David Randall on racial SCS controversy - National Association of Scholars

     An article on the SCS racial imbroglio by David Randall
has been posted on the website of the  National Association of
Scholars:

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     Randall calls for the Society for Classical Studies "to
post the video of Peralta’s panel as soon as possible, so that
the public  may view and judge the event directly."
     Randal considers Freethought and Free Speech to be
at the heart of this controversy:

"The Society for Classical Studies should state publicly that
classics scholars have the right, as a basic principle of
intellectual freedom, to oppose all race-conscious policies.
They should also state publicly that classics scholars have the
right as members of the profession to say publicly that
affirmative action, however euphemized, is the reason that
another member of the profession has a job. This is impolite --
but it is no more impolite than Peralta’s call for white men to
surrender their ‘privilege’ of academic publication. If civility
trumped a scholar’s right to say what he believes is true, the
Society for Classical Studies would have banned Peralta along
with Williams."


John Lauritsen, Independent Scholar.