Thursday, December 16, 2004
Doing my part
I'm posting this link about the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in order to help the next to last paragraph of the post come true.
The post, from Right Wing News, (via Instapundit) is about a faculty member writing a column about keying Republicans' cars and going on a killing spree to take them out. The administration doesn't see the big deal.
I'm sure they would fly off the handle if someone wrote the same thing about a racial minority, though. But it's okay to suggest killing people over their ideas. Welcome to American academia.
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The post, from Right Wing News, (via Instapundit) is about a faculty member writing a column about keying Republicans' cars and going on a killing spree to take them out. The administration doesn't see the big deal.
I'm sure they would fly off the handle if someone wrote the same thing about a racial minority, though. But it's okay to suggest killing people over their ideas. Welcome to American academia.
Monday, December 13, 2004
French foreign policy I agree with
Turkey 'must admit WWI genocide'
It's not as well-known as the Holocaust, or the slaughter in Cambodia under Pol Pot, but it was every bit as terrible. If it had happened a few decades later, or especially now, in the information age, it would have gotten a lot more attention and it wouldn't have been forgotten by most of the world.
I first learned about it when I watched Armenian-Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan's Ararat, and Samantha Power's Pulitzer-winning book about genocide, A Problem from Hell opens with a chapter about the Armenians. I highly recommend both.
And again, I applaud France for taking the stand that it has.
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France has said it will ask Turkey to acknowledge the mass killing of Armenians from 1915 as genocide when it begins EU accession talks.Damn right. And bravo to France for having the will to apply pressure on Turkey to admit that the Armenian genocide happened.
French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said Turkey had "a duty to remember".
It's not as well-known as the Holocaust, or the slaughter in Cambodia under Pol Pot, but it was every bit as terrible. If it had happened a few decades later, or especially now, in the information age, it would have gotten a lot more attention and it wouldn't have been forgotten by most of the world.
I first learned about it when I watched Armenian-Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan's Ararat, and Samantha Power's Pulitzer-winning book about genocide, A Problem from Hell opens with a chapter about the Armenians. I highly recommend both.
And again, I applaud France for taking the stand that it has.
Sunday, December 12, 2004
Don't ask, don't tell?
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