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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsProfessors Slam George Will Campus Appearance After "Hate Speech" Rape Column
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/10/17/professors-slam-george-will-campus-appearance-a/201212Professors in the Miami University program on women, gender and sexuality studies are objecting to George Will's planned appearance next week on campus, declaring in a unified voice that previous comments he made about campus rape are "hate speech" that "amount to the sort of vitriol that potentially encourages violence toward women in particular."
"The Miami I believe in is committed to creating a welcoming and safe environment for all of our students," said Anita Mannur, director of the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies program at the Oxford, OH, campus. "I am disappointed that a speaker who clearly does not respect women, or take the issue of sexual assault seriously, is being given a platform to speak, particularly because such inflammatory rhetoric has the potential to re-victimize and re-traumatize some of our students."
The Washington Post syndicated columnist has been under fire from U.S. senators, media, and women's equality groups since the publication of his June 6 column, which argued that efforts to fight sexual assault have made "victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges." Will has been making similar comments for more than two decades.
In early October, Scripps College of Claremont, CA, canceled a planned appearance by Will in light of the column, with the school's president stating, "Sexual assault is not a conservative or liberal issue. And it is too important to be trivialized in a political debate or wrapped into a celebrity controversy."
"The Miami I believe in is committed to creating a welcoming and safe environment for all of our students," said Anita Mannur, director of the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies program at the Oxford, OH, campus. "I am disappointed that a speaker who clearly does not respect women, or take the issue of sexual assault seriously, is being given a platform to speak, particularly because such inflammatory rhetoric has the potential to re-victimize and re-traumatize some of our students."
The Washington Post syndicated columnist has been under fire from U.S. senators, media, and women's equality groups since the publication of his June 6 column, which argued that efforts to fight sexual assault have made "victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges." Will has been making similar comments for more than two decades.
In early October, Scripps College of Claremont, CA, canceled a planned appearance by Will in light of the column, with the school's president stating, "Sexual assault is not a conservative or liberal issue. And it is too important to be trivialized in a political debate or wrapped into a celebrity controversy."
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Professors Slam George Will Campus Appearance After "Hate Speech" Rape Column (Original Post)
KamaAina
Oct 2014
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Will needs a plain old fashioned public shunning. Maybe that will temper his ugly hate speech.
Dont call me Shirley
Oct 2014
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Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)1. Will needs a plain old fashioned public shunning. Maybe that will temper his ugly hate speech.
elleng
(130,151 posts)2. Glad they're doing this,
but pissed my U 'invited' him. Not surprised tho, considering MU's location.