Double Standards in Full Embarrassing View

Posted on September 17, 2007
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Why is there conservative and liberal outrage when Erwin Chemerinsky’s offer to become Dean of the UC Irvine Law School is rescinded? The LATimes calling it cowardice:

“Rescinding that action, as the university’s chancellor did Tuesday, is an act of intellectual cowardice and self-destruction that brands the school as a haven for political correctness and threatens its academic integrity two years before it even opens its doors.”

But only conservative outrage when the same University of California rescinds a speaking engagement with former Harvard president Larry Summers?

“I was appalled and stunned that someone like Summers would even be invited to speak to the regents,” said UC Davis Professor Maureen Stanton, who helped put together the petition drive. “I think many of us who were involved in the protest believed that it wouldn’t reflect well on the university that he even received the invitation.”

PS- it’s a rhetorical question… I suspect if Che Guevara could be raised from the dead he would not only be invited to speak at UC but also  appointed to a honorary department position, or perhaps be made a regent.

 

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