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FREE SPEECH HINDERED AT BERKELEY
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UC Berkeley is in trouble of losing its historical position as leading the free speech movement. Part of this can be attributed to Snehal Shingavi. While Berkeley is known for the free flow of ideas, Snehal who heads SJP is telling people who have conservative points of view, that their voices are not welcome. This is just like the McCarthy days in which the government attempted to seek out who was and knew a communist. One must wonder if Snehal will begin seeking out who is a conservative in the area so that people may look at them in disgust when they see them in the street. Way to go Snehal for promoting free speech. Thanks for putting Berkeley on the map again. For reference this is the course description Im refering to.
The Politics and Poetics of Palestinian Resistance
Course Number: English R1A LEC 4 Units
Semester and Year: fall 2002
Location and Time: 204 Wheeler TuTh 2:00-3:30
Instructor: Shingavi, Snehal
Course Control Number: 28448
Final Exam Number: TBA
Course Description: Since the inception of the Intifada in September of 2000, Palestinians have been fighting for their right to exist. The brutal Israeli military occupation of Palestine, an occupation that has been ongoing since 1948, has systematically displaced, killed, and maimed millions of Palestinian people. And yet, from under the brutal weight of the occupation, Palestinians have produced their own culture and poetry of resistance. This class will examine the history of the Palestinian resistance and the way that it is narrated by Palestinians in order to produce an understanding of the Intifada and to develop a coherent political analysis of the situation. This class takes as its starting point the right of Palestinians to fight for their own self-determination. Conservative thinkers are encouraged to seek other sections.
The Politics and Poetics of Palestinian Resistance
Course Number: English R1A LEC 4 Units
Semester and Year: fall 2002
Location and Time: 204 Wheeler TuTh 2:00-3:30
Instructor: Shingavi, Snehal
Course Control Number: 28448
Final Exam Number: TBA
Course Description: Since the inception of the Intifada in September of 2000, Palestinians have been fighting for their right to exist. The brutal Israeli military occupation of Palestine, an occupation that has been ongoing since 1948, has systematically displaced, killed, and maimed millions of Palestinian people. And yet, from under the brutal weight of the occupation, Palestinians have produced their own culture and poetry of resistance. This class will examine the history of the Palestinian resistance and the way that it is narrated by Palestinians in order to produce an understanding of the Intifada and to develop a coherent political analysis of the situation. This class takes as its starting point the right of Palestinians to fight for their own self-determination. Conservative thinkers are encouraged to seek other sections.
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As a progressive, anarchist sympathetic graduate student teaching assistant at UC Berkeley, I think I can safely say that S. Shingavi's program description language would not be supported by the large majority of other TAs in my department, and it's quite inappropriate. Yet nobody elected Shingavi as some sort of representative of the left at Cal. He stands on his own and is not the result of some sort of systematic endorsement.
In my opinion, creating an atmosphere where a specific political or religious perspective is communicated to be favored by the teaching staff is unethical for the same reason that it is unethical for teachings and students to have relationships outside of class, particularly so at a public institution. If any student wonders about my political opinions, they can ask me at the end of the semester. This does not mean that teachers should try to foster a neutral or perspective free classroom, which is not ideal and is not possible. The professor or TA should ask good questions, play the devil's advocate, and promote student discussion and debate.
http://www.adl.org/learn/Ext_US/smith_codoh.asp?xpicked=2&item=10
There are thousands of perspectives that that they've been ignoring on campus all semester, while they print editorial after editorial by their writers who present the uniform viewpoint that 'protesters suck'. Yet this is the person they choose to print as voice on palestine. He's not a student, and it is well known that he mass mails these essays to all the newspapers around the country somewhat like David Horowitz.
The editors have reached a new low.
but it's losers like that who led the ADL to list the circle A as a hate symbol. I wrote them about this, but they have examples of where various trash had drawn racist graffiti with swastikas and so forth, and then they threw in a circle A for good measure.
http://www.adl.org/hate_symbols/default_graphics.html
I once contributed articles at a student newspaper at a college I went to, and I noticed that the incompetent editor would start to fill the paper with stories about wacky squirrels on campus whenever he had failed to assign enough stories or they had gaps when the paper was going to press, so every week there would be more photos of squirrels, and I'm sure he thought it was clever innovative journalism.
The Daily Cal has pictures of squirrels filling space on *four* pages today. I can picture the dumbass editor sitting on his butt too lazy to venture outside, and then looking out the window at squirrels. I wonder how many newspapers have this squirrel obsession thing.
The biggest problem with the Bradley Nazi Smith article is that he is being really toned down and mentioning his jewish friends (Bradley Smith does not have jewish friends, okay), and acting like he's a mainstream part of the palestinian movement. It's really damaging.
http://www.dailycal.org/article.asp?id=8679
Unfortunately, Professor Shingavi seems to prefer to take the Fascists view point and doesn’t want to encourage “outsiders” to participate or give his students a real education. But what I find more shockingly is that there is no outrage from the students of Berkeley. If you replace the word “Conservative Thinker” with either “Hispanic Thinker”, “Gay Lifestyle Thinker”, “African American Thinker”, “Palestine Supporter”, or any other race or religion or lifestyle group in that first line, and I bet there would be a Petition and March demanding the resignation of this professor. But apparently Berkeley isn’t as tolerant as they claim to be.
Way to go, anarchists! This REALLY helps our cause.
I don't know I pity more: this silly professors, any student who would waste a precious univeristy course by going to a closed-minded waste of time like this or the california tax payer.
This guy sounds like a real idiot.
thats what the world needs. slow lanes for those tribes that just cant keep from blowing themselfs up, (either really or figuratively).
these god damned muslims in the middle east need a whole different road. with high banks and no stop signs. underground rest areas and lodging. big ol god damned blast proof ceiling over the whole thing.
when are some of those biblical meteors gonna happen over there ? they pray for such things over there dont they ? like 14 times a day ? 70 virgins ? what are they, pedaphiles ?
britney spears would kick a bunch of those boney guys in there asses. they dont murder for justice. they murder for virgins. straw virgins.
in that section on the virgins there are hints of pedastry with young boys prancing around the heros.
in that section on the virgins there are hints of pedastry with young boys prancing around the heros.