Re: [SycamoreCanyon] "Political correctness" -- or, good taste and good sense
"'[email protected]' [email protected] [marxist]" <[email protected]> Sat, 6 Dec 2014 08:46:39 -0500
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------=_Part_2140_1922922982.1417873599556 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am not convinced by what Hunter writes on this topic. He lists a lot of = cases where he says his skepticism was right, but I have rarely been convin= ced by him or the press that we really know what happened. I come closest t= o being convinced in relation to the Mormon ase. <div>I generally have little interest in media blow ups of these sorts that= focus on individual incidents, and tend not to put too much credence in it= when they "turn out to have been frauds." The media abound with lies and = hipsters trying to spin tales of innocence and guilt. Sometimes these issu= es are important, like the Scottsboro case or, on another more contemporary= case, the Fort Lee case, as a couple of clear examples. But we almost nev= er get a definitive solution to them, though the media often claim they dug= out the truth. These are the same media who assured us there were WMD in Iraq, and lie on = so much else, or let themselves be fooled, as when they report what the pol= ice say as having considerable truth value. On this one, I will not get too involved, but would not take the reports Hu= nter points to as definitive. This may be a situation where the administra= tive investigation by Teresa Sullivan et al. May be the most believable rep= ort. Or not. I am sure Hunter believes he is right in what he says. I respect him in man= y ways, but I also tend to be skeptical of what some have termed "the spect= acle."=20 Sent from AOL Mobile Mail -----Original Message----- From: 'Hunter Gray' [email protected] [SycamoreCanyon] <Sycamore= [email protected]> To: bearwithoutborders <[email protected]>; marxist <ma= [email protected]>; newgreencanada <[email protected]>; re= dbadbear <[email protected]>; sycamorecanyon <sycamorecanyon@yahoo= groups.com> Sent: Sat, Dec 6, 2014 07:10 AM Subject: [SycamoreCanyon] =3D?utf-8?Q?=3D22Political correctness=3D22?=3D -= - or, good taste and good sense <div id=3D"AOLMsgPart_2_c2bc567a-2f98-46fa-a320-ff46e6d55dfe"> <div style=3D"background-color: #fff;" class=3D"aolReplacedBody">=20 <span style=3D"display:none"> </span>=20 <div id=3D"aolmail_ygrp-mlmsg" style=3D"position:relative;">=20 <div id=3D"aolmail_ygrp-msg" style=3D"z-index: 1;">=20 <div id=3D"aolmail_ygrp-text">=20 <p></p> <div> <font face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"2"></font> =20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"2"> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size= =3D"3"> </font></font> =20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"2"><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b>= <span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">Many who follow =E2= =80=9Cthe news=E2=80=9D are aware that, a few weeks ago, a story in Rolling= Stone magazine charged that a young woman had been subjected to gang rape = at a fraternity house<span> </span>at the University of Virginia.</font></= span></b></p> =20=20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">= <font face=3D"Calibri">The story, taken at face value by university authori= ties and most media, became national and then global in scope. It quickly t= riggered a vilifying rush to judgment against the frat and its members, the= house was summarily closed , then all frats were under suspicion -- and th= ere were campus demonstrations against them and their members. </font></spa= n></b></p> =20=20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">= <font face=3D"Calibri"><span> </span>But it=E2=80=99s all turned out to be = a fake.</font></span></b></p> =20=20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">= <font face=3D"Calibri">CNN and MSNBC, which broadly carried the report, see= m unhappy with this revelation =E2=80=93 but do have to say something.<span= > </span>But the best report on this travesty comes from Fox:</font></span= ></b></p> =20=20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">= <a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/06/rape-stor= y-unravels-rollng-stone-says-trust-in-uva-source-misplaced/"><font color=3D= "#0563c1" face=3D"Calibri"></font></a><font color=3D"#0563c1" face=3D"Calib= ri"><a href=3D"http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/06/rape-story-unravels-rol= lng-stone-says-trust-in-uva-source-misplaced/" target=3D"_blank">http://www= .foxnews.com/us/2014/12/06/rape-story-unravels-rollng-stone-says-trust-in-u= va-source-misplaced/</a></font></span></b></p> =20=20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">= <font face=3D"Calibri">This is a case where unbridled =E2=80=9Cpolitical co= rrectness=E2=80=9D ran amuck =E2=80=93 and a lot of people have been hurt. = The term itself has always disturbed me.<span> </span>It sounds like somet= hing emerging from a tiny and insular political sect, with its roots origin= ally abroad, and which, unable and unwilling to engage tangible issues of s= ubstance, is turning its zeal against its own followers =E2=80=93 sort of l= ike an auto-immune disease where one=E2=80=99s bodily immune system turns o= n itself.</font></span></b></p> =20=20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">= <font face=3D"Calibri">I like to think in terms of good taste and good sens= e.</font></span></b></p> =20=20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">= <font face=3D"Calibri">In the last 35 years or so, political correctness ha= s pervaded much of the culture of this country.<span> </span>On the plus s= ide, it has illuminated the often wide parameters of a great many instances= of social injustice. </font></span></b></p> =20=20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">= <font face=3D"Calibri"><span> </span>On the negative side, it=E2=80=99s fre= quently used in cavalier fashion with little regard to the actual, factual = situation.<span> </span>And, for unscrupulous folks, it can be a tool of M= achiavellian nature, well suited for careerism and political campaigns.</fo= nt></span></b></p> =20=20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">= <font face=3D"Calibri">And all of this wild and spurious dust and sandstorm= stuff can confuse and obscure the many and very real instances of human in= justice.</font></span></b></p> =20=20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri"><b><span styl= e=3D"font-size: 12pt;">The Duke Lacrosse fraternity frame-up at Durham, N.C= . a few years ago stemmed from knee-jerk P.C.<span> </span>Still familiar = with the social and political landscape of that state where we lived for a = number of years, I almost immediately knew that to be a frame-up.<span> </= span>Eventually =E2=80=93 eventually =E2=80=93 that was straightened out an= d the accused frat members were totally vindicated..<span> </span>Here is = some of my writing on that one:</span></b><font size=3D"3"> </font><b><span= style=3D"font-size: 12pt;"><a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://www.hunterb= ear.org/NORTH%20CAROLINA%20THOUGHTS%20AND%20MEMORIES.htm"><font color=3D"#0= 563c1"></font></a><font color=3D"#0563c1"><a href=3D"http://www.hunterbear.= org/NORTH%20CAROLINA%20THOUGHTS%20AND%20MEMORIES.htm" target=3D"_blank">htt= p://www.hunterbear.org/NORTH%20CAROLINA%20THOUGHTS%20AND%20MEMORIES.htm</a>= </font></span></b></font></p> =20=20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> =20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">= <font face=3D"Calibri">Not long after the Duke situation, a full scale witc= h-hunt against religious polygamists (fundamentalist Mormons unaffiliated w= ith the mainline LDS church), burst forth yet again. (These seem to occur a= bout every half century or so.)<span> </span>In this case, there were char= ges, via a few witnesses of very dubious character, that women and children= were being abused en masse.<span> </span>Arizona and Utah moved, though c= autiously, against the polygamist communities.<span> </span>But, in West T= exas, authorities seized several hundred children. Most American media had = a field day playing up the abuse allegations.</font></span></b></p> =20=20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">= <font face=3D"Calibri"><span> </span>I knew this to be a frame-up immediate= ly.<span> </span>Perhaps alone on the myriad of e discussion lists, I had = had contact a number of times, in northern Arizona and southern Utah, with = polygamists and their small communities =E2=80=93 and I knew them to be goo= d people.<span> </span>After a number of <span> </span>turbulent months, t= he Texas appellate court ruled that it could find no evidence of child abus= e whatsoever and ordered the return of all of the polygamist kids to their = families.<span> </span>This was upheld by the Texas Supreme Court.<span> = </span>The children were returned and, although there are flare-ups now and= then, the attacks on these peaceful people have ended =E2=80=93 for the ti= me being.<span> </span>See this long webpage of mine:</font></span></b></p= > =20=20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">= <a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://hunterbear.org/POLYGAMY%20FIRES.htm"><f= ont color=3D"#0563c1" face=3D"Calibri"></font></a><font color=3D"#0563c1" f= ace=3D"Calibri"><a href=3D"http://hunterbear.org/POLYGAMY%20FIRES.htm" targ= et=3D"_blank">http://hunterbear.org/POLYGAMY%20FIRES.htm</a></font></span><= /b></p> =20=20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">= <font face=3D"Calibri">In 1991, at the University of North Dakota, a move b= egan to develop toward imposing a code banning =E2=80=9CHate Speech=E2=80= =9D. Thoughtful faculty and students recognized the dangers to the First Am= endment and academic freedom =E2=80=93 and some faculty were aware that suc= h a code could be used for unscrupulous purposes in the UND setting which, = to understate it, was beset with internal problems.<span> </span>I wrote = the letter that launched our successful campaign to kill the Hate Speech ba= n.</font></span></b></p> =20=20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">= <font face=3D"Calibri">From our Hunterbear website:</font></span></b></p> =20=20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"color: rgb(172, 0,= 0);font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;font-size: 13.5pt;">=E2=80=9C </span><= font face=3D"Calibri" size=3D"3">I wrote the following letter [under my or= iginal name of John R Salter, Jr] and published it in The Dakota Student [= University of North Dakota] on April 30, 1991. I was not surprised that it= angered a number of administrators as well as some faculty. The UND studen= t response -- across all sorts of racial/ethnic/cultural lines -- was extre= mely positive. My letter was subsequently published in the May / June 1991 = issue of the excellent socialist journal, Against the Current, under the ti= tle, "Defeat Racism, Don't Censor It." =20 I stand, of course, by every word I said, then and right to the present moment.</font></b><b> <font face=3D"Calibri" size=3D"3">=20 <span>SPEECH BAN WON'T END RACISM -- John R Salter, Jr [Hunter Gray]</sp= an> </font><font face=3D"Calibri"><font size=3D"3"><span>DAKOTA STUDENT 4= /30/91 </span> </font></font><font face=3D"Calibri"><font size=3D"3"><span>I'm completely= against any efforts to ban racist or sexist speech, or any other speech, on college and university campuses -- or anywhere else. =20 I speak as both activist and academic and as one who has been involved in social justice pursuits and teaching since the mid-1950s. =20 American Indians have traditionally recognized the right of everyone to be heard -- no matter how unpopular or even noxious the verbiage. Whatever its many limitations, my native state of Arizona has never deteriorated -- despite the presence of the copper bosses and the farming magnates, among others -- into the sort of closed society once exemplified by Mississippi. In part, at least, this has been because of the libertarian traditions of = a far-ranging frontier where "things open out instead of in" and where free speech has generally, however grudgingly, been respected or at least tolerated. </span> </font></font><font face=3D"Calibri"><font size=3D"3"><span>I've never kno= wn any effort anywhere to ban speech that really "worked." I've known few such efforts that, sooner or later, weren't turned against the advocates of constructive social change. Hell, look at human history. =20 Frankly, some of the most sanctimonious proponents of suppression of racis= t and sexist speech in university settings have been, in my observation, administrators whose real commitment to, say, affirmative action has been Zero -- and who frequently have worked against anything of a tangible natu= re that would increase the numbers and morale of women and minorities in meaningful positions. Other, more well meaning official folk, worry about "negative speech," expressing their concerns in the context and style of a prattling timidity that brings out the worst in everyone. </span> </font></font><font face=3D"Calibri"><font size=3D"3"><span>Here at the Un= iversity of North Dakota, in a state and region where Native Americans are the most substantial minority, our Department of American Indian Studies offers several sections of a course called Introduction to Indian Studies -- which fulfills a state teacher certification necessity a= nd also meets certain humanities and social science requirements. About 350 students per year pass through these courses [I teach 200 or so personally= ]; the majority are Anglo, with a good number of American Indians and other minorities represented. In this classroom setting, academic dimensions ar= e heavily laced with confronting all kinds of people hang-ups and we deal wi= th these in a non-guilt-trip, "say what you please" hang-loose sort of atmosphere. =20 This works -- and often these students go on to take other courses of ours= , such as Contemporary Indian Issues or Federal Indian Law and Policy or Plains Indians. Common interests, common concerns, and common allies surface.</span> =20 </font></font><span><font face=3D"Calibri" size=3D"3">And in many other se= ctors, in and out of the university setting, we challenge all kinds of anti-people words and deeds and patterns. We've do= ne it openly and candidly -- and without tearing people down. Our efforts ar= e interracial and intercultural. =20 We've seen things improve enlightenment-wise with the students, considerab= ly so, and with many townspeople. But we still have a long, long way to g= o in getting minorities and women hired in solid and influential university= positions. Academics -- including academic liberals -- are certainly oft= en harder to deal with than an essentially nice Anglo kid who has some hang-ups. =20 The kid is usually honest enough to face up and change, given a firm push = or two or three -- done in a friendly fashion. =20 We just have to keep fighting, all of us together, step by step. But let'= s not waste time on dangerous gimmicks like gag laws and regulations. The real prize lies "over the mountains yonder" and we can catch it -- if we don't allow ourselves to be de-railed and diverted into the canyons. =20 [Editor's note: Salter is chairman of the Indian Studies Department.]</fo= nt></span></b></p> =20=20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">= <font face=3D"Calibri"> </font></span></b></p> =20=20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">= <font face=3D"Calibri">Again, I like to think in terms of good taste and go= od sense.</font></span></b></p> =20=20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">= <font face=3D"Calibri">In Solidarity,</font></span></b></p> =20=20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">= <font face=3D"Calibri">Hunter Bear</font></span></b></p> =20=20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> <p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">= <font face=3D"Calibri"> </font></span></b></p></font> =20=20=20=20 <font face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"2"><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size= =3D"3"> </font><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font><font face= =3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size= =3D"3"> </font></font>HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq / = St. Francis Abenaki / St. Regis Mohawk=20 =20=20=20=20=20 Protected by Na=C2=B4shdo=C2=B4i=C2=B4ba=C2=B4i=C2=B4=20 =20=20=20=20=20 and Ohkwari' . Check out our massive social justice website:=20 =20=20=20=20=20 =20 <a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://www.hunterbear.org">www.hunterbear= .org</a>=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20 Member, National Writers Union AFL-CIO=20 =20=20=20=20=20 =20 =20=20=20=20=20 Core dimensions of my Community Organizing course:=20 =20=20=20=20=20 =20 <a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://www.labornet.org/news/0000/hbear.h= tm">http://www.labornet.org/news/0000/hbear.htm</a>=20 =20=20=20=20=20 =20 =20=20=20=20=20 My expanded/updated "Organizer's Book,"=20 =20=20=20=20=20 JACKSON MISSISSIPPI -- with a new 10,000=20 =20=20=20=20=20 word introduction by me. Covers much of my=20 =20=20=20=20=20 confrontational social justice organizing life to=20 =20=20=20=20=20 date. Contains much how-to grassroots organizing=20 =20=20=20=20=20 methodology:=20 <a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm">http:/= /hunterbear.org/jackson.htm</a> =20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20 =20 =20=20=20=20=20 =20 =20=20=20=20=20 See this for mini-bio, efforts to prevent JM=E2=80=99s appearance in=20 =20=20=20=20=20 Mississippi, a wide range of its many reviews, and some=20 =20=20=20=20=20 photos:=20 <a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://www.amazon.com/John-R.-Salter/e/B0= 01KMEHWY/ref=3Dntt_dp_epwbk_0">http://www.amazon.com/John-R.-Salter/e/B001K= MEHWY/ref=3Dntt_dp_epwbk_0</a> =20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20 =20 =20=20=20=20=20 =20 =20=20=20=20=20 The Stormy Adoption of an Indian Child [My Father]:=20 =20=20=20=20=20 =20 <a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salte= r%20and%20Dad.htm">http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.h= tm</a> =20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20 =20=20 =20=20=20=20=20 (Photos)=20 =20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20 <p></p>=20 </div>=20 <div style=3D"color: #fff; 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He lists a lo= t of cases where he says his skepticism was right, but I have rarely been c= onvinced by him or the press that we really know what happened. I come clos= est to being convinced in relation to the Mormon ase.<div><div><br></= div><div>I generally have little interest in media blow ups of these sorts = that focus on individual incidents, and tend not to put too much credence i= n it when they "turn out to have been frauds." The media abound with = lies and hipsters trying to spin tales of innocence and guilt. Someti= mes these issues are important, like the Scottsboro case or, on another mor= e contemporary case, the Fort Lee case, as a couple of clear examples. &nbs= p;But we almost never get a definitive solution to them, though the media o= ften claim they dug out the truth.</div><div><br></div><div>These are the s= ame media who assured us there were WMD in Iraq, and lie on so much else, o= r let themselves be fooled, as when they report what the police say as havi= ng considerable truth value.</div><div><br></div><div>On this one, I will n= ot get too involved, but would not take the reports Hunter points to as def= initive. This may be a situation where the administrative investigati= on by Teresa Sullivan et al. May be the most believable report. Or no= t.</div><div><br></div><div>I am sure Hunter believes he is right in what h= e says. I respect him in many ways, but I also tend to be skeptical of what= some have termed "the spectacle." <br><br>Sent from AOL Mobile Mail<b= r><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: 'Hunter Gray' hunterbadbear@h= unterbear.org [SycamoreCanyon] <[email protected]><br>To= : bearwithoutborders <[email protected]>; marxist= <[email protected]>; newgreencanada <newgreencanada@yahoogr= oups.com>; redbadbear <[email protected]>; sycamorecanyon= <[email protected]><br>Sent: Sat, Dec 6, 2014 07:10 AM<= br>Subject: [SycamoreCanyon] =3D?utf-8?Q?=3D22Political correctness=3D22?= =3D -- or, good taste and good sense<br><br><br> <div id=3D"AOLMsgPart_2_c2bc567a-2f98-46fa-a320-ff46e6d55dfe"> <div style=3D"background-color: #fff;" class=3D"aolReplacedBody">=20 <span style=3D"display:none"> </span>=20 <div id=3D"aolmail_ygrp-mlmsg" style=3D"position:relative;">=20 <div id=3D"aolmail_ygrp-msg" style=3D"z-index: 1;">=20 <div id=3D"aolmail_ygrp-text">=20 <p></p> <div> <font face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"2"></font> </div>=20 <div> <font face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"2"> <font face=3D"Times New Roman"= size=3D"3"> </font></font> </div> <font face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"2"><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b>= <span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">Many who follow =E2= =80=9Cthe news=E2=80=9D are aware that, a few weeks ago, a story in Rolling= Stone magazine charged that a young woman had been subjected to gang rape = at a fraternity house<span> </span>at the University of Virginia.</fo= nt></span></b></p> <div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> </div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 1= 2pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">The story, taken at face value by university a= uthorities and most media, became national and then global in scope. It qui= ckly triggered a vilifying rush to judgment against the frat and its member= s, the house was summarily closed , then all frats were under suspicion -- = and there were campus demonstrations against them and their members. </font= ></span></b></p> <div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> </div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 1= 2pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri"><span> </span>But it=E2=80=99s all turned= out to be a fake.</font></span></b></p> <div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> </div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 1= 2pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">CNN and MSNBC, which broadly carried the repor= t, seem unhappy with this revelation =E2=80=93 but do have to say something= .<span> </span>But the best report on this travesty comes from Fox:</= font></span></b></p> <div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> </div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 1= 2pt;"><a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/06/rap= e-story-unravels-rollng-stone-says-trust-in-uva-source-misplaced/"><font co= lor=3D"#0563c1" face=3D"Calibri"></font></a><font color=3D"#0563c1" face=3D= "Calibri"><a href=3D"http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/06/rape-story-unrave= ls-rollng-stone-says-trust-in-uva-source-misplaced/" target=3D"_blank">http= ://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/06/rape-story-unravels-rollng-stone-says-trus= t-in-uva-source-misplaced/</a></font></span></b></p> <div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> </div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 1= 2pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">This is a case where unbridled =E2=80=9Cpoliti= cal correctness=E2=80=9D ran amuck =E2=80=93 and a lot of people have been = hurt. The term itself has always disturbed me.<span> </span>It sounds= like something emerging from a tiny and insular political sect, with its r= oots originally abroad, and which, unable and unwilling to engage tangible = issues of substance, is turning its zeal against its own followers =E2=80= =93 sort of like an auto-immune disease where one=E2=80=99s bodily immune s= ystem turns on itself.</font></span></b></p> <div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> </div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 1= 2pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">I like to think in terms of good taste and goo= d sense.</font></span></b></p> <div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> </div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 1= 2pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">In the last 35 years or so, political correctn= ess has pervaded much of the culture of this country.<span> </span>On= the plus side, it has illuminated the often wide parameters of a great man= y instances of social injustice. </font></span></b></p> <div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> </div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 1= 2pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri"><span> </span>On the negative side, it=E2= =80=99s frequently used in cavalier fashion with little regard to the actua= l, factual situation.<span> </span>And, for unscrupulous folks, it ca= n be a tool of Machiavellian nature, well suited for careerism and politica= l campaigns.</font></span></b></p> <div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> </div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 1= 2pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">And all of this wild and spurious dust and san= dstorm stuff can confuse and obscure the many and very real instances of hu= man injustice.</font></span></b></p> <div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> </div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri"><b><spa= n style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">The Duke Lacrosse fraternity frame-up at Durha= m, N.C. a few years ago stemmed from knee-jerk P.C.<span> </span>Stil= l familiar with the social and political landscape of that state where we l= ived for a number of years, I almost immediately knew that to be a frame-up= .<span> </span>Eventually =E2=80=93 eventually =E2=80=93 that was str= aightened out and the accused frat members were totally vindicated..<span>&= nbsp; </span>Here is some of my writing on that one:</span></b><font size= =3D"3"> </font><b><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;"><a target=3D"_blank" hre= f=3D"http://www.hunterbear.org/NORTH%20CAROLINA%20THOUGHTS%20AND%20MEMORIES= .htm"><font color=3D"#0563c1"></font></a><font color=3D"#0563c1"><a href=3D= "http://www.hunterbear.org/NORTH%20CAROLINA%20THOUGHTS%20AND%20MEMORIES.htm= " target=3D"_blank">http://www.hunterbear.org/NORTH%20CAROLINA%20THOUGHTS%2= 0AND%20MEMORIES.htm</a></font></span></b></font></p> <div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"><br></font> </div> <div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> </div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 1= 2pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">Not long after the Duke situation, a full scal= e witch-hunt against religious polygamists (fundamentalist Mormons unaffili= ated with the mainline LDS church), burst forth yet again. (These seem to o= ccur about every half century or so.)<span> </span>In this case, ther= e were charges, via a few witnesses of very dubious character, that women a= nd children were being abused en masse.<span> </span>Arizona and Utah= moved, though cautiously, against the polygamist communities.<span> = </span>But, in West Texas, authorities seized several hundred children. Mos= t American media had a field day playing up the abuse allegations.</font></= span></b></p> <div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> </div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 1= 2pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri"><span> </span>I knew this to be a frame-u= p immediately.<span> </span>Perhaps alone on the myriad of e discussi= on lists, I had had contact a number of times, in northern Arizona and sout= hern Utah, with polygamists and their small communities =E2=80=93 and I kne= w them to be good people.<span> </span>After a number of <span> = </span>turbulent months, the Texas appellate court ruled that it could find= no evidence of child abuse whatsoever and ordered the return of all of the= polygamist kids to their families.<span> </span>This was upheld by t= he Texas Supreme Court.<span> </span>The children were returned and, = although there are flare-ups now and then, the attacks on these peaceful pe= ople have ended =E2=80=93 for the time being.<span> </span>See this l= ong webpage of mine:</font></span></b></p> <div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> </div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 1= 2pt;"><a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"http://hunterbear.org/POLYGAMY%20FIRES.h= tm"><font color=3D"#0563c1" face=3D"Calibri"></font></a><font color=3D"#056= 3c1" face=3D"Calibri"><a href=3D"http://hunterbear.org/POLYGAMY%20FIRES.htm= " target=3D"_blank">http://hunterbear.org/POLYGAMY%20FIRES.htm</a></font></= span></b></p> <div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> </div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 1= 2pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">In 1991, at the University of North Dakota, a = move began to develop toward imposing a code banning =E2=80=9CHate Speech= =E2=80=9D. Thoughtful faculty and students recognized the dangers to the Fi= rst Amendment and academic freedom =E2=80=93 and some faculty were aware th= at such a code could be used for unscrupulous purposes in the UND = ;setting which, to understate it, was beset with internal problems.<sp= an> </span>I wrote the letter that launched our successful camp= aign to kill the Hate Speech ban.</font></span></b></p> <div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> </div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 1= 2pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">From our Hunterbear website:</font></span></b>= </p> <div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> </div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"color: rgb(1= 72, 0, 0);font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;font-size: 13.5pt;">= =E2=80=9C </span><font face=3D"Calibri" size=3D"3">I wrote the following le= tter [under my original name of John R Salter, Jr] and publishe= d it in The Dakota Student [University of North Dakota] on April 30, 1991.&= nbsp; I was not surprised that it angered a number of administrators as wel= l as some faculty. The UND student response -- across all sorts of racial/e= thnic/cultural lines -- was extremely positive. My letter was subsequently = published in the May / June 1991 issue of the excellent socialist journal, = Against the Current, under the title, "Defeat Racism, Don't Censor It."<br>= <br> I stand, of course, by every word I said, then and right to the prese= nt<br> moment.</font></b><b><br><font face=3D"Calibri" size=3D"3"> <br> <sp= an>SPEECH BAN WON'T END RACISM -- John R Salter, Jr [Hunter Gra= y]</span> </font><font face=3D"Calibri"><font size=3D"3"><span>DAKOTA= STUDENT 4/30/91<br> </span><br> </font></font><font face=3D"Calibri"= ><font size=3D"3"><span>I'm completely against any efforts to ban racist or= sexist speech, or any<br> other speech, on college and university campuses= -- or anywhere else.<br> <br> I speak as both activist and academic and as= one who has been involved in<br> social justice pursuits and teaching sinc= e the mid-1950s.<br> <br> American Indians have traditionally recognized th= e right of everyone to be<br> heard -- no matter how unpopular or eve= n noxious the verbiage. Whatever<br> its many limitations, my native = state of Arizona has never deteriorated --<br> despite the presence of the = copper bosses and the farming magnates, among<br> others -- into the sort o= f closed society once exemplified by Mississippi.<br> In part, at least, th= is has been because of the libertarian traditions of a<br> far-ranging fron= tier where "things open out instead of in" and where free<br> speech has ge= nerally, however grudgingly, been respected or at least<br> tolerated.<br> = </span><br> </font></font><font face=3D"Calibri"><font size=3D"3"><span>I'v= e never known any effort anywhere to ban speech that really "worked.= "<br> I've known few such efforts that, sooner or later, weren't turned aga= inst<br> the advocates of constructive social change. Hell, look at h= uman history.<br> <br> Frankly, some of the most sanctimonious proponents o= f suppression of racist<br> and sexist speech in university settings have b= een, in my observation,<br> administrators whose real commitment to, say, a= ffirmative action has been<br> Zero -- and who frequently have worked again= st anything of a tangible nature<br> that would increase the numbers and mo= rale of women and minorities in<br> meaningful positions. Other, more= well meaning official folk, worry about<br> "negative speech," expressing = their concerns in the context and style of a<br> prattling timidity that br= ings out the worst in everyone.<br> </span><br> </font></font><font face=3D= "Calibri"><font size=3D"3"><span>Here at the University of North Dakota, in= a state and region where Native<br> Americans are the most substantial min= ority, our Department of American<br> Indian Studies offers several section= s of a course called Introduction to<br> Indian Studies -- which fulfills a= state teacher certification necessity and<br> also meets certain humanitie= s and social science requirements. About 350<br> students per year pa= ss through these courses [I teach 200 or so personally];<br> the majority a= re Anglo, with a good number of American Indians and other<br> minorities r= epresented. In this classroom setting, academic dimensions are<br> he= avily laced with confronting all kinds of people hang-ups and we deal with<= br> these in a non-guilt-trip, "say what you please" hang-loose sort of<br>= atmosphere.<br> <br> This works -- and often these students go on to take = other courses of ours,<br> such as Contemporary Indian Issues or Federal In= dian Law and Policy or<br> Plains Indians. Common interests, common c= oncerns, and common allies<br> surface.</span><br> <br> </font></font><span= ><font face=3D"Calibri" size=3D"3">And in many other sectors, in and out of= the university setting, we<br> challenge all kinds of anti-people words an= d deeds and patterns. We've done<br> it openly and candidly -- and wi= thout tearing people down. Our efforts are<br> interracial and interc= ultural.<br> <br> We've seen things improve enlightenment-wise with the stu= dents, considerably so, and with many townspeople. But we still= have a long, long way to go in getting minorities and women hired in solid= and influential university positions. Academics -- including academi= c liberals -- are certainly often harder to deal with than an essenti= ally nice Anglo kid who has some<br> hang-ups.<br> <br> The kid is usually = honest enough to face up and change, given a firm push or<br> two or three = -- done in a friendly fashion.<br> <br> We just have to keep fighting, all = of us together, step by step. But let's<br> not waste time on dangero= us gimmicks like gag laws and regulations. The<br> real prize lies "o= ver the mountains yonder" and we can catch it -- if we<br> don't allow ours= elves to be de-railed and diverted into the canyons.<br> <br> [Editor's not= e: Salter is chairman of the Indian Studies Department.]</font></span= ></b></p> <div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> </div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 1= 2pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri"> </font></span></b></p> <div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> </div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 1= 2pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">Again, I like to think in terms of good taste = and good sense.</font></span></b></p> <div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> </div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 1= 2pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">In Solidarity,</font></span></b></p> <div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> </div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 1= 2pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">Hunter Bear</font></span></b></p> <div> <font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font> </div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 1= 2pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri"> </font></span></b></p></font> <div> <font face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"2"><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size= =3D"3"> </font><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font><font face= =3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"> </font><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size= =3D"3"> </font></font>HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq / = St. Francis Abenaki / St. Regis Mohawk=20 <br> Protected by Na=C2=B4shdo=C2=B4i=C2=B4ba=C2=B4i=C2=B4=20 <br> and Ohkwari' . 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