My country--right or wrong! When right to be kept right, and when wrong to be got right. [Carl Schurz] Sometimes the attempt to getting the country right and the analysis when she is wrong may look to some like an effort to be anti-American. Not so, I'd say. What makes America different than many another is her insistence on letting people speak their minds. If anything is un-American, it would be the categoric repression of one group of voices. ==Reinhold Robert Einarsson wrote: > > 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/ 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/