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...student, I enjoyed Professor of Psychology Patrick Cavanagh??s clarity, sensibility and evenhandness as my psychology professor. Reading The Crimson last week, I was astonished that his two paragraph letter could contain so many logical guffaws, so much moral obtuseness and a visible and stunning reluctance to engage the debate on terms fitting a respected professor (Letter, “‘Ayatollah’ Summers’ Remarks Show Bigotry...
...somehow being more receptive to whatever evil vapors he believes Summers expels? Is Cavanagh questioning Buell’s judgment? If Summers’ “bigotry is showing” by opposing a poet who appears to sanction homicide, then what does that presume about Cavanagh??s position...
...Cavanagh, who has a knack for describing the mechanics of perception, apparently perceives Summers as barbarous, murderous dictator, an “Ayatollah.” Apparently, there is a clause in Cavanagh??s contract that allows him to resort to easy dehumanization when he can’t or won’t marshal an argument. In my view, Cavanagh??s letter demonstrates that he feels raw from being unfairly labeled an anti-Semite and a moral relativist...
...Consider Cavanagh??s bewildering syllogism: Summers doesn’t like Tom Paulin. Paulin supports Palestinian causes. Therefore, Summers doesn’t like, as a friend put it, “anyone who supports Palestinian causes.” I don’t believe that Cavanagh supports killing Brooklyn Jews, but if we buy his faulty logic...
...Summers’ bigotry that is showing; it is Cavanagh??s indifference to Paulin’s bigotry that is on display...