UCLA Students Urged to Expose "Radical" Professors
Story here.
posted by Sean @ 1/22/2006 12:39:00 AM
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5 Comments:
Yeah, its nice to know that our government has created an atmosphere where little Brownshirts feel comfortable crawling back out from under their rocks again. Senator McCarthy would be proud. "Prove your patriotism, turn in your neighbor!"
Do you think its our government's fault, in general, or this administration's fault?
I velieve it may simply be an expression of the political polarization in this country: private citizens as extremists.
Err, believe. Not velieve.
Should have said Administration, but perhaps its broader than that considering all three branches of government are in Republican hands. Its an extension of the line of thinking the Bushies (and their Congressional friends) used after 9/11: if you criticize us or announce any thoughts that aren't verbal flag waving, you're unpatriotic, potentially dangerously so, and must be condemned. The official disdain heaped upon the idea of civil liberties also does nothing to discourage self-appointed thought, or perhaps more precisely orthodoxy, police.
Just to play devil's advocate here, but doesn't this guy have the right to create his organization and express his opinions of UCLA facullty? It's not sanctioned by the university and he's funded by private donations. Soliciting students to gather data on suspect professors is probably crossing the line, in so much as it violates university policy and could infringe on the professor's intellectual property rights. However, compiling and publishing a list of radical professors should be protected speech.
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