L'Affaire Weissberg (Not as Catchy?)
Unlike Derbgate, the recent divorce of National Review Online and Robert Weissberg has gone relatively unnoticed on Ricochet. The interesting connection here is that Bob Weissberg worked in academia- that is, University of Illinois- and thus his Professor Emeritus status is facing criticism: (this is taken from what seems to be a U of I radio station's website)
Peter Nardulli, who now heads the U of I’s Cline Center for Democracy, says Weissberg spent much of his time running a retail store in Champaign. He suggests university trustees strip him of emeritus status, calling it his only claim to credibiilty.
“That would be my basis for dissociate himself from the university,” Nardulli said. “I mean, emeritus status does not bring with it anything but a title, but when your title is affiliated with a particular institution, that institution should have something to say about it.”
But policies from the U of I Provost’s office for granting emeritus status do not include language for removing that title.
Note that this U of I employee is head of the U of I "Center for Democracy." Whenever I see the word democracy in the title of a group, I roll my eyes.
A question for Ricochet: Was Weissberg's sin going to the American Renaissance event in the first place, or was it the content of his speech that got him cut from the Phi Beta Cons roster?
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Apr '12
Re: L'Affaire Weissberg (Not as Catchy?)
I do not know enough about the American renaissance group or his "horrible talk about white Nationalism. " As a white person in Central Africa, Black Nationalism was spoken about, was in the paper and was in the national anthem even. The Black majority got their way and forced out most whites. American university students would agree that this was correcting colonial evilness. Jonathan Swift wrote centuries ago a satire about a war waged between two groups over which end of the egg got opened. Each side thought it was worth killing the other side over the issue. We see this grouping by ethnic background in every country and if there is no colour difference, then it is another group by Zulu vs. Xhosa. What used to override groupings the most was education, but even that is no longer a glue but division.White talk is as ugly to me as an all black nationalisation talk and I can see why that would be shut down from the NRO. Derb is married to another race, Chinese, this group was recently slagged off by a mayor. So Deb was trying to do a Jonathan Swift satire but failed.
Apr '12
Re: L'Affaire Weissberg (Not as Catchy?)
Discussing ethnic group, race group or which end of the egg you open group (referring to Jonathan Swift) is horrible and we wish it would go away. Here is a discussion about the election and our "niches". It seems it is a discussion that will continue outside of the mainstream online media. http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/09/pulitzer-winner-soul-of-heterosexual-white-man-is-at-stake-in-2012-election-video/