I really missed something. I took nothing personally. I was personally
attacked. I was called a member of the KKK; I was compared to Joe McCarthy
etc. All I said then and will continue to say it was his opinion, the thread
at the time if I recall was in reference to "what encompasses a museum". My
response then and has been when this topic comes up everything. Good or Bad.
At no time did I challenge nor disrespect this man. However in a weekend I
have received emails (51) from him on his yahoo address and others. Since
some of these were on a state of Georgia email address I wonder if the
school he works at approves this type of harassment and literature. Many
scholars have lost jobs because of this. I have to right to ask this since
when he chose the state path this is public documentation. Unless I missed
something in what I said I never referred to anything as hate it may have
been construed as it but that wasn’t my intent. My intent was everything and
anything is and can be museum related.
-----Original Message-----
From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of L Dewey
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 7:21 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: hate mail from list member

Before the revisionism regarding 'hate mail' goes much further...

Reading over the list archive, the 'hate mail' in this whole exchange 
was the original post from 'Tim Bottoms' on August 25, which carried 
the message from the Air Force General that can fairly be described as 
a racist, proto-fascist call for a global war against Muslims, wherever 
they may be.

It was that post which elicited the first response from Nader Rastegar, 
who I believe correctly labeled it as 'hate talk'.

A review of the archive will show that the subsequent argument between 
Nader Rastegar and James Schulte (I don't see any others involved, 
although Rebecca Fitzgerald implies that there are), turned on Schulte 
criticizing Rastegar's tone of argument and choices of analogy - which 
James Schulte has obviously taken personally.

Rebecca Fitzgerald contributed twice to the thread; once to criticize 
the 'politically polarized list' and once to criticize Nader Rastegar 
for the tone of a message, where she stated her view that 'Frankly, I 
don’t care WHAT opinion is expressed…they are just opinions'.

There are no responses to Fitzgerald by Rastegar in the archive.

However, neither Mr. Schulte nor Ms. Fitzgerald objected to the content 
of the original hate mail concerning war on all Muslims. Fitzgerald's 
only comment (8/26) on the original message was that it was 
'controversial', while Schulte wrote (8/26) that it was as 'opposing 
view and like any view' and later (8/26) as 'I don’t consider it hate, 
I considerate another mans opinion'.

-L.D.


On Aug 29, 2005, at 6:01 PM, Rebecca Fitzgerald wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>  
> For further clarification, several of us have been receiving off-list 
> hate mail from Nader Rastegar. They seem to be escalating in the level 
> of hate expressed. As a means of trying to figure out what this guy is 
> about, I did a little “googling” and found that he has been spreading 
> his hate on a number of other listservs too.
>  
> James has gotten the brunt of this by far. But since these emails are 
> being sent to private email addresses (rather than the list), 
> individuals have every right to seek relief from them. In this case, 
> the parent organization is Georgia State University.
>  
> Becky Fitzgerald
>  
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