July 13, 2009

plank-in-the-eye (a.k.a Thioliban the Younger) goes stateside

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/07/08/nyu said:

Rights for Some People

Should someone who teaches human rights back human rights for all people?

That's the question being raised by some students at New York University's law school, who are upset that a visiting professor in the fall semester, slated to teach human rights law, is Thio Li-ann of the National University of Singapore, an outspoken opponent of gay rights. Thio has argued repeatedly and graphically that her country should continue to criminalize gay sexual acts.

Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "don't know where to hide our face - please take her, we don't want her back"

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Submitted by Anonymous Coward on July 09//11:18pm and published by jseng :: 2067 reads | trackback
Comments 3

just because u r a vocal anti-gay activist, u r a pariah...
Piss off the A-J community at your own peril

"I do not agree with what u say, but i'll defend your right to say it."

Posted by Anonymous Coward* on 14 July, 2009 - 6:36pm

Her own problem lah, let her face the flak. Dare her to wayang all the way there, thinking New York can be civil as SG Parliament. lol

That said, nobody likes right-wingers per se but at least they're at least upfront hypocrites (USA setting the standard). But left-wingers can be even more exasperating conspiracy theorists, with the same brethren talking nonsense (got first-hand experience back during the Michael Fay/sintercom days).

These foreign liberals who are wary of Thio also insist the Vietnamese matchmaking scene here constitutes human trafficking (i.e. the change.org/Diners Club crusade). TV pundits like Keith Olbermann are still portraying here as a police state just to attack Republicans like Newt Gingrich OVER THERE.

Dumb Americans.

Posted by Anonymous Coward* on 16 July, 2009 - 3:01am

This is the beauty of academia, one that many, even the highly intellect, can sometimes be blind to.

In academia, diverse opinions are respected and accepted. They agree to disagree, and are not narrow-minded tghat we sometimes become. Because of this deep culture, innovation, new ideas, etc can evolve.