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In retaliation, Ayatollah Khomeini should tweet a list of 52 sites of beloved American cultural heritage that he would bomb.

So wrote Asheen Phansey, an adjunct professor at Babson College in Massachusetts. He added that cultural sites to target might include the Mall of America and the Kardashian residence. Not the funniest of jokes (and not helped by the fact that Khomeini died more than 30 years ago) but definitely a joke and a response to Trumps tweet that America would target 52 Iranian sites, including those of cultural significance, if Tehran did retaliate for the assassination of General Qassem Suleimani.

It led to an inevitable outpouring of outrage on Twitter from conservative snowflakes. By the end of the day, Phansey was no longer teaching at Babson. The post did not represent the values and culture of the College, read a statement. The college condemned any type of threatening words and/or actions condoning violence and/or hate. Its just as well that John Betjeman was never a professor at Babson.

Much is made today of liberals demanding action against those using offensive language or making politically incorrect jokes. The Babson case shows conservatives are equally easily offended.

Across the Atlantic came another illustration of rightwing outrage. The release of Tolo Tolo, an Italian film satirising anti-migrant hysteria, caused anger among conservatives who had thought that it would be hostile to immigrants. It is too politically correct, claimed a senator from Silvio Berlusconis Forza Italia party. Which only goes to show that its politically correct has come to mean little more than I dont like it.

The Babson case also shows the dangers of the left demanding censorship of offensive speech. Its not just speech the left thinks is politically incorrect that will get censored.

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Says KKK and neo-Nazis are not universally disliked

A University of Miami law professor argues that any criticism of the #MeToo movement is seductive fraud, while suggesting that the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups are not universally disliked.

Mary Anne Franks wrote Witch Hunts: Free Speech, #MeToo, and the Fear of Womens Words in the student-edited University of Chicago Legal Forum. In the lengthy article, she argues that the phrase witch hunt existed only as a means for men to silence women.

The phrase came about out of the Salem witch trials and is used as a means to shut down the free speech of women, according to Franks. The modern case is the #MeToo movement, which has seen thousands of women share stories of sexual harassment and assault on social media.

The movement was criticized for going too far and lowering the bar for what qualified as sexual assault and harassment, and certain critics used the term witch hunt to describe it. Franks says the use of the term is the silencing of women by white men.

[T]he very term witch hunt has been energetically and ironically repurposed to convey the persecution and silencing of men by women, Franks writes. In this Orwellian inversion, womens speech about mens abuses is characterized as a dangerous form of censorship, while mens criticism of that speech is characterized as a brave refusal to be silenced.

She continues: Whether women are cast as witches who must be burnt or witch hunters who must be stopped, their speech continues to be feared and repressed rather than celebrated and protected.

The article appears to be from the new 2020 edition of the journal. As of Monday afternoon it is not mentioned on the journals home page, which shows the 2019 edition also about #MeToo as the most recent.

The law school tweeted the article Saturday, prompting mockery from criminal defense lawyer Scott Greenfield.

Franks University of Miami faculty profile says she has been at the forefront of drafting legislation against so-called revenge porn, and is the author of a 2019 book The Cult of the Constitution: Our Deadly Devotion to Guns and Free Speech.

Franks cited First Amendment jurisprudence on freedom of speech throughout her article, noting the ACLUs history of defending the free speech rights of neo-Nazis and the KKK, but stopped short of supporting it. The ACLU, she said, supports the legal rights of fringe groups because the people whose opinions are the most controversial or extreme are the people whose rights are most often threatened.

But in the next sentence, the University of Miami law professor claims that there is no evidence that the KKK and neo-Nazis are clearly neither universally disliked nor singled out for official discrimination. Indeed, what these groups tend to have in common is that they target truly vulnerable groups, such as women and minorities.

The College Fix has reached out to Franks seeking clarification on her comments and what she would consider universal dislike of the KKK and neo-Nazis.

She debated libertarian social scientist Charles Murray at a law school event nearly two years ago; the university initially tried to charge the sponsoring Federalist Society $7,600 in security fees.

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January 13, 2019 (Society for the Protection of Unborn Children) Pro-abortion campaigners appear alarmed at the recent rise of pro-life university groups across the United Kingdom. Student led group and SPUC collaborator, the Alliance of Pro-life Students (APS) which encourage a culture of life by inspiring and equipping students to bring the culture of life into universities have recently been assisting pro-life university groups. Madeline Page, APS Chief Executive said:Our societies remain autonomous and students are welcome to run their society as they see as most appropriate to their universitys setting.

In 2018, only eight university pro-life societies existed in the UK. This number has increased considerably over the past year with 14 pro-life societies now present on UK campuses. Five of these are in Scotland.

Alarmed pro-abortion activists took to social media to express their anxieties after hearing of the surge. In response, one pro-abortion group took to Facebook calling for the enforcement of more censorship zones to suppress the pro-life message.

2019 saw multiple pro-life university societies across the UK gain the right to officially affiliate. As reported by SPUC, a number of student groups had to consider legal action to gain this right.

Notably, Glasgow Students for Lifewon their rightto officially affiliate in 2019 after their Students Union was forced to admit that refusing the group breached equality law. Glasgow Students for Life has since flourished at the university andrecently raised moneyfor theAlma Mater Fundwhich supports pregnant and parenting students as part of their pro-life efforts.

Strathclyde Students for Life, Aberdeen Life Ethics Society and Nottingham Students for Life are amongst other pro-life groups which successfully affiliated in 2019.

The appetite for pro-life student groups reflects the shifting public attitude towards abortion in the United Kingdom and the shrill tone of pro-abortionists and their attempts to censor pro-lifers seem to be backfiring.

Despite a lack of media coverage for the pro-life movement in the UK, most people are not in favour of the extreme positions pushed by abortion advocates.

A 2017ComRes poll revealed that a large majority of 72% of the public oppose decriminalising abortion. AsimilarComRes poll in the same yearfound that only 1% favoured increasing the limit up until birth, (albeit, tragically, abortion up to birth is already lawful for disabled babies and in certain other circumstances) and that women in particular supported more restrictions than there are at present.

2019 saw over 5000 people attend the London March For Life, whilst recent pro-life demonstrations in Northern Ireland attracted over 20,000 people. SPUCspro-life youth conferenceis also expected to attract a record number of attendees in 2020.

Published with permission from the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children.

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An investigation carried out by Top10VPN reported that during 2019, India lost more than $1.3 billion due to internet outages ordered by the government in districts such as Jammu & Kashmir, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Meghalaya, Tripura, and Uttar Pradesh.

Among the 3 countries with the bigger economic losses

According to the report, India is in third place in a list made up of 21 countries that suffered forced blackouts of the internet service last year, which, in a digitalized society, had a negative impact on commercial activities.

The investigation showed that the total money lost due to internet blockades among all countries was $8.05 billion, so India represented 16% of the chart. It was only surpassed by Sudan and Iraq in terms of monetary losses.

Among all the affected regions of India, the most affected was Jammu & Kashmir, who are facing the biggest blackout of the internet they have seen in their democratic history, since they have not had internet for five consecutive months.

Kashmir is a tourist region and due to this it has been severely affected at an economic level. Not only have the big companies suffered, but also the small merchants, since many artisans were left without a source of income when they could not sell their works online. This caused part of the population to migrate to other states to continue their jobs and thus not suffer so many economic losses.

Top10VPN research chief, Simon Migliano, wrote the following: India imposes Internet restrictions more frequently than any other country, with more than 100 blackouts documented in 2019. In his words, many of these cuts were directed to specific cities for a few hours, so it is difficult to determine how much time they have spent without internet in the country.

The report has only focused on large blockades (such as those that occurred during the Citizens Amendment Act or due to different religious tensions), so the economic impact is likely to be greater than the one estimated in the document. It should be noted that, although small blackouts were not taken into account, India managed to total more than 4000 hours without internet.

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