Is there still a way to see the article in question. As someone who was born and raised in a colony or territory or commonwealth as preferred by some, I am interested to see this article.
If I may add two cents? Freedom of speech sometimes means some of us will get hurt by others’ words and ignorance. I believe though, that when we censor, we run into a dangerous place. Because someone else can claim that our words as minorities are offensive and thus, following a precedent of censoring, censor our words too. And then we don’t have a voice. This is a hard balance and not easily managed but isn’t that what a democracy is, to have the outlet to say what we think and then debate? I don’t know and I don’t mean to offend anyone either. As an educator I foster open dialogue in design classes and I tell the students that learning to agree to disagree is the heart of civility and democracy. I am about to board a flight otherwise I would continue.
Alma
Alma Hoffmann
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> On Oct 9, 2017, at 12:00 PM, Deepa Butoliya <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Agreed that threatening is legally and morally wrong, however, call for
> retraction isn't. I am pretty sure the petition didn't ask for any violent
> measures to be taken by the petitioners. That paper, according to Third
> World Quarterly, was published as a "Viewpoints" essay. I agree with
> Farhana Sultana that the scholarship wasn't worth the rebuttal.
>
> Yes, this can be seen as an attack on freedom of speech, it can be seen as
> intolerance towards diverse viewpoint in academe, it can be seen as just
> taking lazy peer reviewing to task....but these are tangential issues. The
> crux of the whole debate is being insensitive towards those who brutally
> suffered under colonialism and how this was carelessly handled/ignored.
>
> How do you think people would react if, dare I say, "Google's Ideological
> Echo Chamber" was published as a double-blind peer-reviewed essay by a
> publisher like T&F?
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Deepa
>
>
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