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March 13, 2006
Yale Official Calls Taliban Critics "Retarded"
Unsurprisingly, Yale's effective admission of former top Taliban official Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi has led to some criticism. For the most part, Yale has responded by silently waiting for the whole issue to go away. This probably makes more sense than calling their critics "retarded" — as Alexis Surovov, assistant director of giving at Yale Law School, did in an email meant to be anonymous.
Despite the profound commitment to feminist ideology that resulted in Lawrence Summers being run out of Harvard on a rail for daring to suggest there may be reasons other than discrimination for the lower percentage of women in math and sciences, Rahmatullah was considered a hot acquisition by the Ivy League. Richard Shaw, who was Yale's dean of admissions when they managed to sign up Rahmatullah, told the press that Yale didn't want Harvard to beat them to him. The fact that Rahmatullah's regime would pull out women's fingernails as punishment for wearing nail polish disturbs elite academia no more than an educational background consisting of a fourth-grade education and a high school equivalency degree.
Recent Yale grads Clinton Taylor and Debbie Bookstaber were sufficiently annoyed by this to launch a protest called NailYale, which calls on alumni to send Yale red fingernails instead of money as donations.
Surovov responded to them with an email that charmingly begins:
What is wrong with you? Are you retarded?
In another example of that special knack for irony often found in left-leaning environments, Surovov later accused Taylor and Bookstaber of using "terrorist tactics."
With thanks to V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at March 13, 2006 1:55 PM
Comments
I didn't think it was considered PC to call people "retarded" anymore. Perhaps this is what will get him kicked out of Harvard, no?
Posted by: Pam at March 13, 2006 4:54 PM
No apprently for Moonbats it is OK to call others retarded. Its so peaceful, and tolerant, don't you think?
Posted by: Echotig at March 14, 2006 7:06 AM
Listening to XM Radio the other day, there was a song that featured the word "#ss" used a number of times. Not bleeped out. OK, fine.
Another song had the word "retarded" used a couple of times. Bleeped out.
Apparently, "retarded" is more P.I. than "#ss"...unless you're a leftist moral relativist trying to denigrate dissenters, in which case both words are equally permissible.
Posted by: Jonathan at March 14, 2006 7:52 AM
