Fearless Revolutionary Stays Home From Dangerous Queen's U

[Hedley]

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/201 ... inks-away/

Great article in the Queen’s Journal about Nick Day, the Israel-hating soon-to-be-former-rector of Queen’s University. Here’s a taste of it:

Day chose not to attend AMS [the Alma Mater Society] assembly last night when the motion [to censure him] was debated and passed. He sent out an email to Assembly to explain why he wasn’t attending. “What happened [during a previous controversy in 2010] was really unsafe for me,” Day said, adding that he had expected a lot of discussion to come out of his letter but feels that the backlash that has resulted wasn’t what he’d hoped for.

Hurling reckless blood libels at the Jewish state didn’t get the result “he’d hoped for”? What exactly was that result, one wonders?

The best part is Day’s use of the word “unsafe” — which apparently he is employing in the faddish activist idiom, to indicate the presence of people who might verbally challenge his opinions.

Like a lot of anti-Israeli activists, caught up in what they perceive to be a romantic struggle of epic proportions, Day casts himself as a bold revolutionary. In his letter to Michael Ignatieff, for instance, he writes that: “If I ever used the influence of my office and the power of my public voice, as you have, to insulate from criticism the perpetrator of a mass-slaughter, I would have a very difficult time sleeping at night.” Given the great moral stakes that Day believes are at play (he spuriously accuses Israel not only of “mass slaughter” but also “genocide“), one would think he would have relished the opportunity to attend last week’s AMS meeting, where he could make an impassioned case for the Palestinians. As in a Hollywood movie, one imagines the committee members being convinced, one by one, by the force of Day’s conviction.

But alas, Day felt “unsafe,” and stayed home. You know how scary those Alma Mater Society folks members can be.

We’ve come a long way from the days when campus revolutionaries braved the National Guard and put flowers into gun barrels, haven’t we? For Nick Day, all it took to send him scurrying was a facebook page and a petition. Way to go out in a blaze of courage, Che.

My Alma mater in the news. I prefer it when the reporters whine about the wild homecoming parties, personally.

[2R]

Reading the National post gives some insight as to what the world would look like if the Nazies had of won WW2

[Hedley]

I see your point. Any reporting that isn't terribly left-leaning does look at bit odd, doesn't it?

[azimuthaviation]

Today:

I see your point. Any reporting that isn't terribly left-leaning does look at bit odd, doesn't it?

From an earlier post:

you are the kind of person who is easy to convince, usually by telling them exactly what they want to hear. No coincidence you keep going back to the national Post for your sources is it? let me guess all the other news sources are left wing bleeding heart slanted PC dribble right? A closed mind and an open National Post were made for each other, whatever ignorance is bliss...

Your type is easier to read than Mother Goose

[Hedley]

easier to read than Mother Goose

That's good - I wouldn't want your lips to get tired with any pollysyllabic words

PS You ever been to a Queen's U homecoming party in Kingston? I don't know if you would find it too frightening, and have to stay home.