They are at it, squeaming with THREE blogs at the AAUP site. 'Academic freedom' is a camouflage to indulge in anti-India activities and activities inimical to strengthening bonds between Bharat and USA where they earn their daily bread (hopefully).
A must read where the politburo members of FOIL get their kicks, justified: http://academeblog.org/2015/08/29/the-us-india-academic-freedom-and-the-world/#comment-106150
It is good to see the idiots getting kicks on their own blogs.
So, read on some excerpts from half-truths on one of the blogs of the psecs and more extensive comments at...
http://academeblog.org/2015/09/02/on-the-responses-to-the-faculty-statement-on-narendra-modis-upcoming-visit-to-silicon-valley/#comment-106115
http://academeblog.org/2015/08/29/the-us-india-academic-freedom-and-the-world/#comment-106150
The tenor of the psec comment continues to be the same -- anti-India.
"September 1, 2015: When we released our letter on August 27, 2015 we had 125 signers. Despite the intimidation and harassment we have received at this blog site and elsewhere, more faculty have written to us asking that their names be included in the list of signatories–we now number 135. We are heartened by our colleagues’ willingness to share the burden of unpopular opinion when ad hominem attacks have eclipsed rational discussion. The threats and ugly tone in the comments section of this blog and elsewhere illustrate exactly how academic freedom, and freedom of expression in general, is compromised by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist followers. "
A must read where the politburo members of FOIL get their kicks, justified: http://academeblog.org/2015/08/29/the-us-india-academic-freedom-and-the-world/#comment-106150
It is good to see the idiots getting kicks on their own blogs.
So, read on some excerpts from half-truths on one of the blogs of the psecs and more extensive comments at...
http://academeblog.org/2015/09/02/on-the-responses-to-the-faculty-statement-on-narendra-modis-upcoming-visit-to-silicon-valley/#comment-106115
http://academeblog.org/2015/08/29/the-us-india-academic-freedom-and-the-world/#comment-106150
The tenor of the psec comment continues to be the same -- anti-India.
"September 1, 2015: When we released our letter on August 27, 2015 we had 125 signers. Despite the intimidation and harassment we have received at this blog site and elsewhere, more faculty have written to us asking that their names be included in the list of signatories–we now number 135. We are heartened by our colleagues’ willingness to share the burden of unpopular opinion when ad hominem attacks have eclipsed rational discussion. The threats and ugly tone in the comments section of this blog and elsewhere illustrate exactly how academic freedom, and freedom of expression in general, is compromised by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist followers. "
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People have short memories, and so they seem to think that some are being unfair to this so-called Long List of 125 Scholars Plus 10 Who Missed The Train. After all, are these not independent-minded, admirably rebellious, academics daring to stand up to Insolent Might? If you believe that, I have seven bridges in Atlanta to sell you - cheap, cheap, one-owner.
Let's see the heroism of these people in standing up for Freedom. Democracy. The Rule of Law. The very essence of American strength. Ideal role models for young minds. The sort that you want to send your dear offspring to study under.
I see that they are now just squirming and slithering, like a Presidential Candidate caught lying. That's what they do. Common feature of the so-called "diverse" group. But they forget that their words are right there on the Internet.
Until recently, they were posting signatures on their Petitions and Letters like "Professor of Television Appreciation and Sex in Motion Pictures" when they were actually graduate students or maybe Assistant or Associate Professors.
See "Yesterday Once More: FOIL Primer Part 1. https://narayanankomerath.
We asked one of the universities (Ryder U, NJ) how they allowed this. The Head Honcho, some lawyer, replied that it was because at their 'university' (oxymoron?) they had no one who could be promoted to Professor. We congratulated them on having invented a way to eliminate the thousands of person-hours devoted each year across universities by RPT committees, and the need for faculty to write proposals or papers - they could just go around holding signs saying "Death To India and UK and America!" like some of them did in San Francisco a few years ago (it's still on the Internet I bet). I have not checked the 125 to see how many are what they claim they are, or are like the little girl in my neighborhood who used to reply "MBBS!" when someone asked what grade she was in. But read their original LETTER and see if that looks like someone written by someone who has any sense, much less an education beyond 3rd grade - and then look at all the signatures endorsing that (giving an A+ no doubt?) as Professors of English, and their Official Affiliations! A Professor of Englsh at U. Penn or U.C. can't write better than THAT? Really?
It appears that some universities just have no standards at all in certain of their departments, even though the university itself may have a proud and hard-won name. One should pity their students.
1. As entertainment, check out some of their latest. Here's one advocating violent Communist revolution in India, by Vijay Prasad, now that the Marxist Party has been trashed at the polls.
https://twitter.com/
"Onward for a stronger Indian Communism."
2. Here is Vijay Prashad in "Vortexin Bengal" or "Naked Punch". Look at all the peaceful academics standing at attention, upset that they have been kicked out of power in West Bengal.
http://www.nakedpunch.com/
More from the Protectors of Free Speech:
3) Vijay Prashad at The Marxist-Leninist - "a revolutionary communist website" admiring Muammar Gaddafi, that great Humanitarian
https://marxistleninist.
4) Here is Vinay Lal, (absent from the list - what happened? too busy writing in admiration of ISIS destroying the Yazdis and the Palmyrah?) writing about how the Taliban were perfectly justified in destroying the Bamiyan Buddhas, a UNESCO Heritage Site, back around 1999:
http://www.littlemag.com/mar-
5) Here is a summary of some of this gang's previous achievements and their web:
https://thetruthaboutliars.
All in all, wonderful associations, for people who presume to advice India and Silicon Valley businesspeople on how to run our lives, hain?
5) Another surprising omission - is he one of the new Belated Ten, I wonder?
Comrade Biju Matthew:
http://rajeev2004.blogspot.
BTW, yes, I too have seen his website at Ryder University conveying his admiration of the UnaBomber to inspire his students. Circa 2002.
Wouldn't that be wonderful? UnaBomber Admirers giving advice on how to run Silicon Valley? Prashad giving advice to Commit Model-Minority Suicide? Bring violent Marxist-Leninist Revolution to America?
And the whole troupe of "diverse" clueless 'Academics', devoid of any tradition of doing honest research, signing on to the stuff that they generate like the proverbial denizens in the Pied Piper of Hamelin?
Let's see the heroism of these people in standing up for Freedom. Democracy. The Rule of Law. The very essence of American strength. Ideal role models for young minds. The sort that you want to send your dear offspring to study under.
I see that they are now just squirming and slithering, like a Presidential Candidate caught lying. That's what they do. Common feature of the so-called "diverse" group. But they forget that their words are right there on the Internet.
Until recently, they were posting signatures on their Petitions and Letters like "Professor of Television Appreciation and Sex in Motion Pictures" when they were actually graduate students or maybe Assistant or Associate Professors.
See "Yesterday Once More: FOIL Primer Part 1. https://narayanankomerath.
We asked one of the universities (Ryder U, NJ) how they allowed this. The Head Honcho, some lawyer, replied that it was because at their 'university' (oxymoron?) they had no one who could be promoted to Professor. We congratulated them on having invented a way to eliminate the thousands of person-hours devoted each year across universities by RPT committees, and the need for faculty to write proposals or papers - they could just go around holding signs saying "Death To India and UK and America!" like some of them did in San Francisco a few years ago (it's still on the Internet I bet). I have not checked the 125 to see how many are what they claim they are, or are like the little girl in my neighborhood who used to reply "MBBS!" when someone asked what grade she was in. But read their original LETTER and see if that looks like someone written by someone who has any sense, much less an education beyond 3rd grade - and then look at all the signatures endorsing that (giving an A+ no doubt?) as Professors of English, and their Official Affiliations! A Professor of Englsh at U. Penn or U.C. can't write better than THAT? Really?
It appears that some universities just have no standards at all in certain of their departments, even though the university itself may have a proud and hard-won name. One should pity their students.
1. As entertainment, check out some of their latest. Here's one advocating violent Communist revolution in India, by Vijay Prasad, now that the Marxist Party has been trashed at the polls.
https://twitter.com/
"Onward for a stronger Indian Communism."
2. Here is Vijay Prashad in "Vortexin Bengal" or "Naked Punch". Look at all the peaceful academics standing at attention, upset that they have been kicked out of power in West Bengal.
http://www.nakedpunch.com/
More from the Protectors of Free Speech:
3) Vijay Prashad at The Marxist-Leninist - "a revolutionary communist website" admiring Muammar Gaddafi, that great Humanitarian
https://marxistleninist.
4) Here is Vinay Lal, (absent from the list - what happened? too busy writing in admiration of ISIS destroying the Yazdis and the Palmyrah?) writing about how the Taliban were perfectly justified in destroying the Bamiyan Buddhas, a UNESCO Heritage Site, back around 1999:
http://www.littlemag.com/mar-
5) Here is a summary of some of this gang's previous achievements and their web:
https://thetruthaboutliars.
All in all, wonderful associations, for people who presume to advice India and Silicon Valley businesspeople on how to run our lives, hain?
5) Another surprising omission - is he one of the new Belated Ten, I wonder?
Comrade Biju Matthew:
http://rajeev2004.blogspot.
BTW, yes, I too have seen his website at Ryder University conveying his admiration of the UnaBomber to inspire his students. Circa 2002.
Wouldn't that be wonderful? UnaBomber Admirers giving advice on how to run Silicon Valley? Prashad giving advice to Commit Model-Minority Suicide? Bring violent Marxist-Leninist Revolution to America?
And the whole troupe of "diverse" clueless 'Academics', devoid of any tradition of doing honest research, signing on to the stuff that they generate like the proverbial denizens in the Pied Piper of Hamelin?
You be comfortable what you do and don’t try to put your opinion to an Intelligent forum like this
You list a bunch of urls. So can I, a hundred times that many, listing the other side of each story which you never mention. For instance the “crackdown on NGOs”. Read the book “NGOS, Activists and Foreign Funding: Anti-Nation Industry” (free download) from back in 2006 for an introduction to the scope of the problem.http://www.vigilonline.com/index.php?task=view&id=843&Itemid=109
No nation (of course you don’t recognize the concept of a Nation either, per your Comrade Vijay Prashad) can afford to allow massive inflows of money and organized insurgents to overthrow democracy. The Indian government has the legitimacy of 600 million voters who voted in the election – again a concept that you anarchists do not recognize since it does not exist in your Model Paradises. The government rightly enforced the laws ALREADY EXISTING on the books (i.e., laws that existed under the prior government). Reading the articles, it is clear that the ONLY NGOs that are squealing or hiding are those that were blatantly illegal, corrupt or already underground after having misspent the money. This is just one example of the falsehood of your writeup.
Now it is clear why your authors who are so keen to list their Commodeships and Stoolships on every Petition, are so shy about ‘coming out’ on the website of the American Association of University Professors: blatant lying constitutes fraud. Done under your real names, that is clear Academic Fraud. Your ONE long-standing area of expertise.
But PLEASE! Keep up the entertainment and keep posting those lists. I am too poor and too busy to go to the Circus.