BERKELEY: Cal's Robert Birgeneau talks about Tucson shooting

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 1/12/11 | Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross

[SmithL]

UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau has come out swinging over the shooting spree that wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six people, linking it to Arizona's "discrimination against undocumented persons" and a "climate in which demonization of others goes unchallenged and hateful speech is tolerated."

In a campus-wide e-mail message, Birgeneau said: "It is not a coincidence that this calamity has occurred in a state which has legislated discrimination against undocumented persons."

He added that "this same mean-spirited xenophobia played a major role in the defeat of the Dream Act by our legislators in Washington, leaving many exceptionally talented and deserving young people, including our undocumented students, painfully in limbo."

[Mr. K]

WHO IS TO BLAME FOR THE FORT HOOD SHOOTER?

[Brett66]

"climate in which demonization of others goes unchallenged and hateful speech is tolerated."

And he then demonstrates this by demonizing legislators in Arizona.

[bunkerhill7]

They would be rioting in Berzerkely over this as we speak,

but it`s 36 degrees there due to Global Warming

[artificial intelligence]

Thank God Berkley chimed in. We were wondering.

[jospehm20]

What a twat.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Exploit! Exploit! Exploit! Never let a good tragedy go to waste! It’s ‘RAT fundraising time!

[DocH]

Leftists like this Berkeley nutjob are as twisted in the brain as the shooter.

[Huskrrrr]

Calm down Phil, before you wet your pants.

[Lonely Bull]

I didn’t know about Matier and Ross’s forays into satire, but they should keep it up!

Oh, wait, this isn’t satire?

[Right Brother]

WHO IS TO BLAME FOR THE FORT HOOD SHOOTER?

Bush?

[satan]

“discrimination against undocumented persons” Will Obama be arrested today?

[Melchior]

Birgeneau, a Canadian educator, is likely the most questioable hire at Berkeley since the inept Clark Kerr was named Chancellor in the 60s.

[DesertRhino]

No, it wasn’t illegal immigration policy that caused it, it was,,,,,,, the lack of windmills! Yeah,,, thats it, now it can be anything they want. Wait,, I know, its the vitriol caused by the left opposing our policymaking. They should just agree,, after all, that’s what they tell us to do.

[Don Corleone]

Berkeley....need I say more?

[no_go_lie]

This guy should be renamed Robert non sequitur Birgeneau. I hope he doesn't teach logic at Berkeley.

[JimSEA]

Progressives have decided the time for free speech is over. Their heros, Mao and Mohammad, could have saved then time there. The hippies moved from the “Free Speech Movement” to waving the “Little Red Book”.

[Travis McGee]

This is BLOOD LIBEL intended to redefine conservative thought as "hate" and thereby outlaw its expression.

[Little Ray]

Bezerkley. Figures.

[Penny]

Should you wish to drop the idiot extraordinaire de jour a note, here is his e-mail address:

chancellor@berkeley.edu

Regards . . . Penny