Re: The "racism" episode at the SCS conference

By a long standing policy, attachments are blocked by classics-L.  A
long-standing practice has been, instead, for the poster to link to a url,
or to offer to send a pdf to anyone who requests that.  I would like to
have a copy of Mr. Miner's transcript.

Dan Tompkins

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 3:25 PM John Lauritsen <[email protected]>
wrote:

>         In an ugly episode at the annual conference of
> the Society for Classical Studies, last January, classics
> scholar Mary Frances Williams was expelled from the
> conference for allegedly making a racist attack on the
> classicist of color, Dan-el Padilla Peralta.  In official
> statements, from small classics departments to Princetown
> University, Dr. Williams was condemned and vilified.  She
> was fired from her job.  Now truth is beginning to emerge.
> The condemnations of Williams were based on faulty
> recollections and lies.  She was treated unjustly.
>      Williams gives a lucid account of what happened
> an an article, "How I was Kicked Out of the Society for
> Classical Studies Annual Meeting":
>
>
> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fquillette.com%2F2019%2F02%2F26%2Fhow-i-was-kicked-out-of-the-society-for-classical-studies-annual-meeting%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1FeFaN0H8Nn7OsjhQRF3nNXMdiYsF_7bkd8U_SMBbkA93W6PfiLiEzpjE&amp;data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7Ca5e2612b38f345a3a93208d69cf25992%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C636868962036426116&amp;sdata=i%2F2aAxwzvjBfYVeR2HSrGrET6uQ16NLo8fofRxUKZcA%3D&amp;reserved=0
>
>      The veracity of her story is born out by the
> video that was made of the panel, "The Future of Classics".
>
>
> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DlcJZCVemn-4%26t%3D1965s&amp;data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7Ca5e2612b38f345a3a93208d69cf25992%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C636868962036426116&amp;sdata=kdHB%2BL%2Fmw3KYkZYmXaEy4BD%2Fr34ynahdi5QMuWcbV3k%3D&amp;reserved=0
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>      The three leading characters in this drama are
> Mary Frances Williams (MFW), Sarah Bond (SB), and Dan-el
> Padilla Peralta (DPP).  Sarah Bond starts her talk at about
> 12:00; Peralta, at about 31:20; and Mary Frances Williams,
> at about 45:00.
>      Attached is a transcript of the key episode, prepared
> by Mark Miner, a classics scholar.  I have edited the transcript
> by deleting a few of Miner's comments and adding some of
> my own.  My comments are in curly brackets; Miner's are
> in square brackets.  I wanted to make it clear that Bond
> was silencing Williams through interruptions.
>      The talks by Bond and Peralta make it clear that they
> are "social justice warriors" (SJWs) who are hostile to
> whites, males, Western Civilization, Ancient Greece and
> Rome, and in general, the classics.
>      To me some important points are:
>      1. As shown in "Who Killed Homer?", the classics are
> being destroyed largely by SJW classicists within.
>      2. Sarah Bond was the main offender.  As soon as Williams
> said "Western Civilization", having spoken only a little over
> one minute, Bond interrupted her, and continued to interrupt,
> again and again, thus preventing Williams from making a
> coherent statement.  It was an unequal contest: Williams is
> not a forceful public speaker, whereas Bond is an proficient
> interrupter.
>      3. It is hazardous even to hint that someone might
> have benefited from Affirmative Action.
>
>
> John Lauritsen, Independent Scholar
>