scholarly politics was: Re: Bushspeak

[Bob Fitzke]

Amen. I think it was Aristotle who said that politics is the greatest
good. Or as some one else remarked, "The only thing necessary for the
triumph of evil is that good men do nothing" (my apologies for the bias)

Bob

Bob

Lynne Murphy wrote:
>
> >Would that ALL scholarly groups handled things as Euralex did that day.  I'm
> >thinking of MLA, for instance.
> >
> >Frank Abate
>
> I am NOT saying that we should debate the candidates here, but I do
> have to question the 'apolitical scholarly group' desire.  The
> business of ADS is affected by government--we are often exhorted on
> this list to lobby for support of the NEH.  We're also affected by
> copyright and other intellectual property laws, funding for the
> Library of Congress and Smithsonian, and issues of higher education
> funding.   What's the difference between lobbying the existing
> government, and encouraging the support of a candidate that would
> reduce the need to lobby?  Now, I don't actually think that ADS has
> the resources to fairly go through an endorsement procedure or
> anything like that, but I do think that everything we do has
> political constraints and political implications--and we shouldn't
> blind ourselves to them.
>
> (And I didn't even mention language-oriented legislation.)
>
> Lynne, who voted yesterday  (early and often!)
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> M. Lynne Murphy
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