Conservative actor Nick Searcy unloaded on Peter Beinart after the MSNBC analyst suggested that outrage over Ivy League presidents failing to condemn anti-Semitism on their campuses was an affront to free speech.
Several top university presidents took the banner of free speech and ran with it during a House committee meeting earlier this month, refusing to condemn calls for the genocide of Jews.
The presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) repeatedly offered excuses for the racist, often violent rants of left-wing students on campus.
âWe embrace a commitment to free expression â even views that are objectionable, offensive [and] hateful,â said Harvard President Claudine Gay. âItâs when that speech crosses into conduct that violates our policies against bullying and harassment. That speech did not cross that barrier.â
Gay was responding to protesters on the campus calling for a âglobal intifada.â
University Presidents Under Fire
At the time of this post being written, Penn President Liz Magill had resigned following her testimony before the committee, a move critics celebrated as a notch against âwokeâ universities letting their students run the asylum.
There was pressure for Gay and MIT President Sally Kornbluth to follow suit.
But Beinart didnât feel the Ivy League presidents should be criticized or have to suffer the consequences of their actions.
âThe campaign to depose the presidents of Penn, Harvard + MIT is a campaign to restrict pro-Palestinian speech on campus,â he wrote on X. âIf you support it, please have the decency never to sermonize about free speech, academic freedom or cancel culture again.â
Searcy, best known for his role on FXâs Justified, gently reminded Beinart that it is liberals in this country that set the guidelines for what speech is allowed and what gets you canceled.
âYou made the rules about âhate speech,â bitch,â he shot back. âNow you have to live by them. Tough titty.â
Ivy League Donor: Kids Have âS*** For Brainsâ
Searcy is a frequent critic of liberals on social media, often subscribing to the James Woods School of obliterating the left using their own tactics.
He shredded American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Randi Weingarten after she begged for a âpandemic amnestyâ in which people would forgive and forget the actions taken by public officials and commenters during the COVID pandemic.
âThis bish ruined more childrenâs lives than the Grinch,â he countered. âOf course, she agrees with having no consequences for her stupid lies.â
Beinart, meanwhile, likes to parrot anti-Semitic rants made by people like members of the âSquad.â In an interview earlier this year, he cited sources denouncing Israel as an âapartheid state.â
Beinart seems to share a common cause with some Ivy League students.
Students that Leon Cooperman, an American billionaire investor and Columbia Business School graduate, recently described as being just shy of intelligent.
âI think these kids at the colleges have s*** for brains,â he said.
âWe have one reliable ally in the Middle East, thatâs Israel. We only have one democracy in the Middle East, thatâs Israel. We have one economy tolerant of different people, you know, gays, lesbians, etc,â Cooperman said. âSo, they have no idea what these young kids are doing.â
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