Exquisite statement about legitimate v. Illegitimate protest at UChicago, by President.

Nah. It's just civil disobedience. Bonus: bringing bananas to a protest isn't even illegal.

Stochastic Pirot Carl The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim 'From my cold, dead hands!'

Joseph C Ligoci Carl Who knew that living in a banana republic could be a good thing?

kudos to the harvard harris poll for showing how wording matters here:

Joseph C Ligoci Carl I'd like to revise this great White Stripes song. Original:
'I fought piranhas
And I fought the cold
There was no one with me
I was all alone'
Revision:
'I fought piranhas
And I fought the cold
I fought them with bananas
I was all alone
youtube.com/watch?v=eKzU0f…

Carl Bananas. The 10,346 leading cause of death, worldwide.

Carl The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim When bananas are outlawed only outlaws will have bananas.

When the world goes to Hell, remember, there is nothing quite as transcendent as a cat in a bowl.

Guns don’t kill people. People with bananas kill people.

Matt Lieberman We are always looking for new crew. You know how to wield a banana?

On the Soviet origins of the anti-Zionist rhetoric now dominant on campuses.

President of Oakland U (Michigan).
detroitnews.com/story/opinion/…
'Unfortunately, some DEI efforts prioritize the voices or presence of only some people, often along racial or ethnic lines. Doing so may exclude important viewpoints and undermine the academic mission of higher education.

Whether protest is/should be protected does not primarily hinge on whether it is 'violent.' It hinges on whether it violates laws for things like harassment, trespassing and vandalism. Of course, most violence is also illegal. FIRE is all over this:
tinyurl.com/8cvebnnv

New Post (but really just a repost of a FIRE statement):
tinyurl.com/8cvebnnv
'FIRE is monitoring outbreaks of violence and arrests on campuses nationwide. Sadly, we must again restate a bedrock principle: Violence is never acceptable.

Colleges and universities must ensure

I can't resist quoting from my denounced article (written in Summer 2022, long before the Dec 2022 denunciation):
'Even considering the possibility that underrepresentation in some desirable attribute stems from something about group differences (choices, culture, attitudes,

Amazingly, APS has now actually published the entire Fiedler on the Roof diversity exchange, including a prelim statement by APS BigWigs, and the papers by Hommel, Roberts, Stanovich, Stroebe and me:
journals.sagepub.com/toc/ppsa/19/3
From the prelim statement: 'It should be clear from

Registered report meta-analysis (>600 studies) finds trivially small (r<.1) relationship between diversity and team performance. But the subtext for diversity initiatives (wink wink nod nod) was always preferential selection as reparative justice**; everything else was