Sunday, August 13, 2006

 

Hawaii's Political "Scientists" Can't Handle Criticism

Earlier this week, Wednesday the 9th, I spilled the beans on Prof. Goldberg-Hiller's plans for a new, new poly-sci department at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. Andrew Walden, editor of the Big Island's Hawaii Free Press, has some interesting thoughts on this development posted at Hawaii Reporter:

Senator Inouye may need to take a look at the future of the Hawaii Democratic Party as well. A recent series of emails leaked to the website www.kalapanapundit.blogspot.com [that's me!] indicate University of Hawaii at Manoa Political Science Department Chair, Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller is secretly planning to transform one of the Hawaii Democratic Party’s primary training grounds into, the “department of alternative political studies.”

UH Manoa is critical to the Hawaii Democratic Party’s ability to produce effective electoral candidates for the future. Fully 50% of the current sitting Democrat legislators, 10 Senators and 21 Representatives, studied at UH Manoa according to their official legislative biographies. The academic milieu at UH Manoa is founded on censorship of voices not congruent with Joe Lieberman’s opponent Ned Lamont. Is further limiting of the ideological environment in the cards for Manoa? Democrats produced by UH Manoa will simply be unable to cope—much less compete--in the modern political world after four years in the “alternate” political universe. Democrats will just have to look elsewhere for their new crop of up and coming leadership.

Well the Professors have gotten wind of this and they are not amused. The comments at the UHM poly-sci bulletin board make for interesting reading. The subject heading of these comments is: "Zimmerman RightWing blog article--University of Hawaii-Manoa Political Science Department to Become 'Department of Alternative Political Studies?'"

George Kent chimes in with a comment worthy of a Comrade:

From: "George Kent"

I think the best response would be to offer the
author assistance in finding psychiatric help.

Aloha, George

What a charming view towards disagreement from an university professor. Kathy Ferguson comment is typical. "No radicals here, just us 'liberals.'"

Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006

From: "Kathy Ferguson"

How quaint: A Red scare. Just when I was
beginning to miss the Cold War.

Kathy


I suspect what Ferguson misses is the late 1960s, which the university is attempting to keep au courant.

P.S. George, you might want to change the scary picture at your webpage.


# posted by Grant Jones @ 11:45 PM
Comments:
Sic 'em, boy! :-D
# posted by Blogger camojack : Monday, August 14, 2006 4:13:00 AM
 
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