited a year to reveal that Russell Crowe spit on Azealia Banks, but it felt true, which is all that matters.
Why wouldn’t Harvey Weinstein sexually harass Lupita Nyong'o? She’s adorable!
Nyong'o won an Oscar a few years ago, albeit for acting in one of those slave movies. In one of the most memorable scenes (for me personally) from 12 Years a Slave, Chiwetel Ejiofor is forced by Michael Fassbender to whip Nyong'o for leaving the plantation to get some soap, thus reinforcing the idea that black men are incapable of, or unwilling to, protect black women.
A few years later, Gabrielle Union’s character in the movie the Birth of a Nation fell victim to what’s known in obscure fan-fiction writing communities as steamy non-con sex. She wasn’t rewarded for her effort with an Oscar in part because Birth of a Nation was blackballed after a false rape accusation against director Nate Parker from the late '90s resurfaced.
Once it was clear that the movie wasn’t going anywhere, Union publicly distanced herself from Nate Parker, despite the fact that he’d been found not-guilty in a court of law, raising the question: Why should black men feel obligated to protect black women, when black women aren’t willing to return the favor?
Gabrielle Union has been cited, in many an asinine think piece, as the second most prominent example of a black actress being sexually harassed, behind (again) Nyong'o, but arguably her incident—a non-acquaitance rape at a Payless Shoes in her teens, back in the late '70s—doesn’t count because it took place long before she was famous.
Union, who has a book to promote, has been making the rounds sharing her story, along with the fact that Dwyane Wade likes to lie on the bed with his legs in the air like Lamborghini doors and have his asshole eaten out with either jelly or syrup. (Publishers will give you a larger advance if you agree to say something sexual about a celebrity.)
To hear black feminists tell it, black actresses are sexually harassed just as often as white actresses, if not more so, but they’ve been reluctant to come forward because people are less likely to believe a black woman, maybe in part because black women have been known to steal. But obviously that’s not true (the part about the harassment).
Most likely, black women aren’t forced to have a seat on the proverbial casting couch as often because there’s less competition for black female roles in films. There aren’t very many black-interest films, and most of them, if you notice, are ensemble pieces with seemingly every black actor there ever was, like a cinematic version of the BET Awards.
You don’t have to try out for a role in, say, the Best Man Holiday; all you have to do is show up. If Maia Campbell could set aside “that narcotic” for long enough to show up on set looking halfway decent, she almost certainly could have had a role. Would she have made very much money? Maybe not, but it’s still a step up from the gospel play circuit, let alone walking a stroll
.
There’s only a handful of roles for black actors in prestige films each year, most of which involve either slavery or domestic work for rich white people, and the people who cast for those roles are generally loathe to hire someone with a thick blaccent (which wouldn’t make sense in a period piece). That’s why so many prominent black actors these days are from Europe.
The only way a black woman could be sexually harassed on a film set is if Harvey Weinstein were to produce a black-interest film that was neither lowbrow holiday-themed BS nor slavery-related, and alas, Harvey Weinstein is legally not allowed to produce a film anymore. He might not even be able to shoot pr0n.
Take it easy on yourself,
Bol
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What does whitey have to do with Harvey Weinstein? If Weinstein was disproportionately harassing white women over attractive black women, that suggests that there was a racial component to it, not just a sexual one.
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Kentucky mayor falls asleep in White Castle drive-thru, crashes into pole
A Kentucky mayor was arrested for driving under the influence after falling asleep in a White Castle drive-thru line and crashing into a utility pole Tuesday night, authorities said. Louisville Met…
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A Kentucky mayor was arrested for driving under the influence after falling asleep in a White Castle drive-thru line and crashing into a utility pole Tuesday night, authorities said.
Louisville Metro Police officers found Shively Mayor Beverly Chester-Burton standing outside her silver Cadillac after smashing into a pole as she was trying to leave the parking lot around 11 p.m., the Louisville Courier-Journal reported.
Witnesses said Chester-Burton fell asleep behind the wheel at the fast-food drive-thru line, and people even had to knock on her window to wake her up, according to a police report obtained by the outlet.
Cops reported Chester-Burton reeked of alcohol and failed a sobriety test when she couldn’t walk in a straight line.
Chester-Burton, who was elected Shively’s first black mayor in 2018, told police she had dinner and two apple martinis at 5 p.m., but then changed her story, saying she had the drinks at 9 p.m., the police report states.
The mayor was booked into the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections and released Wednesday. She’s set to be arraigned Friday.
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Politician named Adolf Hitler wins election in Namibia | Evening Standard
"A politician named Adolf Hitler has distanced himself from the dead Nazi leader after winning election in Namibia, saying: “My name doesn’t mean I’m striving for world domination”.
Adolf Hitler Uunona won more than 85 per cent of the vote for the ruling SWAPO in a regional council election in Oshana."
"A politician named Adolf Hitler has distanced himself from the dead Nazi leader after winning election in Namibia, saying: “My name doesn’t mean I’m striving for world domination”.
Adolf Hitler Uunona won more than 85 per cent of the vote for the ruling SWAPO in a regional council election in Oshana."
Inventor of the Telephone
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Litmus Tests Online
Why is a private Facebook group for women expelling Jewish members?
by Emily Benedek
Girls Night Out is a secret Facebook group for women in Los Angeles. “Secret” because if you search for it online, you won’t find it. “Secret” because if you want to be a member, you must be invited. Created by a USC communications grad as a virtual sorority house and networking node for the sprawling megapolis in 2011, it has grown to more than 30,000 members.
GNO is a place to share social news (recommendations about restaurants and nail salons) and also to talk—about politics or relationships or show business. “It’s a place to feel safe with no men around,” said one GNO member. It also offers valuable work opportunities for LA’s large freelance population. By commenting on threads, fitness trainers, chefs, makeup artists, and the like can prove their bona fides and, if they are lucky, get new clients. Artists can sell their wares and PR pros can announce hot new openings and popup stores.
“I was told this is the spot where everything happens,” said a 28-year-old actress. “Everyone’s in it, and they have a subgroup called GNO Casting,” on which she learns about auditions. It’s also the perfect gateway drug to the dream of going viral. “I’ve seen a girl make a random post about macrame—and suddenly she has like 30,000 posts and her business is popping.”
GNO’s commercial promise is so great that a nutritionist who, in three years of membership had not gotten a single client from the site, still holds out hope. “All you need is one person and they can then tell their friends,” she told me. “All you need is one.”
GNO’s numbers grew and the reach of its network multiplied—until 2020. After hundreds of Black Lives Matter protests erupted statewide following the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, GNO decided to increase its commitment to the BLM movement. “Once the protests started happening, people posted about how to get involved—organizations to support, where the protests would be,” said one member.
The group also tried to add administrators and moderators who were BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color). Moderators help decide if posts comply with the rules of the group and Facebook’s community standards, and they have the power to admit and boot members; admins do the same, but have the additional power of adding or booting admins and moderators.
On Aug. 22, a young Jewish group member saw a sign hanging over the heavily trafficked 405 freeway in LA that read, “The Jews want a Race War.” It upset her, and she asked in a GNO post what others thought about it. A member suggested some Jewish representation was also needed in the group, after noticing some “fishy anti-Semitic stuff.” At first, the comments responding to this suggestion were positive.
Then, on Aug. 29, a member posted: “I feel that the Jewish admin who is appointed must also acknowledge the occupation of Palestine.”
And all hell broke loose.
Within hours, every Jewish member who had tried to explain why a litmus test for a “good Jew” was anti-Semitic was thrown out. Every Jewish member who asked why an American Jew should have an opinion on a foreign matter (however incoherently phrased) was expelled. Anyone who made a comment supporting Israel, explaining the history of Israel, or who “liked” such a comment, disappeared. Said one Jewish member who was not expelled, “It was all over so fast that if I hadn’t personally known one of the girls who was thrown out, I wouldn’t have known anything had happened. And the 29,990 other people have no idea those women have been kicked out.”
One of the members who was severed from the group, a Korean American Jewish woman named Skylar Cutler, was so incensed that she contacted Tablet with her story. “The swiftness with which the Jewish women were kicked out without any explanation,” she wrote, “was shocking and a moment of realization that anti-Semitism is now mainstream. Even though the Jewish women who spoke out were ethnic Korean (not white), Mizrahi (not white), Sephardi (not white), and Ashkenazi (not white), we were collectively dismissed and branded as ‘white racist bad Jews’ who were in support of oppressing the ‘brown and Black’ Palestinians.”
A small but loud cohort of women on the site espoused a simple but false syllogism: “Israeli=white and Palestinians=Black.”
Tablet has chosen not to publish the names of any members of GNO who have not explicitly agreed to have their names revealed, as they have indicated fear of the consequences for their work and personal lives. Although Tablet has interviewed and read posts written by a dozen members of GNO, only Skylar Cutler was willing to have her name published. Formerly employed in the entertainment world at a network, she has now left show business.
“What I saw and experienced in that group,” wrote Cutler, “was Jew-hatred cloaked in the veil of social justice. I had to speak out.”
After the GNO post that lit the fuse, the rumpus was over in a few short hours. Cutler had argued valiantly: “Do Arab admins here have to acknowledge the historical and ongoing slave trade of Africans and Arabs?” she asked. “Are American admins, regarding our war with Iraq, our treatment of our Natives, etc., also asked to acknowledge the ongoing conflicts of our country?”
An Israeli member added: “Of course I’m against the mistreatment of Palestinians. I’m vehemently against Netanyahu. I’m against annexation. I’m pro-two state solution. But asking all Jews to speak about Palestine is inherently anti-Semitic, whether intentional or not. Most Jews have absolutely nothing to do with the Israeli government.”
Another asked why only Israel was blamed for the lack of a peace agreement, and not the Palestinian leadership or the Arab League.
The member who originally proposed the “litmus test” statement about “the occupation,” responded with false claims: “Palestinians are being annexed from their lands … you cannot be for Black liberation and for the occupation of PALESTINE!”
A Russian Jewish woman then remarked, “Please educate yourself on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
The litmus test proponent then made her intentions clear: “They should be removed from this group, because they’ve been hiding their racism and here it comes out.”
Cutler offered some history of the founding of Israel.
She was the first to be expelled from the site.
One Jewish member noted in despair: “Was Skyler [sic] just kicked out for acknowledging that we are allowed to be sympathetic to both sides? If she really was kicked out for that, I have no words.”
Finally, the woman in charge, the single administrator left standing after an internal administrative purge orchestrated by herself, the single person responsible for approving posts, admitting new members, and selecting the expelled, wrote:
“Skyler [sic] wasn’t kicked out for acknowledging we’re allowed to have sympathy for both sides. She was kicked out because her rhetoric was strongly skewed toward one side.”
The admin further wanted everyone to know that the request for a statement “acknowledging the occupation” was not “anti-Semitic.”
Perhaps she just didn’t understand. A recent poll conducted by the American Jewish Committee shows that nearly half of all Americans say they have either never heard the term “anti-Semitism” (21%) or are familiar with the word but are not sure what it means (25%).
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of anti-Semitism includes illustrative examples. One is: “Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.” Also: “Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of the State of Israel is a racist endeavor.”
The admin believes she, in fact, does understand anti-Semitism. She wrote: “Does anti-Semitism exist? Absolutely. Do people commit heinous crimes against Jewish people? Absolutely. Is it wrong, inhumane and evil to desire to hurt one group of people because they are of a different race, religion, ethnic background, gender, etc.? Of course.”
But she promptly turned to another anti-Semitic trope, suggesting that Jews have been warped by their long history of persecution to become persecutors themselves. “Being a member of one oppressed group does not absolve you from accountability. The oppressed can absolutely become oppressors. There’s always a hierarchy in systems of oppression.”
Moreover, she advanced a popular but incoherent idea of the social justice movement: “It’s unethical and contradictory of anyone to align themselves with one fight against injustice and yet support, encourage, or ignore other acts of injustice.”
The admin absolved the member who asked for the pledge, because she “didn’t place blame on anyone. She simply said if there’s a Jewish admin, she hopes they will acknowledge the occupation of Palestine. In response to that one comment, all of this.”
And “all of this” meant the expulsion of several women whose income, already strained under the impact of COVID-19, was further damaged by her action, including two Black women who tried to explain to the admin that anti-Semitism was anathema to the group. She threw out both a Black Jewish woman who attempted to explain the Jewish point of view, and a Black Christian woman (and an admin) who objected to anti-Semitism on the site.
But no one who expressed anti-Semitic views was expelled.
“Definitely it was upsetting,” said one 30-something woman who was booted. “Obviously when you see anti-Semitism, it’s hard, but I’ve never had it blatantly directed against me. And when that happened and I was excised from a place just for standing up for Jews, I thought, ‘Oh my gosh’. It was eye-opening.”
With the absolute power she seized and zealously guarded (members say a group as large as GNO needs five to 10 admins and moderators to properly handle all the posts), the admin had her way. And she reveled in her accomplishment. A few weeks later, she tweeted “#PSA The only people complaining about #CancelCulture are the white people who’s [sic] bullshit is no longer being tolerated. KEEP CALLING THEM OUT.”
The rules of GNO are explained in the “About” section of the group. “Please, be kind,” directed the founder, who has since become disappointed with GNO, according to current members. “Please be respectful, open-minded, and supportive when posting. This is a safe and pro-female space.”Among other things, what is not allowed: “racial slurs or other racial remarks or actions (no matter what your race is).”
Members are also asked to keep the group’s posts private. The women who forwarded relevant posts to Tablet did so because they felt their sudden expulsion had broken the rules of the group, as well as Facebook’s own community standards: “Expression that threatens people has the potential to intimidate, exclude or silence others and isn’t allowed on Facebook.” Not to mention real exclusion from the virtual public spaces whose civic importance Mark Zuckerberg likes to praise.
Since the regime change, all views on GNO that conflict with those of the single admin have been silenced. Even those who were kicked out of GNO are afraid to speak because they “don't want to be doxxed or have an army of FB and Twitter warriors sending petitions to their employers.” Others say they can’t afford the chance that the admin will use her power to “bad mouth” them to the 30,000 remaining members. Tablet has chosen not to publish the name of the admin responsible for the actions that led to this story, though her identity is known to every member of GNO.
Zuckerberg believes the future of Facebook lies in private groups. “Privacy gives people the freedom to be themselves and connect more naturally,” he said in a statement. But what if being themselves is hateful to others? It wasn’t until last month—October 2020—that Facebook updated its rules to ban content that “denies or distorts” the Holocaust, prompting a headline in Time magazine to read: “Critics ask what took them so long.”
The GNO story took three months to play itself out. In late August, at the beginning of the discussion about adding a Jewish admin, a young woman enthusiastically offered her services. She said she, too, had encountered anti-Semitism. “I was with friends and they said, ‘Don’t you think [anti-Semitism] is warranted and can’t you understand their feelings given what Israel does?’”
She was upset.
“Like, excuse me,” she wrote. “I turned down Birthright and have never been to Israel.”
She defined herself as a “good Jew”—one who disapproved of Israel. She made clear her views about the Jewish state in a post in the middle of the brouhaha: “Being for settlements on Palestinian land is absolute colonizer behavior and it is imperialistic.”
And so, on Sept. 9, she was chosen to be a moderator.
Another member objected to this woman’s selection, posting to the group: “95% of Jews in America support Israel’s existence and I would rather have someone who represents the Jewish majority to be an admin rather than someone on the fringe who doesn’t recognize a majority of Jewish issues. I sure don’t support the government. But I’m not comfortable with an anti-Zionist as the Jewish representative of the group.”
The objector was expelled.
By Oct. 28, the new moderator had given up her post, claiming the job was stressing her out.
On the night of Nov. 29, the GNO founder, finally responding to the many messages sent her way by members and former members warning her of trouble in the group she had founded nearly a decade earlier, reasserted her authority: She asked the single admin to step down, then cut her power by downgrading her to moderator, and began an investigation. She readmitted all the Jewish women who had been expelled, and named three Jewish, Israel-supporting women of color, including Skylar Cutler, as moderators.
The admin reacted by leaving the group with a cadre of her followers. They released a statement saying they felt their efforts “as WOC” had not been valued, even after they had invested months “trying to right GNO on our own.” They urged women who appreciated “the culture we have tried to create” to follow them to a new FB group: L.A. Femme. “If we have learned anything from 2020,” they wrote, “it’s to know your worth.” The former admin has been permanently banned from GNO.
Cutler is satisfied with the outcome. Although anti-Semitism is still present on the site, she says, “there’s now Jewish representation to help moderate healthy conversations and discussions.” And she has found new work: building coalitions between Jews and Asians for the group Democrats for Israel. “Jewish people make up just 2% of the U.S. population, and we can't fight this fight alone,” she said. “We need allies.” Her determination to fight anti-Semitism in progressive spaces has been emboldened: “We shouldn't have to hide ourselves. We shouldn't be attacked and discriminated against for being Jewish.”
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Off topic of girly shit, ban poster for 72 hours and issue a warning.
You can't occupy a thing that doesn't exist faggot.
Lol Karens confused when identity politics ruin their little online group. Welcome to the fucking club.
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It's only censorship when it happens to us.
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Hoelocaust? Someones definitely mad, and we all know what this kinda retard behavior leads to. 
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OOOOOhhhhhh GGGAAAWWWDD!!!
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Sorry, what?
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Always warms my heart to see the golem strike it's creator.
- Joined
- Sep 29, 2018
She cries out as her golem strikes her.
- Joined
- Mar 16, 2020
Have to make sure that no whites get credit for standing up to anti-semitism.