I'm a Stanford professor accused of being a terrorist(theguardian.com)

21 pointsby krisdol8 tahun yang lalu12 comments

I'm a Stanford professor accused of being a terrorist

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/08/stanford-professor-mccarthyism-antifa?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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Seep8 tahun yang lalu

Perhaps more interesting is the Stanford Review's response:

"Palumbo-Liu claims that we make the egregious error of failing to distinguish between the term “antifa” and its variant “antifascist,” used in the name of his organization the Campus Antifascist Network. Given that perhaps the most prominent scholar of the antifa movement, Mark Bray, has titled his book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, I hope that we may be forgiven for equivocating the two terms. Claiming that they have separate meanings in today’s political culture is Bill Clinton-level linguistic obfuscation reminiscent of his infamous statement, “depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” "

https://stanfordreview.org/if-it-quacks-like-a-duck/

kstenerud8 tahun yang lalu

Screenshot and publish the hate mail and death threats. Push it all into the open so that people can actually see what's going on, not just second hand information.

masonic8 tahun yang lalu

That piece has a lot of grammatical errors for a professor of anything to write in something for broad consumption.

mindcrash8 tahun yang lalu

Me: "Alexa, what is a terrorist?"

Alexa: "... a person who terrorizes or frightens others."

Me: "Alexa, define the word 'terrorize'"

Alexa "... to dominate or coerce by intimidation."

Me: "Alexa, define the word 'fascism'"

Alexa: "A political regime, having totalitarian aspirations, ideologically based on a relationship between business and the centralized government, business-and-government control of the marketplace, repression of criticism or opposition, a leader cult and exalting the state and/or religion above individual rights"

Me: "Alexa, what is conservative liberalism?"

Alexa "...conservative liberalism promotes ordered liberty under God and establishes constitutional safeguards against tyranny. It shows that a regime of liberty based on traditional morality and classical-Christian culture is an achievement we can be proud of, rather than merely defensive about, as trustees of Western civilization"

Me: "Alexa, what is tyranny?"

Alexa: "oppressive or unjustly severe government on the part of any ruler."

Me: "Thank you for the explanations Alexa, I think I'm done here."

alistoriv8 tahun yang lalu

hwat

mr_spothawk8 tahun yang lalu

> "A political regime, having totalitarian aspirations, ideologically based on a relationship between business and the centralized government, business-and-government control of the marketplace, repression of criticism or opposition, a leader cult and exalting the state and/or religion above individual rights"

Siri doesn't have the same answer, can anybody confirm this is Alexa's output?

mindcrash8 tahun yang lalu

Try https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fascism

mr_spothawk8 tahun yang lalu

For sure, quoting from another page is easy. I was curious about the functionality of the robot... whether the parent comment was representing reality, or making some other form of commentary.

I should have been more specific so I didn't wind up with so many blowhards downvoting me

cozzyd8 tahun yang lalu

Funny to see his name, I had him for IHUM back in...2005?

ouid8 tahun yang lalu

I don't recommend labelling yourself as a terrorist, but I think it's important to consider if there is any society so unjust that you would give your life to destroying it, and maybe considering how, exactly, that's different.

alistoriv8 tahun yang lalu

I don't think I quite get your point, are you implying that destroying an unjust society is equivalent to the injustice of the society?

ouid8 tahun yang lalu

No, I'm saying that it's terrorism.