>I can't read the intentions of the students before they acted, but after
>the fact one can see that the main difference between their action and
>the one suggested here is that had they made the latter choice the LBO
>discussion would never have taken place, there would have been no BLC
>press release -- no one, that is, outside of a very small sprinkling of
>indifferent Brown students would ever have heard of them. As a result of
>the choice they did make the topic of Reparations is now a topic of
>discussion. (Many people who never had heard of reparations are now
>vigorously against them and expressing that opinion loudly, and
>widespread attacks are vital to the flourishing of left perspectives,
>since the primary counter to left views is their burial in silence.
Well, lemme repeat Chris Kromm's excellent question - why all the attention to Brown, when the Duke students made their militance quite clear without getting into the free speech mess? Is it that you *like* the Brownies affront to the bourgeois free speech fetish? Does it make them somehow more righteous?
Doug