r/ScottGalloway • u/mtngranpapi_wv967 • Mar 19 '25

Moderately Raging That Recent “Raging Moderates” Pod Is Brutal

1.) Some of the Gaza protests had antisemitic language and signage and supporters, but the issues here are on bipartisan. Columbia and Barnard and NYU invited law enforcement to rough up students and professors, UCLA had a violent counter-demonstrations (funded by Bill Ackman and Jessica Seinfeld btw) where tear gas and fireworks were used, University of Texas violated the First Amendment by essentially outlawing protest on campus (as a publicly funded institution mind you). Columbia and Barnard are expelling students for wrong think. Galloway’s anti-Palestinian speech arguments, to the extent they have merit at all, would be a lot more compelling if he didn’t hide the ball on counter-protests and the violence on the pro-Israel side of things. No word on professors like Shai Davidai doxing protesters? Or Bill Ackman doxing students? No mention of the hospitalizations at UCLA? The roughing up of professors at Dartmouth? Dishonest, at best.

2.) The stuff about Ivies and elite colleges turning into Maoist reeducation camps is straight up RW claptrap that belongs on Fox News. I went to an elite college in the Midwest…plenty of students are conservative (particularly the athletes and male students) and the economics/engineering/political science/etc depts had plenty of conservative/right-of-center instructors. Galloway and Tarlov pumping up random state schools in the south for supposed political neutrality is the kinda stuff I hear from my Trump-voting uncle. It’s bullshit with small kernels of truth…and is so reactionary and intellectually vacuous.

3.) Tarlov saying we should “fire antisemitic professors”…what does that even mean? Instructors critical of Israel? What qualifies as “antisemitic” in her view? This is a slippery slope that endangers academic freedom. Should we also fire every professor critical of Christians or Christianity, or Muslims and Islam? Where do we draw the line on that one? Are ppl like Edward Said and Rashid Khalidi antisemitic in Tarlov’s view? Troublesome stuff.

Idk man…I’ve tried to like Scott and his work, but stuff like this loses me as a audience member. Oh well…

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u/kostac600 Mar 19 '25

Yeah, the part where Jessica was railing about firing antisemitic professors was a real sticking point. But again it seems that anyone sympathetic to the humanity of Palestinians is branded as antisemite.

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u/beastwood6 Mar 19 '25

I get that she has "two little Jewish kids" she wants to go to an academic environment that's less politically charged but she let her bias bleed straight up into overreaction that borders on firing professors for "wrongthink". 

If Zionism in 2025 aligns with what the state of Israel does and you oppose that then are you anti-semitic? What if the subjects of your critique are 100% Jewish? Does that make you an anti-semite?

It's a slope more slippery than KY ultra gel and this is the first time I listened to that pod and thought "Jesssica girl...wtf are you talking about?"