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''a million Mogadishus''

This guy is probably getting the kind of hate mail that will confirm his opinion in his own mind. I would suggest calm, rational emails to him if you write him.
 
Jedi, thanks for the links. And Luke, thanks for the advice. I should probably calm down a little bit before I compose any email.
Could someone please help me down from the ceiling?
 
LukeT said:
This guy is probably getting the kind of hate mail that will confirm his opinion in his own mind. I would suggest calm, rational emails to him if you write him.
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He is a non-tenured moron, an "assistant" professor. I am not going to e-mail that clueless newbie.

It just goes to show how students today only get 1/2 an education, and how assistant professors give hate-speeches to try and secure full-time teaching positions on leftist campuses.

The guy was giving a candidate speech as a politician, trying to appeal to the radical leftist elements at Columbia. Parents should be very, very concerned about their student's exposure to radical extremism at Columbia.

Sending students to Columbia is like exposing them to people who advocate construction of concentration camps.

JK
 
The central concerns of my research and teaching include: labor and class formation, racialization, the production of urban space, nationalism, the politics of citizenship, and transnational social processes, especially migration. My ethnographic research explores the social productions of racialized and spatialized difference in the experiences of transnational Mexican migrant workers within the space of the U.S. nation-state. More specifically, I examine transnational urban conjunctural spaces that link the U.S. and Latin America as a standpoint of critique from which to interrogate U.S. nationalism, political economy, racialized citizenship, and immigration law. This work contributes to a reconceptualization of Latin American, Latino, and "American" (U.S.) Studies. Likewise, I am interested in the methodological problems of ethnographic research practice and the limits of anthropological disciplinary forms of knowledge and modes of representation.
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Translation: "I'm a rich white guy who never had to work a day in my life and the guilt I feel when I see poor minorities is overwhelming me."
:D
 
arcticpenguin said:


Note the guy is a professor of anthropology. This is good news, as it means there apparently aren't enough communists left in the English department.
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HAhahahahahaha. Funniest comment I've read here this week.
 
Lisa said:
Bothers me too. Would this guy say to my face "Lisa, I really wish you'd gotten capped in Saudi Arabia"? Would he, right now, stand in front of me and say "Lisa, I hope your husband returns to you in a box"?
No. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't. He's made a self-serving promotional soundbite to get himself in the news. And what really sickens me is that he was successful.
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Gotta agree with you, there, Lisa. The problem, though, is the media continues to play up cowards and imbeciles like this. It gets ratings, which means bigger Nielsens, which means more advertising dollars, which means...

In the meantime, CNN, Fox, CBS, ABC, and NBC, not to mention a few others, sit around and wonder where their viewership is going.

Talked briefly with a fellow Military parent who's got a kid in the Gulf this week. (A brotherhood of misery, this.) He's been listening to Rush Limbaugh, just to hear something positive about this action, and about his son. Understandable, given the nature of the media coverage.
 
When I was an undergrad, there was a communist assistant professor in the English department. She was involved in various rallies, including one that tried to disrupt a speech by an anti-Sandinista. They threw pigs blood at him. This asst. prof made remarks including the line "fascists have no right to speak". This from someone who relied heavily on her own 'right' to free speech. The university eventually denied her tenure on the grounds that her views were not compatible with academic freedom.

Here's one link: http://victorian.fortunecity.com/holbein/439/bf/foleyhome.html
According to this, after getting canned by Northwestern she found a job at Rutgers.
 
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Yah! That'll show him. He will think twice before he uses a tragedy to promote his books again. I bet De Genova is really broken up, especially after that “crosses the line” bit.
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I'm find it hard to take these people seriously.

Clearly, once one earns a position of responsibility in higher education, you lose your genitals.
 
arcticpenguin said:
Where to start?

Note the guy is a professor of anthropology. This is good news, as it means there apparently aren't enough communists left in the English department.

He calls for a million Mogadishus? 18 U.S. troops died, but I think estimates of Somali deaths are much higher, perhaps 200?

They refer to the guy as 'professor'. I'd be interested to know if he's tenured yet or not.

Oh - and I guess Colin Powell is a white supremacist. ?
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perhaps that means he can see the results of imperialism. I don't relish the thought of a million Mogadishues like him, but I would like the US military to be reigned in.
 
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