Universities, Anti-Semitism, And Caitlin Clark

We have anti-American, anti-Christian, and anti-Islamic, but we have antisemitic. That’s what the AP Style Manual teaches, and that’s what nearly everyone does. But not me. I still use anti-Semitic, the way I was taught. You capitalize a proper noun, even if it is for Jews.

The word anti-Semitism was invented by a German, who thought it was less offensive than Judenhass, or hatred of Jews. Maybe we should go back to Judenhass, also written Judenhaß. Might was well use the German spelling, since we are already using their ideas.

If you keep saying, “That’s not a hill I will die on,” eventually you run out of hills.

Somewhere we must draw the line and take a stand. Blatant anti-Semitism in universities? We tolerated that, and then, predictably, it was followed by blatant anti-Americanism. (Now can I use a capital letter?)

Do we really want haters like that influencing our young people? The Germans and Austrians of the 1930s allowed Nazis to influence their young people in universities. How did that work out?

Listen to what Jamie Glazov has to say. He’s an expert on communism and other forms of totalitarianism. He knows that democracy and freedom are not natural states of humanity. They are unstable and require constant work to maintain.

The question is, are we willing to put in that work? Or will we sit on the couch, munching snacks, and watching Caitlin Clark get body checked, hit on the head, and eye poked until she had to take a season off?

Yes, and then they signed Sophie Cunningham as an enforcer. But she was clipped, which is banned in football but apparently allowed in women’s basketball. As a result, she was out for the season with a serious knee injury.

Come to think of it, that kind of symbolizes the whole thing, doesn’t it? The team needed an enforcer, and even the enforcer was injured. At this point they have to get serious. So do we. There may be injuries, but the fight is worth it.