posted by leo
on Sun, 11/20/2011 - 19:15
Eric Rauchway and Ari Kelman on the outrage at UC Davis:
... Chancellor Linda Katehi (the Chancellor is the top administrative officer of a UC campus) sent an email Friday afternoon saying, "We are saddened to report that during this activity, 10 protestors were arrested and pepper spray was used." Note the Reaganesque passive voice. One might well conclude from that construction that the protesters were the ones using the pepper spray; one does not have one's attention called to the fact that the Chancellor herself ordered the police to the quad.
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