tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823448183909966759.post6915423900064157822..comments2023-03-29T06:35:39.672-07:00Comments on Naked at UBC: UpdateJustinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09979732715600777153noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823448183909966759.post-90331015580235631502012-03-28T17:07:36.219-07:002012-03-28T17:07:36.219-07:00My profile didn't register. juliemahn@gmail.co...My profile didn't register. juliemahn@gmail.comUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18171781791775102121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823448183909966759.post-19323586880667800102012-03-28T15:47:30.159-07:002012-03-28T15:47:30.159-07:00Dear Justine,
I am thankful that you are as artic...Dear Justine,<br /><br />I am thankful that you are as articulate as you are idealistic. <br /><br />I am also personally grateful to you for having taken this much time from your studies, which are the reason you were at UBC in the first place, and for having risked so much.<br /><br />However, as far as I am concerned, this case is far from closed. <br /><br />My own personal experience is of the Holocaust, where the stated ideology and strategy were to eradicate the Jews entirely. Family trees were scrutinized to determine whether a person had any Jewish blood at all, so that the earth could be wiped clean of it and the purity of the human race redeemed. Unlike GAP, I will not go into graphic details of the practices. My family were stripped of their assets and killed, and I do not know many Jews this didn't happen to.<br /><br />As a Jew and as a woman, I am outraged that UBC permits a group, regardless of its philosophy, to co-opt, trivialize and invalidate my humanity, my history and my governance over my own body. Abortion does not target every foetus in existence. GAP has a clever, "carefully crafted" campaign, to try and prove that it does.<br /><br />You seemed to think that a Jew, a Cambodian or a Lakota would be able to speak out against it. But by allowing this campaign in its present form on its campus, and by the sanctions that WERE taken against you, UBC has effectively delegitimized that voice, so that ANYONE speaking out against it would be viewed as “disruptive”.<br /><br />I would like to see UBC’s administration apologize to you, to the Jewish, Cambodian and Lakota peoples, and to anyone else whose suffering it allowed to be mocked on its campus, both by permitting the campaign and by de-legitimizing your protest.<br /><br />You had some offers of legal advice. I would feel privileged to add my name to any legal action taken against UBC for this infringement on my rights as a Canadian citizen.<br /><br />From my vantage point, as an old person, I think that UBC stands to gain a lot more from you, than you do from it.<br /><br />P.S. Don't worry too much about the term papers. I promise you that the audience for your words is going to be greater than 5 professors. MUCH greater...:)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18171781791775102121noreply@blogger.com