Word: jeffriesism
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Content-free invitations, in short, don't exist. We'll be the first to defend the free speech right of people like Jeffries, Kahane or Duke to pontificate in front of Out of Town News. Or, if a Harvard group chooses to invite them, at Sanders Theatre or the ARCO...
The Jeffries invitation, though, seems not even to have been intended as a "content-free" one. By applauding the content of Jeffries' speech, BSA members showed precisely how they feel about him. At least--we hope--IOP members won't cheer Duke with anywhere near the same intensity.
As for Black Harvard students who are not BSA members, their silence on the issue is even more disturbing. No Black Harvard student has denounced Jeffries' views in public, and only a handful of Black students were among the 450 demonstrators at the protest Wednesday night.
If Harvard's Black community is really as diverse as BSA claims, then where are those opposed to Jeffries' views?
In essence, Jeffries is the BSA's Confederate flag. When Brigid L. Kerrigan '91 justified the hanging of the Confederate drapeau from her Kirkland House window last year with arguments of regional pride and honor, BSA charged her not with overstepping her free speech rights but with being insensitive to...