Have any of you noticed Horowitz' latest campaign for publicity? The past week, and this next week he has been putting paid ads in college newspapers arguing against reparations for slavery. The ad is really screwed up, because he defines the other side's viewpoint for them, and he says that black people owe a debt to america because white people here liberated them, and they are wealthier than any black people in africa. He's a big ole hypocrite because he's playing his usual game where he plays the victim, saying that his critics are trying to censor him.
a copy of the ad and also letters by a bunch of wingnutty racists to Horowitz are at http://www.frontpagemag.com
Here is the controversy at UC Berkeley http://www.dailycal.org The 20 year old head editor got kind of flumoxed and apologized for letting the ad run when people criticized him.
I'm trying to get Horowitz to debate Tim Wise at UC Berkeley. Do you think that is a good idea. I think I can get the campus conservatives to fund it, because they are funded by outside organizations. On one level, you should just ignore him and then people won't notice, but he's going on this campaign this week, and he's going to be on the o'reilly factor on March 6th, and I can't stand this game where he defines the parameters of debate, and always acts like people are out to silence him. When I was at his book talk, he called my friend a totalitarian idealist potential stalinist because we questioned his assertion that all liberals of every stripe would be potential gulag guards if transplanted in time and location - and my friend brought up right wing atrocities, but he said we must be the campus thought police to have come to his talk.
Christine