OP-ED: Extreme rhetoric clouds shock debate

by Taylor Shiells | 10/23/2007

The actions of Brandeis Students Against the Judge Rotenberg Center have crossed the line. During their tabling in Lower Usdan, the group advertised, in large, bold lettering across a banner: "Stop the torture of children."Furthermore, at the table itself, literature presented by the group, as well as the statements of the members themselves, attempted to compare the group to the alleged torture prison Abu Ghraib by using gruesome political cartoons from Mother Jones magazine to augment their comparison.Aversive therapy is the use of negative stimuli, such as the mild electric shocks used at the Judge Rotenberg Center, to condition the behavior of an individual.