Dr. Gottheil's Statement of Concern is now posted at PetitionsOnline.com, and is accepting signatures from anyone willing to speak out against human rights abuses in the Middle East. As you're obviously interested in the story, I urge you to step up and sign it: Support Regarding Discrimination in the Middle East against Women, Gays, and Lesbians Petition
Obviously, we'll be counting on everyone here to reply to this request.
What's the difference between a highly educated bigot and a lowly uneducated bigot?
Tasine
September 19, 2010 11:16:03
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human rights violations in the Muslim Middle East, such as honor
killing, wife beating, female genital mutilation, and violence against
gays and lesbians?” he wondered. “I felt it was worth a try.”The results? “Almost non existent,” he told Front Page editor Jamie
Glazov. Only 27 of the 675 “self-described social-justice seeking
academics” agreed to sign Gottheil’s Statement of Concern – less than 5
percent of the total who had publicly called for the censure of Israel
for human rights violations.
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I've been criticized for showing no respect for our institutions of higher learning (a misnomer). The information in this article sort of succinctly sums up why I criticize the "intelligensia" - primarily because they aren't all that intelligent. There are some good people in the field of education. It's unfortunate for them that so many of their peers are such dunderheads and so full of themselves that the purpose of their existence there (real education of students) becomes forgotten and ignored or worse, taught lies and propaganda.
Bigots are liars, plain and simple. They may be lying only to themselves, but they're liars nevertheless. In truth, I think lying to one's self is more dangerous than lying to others. Bigots lie to themselves, then to others.
Prof. Fred Gottheil told Front Page Magazine
that he compiled a list of 675 email addresses from 900 signatures on a
2009 petition authored by Dr. David Lloyd, professor of English at the
University of Southern California, urging the U.S. to abandon its ally,
Israel. Prof. Gottheil discovered that six of the signers, who hailed
from more than 150 college campuses, were members of his own faculty.
human rights violations in the Muslim Middle East, such as honor
killing, wife beating, female genital mutilation, and violence against
gays and lesbians?” he wondered. “I felt it was worth a try.”The results? “Almost non existent,” he told Front Page editor Jamie
Glazov. Only 27 of the 675 “self-described social-justice seeking
academics” agreed to sign Gottheil’s Statement of Concern – less than 5
percent of the total who had publicly called for the censure of Israel
for human rights violations.
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I've been criticized for showing no respect for our institutions of higher learning (a misnomer). The information in this article sort of succinctly sums up why I criticize the "intelligensia" - primarily because they aren't all that intelligent. There are some good people in the field of education. It's unfortunate for them that so many of their peers are such dunderheads and so full of themselves that the purpose of their existence there (real education of students) becomes forgotten and ignored or worse, taught lies and propaganda.
Bigots are liars, plain and simple. They may be lying only to themselves, but they're liars nevertheless. In truth, I think lying to one's self is more dangerous than lying to others. Bigots lie to themselves, then to others.
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repsac3 September 25, 2010 20:23:00
Obviously, we'll be counting on everyone here to reply to this request.
But, yes, the word has been bastardized as have so many of our words to fit people's personal needs, primarily to try to hurt someone or to make them shut up. I've written blogs about this very thing. Our language has become so twisted by hatred and lies that it is becoming meaningless - every word open to interpretation. This as much as anything spells the end of a nation.