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The story below describes a disgusting tweet by a racist professor, but in another news item, a campus priest at Seton Hall (http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/seton-hall-priest-says-he-was-fired-for-supporting-no-h8/ar-BBjSAqH)was dismissed for a tweet in support of same-sex marriage legislation. Coupled with the ongoing fight for Steven Salaita, I wonder if we, the one group of people who actually stand for revolutionary democracy, are caught in a trap because we are selectively opposing some attacks on democratic freedoms and "benignly comment" on the racist nature of a person who gets fired for having an opinion?! I wonder which is the more disgusting, the racist ideologue or the "communist" selective supporter of democracy? I have posted this query to other sites including The North Star because I believe we need to think this problem through. Will also be posting to Marxist Internet Archive Users Discussion Group and Campaign for a United Socialist Party - CUSP Duke professor: Blacks riot because they’re lazier than Asians and have ‘strange’ un-American namesA North Carolina professor said over the weekend that he was suspended after he was caught writing in the New York Times comment section that there was a link between the Baltimore riots and “strange” names that black people had instead of having traditional white names. http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/duke-professor-blacks-riot-because-theyre-lazier-than-asians-and-have-strange-un-american-names/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
