But newly uncovered emails distributed to an official university faculty listserv, comprised of a number of well-known Brandeis professors, show the narrow agenda of the professoriate. That agenda was on full display when 87 professors signed onto a petition protesting the honorary degree slated for womens rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. "We cannot accept Ms. Hirsi Ali's triumphalist narrative of western civilization, rooted in a core belief of the cultural backwardness of non-western peoples," the petition stated.
There you go.
4 posted on 07/14/2014 4:22:02 AM PDT by samtheman