Friday, August 21, 2009



Discrimination in the name of anti-discrimination

We read:
"Another day, another casualty in a conflict pitting equality and demographic diversity against free speech and diversity of opinion. ‘A Singapore law professor who was to teach a human rights course at New York University Law School this Fall has withdrawn after students protested what they called her anti-gay views,’ the New York Times reported recently. …

The trouble is that the petition opposing Dr Thio imagined her appointment as a violation of NYU’s ‘own policy of non-discrimination.’ In other words, gay students (and members of other historically disadvantaged groups) are said to suffer actual discrimination when the administration hires faculty members who argue against anti-discrimination laws.

This confusion of speech and action — of allowing advocacy of discrimination and actually engaging in it — is common in academia, where academic freedom is too often limited to the freedom to advance prevailing ideals of equality.”

Source

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

A perfect example of the result of taking political correctness to its logical conclusion. When decisions are made on the basis of emotion instead of logic, chaos ensues.

Anonymous said...

For self-acclaimed "open-minded" school it sure is "close-minded" and bigoted.

Anonymous said...

How typical of the Left to use discrimination to combat what they feel is discrimination. What's really going on here is, the professor is obviously not nearly far enough to the Left to suit the people at NYU, a well-known hotbed of Socialists, Marxists, and anarchists. Remember their motto;

Do as we say, not as we do!

Mongo said...

"Do as we say, not as we do!"

Says Ensign and the boys on C-Street.

Bobby said...

Once again, no ideological diversity. If the professor had been against whites, males, eurocentrism, whatever, she'd be fine.

Anonymous said...

Discrimination? You bet, but not from where you've been told it comes from.


http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OTRmYmJlMzc4ODc0ODk1ZGY0YWViNWE1NjFlZmNjNzc=

Anonymous said...

Ah, the power of redefining the language...
If you are against special rights for certain groups then you are 'anti-x'. If you are in favour of certain groups (Y) then you are also 'anti-x'. The only way you can not be called 'anti-x' is if you support x's agenda.