Well, apparently this website allows for rejection of comments just in case the hopelessly insecure can’t handle the idea of (GASP!) someone having a different opinion. In that light, I’m going to go ahead and post my response to this “unfettered presentation of bullshit” that the author was too cowardly to allow posted. So, ZAM (ZOA?)! Right in your eye!
As a completely neutral bystander who happens to attend Case, I can’t help but notice how, in voicing the complaint of bias against Israel, you immediately disregard any and all thought to any point of view that is not 100% consistent with your own. A college campus is supposed to be an environment of open and free thought, not a haven of restricted speech to make sure that certain points of view are depicted as “vile” or “hateful” or to ensure that limited facets of education are enforced to skew an intellectual issue. Along those lines, as you continue to attack Prof Bach (who incidentally, I have yet to read or hear any anti-Semitic statements from despite being on campus daily), a person who is clearly now on the receiving end of misplaced hatred and condemnation, it strikes me as humorous that instead of recognizing a different point of view or research as simply that, you lash out through misconception and word-twisting to discredit an individual who happens to not agree 100% with you. I doubt that you would condone what the Germans or Russians did in the late 1800s and early to mid 1900s to ensure that the young minds there were taught only the point of view deemed appropriate by a ruling minority, yet you expect the University to do just that. I applaud the President for not caving to such narrow-minded and simplistic tactics and I hope that Prof Bach continues to pursue the ideals of free-thought. Tolerance works both ways. Your hatred of the opposite point of view is as self-evidently vile as how you perceive the supposed “anti-Semitic” attitude at Case.
“Our school has not stood up for academic freedom, honest discussion, or balance, but for the unfettered presentation of bullshit.”
A supremely open-minded, respectful representation of an alternative point of view if ever I’ve read one. Bravo.
Comment by mojomonkey77 | April 7, 2008
Comments welcomed from anyone who isn’t a hypocritical, whiny coward ;o)
