>>> mikey+ at pitt.edu 07/11/00 12:12PM >>>
South Africa, Anti-Communism, and Value-Free Science
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I believe my colleagues' remarks can best be accounted for not by racism but by two ideological beliefs that are deeply entrenched in academe. The first is anti-communism. Nowhere in the industrialized world is anti-communism more the official, state-sponsored ideology than it is in the United States, and nowhere are academics as subservient to state interests as they are here.
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CB: Perhaps an old saying still has some validity: Scratch a redbaiter and find a racehater.