-----Original Message----- From: Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Or to put the same questions another way: if a physical anthropologist
were
>denied grants to do comparative research on the brain sizes of black and
>white women or if this anthropologist were disallowed in a required
course
>of 500 or so people from insinuating the case for deep biological racial
>differences in cognitive ability on the basis of a putatively failed head
>start programme while not equipping his students *in this physical anthro
>course* with even a basic understanding of human genetic variation or
>recent research in the interaction between nutrition, cellular
development
>and neurological sequencing--would Chomsky or others here consider such
>grant or course denials a dangerous violation of free speech?
This is of course just a random hypothetical case by Rakesh as opposed to a description of the case of an actual Berkeley professor, whose censure campaign might have actually been led by Rakesh (and whose rallies other hypothetical activists like myself might have attended) :)
--Nathan
best, rakesh