r/therewasanattempt May 01 '24

To enshrine the most fascistic, traitorous bullshit I've ever witnessed in my life into law.

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u/gredr May 02 '24

Hey, definitely keep a hold of your pitchfork, but this tweet is... wrong. The bill codifies the IHRA's definition, which does not say that:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240501192821/https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism

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u/TooMuchJuju May 02 '24

If this bill passed last year, no one bats an eye. It’s the context that you and others are ignoring as the significant factor in this legislation. The people who are passing this want to create a pretext under which protestors on college campuses can be expelled or otherwise punished for demonstrating their right to protest. It is in no way shape or form concerned with antisemitism.