[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] Fwd: [ExComm] Fwd: News-Gazette coverage

[Stuart Levy]

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 05:52:16PM +0200, Robert Naiman wrote:
> I suppose we may soon see letters in the News-Gazette charging the peace
> community in Champaign-Urbana with gross hypocrisy.
> 
> One the one hand, we are insisting that the Urbana City Council defend the
> right to air Holocaust denial videos on UPTV.
> 
> On the other hand, we are demanding that the Chancellor stop students from
> wearing pro-Chief shirts in University-sponsored events.
>
> What's the consistent principle that unites these two demands?

But are we demanding that?  The recent article closes by pointing out

      "It is important to understand that we are not talking about
    the freedom of an individual or a group of individuals to
    walk down Wright Street or appear in the stands at a football
    or basketball game dressed as the Chief.  Some of us might
    find that behavior odious," the statement says, but it can't
    legitimately be proscribed.

      That's different from use of the Chief by participants in a
    university-sponsored event, the committee says.
 
That sounds consistent to me.  We can oppose institutional racism
while still supporting individual freedom of expression, even when it's
racist.  No?
 
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Belden Fields <a-fields at uiuc.edu> wrote:
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> > Begin forwarded message:
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> > *From: *Belden Fields <a-fields at uiuc.edu>
> > *Date: *April 30, 2008 8:57:52 AM CDT
> > *To: *UPEexcom <EXCOMM at prairienet.org>
> > *Subject: **[ExComm] Fwd: News-Gazette coverage*
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> > Begin forwarded message:
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> > *From: *Belden Fields <a-fields at uiuc.edu>
> > *Date: *April 30, 2008 8:55:01 AM CDT
> > *To: *Constance H Shapiro <chshapir at uiuc.edu>, Eleanor Tewksbury <
> > etewksbu at uiuc.edu>, Joyce Tolliver <joycet at uiuc.edu>, Adriana Cuervo
> > acuervo at uiuc.edu, Belden Fields a-fields at uiuc.edu, Kevin Fritz
> > kfritz2 at uiuc.edu, Franci Miller familler at uiuc.edu, Adriana Cuervo <
> > acuervo at uiuc.edu>
> > *Subject: **News-Gazette coverage*
> >
> > Dear Excom members,
> >
> > I hope that you all had a chance to see Julie Wurth's excellent story
> > about the Senate's Equal Opportunity and Inclusion Committee's resolution
> > and policy statement in yesterday's (Thursday, the 29th) News-Gazette.
> >
> > Belden