Brian Gettler

My faculty association's response to the university's recent letter to students:

"The Administration appears to believe that with the stroke of a pen it can transform freedom of expression from a fundamental right, the protection of which is the sine qua non of the University, into a privilege that the Administration may confer or deny at its pleasure. This cannot stand."

https://www.utfa.org/sites/default/files/2024-04-30_utfa_letter_re_demonstrations.pdf

#UofT #HigherEd #cdnpoli #CampusProtests

May 1, 2024 at 8:08pmWeb
Show threadCykonotMay 1, 2024
@brian_gettler hr 6090 says calling israel an ethnostate is hate speech and can result in a school losing funding and student expulsion
Show threadCareyMay 2, 2024
@cykonot @brian_gettler Fortunately Canadian universities are not subject to US federal law.
Show threadRichardMay 2, 2024
@cykonot @brian_gettler No, it does not. The only thing it (the examples in the internationally adopted Holocaust remembrance definition of antisemitism, to be specific) says that could even come close to that is the part where it says denying that Jews deserve the right of self determination that any other group has is antisemitic. If you are decrying all "ethnostates" (e.g. Germany, China, Korea, India, Iran, France, Egypt, Iceland, a free Palestine) then you are fine. Is that your point?
Show threadCykonotMay 2, 2024
@richard_merren @brian_gettler okay bro, recognizing ethnostates are inherently racist is problematic 🤡
Show threadRichardMay 2, 2024
@cykonot @brian_gettler So you think by its very existence, Israel is racist. Do you feel the same about a future Palestinian state? About Germany? About Japan? About Ethiopia?
Show threadCykonotMay 2, 2024

@richard_merren @brian_gettler ethnostates are bad and based off of social rather than genetic forces.

Where should mixed people (LIKE MOST JEWS) live

Show threadRichardMay 2, 2024
@cykonot @brian_gettler "Mixed people"? What hellish white supremacy racist youtube vortex did you fall into? Are you going to start talking about "miscegenation" and aryans and drawing Nordic runes?
Show threadRichardMay 2, 2024
@cykonot @brian_gettler And do you think Jews DON'T deserve self determination? That they should only be a minority in the diaspora and should never be allowed to run a country?
Show threadCykonotMay 2, 2024
@richard_merren @brian_gettler okay, you support an ethnostate for jews. Do Palestinians deserve an ethnostate?
Show threadCykonotMay 2, 2024
@richard_merren @brian_gettler nakba lover
Show threadCykonotMay 2, 2024
@richard_merren @brian_gettler where are mixed people like me supposed to go? Or should we be illegal for confuzing your bronze age sensibilities
Show threadCykonotMay 2, 2024

@richard_merren @brian_gettler nakba lover blocked me. He is very racist and would not respect me at temple because i am too dark

Im Jewish on my ashki mother's side, but people like him are evil and all too common.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58917825

The Nigerians who want Israel to accept them as Jews

A small Nigerian community claims Jewish ancestry dating hundreds of years but Israel does not recognise them.

Show threadCykonotMay 2, 2024
@richard_merren @brian_gettler he pretends I'm racist for recognizing the genocidal implications of his politics. A monster, truly.
Show threadCykonotMay 2, 2024

@richard_merren @brian_gettler
Me: "but you imply people like me should be stateless"
You: "that is extremely racist. BLOCK"

Edit: "also, you arent PEOPLE, so..." monster. Will not engage with the logical implacations of your fascism. Weak.

Show threadCykonotMay 2, 2024

@richard_merren @brian_gettler japan is very racist and has refused to recognize Nanjing.

I'm still weaby, but not delusional.

Show threadCykonotMay 2, 2024
@richard_merren @brian_gettler now ur gonna call me a mutt huh
Show threadRichardMay 2, 2024
@cykonot @brian_gettler rules?? To much genetic racial talk. Go back to your klan meeting.
Show threadYi Gu (Evie)May 2, 2024
@brian_gettler Truly proud when I read the letter.