{"id":7489,"date":"2014-12-26T16:04:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T16:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/12\/26\/brian-leiters-christmas-present-to-carrie-ichikawa-jenkins\/"},"modified":"2014-12-26T16:04:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T16:04:48","slug":"brian-leiters-christmas-present-to-carrie-ichikawa-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/12\/26\/brian-leiters-christmas-present-to-carrie-ichikawa-jenkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Leiter’s Christmas Present to Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Leiter-537x350\"<\/a>He's baaack<\/em>, bearing 'gifts.' Professor Christian Munthe has the story<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Remember The September Statement<\/a><\/em> from earlier this year, signed by 648 academic philosophers in North America and elsewhere against Chicago philosopher and law professor Brian Leiter's unacceptable treatment of his UBC colleague Carrie Ichikawa-Jenkins, ending in Leiter's statement of resignation from the institutional ranking operation he had founded and coordinated up till then, the Philosophical Gourmet Report<\/em>? If not, a recapture of some of the essential of this sad and disgraceful story is here<\/a> (start at the bottom to get the adequate chronology). This detailed chronological account<\/a> is also rewarding.<\/p>\n

One would have thought that after this, Brian Leiter would prefer to lay dead and lick his wounds for a while, waiting for the memory of the scandal and his own disgrace to settle, and maybe find new pathways to having himself feel good about himself besides bullying and threatening (apparently mostly female) academic colleagues for one of the other, more or less fathomable, reason found by him to justify such behaviour. Maybe do something meriting a minimal portion of admiration and respect from academic colleagues, perhaps?<\/p>\n

Not so at all.<\/p>\n

As revealed on Christmas eve by Jonathan Ichikawa-Jenkins<\/a>, Carrie's husband, Leiter has recently had a Canadian lawyer send a letter to them both, threatening with a defamation lawsuit unless they publicly post a "proposed statement" of apology to Leiter, with the specifically nasty ingredient of a specific threat that such a suit would imply " \u201ca full airing of the issues and the cause or causes of [Carrie\u2019s] medical condition;\u201d. Moreover, the letter asks the Ichikawa-Jenkins to apologise not only for the personal declaration of professional ethos<\/a> that made no mention of Brian Leiter whatsoever but that for some reason \u2013 to me still incomprehensible as long as a deeply suppressed guilty conscience or outright pathology is not pondered \u2013 to to be an attack on his person, but also for the actions of other people, such as this post<\/a> at the Feminist Philosophers<\/em> blog, and The September Statement<\/em> itself \u2013 implying obviously that all the signatories to that statement would be in the crosshairs of professor Leiter. The full letter of the lawyer setting out these threats is here<\/a>. The (expected) response from the Ichikawa-Jenkins' lawyer is here<\/a>, stating the simple and obvious claim that all that's been publicly communicated on this matter \u2013 such as making public bullying emails of Leiter \u2013  is protected by normal statutes of freedom of speech.<\/span><\/p>\n

[Read it all<\/a> and follow the links.]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He's baaack, bearing 'gifts.' Professor Christian Munthe has the story: Remember The September Statement from earlier this year, signed by 648 academic philosophers in North America and elsewhere against Chicago philosopher and law professor Brian Leiter's unacceptable treatment of his UBC colleague Carrie Ichikawa-Jenkins, ending in Leiter's statement of resignation from the institutional ranking operation … Continue reading “Brian Leiter’s Christmas Present to Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,148,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-brian-leiter","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}