Gonzaga gathering explores new field

Spokesman Review ^ | 03/18/2004 | Staff

[writer33]

Scholars meet to lay ground for hate studies programs

A groundbreaking conference to establish the academic field of "hate studies" runs today through Saturday at Gonzaga University.

Organized by the Gonzaga Institute for Action Against Hate, the conference brings Morris Dees, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and other scholars to Spokane. Together, they will examine what the hate studies field could look like in an effort to diminish hate in this country. The conference also will focus on developing curricula for colleges and universities that adopt hate studies programs.

Defining hate is a huge undertaking, experts say, because it encompasses all races, countries and religions and spans human history. Currently, hate studies has no academic home.

The event begins at 7:30 tonight with a wine and cheese social to welcome conference participants.

On Friday morning, Ken Stern, an attorney with the American Jewish Committee in New York City, will launch the conference with a speech addressing the need for an interdisciplinary field of hate studies.

Several panel discussions and break-out sessions will take place throughout the day. Saturday's events include opportunities to wrap up ideas, principles and core values from previous discussions, as well as analyze what steps to follow to make hate studies an academic field.

From 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, the public is welcome to the presentation of papers in the Rosauer Center for the School of Education.

Dees -- whose lawsuit bankrupted the white supremacist Aryan Nations near Hayden, Idaho -- will be the featured speaker at the banquet Saturday at 6 p.m. in the Globe Room of Gonzaga's Cataldo Hall. Tickets to the banquet are $50.

The cost to attend the entire conference is $150, which includes the banquet. For more information, call 323-3665.

[writer33]

"A groundbreaking conference to establish the academic field of "hate studies" runs today through Saturday at Gonzaga University."

I'm against hate of any kind, but do we need a program of studies on it. For example. "What's your major?"

"Uh. It's hate studies."

"What?"

"Hate studies."

Your thoughts?

"Currently, hate studies has no academic home."

And now there's suddenly a reason to give it a home?

[45Auto]

"Together, they will examine what the hate studies field could look like in an effort to enrich scum-bag SPLC lawyers in this country."

[jwalburg]

I am not fond of hate. I really don't like hate. I am really turned off by hate.

hate conference

[Spok]

The humble, innocuous inception of defining Thoughtcrimes.

[MCH]

I really hate this idea. It will foster more hate than it attempts to reduce. Typical liberal outcome.

[writer33]

Wouldn't you know. The one I don't do a search on.

Moderator. You'll need to pull it. It's a duplicate.

[Eva]

Isn't Gonzaga the Catholic school that kicked a pro-life organization off campus for requiring that the officers of their group be Christian?

My son went to a basketball camp at Gonzaga once. It was a terrible experience because the Gonzaga basketball team chaperoned the dorms and would run through the halls with baseball bats at night to chase the boys into their rooms. My son's roommate missed a day of camp due to injuries. Then just to add a little more atmosphere, my son's coach, who was helping coach the camp, went out on the floor and knocked a kid from another school over and had to be pulled off the kid by the other coaches, because the kid had fouled the coaches son.

[Cicero]

The event begins at 7:30 tonight with a wine and cheese social.

Then they'll start hating.

[writer33]

"Isn't Gonzaga the Catholic school that kicked a pro-life organization off campus for requiring that the officers of their group be Christian?"


Probably. Funny thing is that they have a seminary there for the priesthood.

[RightWhale]

Defining hate is a huge undertaking. . . The event begins at 7:30 tonight with a wine and cheese social

They should have the definition in hand just as the wine runs out.

[Arthur McGowan]

Morris Dees is going to tell them about hate? Good: Maybe he can explain why he thinks that 45 million murdered babies, in the U.S. alone, is not enough dead babies.

Gonzaga, just another pro-abortion "Catholic" college, like all the Jesuits' 28 universities and colleges in the U.S.

Wheeling Jesuit University has invited Janet Reno (2000) and Gov. Wise of W.Va. (2002) as commencement speakers. Wise vetoed a Birth-Canal Brain-Suctioning ban in W.Va. shortly before his invitation to Wheeling. Wheeling also has a building named after a baby-murderer: Robert C. Byrd.

The Jesuits, a huge percentage of whom are sodomites, are largely on the side of the "Catholic" and non-Catholic baby-killers in public office.

[jwalburg]

No. It's okay. A good story or variation of a story can stand a second posting. Whenever the left is at its most ridiculous, they are worth a second posting. And it wasn't exactly the same.

[Uncle Miltie]

"On Friday morning, Ken Stern, an attorney with the American Jewish Committee in New York City, will launch the conference with a speech addressing the need for an interdisciplinary field of hate studies."

Perhaps he can explain why my Bush-Bumper-Stickered car had nails pounded into the tires five days in a row while parked in the secure lot of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. (Police report is on file with the SPD.)

Liberals hate.

[writer33]

"Perhaps he can explain why my Bush-Bumper-Stickered car had nails pounded into the tires five days in a row while parked in the secure lot of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle."

That's sad. And yes, liberals hate.

[judgeandjury]

Organized by the Gonzaga Institute for Action Against Hate, the conference brings Morris Dees, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and other scholars to Spokane.

This is laughable. Morris Dees is one of the most notorious hate-mongerers in the United States. I wouldn't believe a word that came out of Dees' mouth on the subject of hate.

[FierceDraka]

I hate lima beans!

[writer33]

So do I. I'll join you in your repulsion.

[Ignatz]

"Defining hate is a huge undertaking, experts say, because, with the exception of straight white Christian males, it encompasses all races, countries and religions and spans human history."

Edited for accuracy of thought.

[writer33]

"Edited for accuracy of thought."


Watch out or you're going to be branded as a conservative, white racist pig. :) Sarcam intended for your amusement.