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

[David Green via Peace-discuss]

Wayne, just read the text more carefully; don't you agree that Wise's hat should "fit fairly"??
 
DG 


On Thursday, September 4, 2014 12:04 AM, E. W. Johnson via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
  

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>I can understand now why magritte and monty python are mere amateurs in
>surrealism, both comical and existentially disturbing.
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>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...
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>When the standard excuse of preservation of pubic tranquility fails,
>you can always say "Hey, man, it's for the Kids
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>By all means the 
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>On 09/04/2014 04:22 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss wrote:
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>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 
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>>On Wednesday, September 3, 2014 3:11 PM, C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net wrote:
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>>>http://chronicle.com/article/A-Growing-Hunt-for-Heretics-/148589/
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>>>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."
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>>>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?
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>>>It would be hard to find arguments as silly as that
                    within 20th century totalitarianisms. It's the
                    absurd if vicious end of Postmodernism.
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>>>--CGE
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