[lbo-talk] Countering the Politics of Fear (was Tariq Ali at UCLA today)

Michael Pugliese michael.098762001 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 28 19:33:17 PDT 2006


http://www.google.com/search?q=iran+repression+universities+teachers

Your Persian Prince has himself called for it. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/05/news/Iran_University_Purge.php

Robert Jensen, noted it, http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2006-10/08jensen.cfm

Though if those left-liberal Profs. taught Porn Studies he'd be for it as well.

>...But while the ideologies and traditions of the two societies are quite different, it's interesting that Ahmadinejad justified his desire to deal with dangerous professors because of the university officials' "tendency to introduce politics into academic affairs." The phrase is reminiscent of a common complaint aimed at folks like me, that we "politicize the classroom."



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