Is authorized to declare recesses at any anytime. Welcome to the hearing on examining antisemitism on College Campuses. Before i gave my opening state and before mr. Conyers gives hum ill yield to him so he can say word about the tragedy that occurred in texas over the weekend. The gentleman is recognized. Top of the morning and i thank you, mr. Chairman. Welcome all nine witnesses, alltime hearing, and the distinguished gentleman from wisconsin, mr. Sensenbrenner. Let me just say briefly that before discussing the important topic of todays hearing, i want to raise another issue that we must unfortunately confront with urgency. On sunday, gunman shot and killed 26 church goers in sutherland springs, texas. We now know that information concerning his courtmartial for Domestic Abuse should have been submitted by the air force to the National Incident criminal background check system. Should have been prevented from purchasing firearms from licensees gun dealers, via the brady background
Consistent with that commitment, we have several related concerns with the act. This hearing takes place at a moment of pressing threats to free speech on campus, including efforts to disinvite and shout down speakers, hateful speech that intimidates members of historically vulnerable groups and to punish speech. Amid these encroachments, its imperative to avoid allowing even wellintended measures to restrict parameters for expression. Its not difficult to conceive of scenarios, a model uu. N. Debate targeting israel, speeches by lefties or break the silence of soldiers who oppose their governments policies where the speech could meet antisemitism contained enact without being antisemitic at all. While such speech alone may not amounts to a civil rights violation, it could form part of a claim of harassment, thus subjecting the speaker to investigation and potential disciplinary action. Many College Students are finding their political voice for the first time, exploring modes of activ
Guest well, i could have begun even earlier, of course, but the 1950s marked the time when gay people started to organize. Incidentally, we were all called gay at that time, not lgbtq, but gay was sort of the umbrella term, the underground term for all of us. So the first ongoing organization that formed started in 1950s, and that would be [inaudible] society and it was very difficult to get people to join that organization. So i talk about the persecutions in the 1950s and why an organization was necessary. You know, in the 50s all of the churches, gay people were sinners. And to psychiatrists, all gay people were mentally ill. And to the police, all gay people were criminals. And to the federal government, if you had a job that had anything to do with government and slowly facilitiered down even to teachers filtered down even to teachers and social workers, all gay people were subversives and morally corrupt and shouldnt be employed by the government. And so the 1950s was a very rife
Encourage you to join friends of the festival. Thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] host youre watching live coverage of the tucson festival of books, we are live from the university of arizona. As you can see, large audiences for each of these author panels. And outside of this theater the festival is going on on a Beautiful Day here this in tucson on the campus. Coming up, there are several more author panels that youll hear including slavery in america, big money and philanthropy and the history of women in the sciences. Now, in just a minute one of the panelists are this last panel, lillian faderman. Her book is called the gay revolution the story of the struggle. Shell be joining us to take your calls. Youve been listening to the panel for the last hour or so, and now ms. Faderman has agreed to come over and join us and to take some of your comments as well. 202 is the area code, 7488200 in the east and central time zones, 2027488201 if you live in the mountain and paci
Difficult to get people to join that organization. So i talk about the persecutions in the 1950s and why an organization was necessary. You know, in the 50s all of the churches, gay people were sinners. And to psychiatrists, all gay people were mentally ill. And to the police, all gay people were criminals. And to the federal government, if you had a job that had anything to do with government and slowly facilitiered down even to teachers filtered down even to teachers and social workers, all gay people were subversives and morally corrupt and shouldnt be employed by the government. And so the 1950s was a very rife period, and thats why i start there. Host but there were gay people before 1950s, right . [laughter] guest i think people called themselves gay as early as the late 19th century. But there were people that we would today tribe as homosexual describe as homosexual or transgender or bisexual who wouldnt have used that word for themselves in earlier eras. But, obviously, whats