Salem on the Thames : Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate Speech at Connecticut College Hardback
by Richard Landes
Part of the Antisemitism in America series
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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.
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- Publisher:Academic Studies Press
- Publication Date:16/04/2020
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:218 pages
- Publisher:Academic Studies Press
- Publication Date:16/04/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781644690987