Oh for crying out loud. Is there anything that liberal academics will allow US interrogators to use? At this point we wouldn’t be surprised if the National Communication Association put out a resolution demanding that interrogators stop raising their voices, because the voice should be used for bringing people together. Here’s the latest idiocy:
The Society for Ethnomusicology
* calls for full disclosure of U.S. government-sanctioned and funded programs that design the means of delivering music as torture;
* condemns the use of music as an instrument of torture; and
* demands that the United States government and its agencies cease using music as an instrument of physical and psychological torture.
Yeah, because that’s exactly what’s going to happen. Keep right on demanding guys.
These people are ethnomusicologists. Their job is to impotently bemoan the capillary regimes of power/knowledge that constitute and circumscribe late modernity’s discursivity, solidifying epistemes that render nontraditional tonal expression unproblematically invisible.
Their job is not to petulantly chide people who are actually trying to fix things. Someone should remind them of that.
References:
* Position Statement on Torture (February 2, 2007) [Society for Ethnomusicology]
Previously:
* The Essential Stupidity of Leftist Displays of “Solidarity”
* Liberal Academic Middle East Experts Seem To Know Nothing About The Middle East
* Academics Who Attack Israel are Brave if Brave Means “Doing Things All Your Collegues Who Agree With You Will Tell You That You Were Brave for Doing”
