[Peace-discuss] My comment on NG article

[Carl G. Estabrook]

Come on, David - a little perspective! What's more important, dead children or identity politics? To say nothing (we don't, at UI) of academic freedom.  

"'I'm glad that Steven Salaita wasn't hired. I found his tweets to be extremely offensive and extremely racist,' Graber said, *in the same way she found Chief Illiniwek racist*" [emphasis added].

--CGE
 
On Mar 10, 2015, at 8:48 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> Kim Graeber equates Salaita's heated opposition to Israel blowing off the heads of Palestinian children with the minstrelsy of the "chief." That made me laugh out loud.
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> http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2015-03-10/senate-trustees-should-delegate-hiring.html#comment-539846
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