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It's not just about liberal academics whinging about a few negative emails though. It's also about incidents like the 2019 'deplatforming' of Cindy Sheehan. Cheers, John On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 2:34 PM A.R. G via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > So Noam Chomsky is a transphobia-defender now? > > This piece is garbage. Of course some of the people in the list are > right-wing hypocrites (Bari Weiss, obviously) but the rest of this piece is > trash. Indeed, the list of examples that the author presumes the > signatories are criticizing don't consist of examples of people using their > platforms to be awful. Some of them, particularly the quoting of the N-word > show the exact opposite: that positions of power and influence are being > used to teach the works of anti-racist luminaries like MLK and James > Baldwin. Another example was a graphic video that showed the (graphic) > nature of lynchings and slavery. This echoes the manipulative campaign that > was used by neoliberal types to get rid of the communist mural at the high > school in San Francisco that properly labelled George Washignton a slave > owner. I wonder if any of these trigger-warning types would suggest > shutting down the Holocaust museum because its content is graphic? > > That the author of this piece throws in quoting the N-word from one of > their books with trying to dehumanize transgender people or something is > absolute nonsense. > > Moreover, the author seems to have conveniently left out all of the times > where leftist causes have faced cancellation and censorship, the most > obvious being Palestine. I'm inclined to agree with the author that people > criticizing you is not a form of "censorship" per se but the use of > Twitter, Facebook, etc. to swarm on professors for making ideological faux > pas is a deeply troubling development in my book.In my view the bigger > issue is that this dynamic is simply ignored when the targets are leftists, > and indeed, this piece simply erased the most prominent example of cancel > culture and censorship on college campuses, which is the attempts to > destroy the lives of scholars and activists for Palestine. > > Amith R. Gupta > > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 7:04 PM Michael Meeropol via Marxism < > marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > > > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > > ***************************************************************** > > > > And Deirdre McCloskey is a trans-phobe? > > > > (answer: She was born Donald McCloskey ....) > > _________________________________________________________ > > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > > Set your options at: > > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com > > > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/johnedmundson4%40gmail.com > -- "All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks." Sarah Moore Grimke, abolitionist (1792-1873) _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
