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

[E. Wayne Johnson via Peace-discuss]

The lunatics are commanding the asylum and have
thrown up bulwarks round about it.

On 9/4/2014 10:16 PM, David Green wrote:
> Wayne, just read the text more carefully; don't you agree that Wise's 
> hat should "fit fairly"??
> DG
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> 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.
>
>     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
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>     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
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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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