On October 10, 2023, three days after the murderous Hamas pogrom, a transgender professor at University of California - David named Jemma DeCristo posted this:
Notice the knife, hatchet and blood drop emojis.
The university committee censured DeCristo but recommended against suspension; the chancellor went further and briefly suspended DeCristo without pay, which seems like the minimum that the university should do.
But what is fascinating is DeCristo's defense. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, DeCristo claimed that the post was satire and that they wouldn't apologize:
The panel felt she hadn’t intended to cause harm and had already experienced “terrible real-world consequences.”In justifying a harsher punishment, which the university’s vice provost for academic affairs, Philip H. Kass, had initially suggested, May pointed out in his letter of discipline that both the investigators and the hearing panel found that DeCristo “failed to acknowledge the deep pain and significant disruption” she’d caused, which he said was “in direct conflict with” her “obligation to protect and preserve conditions hospitable to student learning.” He added that she had “failed to offer clarification or apology that could have mitigated the impacts” of her actions.
Asked by investigators whether she would consider issuing an apology or clarification, DeCristo said doing so would “just fuel the right-wing media that was harassing her.”
So this professor is unapologetic, and claims that it was all a joke. Hilarious!
This is interesting because this is the usual defense of neo-Nazis when they are called out for hate speech that crosses the line into incitement. They were only doing it for the lulz, they say. I had never seen a left-winger make that same claim.
But it is just another way that the antisemites on the Left and Right are learning from each other.
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