Former Harvard prof.: Free speech 'hypocrisy' on campuses 'shocking' | Vargas Reports 

She calls it hypocrisy. I call it blatant discrimination. Not doing what you preach is hypocrisy. Treating different groups of people differently is discrimination.

Apparently no one from Harvard can give a simple, straight answer.

The head of Harvard's soon to be published new book "Mein Context"

Fire her already! She’s destroying the finest university in the world. Unreal.

RIP Woke Tyranny - 2013-2023. Won't miss you. Maybe we can finally do science and truth-seeking again at universities.

It is unfortunate that academia has begun to sound like politicians.

It's mind-boggling that my 4-year-old nephew gets why condemning genocide is crucial, while the president of MIT seems to have missed that memo. Embracing the basic principles of humanity and justice, we should all stand together in rejecting such appalling rhetoric. Let's strive for a world where everyone is valued and respected, and where peace, understanding, and empathy reign supreme. It's a shame that a preschooler gets it, but MIT leaders don’t. Let’s stand with Israel, they need us ! 🇮🇱

I am just curious why Harvard, of all places, is not able to articulate the difference between protected speech and a credible threat.

My stance is and continues to be that Claudine Gay has plenty of experience quelling the speech of students she doesn't agree with. Her answer in front of Congress should have been simple because she is fully capable of stopping this behavior. While I appreciate this former professors example of two students having a one on one conversation about the topic of genocide, that is not the kind of behavior Congress was asking Claudine Gay about and she knew it. She sat there (as did the other professors) and tried to weasel her way out of taking a strong stance against this type of hatred and speech that is intended to incite violence. YES, Calling for the genocide of anyone is abhorrent language that should come with consequences and in the context it is being used on campus (and the actions against Jewish students) shows that it falls under the unprotected speech definition given by the Supreme Court in 1973. I look forward to Congress digging deep into these colleges to root out the biased administrative policies that exist in them.

Another context person. Here's the context a large group of students yelling chants that express genocide. Unacceptable. Any group of students publicly calling for genocide of any group should be expelled. No brainer.

This woman couldn’t even condemn it herself.

She defending Gay…she’s making sure future job prospects are not jeopardized…she e walking the middle of the road even tho she was the object of scorn by Gay she still wants to be her friend…”all three have a tough job”…really?

Havard : Free speech for ME but not for THEE!!

When the three university presidents kept trying to weasel their way out of culpability by saying "It depends on the context," Elise Stefanik and others should have responded: "Okay, no problem. Let's use the context in which the calls for genocide have recently been made on your campus. Do those calls violate your university's code of conduct, yes or no?"

The woke movement was never something that was admirable.

To answer like this in front of congress shows that they feel nothing will be done to them. That people calling for genocide is ok…so long as it’s Jews…and the student mob that do it are pandered to. This attitude will get Jews attacked. Context should never be an excuse for calls for genocide. Anybody saying this should be sacked immediately.

If it's about calling for intifada or genocide etc. Than it's nothing to do with context. It's very obvious that these people haven't common sense at all. Astonishing.

OMG she said there are 2 biological sexes! How dare you!

Yes, it is clear, HATE MUST BE CALLED OUT AND THOSE WHO HATE MUST BE SHAMED AND EDUCATED.

3:08 Unbelievable. How is that acceptable behavior in ANY context? There is NO, let me repeat this, ABSOLUTELY NO acceptable context for ever expressing approval or calling for the genocide of any one group.

Calls for violence against a group of people must be coming from very SICK individuals. This attitude could change when these sick individuals become the objects of violence. Filipino-American watching in Virginia, USA.

For the the People who Cancel, one Day they May be the Cancelled

Remember when earlier in the year the number of total Arab civilians that were massacred in Syria surpassed 400,000 and people across the west didn’t show outrage or mass protest because it wasn’t the Jews who did it? Pepperidge Farms remembers. Pepperidge Farms remembers that no one cared because the masterminds behind HALF A MILLION total deaths were brutal, vicious ISLAMIC groups and dictators and not those darn ‘pesky’ Jews. I say this as a fully black woman and a moderate: the left’s hypocrisy knows no bounds anymore when it comes to when it’s okay to be violent and in regard to sexual assault, terrorism or racism. We used to have simple definitions for these words that most of the globe agreed on through the 90s and even through the 2010s but now all definitions have become meaningless because people have blurred the lines to a RIDICULOUS extent. People now have to do mental gymnastics to explain to you why it was okay to slaughter innocent Israeli children. This country is doomed if we can’t define things anymore. I even have people telling me (starting from about 5 years ago or so) that I can’t be racist now because I’m black. What kind of nonsense is this? So I can go around harassing white people for being born white? Call them cr*ckers as they walk by? I can do that, right?…Since my people have had a history of oppression here? I get a pass like Hamas, right? How far do these blurred lines go? Can I steal from stores if it is owned by white people? Can I k*ll innocent white families and kids due to my oppression? Where do you psychopaths draw the line? You see the problem with stretching the definitions of racism, genocide and terrorism to include oppression or past “colonization”? This needs to stop.

The student who cancelled professor Hooven should be punished but won't be. The administration should be punished too.

She has to get out of Harvard.

Those 3 university presidents are very intelligent. Their answers were not signs of stupidity nor ignorance. Either they are just 💩 scared OR they are EVIL. It's that simple..😢

Let's just be honest - if leftists didn't have double standards they'd have none at all.

Free speech is not an excuse for people who call for genocide! It's not ok

Class action lawsuits against all corrupt academic institutions is an answer. Follow the money(s). Laws should ban contributions to academic institutions by NON-AMERICAN entities.

She is correct. Two sexes - male and female. They forcrd her out for speaking thr truth.

Learning in a climate of fear ( fear of abuse as a jew or supporter of jews/Israel and fear of enforcing rules as an educator or administrator) is the last thing i expected from the " best" schools in the most " free" country in the world.

Free Palestine from Islam

Harvard's prestige is now dying, that is epic

They were all afraid to answer because then they'd have to explain why no disciplinary action was taken against the large and frightening Pro Hamas demonstrations on their campuses. These women are not just hypocrites, they are moral cowards.

There is "free speech" on University Campuses. The speech that the University will allow you to speak. Liberals love free speech, what it is will be determined by unseen other liberals. Cowardice run deep in liberalism. Do you notice, nobody in the liberal side shows their face when they remove your free speech. The one US Senator asked the Harvard President about whom determines acceptable free speech on her Campus. She (President) refused to answer the question. But here is the kicker, those same people whom determine "free speech" on Campus, are the same people whom will boot you off campus because of your "free speech". We have all seen how Universities deal with "conservative leaning speakers" wanting to do a speech on a University Campus. If you are a Ben Shapiro, you are closed down in a heart beat. If you are a Michael Knowles, you are shut down in a heart beat. If you are Dennis Prager, again. Shut down. But if you are that Kendi fella spouting off racist diatribes about White people. You are applauded. Same goes for Pro-Hamas Muslim Brotherhood speakers. Lord have mercy Universities are a strange lot. If its counter culture, and warped. Yup, a University President is all for it. Especially if its Anti American, or anti western civilization government.

There needs to be strong men to take charge and clean up these messes that have been created by woke emotionalism.

every moral person should take a minute to consider this; idf warns before attacking- ha.mas does not israel allows red cross to visit- h,amas does not ha,mas took babies hostage- israel does not pro palestine protests are chaotic and disruptive- pro israel protests are peaceful

If they have any MORAL VALUE they shall Resign. They need to go.

Shame on Harvard!

Conclusion? Boycott ALL graduates of the Ivy League Schools.

the context.... the context...

Considering what happened to this lady, she is being too kind and accepting of the horrible and hypocritical treatment she received at Harvard.

Fire Gay, Harvard.

Facts don't care about your feelings. 😂 Harvard Woke University

Qatar contributes huge sums of money to Harvard...and Hamas.

Stating that there are 2 biological sexes requires exile, but calling for Jewish genocide is protected and nuanced. Can someone pleas explain how they’re supposed to be the “socially conscious” group?

THREATENING someone is FREE SPEECH ?

There is a blatant double standard and hypocricy. People are getting sick and tired of it. I used to be a tolerant person, but when it comes to this BS, NO MORE. I'm firmly standing my ground.

This guest was a buzz kill... I'm sick of people straddling both sides of the fence.

“Free speech” ABSOLUTELY should be in question!!!! It is “free” for some and not for others!!!! Is it regarded as “free speech” even when it when it hateful, inciting and disgustingly one-sided??????

Is my English so bad or she just defended the director?!

Unfortunate, come on, hate is dangerous, both for those who hate and those who are hated. What sort of a society do you want to live in?????

Unbelievable..no more public funds to Harvard.

They keep on talking about context. So, in what context is it okay to call for the genocide of the Jewish people and in what context is it not okay to call for the genocide of the Jewish people? To say it depends on the context, is a very slippery slope. Following on from this, when is it okay to call for the genocide of the LGBTQ community and when is it not!

As usual, with bullies, we stop speech we don't like but allow speech we like.

USA better return the Gospel to its schools. I miss the old USA, with conservative people.

This has been going on for some time now.

Gay supports free speech as long as you don't give you view. Fire her, don't allow her to resign. She's dragged Harvard into the gutter.

Her life and career are now in danger for speaking out

Jesus said that the truth will set us free. The truth is that gender is assigned to us at our birth. We are either male or female God has made us such. That a male person can never bear children speaks of this truth. Surgery can never make a male person conceive. There is nothing offensive about the truth. May God bless us all in these times of so much confusion.

The American middle classes just don’t take things seriously enough.

Cancel culture at its finest. 😢

Looks like Harvard has decided to stand behind Claudine Gay in this situation but was more than ready to let Dr Hooven go for saying there are only 2 biological sexes ?? this is pure discrimination and someone needs to hold Harvard accountable..

Dr. Carole Hoven is a hero for taking a stand on Free Speech.

We don’t want a reduction of free speech. We just want the same rules to apply to everyone.

This Prof. wàsnt expressing Her VIEWS, SHE WAS STATING THE SCIENCE, Biology and Pathology of the subject.

"Calling" for... is Actively Encouraging people to "Act"

Firing gay would be considered racism.😂😅

These interviewers - amazing! They never allow their guests to finish their thoughts. They always interrupt.

Wow, its mind boggling that Harvard is so highly ranked by making thinking unlawful! In that case, why not make studying unlawful? That should further improve her ranking!

No one, not one Harvard colleague stood up. All funding, public & private, should end.

These universities are no place to send our children to.

Ohhh,hypocrites could be found anywhere else in the world... But engaging on gynocides of JEWS is heinous and must be taken action NOW💪..❤💪

Anything you want to say is all good unless you misgender or use the wrong pronouns or, God forbid, question the race narrative. Then it's cancel city baby! Good luck in that career afterward! It's all context until it isn't, and the new orthodoxy isn't context

I found it interesting that recently a study was done on Lycanthropy. So if you identify as a wolf, which is closely related to other "misidentifications", you're mentally ill.

The worst part of all this is that people will remember. Being a grad from an elite University is now akin to not finding a job anywhere! My boss just rejected two candidates from two of those universities because Texas is becoming multicultural as other states, and he did not want to deal with racist or strongly opinionated people in the workplace.

And all this time I thought slavery was a terrible event in our Nation’s history, but now realize it was just taken out of context.

What I don’t understand is someone accuses you of transphobic remarks. Ok. Which remarks? Point to the specific remarks that were made? You can’t? Ok. Well, let’s all get on with our lives. There’s nothing to see here.

It is not just about university policies, but more about colleges not being in line with the needs of the country.

Thanks for showing the truth about Gay and free speech at Harvard. It’s Orwellian.

The president of the university should know better than to go out there directly with a legalese response. Their responses were so near identical in their basic formulation that they had to be written by lawyers and they said them virtually verbatim.

I DO NOT agree with trans BS BUT I will still treat them with respect and love like i do others Does that make me TRANSPHOBIC??? thankful im not a public figure and NEVER will BE

What a bunch of hypocrites at Harvard… How can a president keep her job? That’s what I wanna know…

They were not expecting her do defend Harvard.... it does sound like she was treated unfairly.

What would be Harvard's response if KKK set up on Campus and called for the return of Slavery? Granteed the action would have been swift.

She needs to resign.

The world has gone nuts and we know who the nuts are.

This is exactly why I left teaching! Pure Wokism.

Free speech for me, not for thee - Harvard faculty and president

So when there is no fire, I can yell fire in the theatre if the context is right? Hmmm Orwell is barfing in his grave.

It’s not a ‘controversial’ testimony. If anyone called the genocide of Muslms “context dependent”, they wouldn’t be called ‘controversial’

It all depends on the context, especially when one is creating it by turning blind eye on calls directed against particular ethnicity for exemple. May I remind you that some journalists and writers were condemned in France to a firing squad in 1945 precisely for creating a context in which deportations into death camps became possible within hostile or indifferent population

This is a height of hypocrisy and monumental abuse of power in the history of Academia with free speech for me, none for thee. The trust is gone. We will move forward whether they selfishly and begrudgingly remain in their positions or not.

Hey the debate lady! Great job! You Megyn and Eliana were fire! I'm subscribing. Great reporting. So this your day job, lol. Great stuff. Love.

Only when it works for them

Gay learned hating Jews in Saidia Arabia, where she spent her childhood. Everything else is just a "noise".

Faculties and staff should come out and not be silenced , freedom of speech is at stake

Gay is on her way out. I give it less than month that she'll "resign."

Hooven interview backfired.

I disagree with the statement hypocrisy is the issue -- it's a sick culture on that campus. Wokeness is a religion, and they're often behaving like cult members.