but was outbid. committed suicide in prison in April at coming out as Caitlyn. Part 0f the power When his overtures were spurned, he Of sports is that the imaginary intimacy age 27 ・ lashed out against the league like a jilted between fans and their icons can spur PROFESSIONAL SPORTS have long been suitor. As the NFL grapples with an es- social change. calating crisis over CTE—the degenera- a looking glass for American culture and By the dawn of the 1990S , though, tive brain disease associated with the head identity. At the Berlin Olympics in 1936 , star athletes had become more con- trauma players suffer on the field— Trump the black track star Jesse Owens domi- cerned with protecting their earning po- has derided league executives for their at- nated international competition, dispel- tential than using their talent tO oppose tempts t0 mitigate the damage inflicted by ling Nazi theories ofracial superiority in social injustice. Michael Jordan dodged collisions. "Football has become soft like the process. ln 1940S Brooklyn, Jackie politics as deftly as he did defenders: in our country has become SO 仕 , ” he thun- Robinson broke baseball's C010r barrier, the mid-1990s, the native Tar Heel de- dered in January 2016 at a rally. marking the beginning ofthe end of seg- clined tO endorse a black candidate in a Trump's lament over efforts tO guard regation in the nation's top sports leagues. Senate contest against the segregation- ist Jesse Helms. "Republicans buy shoes too; ” he supposedly told a friend, accord- ing tO an account by author Sam Smith. ln a Nike commercial, fellow basketball star Charles Barkley delivered a line that captured the ethos Ofthe era: "I am not a ビ 3 洋引 0 role model. ” Silence on SOCial issues was seen as a fair trade-off for fat contracts and lucrative endorsement deals. m ぐⅱ C00 Bit by bit, and then in a series Of 05 giant leaps, that reticence tO engage has faded. NBA stars such as LeBron James and Chris Paul endorsed Barack Obama in 2008. Four years later, James led his Miami Heat teammates in donning h00die s after Trayvo n Martin, an unarmed black teen in Florida, was shot dead. ln 2016 , NBA stars opened the ESPY Awards with a speech against police brutality. Then came C01in Kaepernick's sideline protest, which trickled through the ranks of college athletics—where a debate has raged over the creation of a multibillion-dollar industry on the backs of free labor—all the way down t0 youth sports. lt was in this context that Trump's attack on Kaepernick and the NFL landed. lt has been a jolt t0 the NFL in human safety, of all things, is one more A Tennessee Ti s 工れ hoists 0 sign particular. The NFL is one Of the most way Trump has turned the sport intO a during 0 game against the Seattle culturally conservative professional new front in the culture wars. "lf there's Seahawks ⅲ Nashville 0 Sept. 24 leagues, and it has arguably the trickiest ever an issue that shouldn't be political, relationship with race. lt is a sport in it's head trauma in football,: ” says cultural which mostly white fans pay t0 watch The social role of athletes intensified historian Michael Oriard, a former NFL mostly black (some 70 % of players are in the 1960S and ' 70S , when superstars lineman. And yet, he adds, "the response African American) athletes pummel with an activist bent such as Bill Russell, Trump gets seems tO justify the assump- one another. The gladiatorial aspect is Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe helped tion that the nanny state orwhomever are underlined by the fact that 30 of the 31 shape the era's civil-rights movement. ruining the grand old violent game. private-team owners are white. Unlike Tennis star Billie Jean King blazed a trail lndeed, Trump trotted out the bit in the NBA and MLB, contracts are not for female and LGBT athletes, and HIV- again during his visit t0 football-mad guaranteed, which means that every time positive diver Greg Louganis challenged Alabama. The President's remarks came a player takes the field, his career can end misconceptions about the virus. The one day after a new report indicated with a single violent tackle. The owners Olympic-g01d-medalist decathlete that Aaron Hernandez, a former Patriots veer politically conservative, yet the formerly known as Bruce Jenner changed tight end whO was convicted Of murder, econom1C victories that they have won— the debate about transgender issues after had suffered from the disease when he 33 Tennessean. の 39VbN 一Åトト 39 ー N0033d8 YO を 303 ェ」
'I SUFFERED A that decision. Nour, like Taimaa, gave birth to her daughter while living ⅲ a THIS TO GET TO Greek refugee camp. But she and her hus- GERMANY. THAT band YousefAlarsan were lucky enough to win the equivalent ofthe refugee lottery: WAS MY GOAL.' relocation t0 Germany. This year, for the first time since the Syrian war split them apart nearly five years ago, the young cou- ple was able t0 reunite with close family members over an 'ld meal at a cousin's apartment in Gelsenkirchen, near Essen. Speakers urged the crowd in English t0 lt was a scene offamilial chaos familiar "make Germany great again ” by sending t0 anyone wh0 has been t0 a big Thanks- immigrants "back tO where they came giving dinner. D0ting aunts passed babies from. " One man held a placard with a from 1 叩 to 1 叩 as a gaggle oftoddlers tore photo 0f a blond toddler surrounded by through the crowded living room, pausing black children, captioned GERMANY IN only tO swipe Syrian sweets from a cof- 2030. He refused tO be interviewed or fee table. A popular Arabic music video photographed, calling TIME 's j ournalists played on the large-screen TV. Nour sur- "Lügenpresse, ” a Nazi-era epithet used tO veyed the scene with a wide smile. "This denounce the media. is the reason why all the refugees want Although the AfD tries tO distance it- tO come tO Germany," she said over the selffrom such groups, the party's 叩 pear- din. "Because SO many Of our people are ance on the national stage is likely tO em- already here. ” bolden similar demonstrations, now that But as the numbers Of refugees have these groups feel their causes have an ear grown, SO has Germany's anti-immlgrant in Parliament. Political analysts caution sentiment. Some Of Nour's relations say that while they may be loud, their num- they are frequently harassed for wearing bers are still small—especially when their headscarves in public. There have compared with the 9 million Germans in- been cases reported in the media Of Ger- volved in donation, volunteer or NGO ef- man doctors refusing tO treat refugees forts to help refugees, according to a re- and Of teachers whO won't accept Syrian port from the Organisation for Economic children. OveraII, hate crimes against ref- C0-operation and Development. Still, a ugees have trebled since 2015 , according pro-refugee counterrally held the same tO Anetta Kahane, chair of the Amadeu day in Berlin saw a far smaller turnout, Antonio Foundation, a civil-society orga- and there are Other indications that the nization that tracks hate crimes and intol- country as a whOle is shifting its opinion erance in Germany. on the newcomers. ln one recent survey, ln the run-up to the September elec- more than half the respondents said ref- tions, far-right parties like the AfD used ugee children should not immediately anti-Muslim rhetoric to rally support. One receive the same opportunities as Ger- campaign poster featured a pair ofscant- man children. ily clad women with the slogan BURQAS ? The opportunities for refugees are WE PREFER BIKINIS. ltwas clearthatthe not as commonplace as the far right— c ampalgn was de signe d tO p rovoke a re - or the refugees themselves—might action as much as it was tO gain VOte S : the assume. Employers ⅲ the health care, po sters were mo st prevalent in heavily mi- transport and hospitality industries are grant neighborhoods, hardlythe AfD's tar- desperate for workers t0 take the j0bs get population. that few Germans want, but stringent TWO weeks before the elections, language requirements mean that most German is vital. But she believes that the a gathering Of neo-fascist and white- refugees must spend up t0 ayear studying focus on courses iS a barrier tO employ- supremacist groups held a protest in before they can even start looking for ment and refugee integration. Learning Berlin. About 500 black-clad neo-Nazis, employment. According t0 the Federal on the job could be just as effective, John pierced and tattooed punks, flag-waving Employment Agency, only 9 % of the argues, and it would help counter far- middle-aged white men and older couples newly arrived refugees have found jobs. right rhetoric that refugees come tO Ger- marched past Parliament. The event's Barbara John ofthe social-welfare or- many only t0 take advantage 0f the wel- theme was "Merkel Must Go," but ganization Der Paritätische, which runs fare system. "They don't come here for the anti-immigrant subtext was clear. job fairs for refugees, agrees that learning the welfare state, but by stopping them 26 TIME October 9 , 2017 Taimaa Abazli celebrates thefirst birthday ofher daughter 日 e ⅲ 0 refugee camp ⅲ Kusel, Germany, 0 れ Sept. 13 ゞ she d her husband Moha れれ ad were denied asylum ⅲ Germany but are appealing the ruling
TheBrief 0 How tO manipulate votes There are many ways tO slice up a state, although some are more fair than others. 旧 gerrymandering, one party takes a share Of seats significantly greater than its share Of votes. Here's hOW one group Of VOters can be divided three ways tO get three different results. Computers made gerrymandering worse. Can they fix ? By EmiIy Barone HERE'S HOW DEMOCRACY IS SUPPOSED TO WORK.• Citizens go tO the polls tO choose whO will represent them, and when a11 the seats are filled, the legislative body looks roughly proportional to the makeup of voters. But that's not what happened in Wisconsin's 2012 election, when Republicans tOOk more than 60 % Of the seats in the state assembly despite getting less than half the votes. That outcome—and similar results in five other states that year—occurred largely thanks tO computer- driven p artis an ge rrymandering. On Oct. 3 , the Supreme Court will hear the case of GiII v. Whitford, which could decide whether that redistricting plan was constitutional and by extension whether the practice of partisan gerrymandering should be reined ⅲ . As a political strategy, gerrymandering is hardly new; the term dates back tO the 1800S. But critics say increasing polarization Of Democrats and Republicans North and sophisticated software Caro 記 S 12 市 have made it much worse in Congressional recent years. District was "lt is questionable drawn in 2011 how much Of a democracy but ruled unconstitutional we really are ifwe have in 2016 0 れ the manipulated the lines SO basis ofracial that people can change their gerrymandering vote s but they can't change who gets elected," says Ruth Greenwood, senior legal counsel at the Campaign Legal Center, which is representing the people fighting the Wisconsin map. The state argues that the map sticks tO traditional districting principles and reflects the natural tendency ofpolitical groups to cluster together. Some states have tried tO address partisan gerry- mandering by assigning the redrawing process tO nonpartisan commissions. More typically, though, in states like Wisconsin, the task falls tO the sitting politicians. And that means the majority party controls the process that will be used tO 6 Ⅱ its own seats. B0th Democrats and RepubIicans are guilty ofusing p artis an gerrymandering tO their advantage. But ab out 20 years ago, the GOP gained a national edge, and Democrats have struggled tO redraw the lines in their favor ever since. The digital age is p artly to bl ame ; district lines are drawn with the use ofincreasingly sophisticated data-analysis and mapping technologies. These days, once a party makes 10 TIME October 9 , 2017 MOST-FAIR DISTRICT BOUNDARIES Red (majority) voters and blue (minority) voters are proportionally represented. DISTR ℃ T COUNT 3 RED, 2 BLUE The case in Wisconsin RepubIicans redrew districts with the intent to land future victories. Take, for example, the eight districts in the Milwaukee region. Democrats would have likely won four Of those districts in 2012 but instead tOOk just tWO. Share Of vote GOP ■の DEM ■の 、ユ 4 ユ 3 15 、挙 50 % 60 % + 94 MiIwaukee 41 7 84 43 21 0 し D BOUNDARIES Had the map not been redrawn, this is how the 2012 election would have likely played out in the Milwaukee area. a gerrymandered m 叩 , it's harder than ever for the opposing party to regain control and flip the map ⅲ their favor. Gerrymandered m 叩 s have been challenged in court in the past. The maps are usually overturned when the court finds evidence Of racial bias. (The 1965 V0ting Rights Act protects minority representation. ) Evidence Of partisan bias is another story. Courts have generally given a pass t0 this kind 0f gerrymandering, ⅲ part becaus e there has never been a concrete metric tO prove that a party went tOO far in gaming an advantage.
TheBrief THE RISK REPORT Yes, MerkeI won again. But the fires Of European populism are still raging By lan Bre THE POPULISTWAVE OF 2017 MAYNOT HAVE DESTROYED the European order in the way some predicted, but there are still many Europeans whO want tO upend the status quo. L00k at what happened in Germany's elections on Sept. 24 : Angela Merkel, a leader best known for prudence and experience, won a fourth term as Chancellor. Butjust as anti-E. U. firebrands Geert WiIders and Marine Le Pen pushed past Establishment parties t0 finish second earlier this year in Holland and France, respectively, Germany's anti-immigrant, Euroskeptic party Alternative for Germany (AfD) became the first far-right party to win seats in the German Parliament since the Nazi surrender in 1945. ln Spain, meanwhile, a different sort ofanger is brewing. On Oct. 1 , Catalans will cast ballots in an independence referendum that has generated outrage across the country,. The constitutional court declared the vote illegal, but separatist leaders have defied orders from Madrid t0 call it 0 圧 Spanish police have raided regional government offlces, arrested more than a dozen separatist leaders and seized ln Spain, a millions ofballots—provoking different sort protests involving tens Of Of ange r iS thousands ofpeople in Barcelona brewing, at a and across Catalonia. Podemos, referendum a left-wing Spanish political party fueled by anger at E. U. - generating imposed austerity, has called on outrage the Socialist Party to join in a bid across the tO remove Spanish prime Minister c ountry Mariano Rajoy from Offce SO that a new government in Madrid can negotiate terms Ofa referendum with Catalan offcials. ln France, voters elected pro-E. U. centrist Emmanuel Macron as their President earlier this year, but this was no vote for the Establishment. The traditional parties 0f center right and center le 代 that have dominated French politics for decades were humbled in the election. Macron leads a party that he invented from scratch less than two years ago. Yet French voters are still discontented; Macron s approval rating fell from 62 % in May t0 just 40 % ⅲ August (although it has since risen t0 45 % ⅲ September), and tens ofthousands ofpeople tOOk tO the streets against the President's new labor reforms on Sept. 23. ln the U. K. , the Labour Party and its far-left leader, Jeremy Corbyn, picked up enough new seats in the June elections tO strip prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative party Of its parliamentary maJority,. But don't count on a strengthened opposition tO push for a softer Ca 厄 S are determined tO VOte ⅲ 0 independence referendum 0 Oct. 1 ⅲ defiance Ofthe Spanish government Poland, Hungary, the Brexit; maJorities in 162 Of the 262 constituencies Cze ch RepubIic and that Labour won voted Slovakia—have refused to last year t0 leave the E. し , take even modest numbers and there's no sign they've ofmigrants. Under an E. U. changed their minds. quota system, these four British working-class nations were expected voters have proved they tO accept about 11 , 000 refugee s. Slovakia and can reject bOth Europeans the Czech Republic have and their Prime Minister. taken 28 people. P01and and Hungary have taken THEN THERE'S ITALY. none. The European Court Currently locked in a ofJustice has rejected political stalemate, the appeals by Hungary and country will likely go to the polls again next year, Slovakia, and the E. U. has threatened tO reduce electing either another fragmented government subsidies ifthey don't comply. Angry people in that can't advance political Eastern Europe may be or economic reform, about tO become much or a government led by comedian Beppe Gri110 angner. and his virulently anti- Media attention has focused on the E. U. Five Star Movement. charismatic populists whO Anger here is fueled in part play leading roles in these by a migrant crisis that has stories: Le pen, Wilders, eased elsewhere in Europe but has grown more Grillo and Hungary's intense in ltaly. ln the first Viktor Orban. lnstead, it's the crowds cheering halfofthis year, 10 , 000 at their rallie s that are migrants reached Greece the real story. They want and 6 , 000 arrived in fundamental change , Spain, while ltaly accepted inside their countries and more than 80 , 000. across Europe. SO far, lt doesn't help that they're not getting it. ロ eastern E. U. members—
D LAND 第 A 蓚 THE PARADISE REFUGEES BELIEVE IT TO BE? IN THE SUMMER OF 2015 , A CURIOUS piece 0f world news brought a flicker of hope to the wretched Syrian city of Palmyra. lslamic State fighters had taken over the ancient town, toppling its monu- ments and executing anyone WhO resisted their draconian rules. And yet at one Of the City'S darkest moments, rumors Of a sanctuary far away began t0 filter ⅲ , gen- erating dreams among a populace that had already lost everything. On Aug. 31 ofthat year, German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that her country was prepared to take in hundreds ofthousands ofrefu- gees fleeing war in the Middle East. "We can dO this; ” she said in a speech in Ber- lin, calling it a "national duty ” t0 support those in danger. Across Syria, preoccupa- tions with the civil war gave way tO fan- tasies 0f an unlikely new promised land: the Germany ofMama Merkel. The Chancellor suddenly became a positive punch line t0 dark jokes about Syrians' futures, says Yehiya M0ham- mad, a driver from Palmyra wh0 at the time had just been released from one 0f syrian president Bashar Assad's notori- ous prisons. "People would be talking t0 each other … One would suggest, Just go ・ ' 'Go where?' 'GO to Mama Merkel—she's accepting everyone. As the war eviscerated what was le 仕 0f Syria's schools and hospitals, many Syrians like M0hammad realized that they had no choice but t0 leave ifthey wanted their children to have a future. Taimaa Abazli, a 25-year-01d ethereal beauty from 第を ~ NourAltallaa,her husband us げ A r 〃 0 d their daughter Rahafexplore their new home ⅲ 0 camp Bad Berleburg, Germany, on 19
9 Questions e 取 Pao The former Reddit CEO may have lost her 2015 discrimination suit against venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins, but she's moving ahead with her mission the ladder ⅲ spite Of it? The re are YO 収 write ⅲ your new bOOk, Reset, times when your best bet iS tO stay, even abO 収亡 how Kleiner Perkins tried 亡 0 if there are problems. Racism and sexism get YO 収 intO arbitration, which would are systemic issues in tech, SO there aren t have kept your case private. Why many places you can go where you're not did YO 収 say no? Arbitration is generally going tO encounter some form Of them. part Of mo st employee contracts at large companies in most industries. I think it hinders the free flow ofinformation. lt's What tech companies are succeeding supposed t0 be designed t0 allow for faster, at inclusion? There are no companies that you can call successful—where 50 % cheaper resolution. But it Often ends up covering bad behavior. I thinkwe've seen Ofthe executives are female, where racial diversity reflects the population. with the revelations at FOX News that persistent harassment was hidden. What was your reaction tO the Google engmeer's me 一期 0 earlier this year? DO yo 収 worry that encouragmg I was relieved to see the CEO fire him, women or minorities tO speak up because when you have somebody in your discourages companies from hiring organization WhO believes that women them? That's just a terrible way to run are biologically inferior engineers, I don't your company. Almost nobody litigates. lt's draining financially, p sychologically, know hOW you build an inclus ive culture emotionally and professionally. Betting around that. That there are people who continue tO believe that women lower your company on that 0.01 % risk that someone Will sue makes no sense. the bar is incredibly disappointing but unfortunately not a surprise. What would yo 収 advise women whO experrence sexism or harassment in HOW has society's perception Of sex- the workplace tO dO? Get out. These are ism in tech changed since your case? people WhO arejust not going tO accept When I litigated, people didn't believe you. You're not going tO get promoted. me. And ifyou look at the reception of You don't have to prove yourselfbecause Susan Fowler's blog [on sexism at Uber], there's no way to do that. lfyou don't have there was a beliefthat this had hap- Other opportunities, try tO find someone pened. I think it's because there have been many women and men WhO have 、 3 else tO work with within the company. shared their own experiences. calling に物 out these problems over the past five Some people argue that the reason years has made a difference. few women make it tO the executive level is that they opt 0 収 t tO have kids. DO yo 収 think that's む設 e ? That has not As CEO ofReddit, yo 収 shut been my experience. The Kapor Center down some abusive sub recently conducted a national study reddits.Where should social- looking at why people leave their techjobs. media sites draw the line The biggest reason was workplace culture. between free speech and When people hear sexist comments, abuse? The line is clear: when when they feel they are unfairly critiqued, there's behavior that is in- when they see people being promoted tended tO cause people tO for opportunities they should have been be pushed 0 a platform, promoted for, they leave. lt's not that they your platform is no longer sudde nly want tO be stay-at-home moms. encouraging free speech. They'rejust tired ofthe sexism. The whole concept offree speech iS oriented around different voices being able What dO yo 収 make of a situation like tO share and discuss ideas. that Of Megyn Kelly, where someone endures harassment but moves up —ELIANA DOCKTERMAN 52 TIME October 9 , 2017 'When you have somebody ⅲ your organization who believes that women are biologically inferior engineers, I don't know how you build an inclusive culture. ' BRIAN FLA 工 ERTY—T 工 E NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX
Conversation A FOCUS ON WOMEN RE "FIRSTS: WOMENWHO Are Changing the World ” [Sept. 18 ] : I am so gratefulto these women who have fol- lowed their passions despite the significant obstacles they have faced. Thank you so much for putting together this uplifting package that will inspire my 6- and 9-year- old daughters to not be afraid offailure, to be proud femi- niStS and tO see more clearly that successful women are not defined by perfect air- brushed photographs on the covers ofglossy magazines. Leila Davies, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND I AM STUNNED THAT YOU included Kellyanne Conway in your otherwise fantastic article. ThiS iS a woman who will do anything to spin "alternative facts ” and thinks nothing oflying to the American public. She doesn't have any values, morals or ethics that young women Of today should relate to. 〃も 0 も 0 れ e , FLEN, SWEDEN WHILE I BOTH APPRECI- ated and enjoyed your issue ab out women whO are chang- ing the world, l'm sure I don't find myself alone when I say that I feel sad that we still need tO have an issue tO celebrate women's "firsts. ” As a 50-year-01d woman, TALK TO US rst WhO works in the sciences, l've s een firsthand how men are in supervisory roles and earning bigger sala- ries than their female col- leagues. I come from a fam- ily Where women and men were treated equally, and it is utterly depressing tO me tO think that sexism is still SO common. l'm le 代 wondering When and ifwomen Will ever be considered equals. For my young daughter's sake, I have t0 hope that more prog- ress is made toward equality in her lifetime than in mine. I applaud these women, but I wish that they were the norm, not the exception. A 司 Warburton, ROYSTON, ENGLAND YOU'VE DONE IT AGAIN, AS- suming that a woman WhO has changed the U. S. has nec- essarily changed the world. Neither Nancy Pelosi nor HiIIary CIinton nor Nikki Haley have done anything particularly world shatter- ing. Most people outside the U. S. have probably not heard OfIssa Rae, Maya Lin and on and on. Good on them, but hardly world news. Wake up and accept that things h 叩 - pen outside the U. S. that change the world. G. き e , SAMFORD, AUSTRALIA PREVENTION FIRST YOUR ARTICLE "HOUSTON After Harvey ” [Sept. 18 ] says, "Texas Governor Greg Abb0tt speculates that his state might need up tO $ 180 billion tO recover ん 11Y from Harvey. ” What a shame that Texas or the federal government did not spend 10 % 0f that sum t0 prevent the damage. Ask the Dutch how to do it— they have managed t0 keep their country safe from the water all their history (even with much of the country below sea level). DORDRECHT, ー I De Haes, news and can delete them, which news stories are fake man government determines agency selected by the Ger- embraces censorship. If an amazing hOW your magazine War ” [Sept. 18 ] : I find it RE "THE NEXT FAKE-NEWS GOING T00 FAR THE NETHERLANDS OrweII's Ministry ofTruth is just around the corner. AI- ready, most German media are identical in their opinion. lnstead ofdeleting all that the government considers wrong, would it not be better tO train people tO recognize fake news themselves? Joerg Boese, BERGEN, GERMANY THERE 博 HOPE RE "THE PHILOSOPHER King ” [Sept. 18 ] : As I was reading thiS week's issue, I was becoming more and more depressed by your description 0f the fake news, natural and unnatural disasters and the general unraveling of the world as we know it. But I was suddenly uplifted by your description Of a natural-born leader and potential mess iah, California's Governor Jerry Brown. Joe CastIeberry, 30m0 れれ 00 ′ 0 ( れ 0 9 ー 9 the 20 日 d HOUSTON PIease recyc 厄 this magazine and remove inserts and samples before recycling 2 SEND AN EMAIL.• letters@timemagazine.com Please dO not send attachments FOLLOW US: facebook.com/time @廿 me (Twitter and lnstagram) TIME October 9 , 2017 Send 0 letter: Letters tO the Editor must include writer's 愈〃 name, address d home telephone, may be editedfor purposes 可 c ⅱ収 or space, 0 d should be addressed to the nearest ofice: HONG KONG - TIME Magazine ers , 37 / F , Ox House, Taikoo PIace, 979 King's Road Qu 砒 Bay, Hong Kong; JAPAN - TIME Magazine e 博 , 2- 1-27F Atago, Tokyo 10 6227 , Japan; EUROPE - TIME Magazine ers , PO Box 634 London, SEIP 5 円 , UK, AUSTRALIA TIME Magazine ers , GPO Box 3873 , Sydney, NSW 2001 , AustraIia; NEW ZEALAND - 第 ME Magazine ers , PO Box 198 , Shortland St. AuckIand, 40 New ZeaIand
VIEWPOINT ln the debate over campus free speech, whO are the real special snowflakes? By Eddie S. GIaude Jr. MANY CONSERVATIVES BELIEVE THAT UNIVERSITIES AND colleges have become illiberal spaces that stifle free speech. They point tO the violent protests at the University Of California, Berkeley, that prevented Mi10 YiannopouIos from speaking, or the threat ofprotests that led t0 the cancellation ofAnn Coulter's 叩 pearance at the school. With horror, they recall what happened to CharIes Murray at MiddIebury College and list examples ofcoddled students protesting the likes ofCondoIeezza Rice. AII ofwhich reflects, they believe, a broader culture on campuses designed tO quarantine students from diverse political opinions ・—tO secure them their spaces ” with "trigger warnings ” and "political correctness. NO 、 Monder, conservatives claim, that we have a generation Of special snowflakes, quick t0 take 0ffense and even quicker, when challenged, to melt like snow in the hot sun. I ran smack intO this argument on MorningJoe, where I often appear. Joe Scarborough and the panelists t00k a dumbfounding position, and I was flummoxed in my response. I spend every day on a campus that has plenty ofpolitical conservatives. I also know faculty wh0 worry about facing death threats because ofsomething they've said or written. Public universities like the University ofWisconsin— Madison are suffering under the weight Ofa conservative legislature and Governor SCOtt Walker. Lawmakers are passing deeply hypocritical "campus free speech ” legislation tO curb the right tO free speech in the name ofprotecting conservatives. Even the President ofthe United States is willing t0 throw the First Amendment in the trash as he urges NFL owners to fire or suspend players who refuse to stand during the national anthem. The defense offree speech seems to be highly selective, but the idea ofuniversities and colleges as hotbeds ofintolerant liberals isjust plain wrong. Thousands oflectures across the ideological spectrum happen on campuses. Students go tO classes, participate in various organizations and attend lectures without incident. lmagine h0W many time s Murray or Rice or Ben Shapiro have actually spoken on campuses without its becoming a national spectacle. The protests we have witnessed recently are not the norm, but conservatives and even some liberal colummsts would have us believe otherwise. IN MANY WAYS, the university setting is the most vibrant space for the free exchange 0f ideas ⅲ this country. That doesn't mean that universities and colleges are free from the passions ofpolitical debate. Just as those passions inflame partisanship ⅲ national and local politics, they show up on campuses, especially ⅲ the hearts and minds ofyoung people who fight it out, sometimes with ab andon. Hopefully ⅲ the process, they learn what Princeton president Christopher Eisgruber recently conveyed tO the entering class: "The OTHERS WEIGH Ⅱ 0 工設 s れ 00e tosta れ d 工 Or... civ discourse. T ′リⅲ 9 ⅲ 0C0 tr リ where e リ stop ta 慊 i れ 9 andstart s れ OOti れ g. ' ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER, former dean Of Princeton's Wood row Wilson School ー de れル 0 tics 遥れ as made the distance between 10 まれ 9 0 れ 0r9 れ t andca s 19 0 窈れ se ter ′びリⅲ 9 s 厖 or BRETSTEPHENS, New York Times columnist art ofdisagreement is not only about confrontation, but also about learning. lt requires that we defend our views . and, at the same time, consider whether our views might be mistaken. ” But some speakers challenge the basic values that make this learning possible. They use the university's commitment tO the free exchange of ideas to promulgate positions that threaten the fabric Of the community as a whole. They spew intolerant and hateful views. The torch-bearing neo-Nazis shouting ' Jews will not replace us' in Charlottesville are Just one extreme example. Richard Spencer and Coulter are another. They add little t0 the debate at universities and colleges. Coulter revels in her ability to insult broadly. Spencer thinks white people are superior t0 black people. HOW can I reasonably argue With someone WhO believes he iS innately better? lt's as intellectually valid as saying"Kiss myass. UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES must resist the rhetorical sleight ofhand that claims it is intolerant tO disallow intolerant speech, and instead protect the conditions 0f e qual standing and dignity that make for the free exchange Of ideas our communities. We must never S anction a callous diS regard Of callousness. NOt a11 conservative speech is hateful speech, and we ought t0 be able t0 distin- guish the difference. MOSt conservatives aren't like Yiannopoulos, Spencer and Coulter. Such conservatives should, and d0, speak on campuses every day. But if they hold controversial views, like any speaker ofwhatever ideological bent, they should expect a passionate response that may take the form ofprotests. And in those cases, students have every right tO exercise their freedom ofspeech. Some conservatives want tO proselytize without pushback. They want tO exact judgment without being judged. When others reasonably call them racist or sexist or homophobic, they clutch their pearls and cry foul. One wonders whO the real snowflakes in this drama are. 21 University ofAfrican-American studies at ⅱ cetO れ Glaude is the r 可市 e department
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FIVE CLASSIC UTOPIAN NOVELS UTOPIA ( 1516 ) BY THOMAS MORE MOSt Of this classic novel consists Of a secondhand account ofthe isle ofUtopia, Where no one iS exempt from work, but labor is limited tO six hours a day and resources are shared. Although it relies on little technological advancement, it provided a formula for the rest Of the utopian genre. いれ ) い朝第を THE BLAZING WORLD ( 1666 ) BY MARGARET CAVENDISH A young maiden drifts astray on a lifeboat near the North Pole, only to find herselftransported to another world, Where She iS crowned empress and abolishes all forms ofwar and discrimination. When She hears Of an attack on her home country Of England, she uses a fleet 0f submarines tO defeat the invaders. 、、強ド 0 第籍ー ( 人マ、じ繕ト こ 00K ーⅣ G BACKWARD ( 1888 ) BY EDWARD BELLAMY Like their utopian forebears, the behaviorally engineered denizens of WaIden ハ get short workdays—as well as the option t0 pick a new place to work each day. Although outside visitors are dubious Ofthe society's perfection, they never find a de finitive crack ⅲ the facade. 0 BÄCKWÄ R ? 000 ヨ 88 The protagonist of this novel falls asleep in 1887 and wakes up, Rip van WinkIe—Iike, after a 113-year nap. The year 2000 brings not only early を retirement and quick delivery, but so credit cards that provide equal credit tO all citizens and a justice system that treats crime as a medical issue. ■■ 00 ロ 3 WALDEN TWO ( 1948 ) BY B. F. SKINNER B. F. Skinner walk the line between potential positive and negative technological outcomes iS Daniel Suarez, a futurist with a following ⅲ Silicon Valley. He describes the world of his most recent bOOk, Change Agent, as a near future where widespread black-market genetic editing has created serious problems. "But it is alS0 a world where countless heritable genetic disorders have been cured and where both industry and agriculture are being made environmentally sustainable; ” he says. "ls that a dystopia? ls that a utopia? ls it a mixture ofboth? I think the future will look very much like the present ⅲ that there will be both good aspects and bad aspects, and our challenge is to navigate the best path between the two. WAE DEN PARABLE OF THE SOWER ( 1993 ) BY OCTAVIA E. BUTLER OCTAVIA E. BUTLER 3 A more ambiguous novel for the genre, its story begins in the 2020S ⅲ a dystopian U. S. brought 10W by cl imate change and corruption. A young woman invents a belief system and accrues followers t0 plan for a new ideal society, which they hope t0 establish on other planets. ロ 49