Politically Correct Anthropology

Campus Report ^ | September 25, 2007 | Don Irvine

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Politically Correct Anthropology

by: Don Irvine, September 25, 2007

Political correctness which has been invading academia with a vengeance has a new target- Anthropology.

An ad-hoc group calling themselves the Network of Concerned Anthropologists is now circulating a petition on the internet called the Pledge of Non-Participation in Counterinsurgency whose central theme says that "Anthropologists should not engage in research and other activities that contribute to counterinsurgency operations in Iraq or in related theaters in the 'war on terror.'"In other words it's an anti-war declaration for anthropologists.

The organizers, two of whom are at George Mason University, feel that anthropologists who cooperate with the military damage the relationship of openness and trust anthropologists have throughout the world and that the U.S. military's presence in Iraq is illegitimate. Sounds like something from a MoveOn.org brochure.

[Uncle Miltie]

Wait until my daughter gets her Phd in Anthro. They’ll have a fire-breather on their hands.

[Dustbunny]

Oh, how can the struggle go on without anthropological studies? Why they’re as necessary to the cause as rubber and scrap iron drives, or bacon grease, or....

LOL..... yep