> The night before her presentation, she said she received a call from the school’s vice-chair of the education department, who voiced concerns about the content of some of her slides, including those mentioning casualties in [Gaza](https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza) as a result of the [Israel-Hamas war](https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war), and those discussing cuts at USAID
> Liu, who said she was already in [New York](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-york) when she received the call, told CTV News that she was told that the slides about Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic” and that the USAID slides might be perceived as “anti-governmental”.
I’m not shocked that the bastions of liberty in America’s universities are voluntarily self-censoring in order to please the government, just as they did in World War I, the inter-war period, World War II, the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, and so on.
Edit: But I’m told by The Atlantic that the real bias that we should be concerned about is those darned humanitarian organisations.
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It’s disappointing that our democracy’s response to authoritarianism is submission.
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> The night before her presentation, she said she received a call from the school’s vice-chair of the education department, who voiced concerns about the content of some of her slides, including those mentioning casualties in [Gaza](https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza) as a result of the [Israel-Hamas war](https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war), and those discussing cuts at USAID
> Liu, who said she was already in [New York](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-york) when she received the call, told CTV News that she was told that the slides about Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic” and that the USAID slides might be perceived as “anti-governmental”.
I’m not shocked that the bastions of liberty in America’s universities are voluntarily self-censoring in order to please the government, just as they did in World War I, the inter-war period, World War II, the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, and so on.
Edit: But I’m told by The Atlantic that the real bias that we should be concerned about is those darned humanitarian organisations.
It’s disappointing that our democracy’s response to authoritarianism is submission.