[AISWorld] Question: do we really want to risk turning AIS into a political lobbying organization?

[Dokhtar Irouni]

with all the due respect,

When did "de-politicizing America" begin (deliberate dumbing down of America)? This is why we are in the shit we are today.... 

    On Sunday, 29 January 2017, 14:01, "Kappelman, Leon" <Leon.Kappelman at unt.edu> wrote:
 

 No one came for anyone. "Thou does protest too loudly" -- Shakespeare


- From iPhone - Please excuse typos - Leon A. Kappelman, Ph.D., Professor of Information Systems  Director Emeritus, Information Systems Research Center  College of Business, University of North Texas   Voice: 940-565-4698   kapp at unt.edu

On Jan 29, 2017, at 1:50 PM, Dokhtar Irouni <madaneghor at yahoo.com> wrote:


First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

- Martin Niemoller 



On Sunday, 29 January 2017, 13:46, Robert Willis <Robert.Willis at viu.ca> wrote:


"Seems to me we should keep AIS focused on the issues that concern us as academics"

Seems to me that we, as academics, are supposed to be participants in the social and political discourses that surround us: ethics of use (or normatively, ought to be) a fundamental part of our research and attention (remembering the Manhattan Project, among other instances).  The narrow focus that you suggest academics adopt goes against a large part of what being an academic is all about: which is why academics are one of the first social groups to be targeted.

Dr. R. A. (Bob) Willis BA MBA PhD
Professor
Faculty of Management
Vancouver Island University
Nanaimo, BC, CANADA




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Subject: [AISWorld] Question: do we really want to risk turning AIS into a political lobbying organization?

Question: do we really want to risk turning AIS into a political lobbying organization or are there already other venues for the political activities in which AIS members may wish to engage?

Seems to me we should keep AIS focused on the issues that concern us as academics - our research and teaching - and keep government policies on immigration, healthcare, gun rights, taxes, abortion, tariffs, and everything else in the venues where they belong.

"Let us be men, not monkeys minding machines, or sitting with our tails curled, while the machine amuses us." - D. H. Lawrence
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  Director Emeritus, Information Systems Research Center
    College of Business, University of North Texas
    Voice: 940-565-4698  Email: kapp at unt.edu<mailto:kapp at unt.edu>
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