Inside Higher Ed: Hate in Their Midst
Scholars, documentary producers, and genocide survivors have gathered at California State University at Long Beach this week for the President’s Forum on International Human Rights, which is focused on modern genocides and society’s responsibility to prevent them. Participants report that the sessions have been engaging and intense, and the gathering is being praised for focusing attention on the most vile forms of hate. Some of those who have been participating, however, wonder if the university needs to look a little closer to home.
Also this week, a white supremacist Web site called Vanguard News Network (its motto is “No Jews. Just Right.”) drew attention to an article in the Long Beach student paper about how some professors there want more distance between the institution and a psychology professor, Kevin MacDonald, who has applied evolutionary psychology to studying Jews in ways that scholars find offensive and inaccurate.
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