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Friday, March 24, 2006

The Only Decent Thing To Do

Here are my thoughts on the suspension on the racist and sexist university lecturer Frank Ellis.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk
/neil_clark/2006/03/the_correct_decision.html

4 comments:

Miguel said...
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Neil Clark said...

I can assure you there's no inconsistency. Milosevic was a life-long socialist and anti-fascist- a man, in the words of David Own to whom 'all forms of racism are anathema').
Just because I defend Milosevic doesn't mean I have to defend Frank Ellis- there's absolutely no connection. Let's leave out the race issue for the moment- what about his views that women are intellectually inferior as well? Do you agree with that?
As I said, for a private citizen to hold such racist and misognyistic views is depressing enough- but Ellis earns his living as a lecturer at a publicly funded British university and racist and misogynistic views are, I believe, incompatible with this position.
If it is indeed he 'establishment' view that university lecturers should not go around saying that black people and women are intellectually inferior- then I for one, on this occasion, would be in agreement with it. I abhor racism-whether it's the Frank Ellis variety- or the BBC saying that 'few will mourn Milosevic' -a statement which implies that the views of millions in China, Africa, Asia, South American and the Middle East - are 'inferior' to those of Western politicians.

Nguyen Van Minh said...

I found the article at Amren to be problematic, to say the least, but I oppose all censorship, and would not have recommended his sacking.

Miguel said...
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