Protesters at UC Santa Cruz need to take it down a notch, writes humanities professor Kirsten Silva Gruesz. She understands the need to disrupt business as usual to make a point, but believes the disruptions have missed their mark. “The rhetoric of many student protesters and some of their faculty allies comes disturbingly close to a moral absolutism that divides the world into good and evil sides,” she writes. That won’t lead to an understanding of our ethical responsibility for the suffering of others, she says, calling for a full investigation of the police intervention on May 30 and 31 rather than a rush to judgment.
