There is and has been a consistent anti-American propaganda campaign going on in academia for forty years. Taken on the gigantic level of the media and academia industries, it amounts to a campaign-scale attack on the US. It has most likely contributed to setting an intellectual climate in which anti-American terrorism is nourished. The anti-American rhetoric on university campuses is far, far beyond simple criticism and debate over various positions taken by the US government. It is simply contemptuous, constant slander which may serve to nourish anti-American terrorism. Therefore, it does not matter to me if certain political perspectives would be offended with my first posting. I posted it because I meant what I was saying: there is and has been anti-American rhetoric on university campuses, almost on the scale of a propaganda campaign; it has been going on for forty years, and it has fostered a climate which is nourishing to anti-American terrorism. In light of such a serious idea in my original posting, it is odd that the argument has now shifted to the rules of academic posting. May I politely suggest that if you had found fault with my content we would not now be discussing Civility in Public Discourse. Now you are arguing the general right that I have to speak on certain topics and in certain tones of voice. Now the topic is Civility in Public Discourse when what it started with was leftist- Stalinist propaganda in academia. Let's reverse the perspective: to my knowledge individuals in academia have never before gone out of their way to show Civility to more right-of-center feelings. You hear contemptuous remarks intertwined with academic discourse _all the time,_ even when they are irrelevant to the nature of the topic. Academics are _constantly_ insulting the right- of -center perspective. It's a running joke with them. Even little pro- Clinton grammar examples have been posted here, just to strike an aggravating note. I do not agree that civility in academic discourse is the prime value. I do not forefit the right to speak disrespectfully. I do not care about people's feelings. Civility means nothing whatsoever to me in comparison to the attack on the WTC and the feelings and concerns which I have to express upon it. ----------------------------------------------------- Sincerely, Robert Einarsson please visit me at http://www.artsci.gmcc.ab.ca/people/einarssonb To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/