Communities with "mores"

Opposing SB37

I’m a computer science professor at UT, although I’m writing in my personal capacity. For 20 years, on my blog and elsewhere, I’ve been outspoken in opposing woke radicalism on campus and (especially) obsessive hatred of Israel that often veers into antisemitism, even when that’s caused me to get attacked from my left. Nevertheless, I write to strongly oppose SB37 in its current form, because of my certainty that no world-class research university can survive ceding control over its curriculum and faculty hiring to the state.

The answer is that it's a state university and it needs some state management and oversight of its budget, and if you don't like it, there are private universities but they aren't funded by the state.

The sheer political offensiveness of the blog title, namely "Shtetl-Optimized," is enough to embarrass Jews everywhere and serve as an open incitement of antisemitism and antisemitic violence.

We're talking about Jewish-dominated and Jewish-governed small towns and communities in medieval Europe of course, and the sort of politics that led to the two world wars of the last century.

The emphasis is on Jewish "law" of course, rather than ethnicity or faith, from a community-building perspective. And it's strange because the sort of "law" that there is among such community-minded (or communist) busybodies is always in direct opposition to the Ten Commandments.

From any sane reading of the Ten Commandments as any sound basis of Jewish law, one would conclude that true Jews would believe in only one God and that they abhor communism as a flagrant violation of all Ten Commandments.