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...POLITICS OF HATE...
Progress in the Garcia case comes on the heels of the recent arrest of two Columbia undergraduates charged with committing a hate crime...
...This idea is based on the erroneous assumption that discrimination against minorities is no longer commonplace. More dangerously, it advocates that, in response to actions that aim to silence and stigmatize, minority communities should be submissively silent in the face of these incidents. If Hastrup believes that hate crimes hurt entire communities, then these communities should not be criticized for coming together to console their members and to raise public awareness that violence and harassment are not just in the past...
Hastrup’s accusation that the solidarity among Harvard minority groups and allies is only a publicity tactic, and not a genuine initiative to denounce hate crimes at Harvard, is unfounded and unfair. It is important that students, and most importantly minorities, have the ability to publicly send the message that every student has a right to be free from violence and harassment. It is also important that the University endorse this message for it to uphold its academic mission. To claim that hateful incidents on campus have no relation to the discrimination belittles the experiences of hate crime...
...Asked by David E. Sanger of The New York Times if one of the side effects of the intelligence failure on Iraq "has been that it has limited your ability to deal with future threats like Iran, like North Korea," Bush began by saying: "Sanger, I hate to admit it, but that's an excellent question." In what may have been a Freudian slip, Bush at one point said "Saddam" for a second before correcting himself to "Osama bin Laden." It came in the course of a story in defense of the domestic surveillance exception that he liked so much...