The aim of the billboards I am speaking of is to confuse the semantics between anti-Israel speech and antisemitism, and to normalize ostracization of those who do either, effectively contributing to the chilling of speech over time by forcing dissenters to be more careful about when and where they denounce they genocide.
You are taking for granted how many of these damn billboards have cropped up recently and how prominent they are. Don't you make the connection to McCarthyism? We've seen all of these tactics before, and road signs have long been a prominent medium for controlling public opinion.
Called out academia as an exception.
> You have not even seen the billboards I'm talking about, have not asked me about them, you're just dismissing them out of bias
I’m dismissing them on the basis of being billboards.
> They are actively creating a conflict narrative
Yeah. That’s legitimate speech. To pretend there isn’t a debate about what to call what’s going on in Gaza is a bit insular and counterproductive.
Again: there is a chilling effect. Disagreeable billboards aren’t an example of that.