[PEN-L:11557] (Fwd) Other Threats Against Diversity Oriented Faculty and Adm

[Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is just another comment on the diversity debate on this list.  My
reaction is this: I always wondered what the German Jews were waiting for in
1930s when they saw the "writing on the wall" of the sort described in the
enclosed posting (backstabbing, assaulting women & children, killing one's
pets etc. was a favoured Nazi intimidation tactic).  I'd never be so blind
and I'm prepared to leave before the Amerikkkan patriots will come for me.
Thus far, the Europeans are relatively low on the patriots' hit list in
Washington-Baltimore area, but as Martin Niemoller said "they first came for
the Communists..."

regards,
wojtek sokolowski




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>Not long ago I posted  a message regarding threats directed against
>Afrcian American female faculty at Cal State University at San
>Marcos.
>
>Today's NewYork Times reveals more threats; this time against
>European American women at the University of Minnesota at Duluth.
>While the photos and much of the story seem sympathetic to the right
>of two European American male history faculty to pose as part of  a
>faculty photo display with weapons in hand, the "other" story
>involved death threats against vice chancellor Sandra Featherman  and
>history professor Judith Trolander.
>
>In the Summer  of 1991 Featherman began receiving various forms of
>death threats, signed "The Deer Hunters."  Nine months later fliers
>named Professor Trolander as a target.   In the fliers the specific
>locations and weapons that could be used in the attack were detailed.
>Or  their other  examples that  can be given to help us  better
>understand what is going on? For example: Are such threats more
>likely to be directed against women? To what extent are these threats
>organized by student and other extremist groups?
>
>According to the NYT story "Some of the fliers condemned the
>university's diversity program and stated that all faculty members
>who cooperated with it "would be sentenced to death along with their
>pets, children and spouses."
>
>Again, is this just one more "isolated incident?" or is it time for
>progressive faculty to take these threats as seriously as some of our
>colleagues seem to take the "threats" that the Right has successfully
>portrayed as coming from diversity conscious advocates of
>"political correctness."
>
>
>Noel A. Cazenave
>Department of Sociology
>The University of Connecticut
>U-Box 68, Manchester Hall
>Storrs, Ct. 06269-2068
>Phone 860-486-4190
>Fax 860-486-6356
>
>Liberation Sociology
>
>--The use of knowledge obtained from the study of society to challenge
social structures
>which deny equal rights and opportunities to members of socially oppressed
groups.
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wojtek sokolowski
institute for policy studies
johns hopkins university
baltimore, md 21218
sokol@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
voice: (410) 516-4056
fax:   (410) 516-8233

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