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Friends,
A friend from NYC e-mailed me that mobs of people in Brooklyn have entered the stores of Pakastani merchants and beat them. It is in a section of Brooklyn that he grew up in.
The very BEST analysis/commentary, I heard so far was today on NPR from Robert Reich, former Labor secretary. Extremely *perceptive* but unfortunately not apt to be too popular.
He noted that the U.S. must exercise caution/restraint regarding any retalitory action. The terroists would like nothing better than for the U.S. to mindlessly engage in the mass killing of people in Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. This would only ESCALATE the violence and hatred and result in retaliation . The level of violence would continue to escalate fueled by more violence which fuels more hatred. This is exactly what has been happening in Israel, he said. The extremists on both sides are the ones acting...moderates on both sides seem to be nonexistant.
Someone told me that Mario Cuomo wrote a fine piece about the situation in the NATION.
I'm afraid that members of the admistration and many others have a WW I & II mind set where the "enemy" was geographically localized and clearcut.
Best Wishes & Blessings To All, Michael
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:16:38 -0400 Reply-To: teachsoc at irss.unc.edu Sender: owner-teachsoc at irss.unc.edu Precedence: bulk From: klausner <klausner at imap.pitt.edu> To: teachsoc at vance.irss.unc.edu Subject: More Sad News...Not Reported On The Media... References: <3BA090C8.FF229F1A at mindspring.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en
James Cassell wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: "Timothy O'Donoghue" <todonoghue at hotmail.com>
> To: teachsoc at vance.irss.unc.edu
> Subject: Re: Irish reaction to attack on US
> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 21:27:36
>
> Tom
>
> I loved your email. I am still wondering about another question. Besides
> fostering critical thinking students, to which we as sociologists are
> devoted, how does one prepare them for living their lives within
> communities that may not share their (and our) structural concerns? This
> is ultimately the test of sociology's relevance, is it not? How well do
> in-class structural awareness exercises transfer back out into the real
> world? Are we engaging students in real change or simply exchanging
> cerebral/intellectual ideas? Chemical engineering students spend real
> time testing in the laborabory, what social laborabory do sociology go
> to?