Well, I don't know which is more dismaying, Alison, that piece of crap
"journalism" you posted or the gleeful sarcasm of your follow-up post
("patriotic hysteria"? "ideas about freedom and justice...nurtured in - why
yes - the US of A"?)--how cheap.
You're getting the News of the World through a "filter" all right--it's
called prejudice.
Disappointedly,
Candice
on 12/20/01 6:49 PM, Alison Croggon at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Hi Candice - not being privy to the arcana of US academe, it seemed
> to me alarming enough, given many of the oped pieces I read in the NY
> Times, the new anti-terrorist legislation, and various other moves or
> prevailing mores which marginalise dissent as "treacherous". After
> all, remember what happened to Muriel Rukeyser in a similar
> atmosphere. I can't think but these things are going to have real
> affects, and even it is a beat up, it is, as I said, a swallow. It's
> taking time for us to recognise what is happening in our worlds, but
> they're beginning to filter through -
>
> Cheers
>
> A
>
>
>
>> I don't understand why you posted this, Alison: it's a lazy rehash by the
>> Guardian's LA local-interest correspondent (who mainly covers Hollywood with
>> all due shallowness) of a story from mid-November about a conservative
>> "watchdog" group that briefly scandalized academia with a list of 100
>> academics it deemed "unpatriotic." The implied link to funding cuts for
>> courses taught by the ACTA 100 appears to be extremely tenuous at best,
>> since this group plays no role in academic funding and has little or no
>> influence in academia, so far as I know, despite founder Lynne Cheney's past
>> celebrity. The fact that a few faculty members at two or three schools have
>> made this allegation hardly amounts to evidence of such influence, and even
>> the spurious implication that liberal antiwar academics are _the_ target is
>> undermined by reference to Arab and Muslim student complaints about
>> conservative professors' racist remarks in the classroom. Moreover, many
>> teach-ins were held (and reported to have been successful) at campuses
>> across the country on Veterans Day--November 12th--the day after the ACTA
>> 100 list was reported in the US press--but Duncan Campbell doesn't rehash
>> that related story.
>>
>> Am I missing something newsworthy here?
>>
>> Candice
>>
>>
>>
>> on 12/20/01 4:19 PM, Alison Croggon at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>
>>> Another disturbing swallow...
>>>
>>> A
>>>
>>> At 1:20 PM +0000 20/12/2001, Guardian Unlimited wrote:
>>>> Today, Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles says course funds are threatened
>>>> and professors denounced and suspended for organising teach-ins on
>>>> the war and voicing criticism of American foreign policy.
>>>>
>>>> The universities of the United States often become the battlegrounds
>>>> on which ideological and political wars are waged so it should be no
>>>> surprise that there have been some metaphorical skirmishes taking
>>>> place on campuses over the last three months.
>>>>
>>>> What is interesting is that it is the academics rather than the
>>>> students that are getting involved more publicly in the dust-ups.
>>>>
>>>> Liberal academics who have organised teach-ins on the war, voiced
>>>> opposition or criticised American foreign policy, claim that they
>>>> have been identified as unpatriotic and that funding of their courses
>>>> is now at risk.
>>>>
>>>> They blame the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), the
>>>> conservative watchdog group founded by Lynne Cheney, wife of the
>>>> vice-president, and Senator Joe Lieberman, for targeting them.
>>>>
>>>> * Read on here
>>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,621053,00.html
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