{"id":748161,"date":"2021-09-13T14:35:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T18:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=748161"},"modified":"2021-09-13T14:36:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T18:36:00","slug":"canadian-prof-calls-9-11-a-dumb-little-annual-pity-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadian-prof-calls-9-11-a-dumb-little-annual-pity-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Prof Calls 9\/11 A \u2018Dumb Little Annual Pity Party\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcanadian-prof-calls-9-11-a-dumb-little-annual-pity-party%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=748161&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1235221368.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Saturday morning, on the twentieth anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks in which roughly 3,000 Americans were murdered by Islamic terrorists, a Canadian professor mocked Americans honoring the dead and memorializing the event, tweeting, \u201cI see the U.S. &nbsp;is having its dumb little annual pity party again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Associate professor of philosophy Jonathan Weisberg from the University of Toronto later deleted the tweet, reportedly, but not before social media eviscerated him for his heartlessness.<\/p>\n<p>One Canadian attorney reacted, \u201cThank you for exposing yourself, @jweisber. People of conscience who remember the horror of 9\/11, or can imagine it, can respond morally by refusing to take any course taught by this revolting human being.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.7446808510638\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you for exposing yourself <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jweisber?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jweisber<\/a>. People of conscience who remember the horror of 9\/11, or can imagine it, can respond morally by refusing to take any course taught by this revolting human being. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uytaEqisko\">pic.twitter.com\/uytaEqisko<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Handlarski (@RHDefence) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RHDefence\/status\/1436818008425500677?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Famed professor Gad Saad, who saw the tweet before it was deleted, wrote on Twitter:&nbsp;\u201cNote that the butchering of 3,000 innocent people does not trigger this hero\u2019s ire. But if you were to misgender him (check his bio) well then that\u2019s linguistic genocide. What an execrable cretin.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.2786259541985\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Note that the butchering of 3,000 innocent people does not trigger this hero&#8217;s ire.  But if you were to misgender him (check his bio) well then that&#8217;s linguistic genocide.  What an execrable cretin. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mm6qP1fa1w\">https:\/\/t.co\/mm6qP1fa1w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gad Saad (@GadSaad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GadSaad\/status\/1436769249775738884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He added, \u201cAs soon as I made this guy\u2019s vile tweet about 9\/11 visible on my platform, he protected his tweets. Academia is filled with innumerable such folks.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.962962962963\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As soon as I made this guy&#8217;s vile tweet about 9\/11 visible on my platform, he protected his tweets.  Academia is filled with innumerable such folks. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Kl4I4tNSUI\">pic.twitter.com\/Kl4I4tNSUI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gad Saad (@GadSaad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GadSaad\/status\/1436771398521925634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.5562913907285\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He protected his tweets. Does anyone have a screenshot of the 9\/11 tweet in question? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yj4ZTaLhUk\">https:\/\/t.co\/Yj4ZTaLhUk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gad Saad (@GadSaad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GadSaad\/status\/1436771817297956867?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.5473684210526\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you for the screenshot! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vLF2KxoVtm\">https:\/\/t.co\/vLF2KxoVtm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gad Saad (@GadSaad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GadSaad\/status\/1436772058705321988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Weisberg received his Ph.D. in Philosophy, from Rutgers University in 2006 and his BA in Philosophy and BA in Math from the University of Washington in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/neo-nazi-ken-okeefe-spreads-anti-semitic-hatred-harry-khachatrian\/\">reported<\/a> in May 2016 of a neo-Nazi, Ken O\u2019Keefe, who spoke at the JJR Macleod Auditorium at the University of Toronto, where he not only posited \u201cJews run the media,\u201d \u201cthe Jews control everything,\u201d \u201cthey run the courts and the banks,\u201d but also questioned the validity of the Holocaust, snapping, \u201cWhy would we believe official histories of any subject? I defy anybody who takes a serious look at World War II to support what we\u2019ve been told [about this war]. Every f***in\u2019 historical event that we\u2019ve been told about is bull****. Come on, who writes that s***? \u2026 The victors write history and their history is bull****.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, &nbsp;\u201cWe can go on and on and on. World War II is no exception. It is the Holocaust myth, the myth of what happened in terms of the Jewish population and the concentration camps and what Hitler did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In February 2017, roughly a week after a speech at the university held by Students in Support of Free Speech was frequently interrupted by protesters, the school\u2019s student newspaper, The Varsity,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/thevarsity.ca\/2017\/02\/12\/bigotry-bears-no-right-to-a-platform\/\">published a column<\/a>&nbsp;titled&nbsp;\u201cBigotry bears no right to a platform.\u201d The author, a second-year gender studies major, wrote, \u201cSpeakers at the event included [Jordan] Peterson, Psychology Professor who has been called transphobic by some students on campus following his Professor against political correctness YouTube lecture series<em> \u2026<\/em> What freedom of speech does not entail is speaking without having to face consequences or being permitted a platform wherever you want. All groups on campus, regardless of political alignment, should be permitted to hold uninterrupted events. But speakers who promote racism, Islamophobia, or any other kind of bigotry should never be given a space here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday morning, on the twentieth anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks in which roughly 3,000 Americans were murdered by Islamic terrorists, a Canadian professor mocked Americans honoring the dead and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}