You’ll be shocked to hear that . . . ah, why bother. I can’t even muster the pretend surprise over the latest example of double standards on the academic left. Does anyone expect anything else from them anymore?
Prof. Fred Gottheil told Front Page Magazine that he compiled a list of 675 email addresses from 900 signatures on a 2009 petition…urging the U.S. to abandon its ally, Israel. Prof. Gottheil discovered that six of the signers, who hailed from more than 150 college campuses, were members of his own faculty.
“Would these same 900 sign onto a statement expressing concern about human rights violations in the Muslim Middle East, such as honor killing, wife beating, female genital mutilation, and violence against gays and lesbians?” he wondered. “I felt it was worth a try.”
The results? “Almost non existent,” he told Front Page editor Jamie Glazov. Only 27 of the 675 “self-described social-justice seeking academics” agreed to sign Gottheil’s Statement of Concern – less than 5 percent of the total who had publicly called for the censure of Israel for human rights violations.
(Via: Right Wing News)
September 27th, 2010 | 10:05 am
This is because the contemporary definition of “social justice” is that everyone gets *what they deserve,* not that they are held to the same standards as everyone else. So to the post-modern academic, they pick the oppressed minority (Palestinians, progressives, homosexuals, etc.) and afford them a special waiver from the standards that other groups are held to. Once you hold that certain groups are, by definition, oppressed, they cannot be held responsible for their actions in the same way that their “oppressors” must be held responsible.
September 27th, 2010 | 11:11 am
Dr. Gottheil’s Statement of Concern is now posted at PetitionsOnline.com, and is accepting signatures from anyone willing to speak out against human rights abuses in the Middle East. As you’re obviously interested in the story, I urge you to step up and sign it: Support Regarding Discrimination in the Middle East against Women, Gays, and Lesbians Petition
Obviously, we’ll be counting on everyone here to reply to this request.
September 27th, 2010 | 12:40 pm
Further to Brian’s comment on the contemporary definition of “social justice”, Jeff Goldstein said concerning a somewhat-related domestic issue, “It’s what happens in a world in which meaning becomes unmoored and “truth” is decided by those who shout the loudest or form the biggest coalition.” Follow the second and third links for some thoughts concerning the connection between language, progressive ideology and identity politics.
September 27th, 2010 | 5:45 pm
A reply to Gottheil:
http://whatdisay.blogspot.com/2010/09/in-reply-if-fred-gottheil-does-not.html
September 28th, 2010 | 8:30 pm
The contemporary definition of “social justice” is “whatever feeds the ego of the speaker with the notion of what a great guy he is.”
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