Friday, November 19, 2010

The Morally Incoherent World of York U

KS sent me this: Prof. Richard Cravatts weighs in on York U's response to a Toronto Rabbi who wrote a letter of protest re Galloway's speech on campus (York's president threatened to sue--the Jew):
In a morally coherent world, university administrators might be better able to distinguish between behavior by terrorist-coddling ideologues and the actions of those who wish to protect Jewish students from hatred, bias, and vilification as a result of their perceived support of Israel. But not at York, where, when someone stands up and asks why anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism have infected the York campus and have even recently widened into physical assaults and attacks on Jews, it is that individual who is condemned for saying what has not been said before: that the university’s failure to take a strong moral stand — when it sees obvious hatred and aggression towards Jewish students as part of an ostensible discussion about Israel — is a great moral lapse that no amount of talk about “academic free speech” and the supposed right of people like Galloway to speak on campus can remedy.
Alas, in a doman where moral relativism rules, there is no morality. Which is kind of the nub of the whole problem.

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