Yellow-tail Yale

One can imagine that we were just as shocked as Erin Conner over at Critical Mass when we saw the AAUP's response to Yale's blithering and dastardly refusal to include the the Jylland-Postens cartoons which critiqued the use of Mohammad for jihadist and islamic terrorist purposes in the soon to be published book "Cartoons that Shocked the World," by Jyette Klausen.

As American universities become more and more like the Netherlands (or more appropriately, the Nether regions based it's dedication to free speech) or Tehran. the AAUP's demonstrated that it can certainly surprise us all, who have been beaten to death by its usual self-centered blather machine.

Cary Nelson holds no punches and kicks away immediately:

"'We do not negotiate with
terrorists. We just accede to their anticipated demands.' That is
effectively position at Yale University Press..."

An the AAUP, which in the past has committed its own form of ideological terrorism ends with:

"We deplore this decision, and its
potential results."

The potential results, which based upon the previous points that the reader finds in the paragraph including academic freedom, seems a pithy statement since the results have already been actualized and are no longer potential. Nevertheless, the AAUP can consider itself TASSer-free.


At least for today.


Posted by Alpha Hound