Old Weird Ward
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Monday, June 02, 2003
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From time to time, I may draw your attention to those persons who, in MY opinion, qualify as "Dangerous Idiots". These persons run off at the mouth, attempting to quell dissent, all in the name of "it's good for you". Taken from Fox News comes this story. And who is the Dangerous Idiot? Professor of Anthropology Evelyn Phillips. My very short comment is after the article.
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To criticize a conference about slavery reparations at Central Connecticut State University for not including participants against the notion is racist and illustrates a “blind hatred against black skin,” reports the Journal-Sentinel.
The Connecticut Association of Scholars, in a letter to the Connecticut State University system decrying a lack of intellectual diversity on campuses, cited the reparations conferences last year as an example of that lack of diversity. The organizers of the conference, however, say the CAS’ criticism is racist.
"The protests against reparations stand on the same platform that produced apartheid, Hitler, and the KKK," said Evelyn Phillips, a professor of anthropology at CCSU. The CSU system's chancellor, William J. Cibes, says the campuses are already diverse. He says academic freedom is about professors expressing their views without interference from the administration and outside parties. "That's really what academic freedom is," Cibes says. "To begin to say there should be enforced diversity is to begin to interfere with academic freedom"
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I should be forced to pay "reparations" for an institution that was abolished 85 years before my birth? That no one in my family had anything to do with? And I should be forced to pay these "reparations", through my taxes, and through higher prices for goods and services without debate? I'm a "racist" because I want debate?
Not on your tin-type, Hosmer! Blow it out your ears!
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