Reaching Out: Some Considerations wasRe: MLK &

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>>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

Since no one on this list has objected to the Duke students' action, 
there has been no discussion here, I believe.  No disagreement = no 
debate.

Yoshie