Some lunacy from the San Francisco Chronicle:

UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau has come out swinging over the shooting spree that wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six people, linking it to Arizona’s “discrimination against undocumented persons” and a “climate in which demonization of others goes unchallenged and hateful speech is tolerated.”

In a campus-wide e-mail message, Birgeneau said: “It is not a coincidence that this calamity has occurred in a state which has legislated discrimination against undocumented persons.”

He added that “this same mean-spirited xenophobia played a major role in the defeat of the Dream Act by our legislators in Washington, leaving many exceptionally talented and deserving young people, including our undocumented students, painfully in limbo.”

This article appears in Jan 13-19, 2011.

One reply on “UC Berkeley Chancellor: Arizona’s Discriminatory Environment Linked to Shootings”

  1. Put UC Chancellor Birgeneau into perspective…University of California (UC) adamantly rejects Calif. Gov. Brown’s Budget. Deeds speak louder than words.Gov inauguration $100,000.UC Chancellor Birgeneau $3,000,000 for consultants to do WORK of his job & of his MANY vice-chancellors
    Take that Gov!…says UC Berkeley Chancellor Birgeneau’s action
    University of California

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