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2005-01-25 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by tipper 2005-01-25 09:04|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If the Spectator is Columbia U's newspaper, expect every copy of the issue to be stolen.

Posted by Steve from Relto 2005-01-25 9:17:33 AM|| 2005-01-25 9:17:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Money quotes:

Challenge Israelâs policiesâfine. Call Israel a racist stateâsure, thatâs your opinion. But how dare you label all people of the Israeli nation, including my friends and family, as possessing a âvulgarity of character?â Professor Dabashi, while your freedom to teach your political viewpoint must be protected, your bigoted statement should mark you as a racist.

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The plain truth is that if a professor had made the same comments about blacks, Muslims, or Chinese, he would have been rightfully attacked by a plethora of students denouncing his racist and colonial attitude. The lack of response from current students, especially those who are closely associated with Professor Dabashi and the MEALAC department, is a shame and will stain the University in my mind for years to come.

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And to think that this place and Northwestern are famous for thier journalism schools. Now what was it we have been saying here at Rantburg about journalism bias....

Posted by OldSpook 2005-01-25 12:28:28 PM|| 2005-01-25 12:28:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 You should see the tripe coming out of Columbia as cutting edge ESL. It's complete nonsense, wrapped up in the school's (fading) reputation. Thank God there are some smaller, lesser known researchers, publishers and educators dedicated challenging these educational behemoths.

Posted by Jules 187 2005-01-25 1:49:51 PM|| 2005-01-25 1:49:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Seems that Academia is full of garbage.

Berkeley Hires a Feminist Liar

Over the past few days, the media in Israel have reported a scandal at the Hebrew University involving a radical feminist professor who was forced to resign because of alleged gross fabrication and distortion of research results.

At Weissâ initiative, it was decided to allow her to resign in the middle of the academic year, rather than face âprosecutionâ or probable dismissal in disgrace. She hopped the first plane to California and is now a visiting professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley.

Posted by Whonter Spomort7944 2005-01-25 2:07:41 PM|| 2005-01-25 2:07:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 The clips of her quotes sound more like boilerplate guilty-Westerner/self-hating liberal talk than feminist commentary to me. Maybe we'll get some specifics that will explain Frontpages' headline. In any case, there sure seems to be more than a few nutcases in the ranks of Columbia.

Posted by Jules 187 2005-01-25 2:31:01 PM|| 2005-01-25 2:31:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 The point is: that guy has paid a (big) sum for being teached. But he is not getting what he paid for, instead he is receiveing propaganda. Thus he should sue the University in order to get not merely a refund but a BIG compensation for the year he lost. When enough people do this universities will no longer professors using their pulpits for propaganda on tax pyaer/sytudent money.

Posted by JFM 2005-01-25 2:46:09 PM|| 2005-01-25 2:46:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Does a geography teacher has a "right" to teach that Earth is flat?

Posted by gromgorru 2005-01-25 8:54:48 PM|| 2005-01-25 8:54:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 excellent point grom. Is Columbia tax funded. If it is, time to stop it. With all going on, this just can't be tolerated without a fight.

Posted by 2b 2005-01-25 9:01:58 PM|| 2005-01-25 9:01:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Money quotes:

Challenge Israelâs policiesâfine. Call Israel a racist stateâsure, thatâs your opinion. But how dare you label all people of the Israeli nation, including my friends and family, as possessing a âvulgarity of character?â Professor Dabashi, while your freedom to teach your political viewpoint must be protected, your bigoted statement should mark you as a racist.

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The plain truth is that if a professor had made the same comments about blacks, Muslims, or Chinese, he would have been rightfully attacked by a plethora of students denouncing his racist and colonial attitude. The lack of response from current students, especially those who are closely associated with Professor Dabashi and the MEALAC department, is a shame and will stain the University in my mind for years to come.

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And to think that this place and Northwestern are famous for thier journalism schools. Now what was it we have been saying here at Rantburg about journalism bias....

Posted by OldSpook 2005-01-25 12:28:28 PM|| 2005-01-25 12:28:28 PM|| Front Page Top

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Posted by OldSpook 2005-01-25 12:28:28 PM|| 2005-01-25 12:28:28 PM|| Front Page Top

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