"But on Truschke’s own side, the dividing line between bullies and academics is not so neat. Why stoop to street bullying if you have tenure? It is far more effective, then, to resort to academic bullying. Thus, in their intervention in the California Textbook Affair, where Hindu parents had sought to edit blatantly anti-Hindu passages, the explicitly partisan intervening professors even managed to get themselves recognized as arbiters in the matter. This would have been unthinkable if those bullies had not been established academics. (And this I can say eventhough my criticism of the Hindu parents’ positions exists in cold print.) Her focus on street bullies has the effect of misdirecting the reader’s attention, away from the more consequential phenomenon of academic bullying."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
ControversiesEducation in the United States21st century in CaliforniaHinduism and other religionsHinduism in the United States
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Elst, Koenraad. Hindu dharma and the culture wars. (2019). New Delhi : Rupa.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/California_textbook_controversy_over_Hindu_history
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
California textbook controversy over Hindu history
7 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by California textbook controversy over Hindu history →
Related Quotes
"Disparity of treatment between Hinduism and other Faiths in these textbooks is the key issue here."
"There is an incessant and even anachronistic dwelling on the negatives of Hinduism, which seems to have been singled …"
"A Muslim or a Christian person is termed a religious fundamentalist if he or she participates in initiatives that adv…"
"The structure of American pluralism and the nature of the Hindu traditions give rise to two options. These options pr…"
"Now is the time for the NRI community to choose its leadership carefully. It needs people who are aware of the depth …"
"During the cold part of 2005-2006, the Hindu community in the USA livd in expectation of a school history textbook re…"
"The American people rose up in a historic election in November of 2024 and they told Washington DC they have had enou…"
"But–this is fucking nuts, right? Guy's been in office less than a month, and he's already renaming bodies of water an…"
"This is all exhausting, and exposes the Gulf of America. Not the body of water. The real Gulf of America is the gap b…"
"The general opinion among educated people, widely expressed, was to condemn all attempts at book-banning. To be sure,…"