Professor Wichman E-mail Forwarding - My response

[wolfgame]

A friend of mine recently forwarded this e-mail to me with his own comment of "I Think this guy has a point, a very strong point. Arabs can't have it both ways.", which I personally found a bit short-sighted on his behalf and felt that I should respond.  Afterwards, I decided to share it and make my own statement to the rest of the world.  You can

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[goawayplease]

I dunno... It might have been "private", but you don't send something "privately" to a student club. I think more likely it was sent in the heat of the moment and If he'd had to write it all out and find a stamp, he wouldn't have sent it. I don't think he should be fired this instant, but I think he should have to explain himself in front of the whole student body and grovel a bit.

The biggest problem I have with his letter is the "Moslem [sic] go home" part. It's not like my downstairs neighbor [who is a Muslim-American] has anything nice to say about beheadings or dictators. A lot of people who come here come to get away from the crazy folk in their "ancestral homelands". No one ever suggested that the guys who protested Dogma should have to go back to the Vatican City where they belonged.

[wolfgame]

you might want to re-read my post, as well as the snopes article that I linked to. I think you'll find that the good professor states that he did in fact, send the e-mail rather brashly and with stronger language than he would have normally used.

He also meant to send the e-mail to a single person, although the student group said that he posted that to their public website. Since I don't have any facts to support or disprove that claim, I'm going to disregard both sides of it.

I can do this, because the original posting was not about his e-mail, but rather the extremely short-sighted mindset of my friend, which you've just demonstrated that it goes both ways.

People are people. Some are nice. Some are assholes. Religon doesn't mean shit to me, but it might to you. And that's your right.

In regards to your last statement. Neither the professor or my friend suggested killing any muslim students for protesting a cartoon.

[coyotegoth]

Happy birthday!