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Controversial Professor Plans to Risk Arrest After University Cancels His Classes
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| 08/30/07
| Melissa Drosjack
Posted on 08/31/2007 8:21:09 AM PDT by Froufrou
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To: Froufrou
The University should ignore him. Assuming his office has not been reassigned to someone else, make sure the office door has a solid core and a new lock, then close and lock it, and ignore him.
See how long he stands outside the office door waiting for someone to let him in.
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posted on
08/31/2007 8:49:59 AM PDT
by
savedbygrace
(SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
To: edcoil
Some blacks have exploited slavery...
yes, some have.
I see no argument here.
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posted on
08/31/2007 8:52:05 AM PDT
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: MrB
I guess at the school, you cannot say such things.
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posted on
08/31/2007 8:53:20 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
To: Froufrou
Compare the treatment of this guy to that of Ward Churchill. De Paul can't get rid of this guy fast enough simply for his 'controversial' issues. Whereas Churchill was a fraud and a liar. Yet the ACLU chooses to support a phony Indian.
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posted on
08/31/2007 8:56:18 AM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
("The military Mission has long since been accomplished" -- Harry Reid, April 23, 2007)
To: riverdawg
I believe several of the playing-dumb posters on this thread actually know EXACTLY who this guy is and what he does.
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posted on
08/31/2007 8:57:22 AM PDT
by
hlmencken3
(Originalist on the the 'general welfare' clause? No? NOT an originalist!)
To: Froufrou
He was expecting to return this semester to teach "Equality in Social Justice," "Freedom and Empowerment" and an honors seminarOh, how will life go on without this tool teaching these clearly valuable courses? Freedom is empowering? Gee, I think I need 4 months of lectures on this before I can really grasp the concept.
More evidence that most college education is about the biggest fraud and waste of money in the world today...
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posted on
08/31/2007 8:58:06 AM PDT
by
Sicon
To: edcoil
This guy, Finklestein, is a polemicist. Think âWard Churchill.â Heâs bragged that he doesnât write scholarly articles. Read Alan Dershowitzâs essay, reprinted from the WSJ, on Dershowitzâs website.
To: Froufrou
When classes start on Sept. 5, Finkelstein, who teaches political theory, will return to campus in response to "an attack on academic freedom and due process," It's called criminal tresspass. And you have all the academic freedom in the world here, go see if you can teach along with the Iranian cited "scholar" David Duke. THIS university does not owe you a podium.
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posted on
08/31/2007 9:03:26 AM PDT
by
weegee
(NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
To: Froufrou
Ahhhh another fine example in America from the bastions of free thought and open mindedness!
To: pgyanke
Supposedly, this issue is about him writing that some Jews have made an industry out of exploiting the Holocaust... wouldnt that be about the same as Ann Coulters Jersey Girls comment?I think that's a pretty good and fair analogy. I heard him interviewed once, and he wasn't any crazed anti-Semetic ranter. He made an argument that there are Holocaust-exploiting groups that have benfitted financially.
BTW, He had a famous debate with Alan Derschowitz, where he cleaned Derschowitz's clock, that has been discussed earlier here on FR.
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posted on
08/31/2007 9:05:02 AM PDT
by
WL-law
To: pgyanke
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posted on
08/31/2007 9:05:06 AM PDT
by
weegee
(NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
To: Michael.SF.; Sicon; weegee
Good points, all. It boggles the mind what passes for educators nowadays!
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posted on
08/31/2007 9:05:59 AM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: Froufrou
Finkelstein is the author of five books, including "The Holocaust Industry" Seems Finkelstein is exploiting the Holocaust as well.
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posted on
08/31/2007 9:06:19 AM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
("Hidin' in a corner ...of New York City, lookin' down a .44 in West Virginy")
To: Altura Ct.
“Bastions” should end with ‘ards,’ huh?
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posted on
08/31/2007 9:07:12 AM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: riverdawg
Read Alan Dershowitzâs essay, reprinted from the WSJ, on Dershowitzâs website.See my post above. It's fair to say that you won;t get an unbiased view of Finklestein from reading Derschowitz. Finklestein DESTROYED Derschowitx publicly in a famous debate that Dersch is still trying to recover from.
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posted on
08/31/2007 9:07:28 AM PDT
by
WL-law
To: RightWhale
His class was cancelled. Was his office cancelled?
‘His’ office is the property of the University. Think of it as being leased to him during his employment.
To: RightWhale
A professor whose views on the Holocaust irked critics plans to risk arrest by showing up on the first day of classes next week at DePaul University after officials canceled his courses, took away his office and put him on leave. He doesn't have an office there. He's going to squat in someone else's office.
To: Froufrou
I notice a lot of Holocaust deniers are in academia. Norm Finkelstein and Noam Chomsky come to mind.
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posted on
08/31/2007 9:30:24 AM PDT
by
Ptarmigan
(Bunnies=Sodomites)
To: Froufrou
Finkelstein will teach his courses at the Chicago Public Library, she added. How does this work? Can anyone teach a class at the CPL? I have in mind a class I would call "Academic A$$hole$." I could probably have it ready in a week or two.
ML/NJ
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posted on
08/31/2007 9:45:35 AM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: WL-law
I never claimed that Dershowitz is unbiased about Finklestein, and I haven’t sees the debate between them that you mentioned. I have read in other sources that Finklestein’s scholarship is shoddy, and that he engages in ad hominen arguments to defend his work.
It is puzzling to me that people who would, presumably, leap at the chance to attack Ward Churchill have come to the defense of Norman Finklestein. Those two are cut from the same cloth.
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