David Horowitz/reparations for slavery

Peter Kosenko kosenko at netwood.net
Fri Mar 2 14:21:02 PST 2001


Sounds like Horrorwitz to me. He's a bit of a sociopath, no? Will say almost anything to tar his opponents, including whining about being (verbally) "persecuted."

He may indeed be giving some kind of campus tour. He was at UCLA at some convocation of conservatives last Friday and Saturday. But I had to work. I'm not a UCLA student or professor.

So I think it is a good idea to get someone to debate him, because he's going to be trying to make the rounds anyway.

Peter Kosenko

---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: berlin at socrates.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 12:38:30 -0800 (PST)


>
>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
>
>
>



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