Description: Salem on the Thames : Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate Speech at Connecticut College, Paperback by Landes, Richard (EDT), ISBN 1644690993, ISBN-13 9781644690994, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "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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Book Title: Salem on the Thames : Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph
Number of Pages: 218 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Salem on the Thames : Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate Speech at Connecticut College
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Publication Year: 2020
Subject: Discrimination & Race Relations, Judaism / History, Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, General
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science, Education
Author: Richard Landes
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Antisemitism in America Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
