C-da,
Thanks for the advice but I believe in free thought, so I pondered why some people are more desparately against him and not others (like the girl for example who treated his views much more mildly than many others here).
Umesh
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Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Umesh:It is about time that you shed your religious hang-ups and attempts at explaining things based on half-baked and uninformed presumptions . It is not going to take you far, but bog you down in your pursuits of higher education in the US.c-daAt 9:26 PM +0100 4/25/05, umesh sharma wrote:Hi,While discussing our Univ President's (or CEO) latest escapades in the press about confusing the issue about Native American's miseries after the Europeans came and how their imported diseases killed much more than physical violence by the immigrants. The Native MAerians neither had the medicines nor immunity to small pox etc and died in entire clans -esp in Mexico - I saw a video on that.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25575-2005Mar10.htmlInfact I too had got the impression initially after reading the pieces that Summers was saying that disease kills more than wars - which is no argument for causing violence. We also discussed his surname (Summers) with another one I had recently heard Sumner - a Jewish colleague of mine surprised me. She said that he wasn't Christian and agreed that he speaks without thinking. "Foot in the mouth" is the term she used and wondered whether he liked the "taste of shoe leather in his mouth."Economists are known to be trouble makers - take Karl Marx for example -- not as pacifiers. So perhaps Summers is following his colleagues example.However, even given his habit of goofing up his words - and taking on Gates Jr -an African American professor whose PBS documentary blamed NOT Whites but the Africans themselves and their muslim leaders for selling them and how in Mozambique etc the Church was now constructing churches at the places where "His ancestors" were sold. Never mind that the missionaries had helped enslavement of Africa thru colonization also.So it seems that the case against Summers was not just against his goofings - which are self evident and pardonable but perhaps because he was a Jewish President of a university which was originally a college for Christain priests. Perhaps many orthodox people didn't like it. His "economic behavior" didn't help much either though.Any comments.UmeshSend instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
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