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Progect Marcus: The end of a philosophical line prevailing decolonial academic frameworks, Jewish students and Israelis are frequently categorized as proximate to "whiteness" or as an "oppressor/colonizer" class. Therefore, aggressive speech directed against them activates it is categorized as political resistance ("punching up"), requiring strict, legalistic "context" before intervention.."

 "During a December 2023 congressional hearing on campus antisemitism, the presidents of Harvard (Claudine Gay), MIT (Sally Kornbluth), and the University of Pennsylvania (Elizabeth Magill) testified that whether calling for the genocide of Jews violates their codes of conduct regarding harassment is a "context-dependent decision". You can watch the full exchange and the initial backlash on YouTube or view reporting of the event on BBC News.The testimony provoked severe bipartisan backlash and donor boycotts, leading both Harvard and UPenn to release subsequent statements clarifying that calls for violence and genocide violate their school policies. Ultimately, both Elizabeth Magill and Claudine The testimony provoked severe bipartisan backlash and donor boycotts, leading both Harvard and UPenn to release subsequent statements clarifying that calls for violence and genocide violate their school policies. Ultimately, both Elizabeth Magill and Claudine Gay resigned from th...

GPCHAT: Project Meaning:Are meanings produced and fixed by historical genesis or by the contemporaneous relations among signs or by both reflected in public performance.

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Are meanings produced and fixed by historical genesis or by the contemporaneous relations among signs or by both reflected in public performance. Meanings are produced by both historical genesis and contemporaneous relations among signs , but they become socially operative only when they are publicly performed, recognised, contested, and repeated . A useful way to separate the issue is: 1. Historical genesis: where the sign comes from A sign, symbol, word, ritual, slogan, flag, gesture, or institution carries sedimented history. Its meaning is shaped by prior uses, origin stories, inherited associations, past conflicts, sacred narratives, legal codifications, victories, humiliations, traumas, and collective memory. For example, a national flag does not mean only “cloth with colours.” Its meaning comes partly from wars, founding myths, sacrifice, conquest, independence, betrayal, or constitutional order. The past loads the sign with force. So historical genesis matters because it s...