Error Gorilla

Why not give Chancellor Linda P. B. Katehi the opportunity to “value” your comments too?

You can reach her here. Here’s what I wrote.

Like many thousands of others around the world today, I watched in horror as students of UC Davis were pepper-sprayed by police brought in to ‘facilitate their removal’ at the request of your university. That the police should behave this way hardly warrants any attempt at surprise from the viewer; we now have countless examples from across the US and the UK of such behaviour, which amounts to little more than mandated thuggery in order to maintain the interests of the powerful.

What certainly is a disgrace - both morally and intellectually - is that UC Davis ‘facilitated’ this violence against its students. What precisely did you think would happen? Well, you have taught those students the most truthful lesson they’ll ever receive: never argue, never campaign, never protest - and if you step out of line we’ll crush you. Some of us still want to believe education can be more than producing obedient tax-paying units, programmed to meekly accept ever-increasing fees and ever-diminishing rights. I hope the outrage many feel around the world today when watching the scenes at UC Davis bring shame upon you. That’s genuine shame, Chancellor Katehi, not merely the empty words of “regret” expressed in your curiously Orwellian statement.