[aka.alias] Give Your Head a Shake, Sarah

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Sarah Grunfeld is the one to whom the above title refers,, and she, is at the moment, acting very much like a spoiled little brat. While sitting in the “Social Sciences 1140: Self, Culture and Society” class at York University on Monday of this week, she started a furor for which she owes a sincere apology. It's an apology she refuses to give.
During the lecture Professor Cameron Johnston, was seeking to make a point. He wanted to point out to his students that the much-mouthed platitude "everyone is entitled to their opinions" is incorrect; that is is, in fact, a dangerous belief to foster. Seeking to better explain his point, he gave an example of what he felt to be a totally unacceptable and dangerous opinion, and quoted “All Jews should be sterilized” as a deplorable belief to which no-one should feel entitled. Grunfeld practised a little selective hearing at that point, and jumped off the deep end into the whirling eddy of poorly thought-out mud-slinging.
Rather than checking to see if she had heard correctly, or asking for any clarification, she walked out and immediately contacted an Israel advocacy group to inform them that her professor was an anti-Semite. Press releases were fired off to Jewish groups and the media, and demands were made for Johnston, a professor with 30 years tenure at York, to be fired. The whole mess instantly went viral.
Johnston himself is Jewish, and was terribly upset by the whole misadventure, but he at least had the good grace to say he saw a silver lining in the allegations of anti-Semitism Grunfeld has hurled at him. Says Johnston, "It's a very good thing that people are sensitive to this kind of remark, and I think it's a very good thing that someone would respond immediately and deal with it if they thought that they heard an anti-Semitic comment."
It would seem a duty more than incumbent on Little Miss Entitlement to admit her mistake now and offer an apology for her inaccurate allegations, but she refuses. Says Grunfeld, "I understand that there may have been a miscommunication, but any miscommunication was on the part of the professor, not me." (emphasis my own) The little brat offers as the reason for her intransigence the fact that the words 'All Jews should be sterilized' came out of Johnston's mouth. Reality be damned, according to Miss I-Know-Everything, that's just not something he should ever say.
Newsflash, Little Sarah-la. The world today is full of people who feel more than entitled to opinions that would mean death and destruction to many a targeted group, if no-one challenged their "right" to that opinion. Throughout history, the world has seen more than its share of such types, but apparently, if Miss Grunfeld were to have her way, history books for instance would have to be rewritten. They would now have to make such statements as "Hitler loved all the Jews" and "bin Laden loved all Americans". If they actually stated reality, any teacher or professor who tried to quote from them would find themselves on Little Miss' hit list.
What a joke.

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Posted By aka.alias to aka.alias at 9/17/2011 10:54:00 AM