I didn’t agree with the demonstrators on college campuses last week who appeared indifferent to the wanton slaughter of innocent Israelis by Hamas. But the way for university administrators to address this isn’t by constructing blacklists and imposing harsh administrative penalties on the demonstrators. That will solve little, not to mention poison the atmosphere on campuses and foreclose any hope of constructive dialogue by students and faculty on all sides of the controversy.
Nor does it help when wealthy donors and alumni interfere in the affairs of the university, including the present controversy surrounding the events in the Middle East.
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Sam Webb
I'm a long-time socialist and activist, but new to the blogging world. I hope to bring a different perspective on politics, sports, culture, and Marxism. Besides blogging, I also leave plenty of time for swimming, hiking, ESPN, music, reading, drinking good beer, and, not least, my family and friends. I wish I could play basketball, but my knees ruled out that possibility long ago.
While I currently reside in New York, my politically formative years were spent in Portland, Me. and Detroit during the 1970s and 1980s. I graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia (where I played basketball) and received a MA in economics from the University of Connecticut.
I was the national chairperson of the Communist Party, USA from 2000 until 2014 when I stepped down at the convention. In 2016 I resigned from the Communist Party two years later. We were no longer on the same page.
