Moon v. Wiscon Follow-up

[jimhines]

I’m still sorting through my feelings on Wiscon rescinding Elizabeth Moon’s Guest of Honor invitation.

It’s not the first time something like this has happened.  William Sanders’ GoH invitation to ICFA in 2008 was rescinded after his “sheet head” rejection letter, for example.  (Thanks to Nick Mamatas for that historical pointer.)

Basically, I

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[shekkara]

Could be too many voices makes for a big blast of noise. Or maybe she just is really incapable of understanding the hurt.

I rather like the last paragraph under the "cultural competence" section of this book (sorry about the long link). It is in the context of teachers dealing with multi-cultural classrooms, but I think it describes pretty well some of what's happening in our country right now w.r.t. Muslims.

http://books.google.com/books?id=PaO3jsaGkeYC&pg=PA363&lpg=PA363&dq=psychology+defend+beliefs+individual&source=bl&ots=eaipMeec5s&sig=y6WsH1VXuWLpU9F3mAXXDboSsOc&hl=en&ei=JWvITIjQHoiWsgPVqs3sDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&sqi=2&ved=0CDgQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=psychology%20defend%20beliefs%20individual&f=false