{"id":10739,"date":"2018-01-12T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=10739"},"modified":"2018-01-16T11:41:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T15:41:12","slug":"statement-about-yesterdays-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/01\/12\/statement-about-yesterdays-news\/","title":{"rendered":"A statement about yesterday’s news"},"content":{"rendered":"

A statement <\/strong>from MIT faculty in Linguistics (January 12, 2018, updated January 16)<\/strong><\/p>\n

As linguists and human beings, we stand in appalled opposition to yesterday’s reported statement<\/a> by Donald Trump that disparaged in grotesque racist terms the populations, cultures and circumstances of an array of countries. These include the native countries of treasured colleagues, students, and visitors to our department, past and present. We stress, now and forever, the utter incompatibility of such characterizations and sentiments with basic human values, the nature of scientific inquiry, and the fundamental lessons of our field: respect for human diversity in all its manifestations, enhanced by the continual discovery of deep threads of unity that underlie this diversity.<\/p>\n

We take this opportunity to renew our own commitment to diversity \u0097 to building bridges that will enrich our humanity, not walls.<\/p>\n

Adam Albright<\/a>
\n Noam Chomsky<\/a>
\n Michel DeGraff<\/a>
\n Kai von Fintel<\/a>
\n Edward Flemming<\/a>
\n Suzanne Flynn<\/a>
\n Danny Fox<\/a>
\n Martin Hackl<\/a>
\n James Harris<\/a>
\n Irene Heim<\/a>
\n Sabine Iatridou<\/a>
\n Samuel Jay Keyser<\/a>
\n Shigeru Miyagawa<\/a>
\n Wayne O’Neil<\/a>
\n David Pesetsky<\/a>
\n Norvin Richards<\/a>
\n Donca Steriade<\/a>
\n Ken Wexler<\/a><\/p>\n

UPDATE January 16:<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n

MIT faculty in Philosophy<\/a>\u00a0(our sister program within the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy) strongly support the above statement from MIT faculty in Linguistics:<\/p>\n

Sylvain Bromberger<\/a>
\n E.J. Green<\/a>
\n Sally Haslanger<\/a>
\n Justin Khoo<\/a>
\n Vann McGee<\/a>
\n Tamar Schapiro<\/a>
\n Kieran Setiya<\/a>
\n Judy Thomson<\/a>
\n Stephen Yablo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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