[Peace-discuss] Feisal G. Mohamed and Cary Nelson debate what’s at stake in the Salaita affair

[E. W. Johnson via Peace-discuss]

I can understand now why magritte and monty python are mere amateurs in
surrealism, both comical and existentially disturbing.

with marcy dodds setting the standards for public exposure
of her wrinkly, tanning-bed-tortured thorax,
and deb feinen and habeeb cubed sliced and diced setting the
standards for law-abiding & propriety, the students of the
Champaign-Urbana-Newman-Thomasboro/Tolono-Sadorus/Sidney
community have little to fear...

When the standard excuse of preservation of pubic tranquility fails,
you can always say "Hey, man, it's for the Kids

By all means the



On 09/04/2014 04:22 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss wrote:
> For absurdity of a less post-modern vein, here's a link to the full 
> page ad that was in the NG on Sunday.
> http://www.news-gazette.com/sites/all/files/pdf/2014/09/03/0831_C06_FPA.pdf
>
>
> On Wednesday, September 3, 2014 3:11 PM, C. G. Estabrook via 
> Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
>
>
>     http://chronicle.com/article/A-Growing-Hunt-for-Heretics-/148589/
>
>     Nelson: "...Meaning is not stable and ultimately decidable, so the
>     battle over what Salaita’s tweets mean in an ultimate sense is
>     largely futile. And no one can be certain what Salaita intended
>     with his tweets. But one can track how people experience them and
>     what their social, cultural, and political impact is. And on those
>     grounds, several tweets cross the line into anti-Semitism."
>
>     Deciding what Salaita's tweets mean "is largely futile" and "no
>     one can be certain what Salaita intended," but if some people
>     (like large donors) "experience them" as anti-Semitic, he can be
>     fired?
>
>     It would be hard to find arguments as silly as that within 20th
>     century totalitarianisms. It's the absurd if vicious end of
>     Postmodernism.
>
>     --CGE
>
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