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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Well, now we know which
poets were bullies in high school. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I want to thank the several
dozen people who reached out to me, mostly back-channel, to convey their
support and to apologize for the behavior of their friends (my friends too,
more often than not) over this past weekend. Humanity often seems like a test to
see if it is possible to save the planet with such a deeply damaged species and
these groupthink mobs are a chance to observe that damage at its worst. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ironically, I received more Facebook
friend requests over the 48 hours after I posted my last message here than I&#8217;ve
ever received in one weekend. I haven&#8217;t been able to accommodate them all
because I&#8217;m at Facebook&#8217;s arbitrary limit of 5,000 &#8220;friends.&#8221;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Perhaps doubly ironically,
this blog received its <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">4,000,000th</b>
visit over on Memorial Day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Obviously I knew that by
exaggerating the scale of my comparisons I would trigger some response and I
realize that some people think that scale itself must change the structure of
the dynamics. It doesn&#8217;t, which was precisely the point I was trying to make. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">More crucially, I do realize
that some people feel great pain if it appears that somebody outside of their
community does not take seriously the violence that has been &#8211; and continues to
be &#8211; done to them, which is a feeling that the question of scale can invoke.
That&#8217;s a fair criticism, and I hear it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Did I feel that I was making
light of anybody&#8217;s pain, or dismissing acts of violence? On the contrary, I
felt I was doing just the opposite, pointing out that fighting evil with evil
does not make it good. Signing the petition to the AWP &#8211; and the subsequent
actions of that organization -- seems to me unambiguously evil, and it lines up
with every other censorious act in history. Many of which have had horrific
consequences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When the folks at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rolling Stock </i>publically wished Allen
Ginsberg &#8220;the gift of AIDS,&#8221; I felt that it was a despicable thing to do, and
said and wrote so at the time. But I did not think then, nor do I now, that it
would have been a good idea to attempt to prevent them from participating in
any of the normal duties of the profession of a poet. When friends of that
journal who sat by in utter silence during those acts of explicit homophobia
(and, elsewhere, anti-Asian racism) now tell me that I have &#8220;crossed the line,&#8221;
I have a complicated reaction. Part of me simply thinks that, no, when faced
with evil you have always chosen evil and you do so now. I should hope that I&#8217;m
the other side of that line. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But part of me simply feels
sadness. Simply because many of the folks attempting to pile on at the moment <span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">are
indeed poets and readers I think of as my friends. I should note that I don&#8217;t
believe either Vanessa Place or Kenny Goldsmith intended their projects to read
as racist, but both presented overdetermined content capable of being read and
received all sorts of ways. And anyone who has read <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/citizen"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Citizen:
An American Lyric</span></a> </i>should recognize that just because somebody
didn&#8217;t intend an action to be read as racist </span>doesn&#8217;t necessarily absolve
it from racism. What Vanessa Place is being punished for is the crime of
polysemy without a license. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But we all should know that
race makes everybody in the US pretty crazy. The right&#8217;s paranoid obsession with
the idea that Obama might have been born in Kenya (he wasn&#8217;t) rather than the
idea that the current president of the United States grew up on the streets of
Jakarta (he did) is a good index of that. Now if only he governed like somebody
who learned the lessons of American empire on the streets of Indonesia&#8230;.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There is a reason I began my
note on Friday with the observation that the most important of all human rights
is the right to blaspheme. Without that right, every other human right, every
other human activity, can be (and eventually will be) curtailed. Human history
is littered with the carnage of that. If only Muslims get to determine how
Mohammed is portrayed, if only Putin gets to determine what his opponents may
say of him, if only the Philadelphia Police Department gets to determine what
Mumia Abu Jamal is or is not permitted to say in public, if only rapists aren&#8217;t
allowed to impugn their accusers, if only the mayor of Iguala gets to determine
what is said of his administration, if only the GOP gets to define marriage, or
to determine what can be said about climate change &#8211; the instances, once begun, quickly
become endless and it matters not one whit that some of these could have the
best intentions or represent the trauma of history on a given community. The
denial of genocide in France, the denial of genocide in Turkey, the denial of
genocide in Syria or in Palestine. Everybody, it seems, is willing to ban some
speech just so long as &#8220;good people&#8221; get to decide. The problem is that who
gets to decide almost always aligns with power. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">One of the first political
activities of my youth, the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley in 1964-5, was not
originally about speech. What the local business community was objecting to was
people picketing the restaurants of Berkeley and Oakland as diners came to eat
dinner. The pickets protested the refusal of these restaurants to hire people
of color. Diners might choose to eat elsewhere. At the time, the President of
the US Senate was Republican William Knowland, who also happened to own the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oakland Tribune, </i>a newspaper that relied
in part on ads from these very same restaurants. It was Knowland who asked the
University to halt the use of card tables at the Bancroft Street entrance to
the campus to sign up protestors for coming pickets. The speech that was being
curtailed was essentially a question, &#8220;Would you like to sign up for tonight&#8217;s
picket? It&#8217;s going to be at X restaurant at Y location.&#8221; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">One can always argue that
there is something about the circumstances surrounding any attempt to shut down
an activity of speech that makes this case different. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It is always different</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, </i>which is exactly why it is not. This
is not to erase historical context but rather to note that you cannot deploy a
weapon against one side that will not ultimately be deployed against everyone
else. And the history of power in Western Civilization suggests that
progressives should be especially careful not to deploy the weapons of
censorship that have been far more often used against them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Over the decades I&#8217;ve
consistently supported and given money to has been the American Civil Liberties
Union, the one organization I know that gets this problem. Often I&#8217;ve sent them
a contribution after they have taken an action, like supporting the right of Nazis
or the Klan to march, that I knew would cost them some of their traditional progressive backing. I&#8217;ve realized that if we don&#8217;t protect the rights of those we
disapprove of &#8211; say the Westboro Baptist Church &#8211; then we can&#8217;t expect to save
our own rights either. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What do I think should
happen? I would argue for more speech, more interaction, both on the part of
those who feel aggrieved and those who may have offended them (yours truly
included). Placing topics off limits and punishing people that, however
ineptly, may have crossed imagined lines is not a way to generate new or more
insights. It is certainly not a mechanism for getting people to listen or come
together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I am reminded during all of
this that there have been times and places in US history when Irish, Italian
and Jewish Americans have all been <span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">categorized as non-white. One still sees the category
of &#8220;White Hispanic.&#8221; That may seem laughable in 2015, but within five miles of
my house is the grave of <a href="http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/blood-on-the-tracks-were-50-irish-immigrants-murdered-in-philadelphia-in-1832-268069.html"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Duffy&#8217;s
Cut</span></a>, where in 1832 some 50 Irish railroad workers were slaughtered
in order to &#8220;curtail&#8221; an outbreak of cholera. By the standards of the US
census, my grandfather &#8220;became white&#8221; when he was adopted in 1892 and had his
name changed from Ambrose McMahon to Emerald Ambrose Silliman, but even </span>that
was only because officials did not recognize his new surname as a contraction
of the original Sillimandi. In 1891, the year my grandfather was born, the Klan
lynched 11 Italians taken from the jail in New Orleans. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The most important of all
rights, the one whose absence sooner or later permits the shutting down of
every other one, is the right to blaspheme. Call it &#8220;freedom of speech&#8221; if you
want, but I believe it runs deeper. It is the right not only to &#8220;say&#8221; &#8211; and by
that I mean any cultural expression and all of the arts &#8211; anything but
explicitly the right to offend, to make people crazy (literally) by
articulating whatever goes most deeply against their beliefs. Regardless of the
lip service given to freedom of expression in many nations, I don&#8217;t believe I
have ever seen a society that did not have some line that it would not permit
an individual to cross. In some nations, this may simply be insulting the head
of state, or of religion. In France, you can make fun of Islam, but you cannot
deny the holocaust. In the US, you can spend a fortune to deny climate change,
but it is different when a white person &#8220;performs&#8221; racism than when, say, Kara
Walker puts its silhouette on a museum wall. We have seen enormous quantities
of violence perpetrated against anyone that crosses such a line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Silliman clan was driven
out of Lucca centuries ago for denying the omniscience and omnipotence of the
Church of Rome. My niece could not marry in her own church as recently as last
year because she believes that women have a right to marry women. I was born,
as the bionote to this blog concedes, in Pasco, Washington, the site of several
recent police shootings. Did I mention that my father was a cop, albeit not
there? Or that I&#8217;ve largely stopped attending baseball games because I find the
displays of national jingoism too disgusting? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>This year we have seen the murders in the
offices of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Charlie Hebdo</i> in Paris and
we have seen far too many famous cowards protest the giving of an award to the
survivors of that attack. They may think they are being &#8220;culturally sensitive,&#8221;
but they are in fact siding with the very same forces that, for example, banned
&#8220;degenerate works of art&#8221; during the Nazi regime. There really is no middle
ground. None. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It is not just that it is a
slippery slope: it&#8217;s a one-way slide greased straight to the bottom. Anyone who
thinks that the ability to prohibit one form of speech is not part of a chain
of logic that gets playwrights hung and presidential candidates exiled,
arrested or shot is as ignorant of history as Jeb Bush is of science. In
Mexico, a mayor did not like the criticism of his administration by students at
the local ag college. His wife arranged with the local drug cartel to have 43
of them murdered. I see the hands of those who protested the Charlie Hebdo
award from PEN on the very guns aimed at those young men. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">We have, on at least two occasions recently, seen white
authors producing works on the subject of race be attacked for their
productions. We have seen what amounts to an online lynch mob attempt to
prevent Vanessa Place from participating in the planning of events in the AWP.
One need not agree with Place or to even think her <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gone with the Wind </i>tweets are anything but a klutzy and obvious way
to say that, yeah, we are still the nation that enslaved millions and committed
an act of genocide on the peoples who lived here before our ancestors arrived
with guns. And it is true, certainly, that Place, like Bill Maher, Christopher
Hitchens or the satirists at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Charlie
Hebdo, </i>is someone who compulsively and repeatedly tries to push peoples
most sensitive, private buttons, to provoke exactly the thuggish reaction she
is now being greeted with. She is after all the American publisher of Urs
Allemann&#8217;s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://amzn.com/1934254169"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Babyfucker</span></a> </i>and the author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://amzn.com/1934254169"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Tragodía</span></a>,
</i>a trilogy of works examining &#8211; from an appellate perspective &#8211; sexual violence.
Finally, after multiple attempts to generate this sort of reaction to her work
in all its forms, she does seem to have found a group of folks who apparently
just fell off a potato truck and played into her hand by petitioning the AWP
and revealing themselves to be a mob no better &#8211; and hardly any different &#8211;
from the fascist jackboots tossing books into a bonfire in Prague some 80-odd
years ago. As someone whose ancestors did indeed ride on potato trucks, I find
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better than any other collectivity of human beings. We may sneer at the
audience that prefers the lies of Fox News to a more serious consideration of
social and political events. But it is tragic that we seem to be just as
incapable of thoughtful self-reflection as those who do not profess to value
thinking as integral to the human project. Are the signers of the petition to
the AWP really that different from the police officer who fired at Michael Brown?
If so, it is only in degree, not in kind. In signing, they too have wrapped
their own fingers around the trigger of that gun. Either you are shooting Lorca
or you are not shooting Lorca, setting fire to Roque Dalton or not setting him
ablaze. It is startling just how rapidly seemingly intelligent people, some of
them friends, signed up to become part of this mob. And they have Vanessa Place
to thank for holding up this mirror to their faces. Here&#8217;s hoping they enjoy
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