| Sidd Finch |
04-17-2006 01:28 PM |
that Ivory Tower is at it again...
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Originally posted by Gattigap
Well, it doesn't use the words "unfuckiungbelievable" or "scumbag liberal," but I'll grant you that Volokh supports you that the university professors are acting like twits.
I found this part of the Volokh quote interesting:
- I expect that the university will promptly dismiss the complaint, since even under the university's own policy such speech is not prohibited -- among other reasons, the speech wasn't "based on a person's protected status," since the statements weren't about the complainants, and weren't targeted towards the complainants because of their sexual orientation. But it reflects badly on the complainants that the complaint is even being filed.
So the university may not go full-out in its defense of some dumbass, liberalscumbagproterrorist professors, and this wound of political correctness on the body politic may not be the chronic bleeder that conservatives had hoped. Sad.
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I took a look at the ADF site, the complaint letter, and the emails that the ADF chose to include (there were clearly other emails, written by their client, that they chose to leave out.)
The controversy centers around one book that he recommended, "The Marketing of Evil," which looks to be an anti-gay screed self-published by a right-wing press. Sort of Ed Anger with a website.
Some of the faculty in the discussion are openly gay and focus on gay issues in their scholarship.
So, is pushing this book, which talks about "gay rights" as "evil," harassment? I'm not sure. Certainly Savage is a shit-stirring moron, but leave that aside. If the profs in question were conservative Israelis -- say a pro-Sharon scholar and a Zionist -- and they were discussing books for a freshman reading group on Jewish history, and the librarian starting pushing for inclusion of the Turner Diaries and the Chronicles of the Elders of Zion on the argument that these would spur discussion and challenge the dominant orthodoxy..... would that be anti-Semitic? Or just stupid? Would it matter if the librarian had admitted that he had never read the books, and thus could not speak to the quality of scholarship (if any)?*
*Or, in this case, if he cited a right-wing Ph.D. in Communications, who was a Jerry Springer guest, as support for the book and as having "more academic heft" that the entire university at which he worked? (This was apparently what he said, in one of his emails; I didn't see that email included in the ADF letter but did see references to it..... maybe I just missed it). |
