<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Salaita lost his job as a result of being openly outraged by Israeli massacres in Gaza. Since that can't be acknowledged, Wise & Trustees run hypocritical rings around their opposition to BDS in the name of academic freedom, invoking a transcendent concern for all people to be nice at all times, so as to prevent discussion of whether Israeli is being nice to the Palestinians.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>DG</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;">
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<div class="yiv5343008986yqt8788648971" id="yiv5343008986yqt04644"><div>On Aug 22, 2014, at 6:26 PM, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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John K. Wilson, a co-editor of the American Association of University Professors’ Academe Blog.)</span><br clear="none" style="font: 18px/normal TimesNewRomanPSMT; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
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of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign chancellor Phyllis Wise has written an open letter to the campus (copied below) explaining her decision not to allow the hiring of Steven Salaita. The letter is an appalling attack on academic freedom and a rejection of the
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argues, “What we cannot and will not tolerate at the University of Illinois are personal and disrespectful words or actions that demean and abuse either viewpoints themselves or those who express them.” Of course, this standard is ridiculous: individuals should
be free to say personal and “disrespectful” things about others (for example, everyone should be free to say that Wise’s argument here is both stupid and evil, without facing punishment from the respect police). Respect is not a fundamental value of any university,
and being “disrespectful” is not an academic crime. But it’s notable that Salaita really didn’t say anything personal about anyone. So here Wise greatly expands the concept, declaring that not only persons but “viewpoints themselves” must be protected from
any disrespectful words. I am puzzled as to exactly how a free university could possibly operate when no one is allowed to be disrespectful toward any viewpoint. Presumably, Wise will quickly act to fire anyone who has ever disrespected or demeaned Nazism,
terrorism, racism, sexism, and homophobia. Since all “viewpoints” are protected, then biology professors must be fired for disrespecting creationism as false, along with any other professor who is found to believe or know anything.</span><br clear="none" style="font: 18px/normal TimesNewRomanPSMT; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
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