Scholars, documentary producers, and genocide survivors have gathered at
California State University at Long Beach this week for the President's
Forum on International Human
Rights,<http://www.csulb.edu/president/humanrights/>which is focused
on modern genocides and society's responsibility to prevent
them. Participants report that the sessions have been engaging and intense,
and the gathering is being praised for focusing attention on the most vile
forms of hate. Some of those who have been participating, however, wonder if
the university needs to look a little closer to home.
Also this week, a white supremacist Web site called Vanguard News Network
(its motto is "No Jews. Just Right.") drew attention to an
article<http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/?p=2616#comments>in the
Long Beach student paper about how some professors there want more
distance between the institution and a psychology professor, Kevin
MacDonald, who has applied evolutionary psychology to studying Jews in ways
that scholars find offensive and inaccurate.
Entire article available
here<http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/02/14/csulb>
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Joseph Duemer
Professor of Humanities
Clarkson University
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