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Apr. 18th, 2003 04:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taratemimaStill somewhat sore, but mostly cheerful if sleepy. Wrote some, may write more. Might do something to take advantage of the holiday.
There is a discussion on LinguistList on academic boycotts.
Obviously, that has some attention with France refusing Israeli academic work and the Mona Baker incident. However, there are many, many countries that this could also apply to. Heck, someone might decide the United States has overstepped some serious bounds, though I am not sure if such a boycott would be feasible.
Anyway, it seems that most people discussing this think that academic boycotts are a bad idea. I am quoting from Michael Newman, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders at Queens College/CUNY Flushing, so you can get the gist.
"Haspelmath argues that this option should not be closed because of the success of the general embargo against South Africa at ending the apartheid regime. Just considering comparison leads to two questions: Was this embargo ever extended to work by South African scholars? and Should it have been?
I don't know the answer to the first question, but my answer to the second would be no. There something just so scary in discounting the expression of the individual, be it for artistic or intellectual purposes, because of that individual's group membership. It is just too close to the loss of that individual's identity to their group identity, which is the best definition of bigotry that I've found.
What you do doesn't matter because you are a member of bad group. Does anyone really want to go down that path? Consider who does and who did in the past. Do you want to join that ugliest of crowds?"
The rest of the discussion is archived here.
Oh and donate if you wanna
There is a discussion on LinguistList on academic boycotts.
Obviously, that has some attention with France refusing Israeli academic work and the Mona Baker incident. However, there are many, many countries that this could also apply to. Heck, someone might decide the United States has overstepped some serious bounds, though I am not sure if such a boycott would be feasible.
Anyway, it seems that most people discussing this think that academic boycotts are a bad idea. I am quoting from Michael Newman, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders at Queens College/CUNY Flushing, so you can get the gist.
"Haspelmath argues that this option should not be closed because of the success of the general embargo against South Africa at ending the apartheid regime. Just considering comparison leads to two questions: Was this embargo ever extended to work by South African scholars? and Should it have been?
I don't know the answer to the first question, but my answer to the second would be no. There something just so scary in discounting the expression of the individual, be it for artistic or intellectual purposes, because of that individual's group membership. It is just too close to the loss of that individual's identity to their group identity, which is the best definition of bigotry that I've found.
What you do doesn't matter because you are a member of bad group. Does anyone really want to go down that path? Consider who does and who did in the past. Do you want to join that ugliest of crowds?"
The rest of the discussion is archived here.
Oh and donate if you wanna
