EDITORIAL: Brown's New Language - Antisemitism Is Now “Biased-Related”
EDITORIAL
EDITORIAL: Brown's New Language - Antisemitism Is Now “Biased-Related”
Safe words.
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Comforting words.
Meaningless euphemisms.
Brown, like many other Ivy League schools, is under the microscope for its actions or inactions related to protests and antisemitism on campus and so Brown has come up with a solution.
Picking up on the claim that words have meaning, Brown has decided to change the words.
When Brown students living off campus were the reported victims of antisemitism in December, a Brown Vice President sent out an email to the Brown community omitting the word antisemitism and replaced it with “biased-related.”
On Tuesday, December 12th, at approximately 7:05 pm, the Brown University Department of Public Safety was notified of a biased-related crime that took place on Lloyd Avenue near Hope Street. Two community members stated that person(s) unknown entered their apartment without permission and left a note that contained a biased-related threat.
The Providence Police called the incident antisemitic.
The police report cited that a note left for the Jewish student was antisemitic.
But, the Brown VP never included antisemitism — he called it “bias-related.”
One can only think that Brown will no longer call those guys with the matching white outfits the KKK, but maybe a safer term like those “who wear white out of season top to bottom.”
Another word choice might be to call Nazi SS stormtroopers who managed the death camps — “those tall young blond men in dashing black uniforms."
And clearly, former President Donald Trump has added one of his own, recently calling the domestic terrorists who broke into the U.S. Capitol and assaulted members of law enforcement “hostages.”
From Brown President Christina Paxson to Trump, let’s just call it as it is — antisemitism is antisemitism, and those who tried to overthrow the government are criminals.