TAKING THE COLUMBIA QUIZ. Evan Coyne Maloney's has posted online some of the scenes omitted from his documentary Indoctrinate U. In one clip, Columbia Quiz, Maloney reads student at Columbia University a quote and asks them whether the quote was said by "a) Adolph Hitler b) Osama bin Laden or c) a Columbia professor":

Who said of "Israeli Jews...the way they talk, walk, the way they greet each other, there is a vulgarity of character that is bone deep and structural to the skeletal vertebrae of its culture"?

Watch the clip.

Maloney also responds to an email from a Columbia student who asks:

don’t you think it’s ironic that you’re claiming to promote freedom of speech - specifically an individual’s freedom to express controversial ideas - and yet your interview on the Columbia campus hinged on the assumption that the Columbia professor should not have expressed such a controversial idea (i.e. his opinion of Israeli Jews)?

Read his response.

This goes back to a point summarized by Joshua Muravchik in a post about the up and coming new definition of free speech:

What is the meaning of freedom of speech? You might think it means simply the right to say what you want, constrained only by a few common-sense barriers against injuring others. There is, however, another definition of free speech propounded by the likes of Stephen Walt, John Mearsheimer, Jimmy Carter, and other Israel-bashers. By this definition, freedom of speech consists of their right to say what they want without having to suffer demurral or criticism. They complain that supporters of Israel “stifle debate” by, well, debating with them.

Apparently this is an interpretation of "free speech" that is being well learned on the university campus--it is nothing if not convenient.

[Hat tip: Campus Watch]

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