DePaul's "Confronting Empire" series strikes out
Crossposted at Marathon Pundit:
The craziness at Chicago's DePaul University continues into the new year. Marathon Pundit has been chronicling the insanity going on at DePaul, a Catholic University run by the Vincentians.
Besides the Thomas Klocek free speech battle, the attempt to silence the College Republicans there, now DePaul is going after "Empire."
To the far-Left, "Empire" is of course a code word for the United States.
From FrontPage Magazine and friend-of-the blog Steven Plaut:
Q: How do you know when America has crossed the line into an oppressive, occupational empire?
A: When DePaul University begins studying it.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at DePaul and its Dean, one Chuck Suchar (a sociologist), have officially announced a "College Theme Series" entitled "Confronting Empire" for the 2005-6 academic year. This is a DePaul faculty initiative involving the participation of various departments and programs throughout the college. The organizers call themselves the "Empire Committee," sounding like something out of Star Wars. Naturally, the evil empire under examination is the United States.
The "Empire Committee" has invited a Who's Who of radical anti-Americanism to campus for the series. The roster includes pro-terror communist Tariq Ali, who thinks that 9/11 was caused by American fundamentalism; Bill Goodman from the so-called "Center for Constitutional Rights," which devotes most of its time to defending the terrorists in Gitmo; and Seungsook Moon from the Department of Sociology at Vassar, who will speak on "Politics of Gender and Sexuality in the Global U.S. Military Empire." The DePaul "Anti-Empirists" are also featuring an evening of "anti-nationalist" poetry and readings, and an evening of "theater" featuring the play "Guantanamo," based upon the writings of Gitmo terrorist detainees.
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I wrote DePaul's President. Told him it was nuts to let the place fall apart like this.
You're right Pat.
Well if its in FrontPage, it must be true!
Didn't Jeff Fort beat up one of the Joyce's
What's wrong with being an Empire?
The sun never sets on vital U.S. economic interests, which we're ready to go to war for. If that doesn't make us an empire, what does?
I mean, nobody likes an "evil Empire", but folks seem to remember the Holy Roman Empire and British Empire fondly.
I think the message here is, it's okay to be an empire, as long as you're of Western European descent.
YDD
What's happening today in Iraq and the middle east is very much the closing chapter to the age of Empires.
It's the final sorting out of the Ottman Empire and the Sunni's were the Ottman's chosen clients to run the place. Then Iraq landed in the Brits laps as a mandate and they too relied on the Sunnis.
That degenerated into Baathism and Saddam and finally now we're building a pluralistic system giving voice to all; including the viciously treated Shia Arab majority, and the Sunni Kurds.
There are many parallels with South Africa and I can find a link to a speech by Iraq's Ambassador to Canada who recently spelled them out.
So DePaul, if they did it right, actually has a good program because the 20th century is a century of the Collapse of Empires right through 1989 and the fall of the Soviet Union, and today's events in Iraq.
My alma mater, Grinnell College, started a Chines Language program back in the 1980s anticipating a future need for understanding of that emerging power.
DePaul might want to consider that... but training in non-European languages takes some mental discipline. And right now DePaul seems sadly lacking in any intellectual discipline.
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