And that's right, nobody's going to remember these tempest in a teapot incidents any more than anyone other than the deformed and traumatized Horowitz remenbers the far greater "excesses" of radical students in the 1960's and early 70's.
-Brad Mayer Oakland, CA
>Subject: Re: Brown students trash Horowitz
>
> > No one but media junkies (which most Americans -- unlike LBO-talkers
> > -- are not) will remember the Horowitz incident, the Dartmouth
> > affair, etc. "Playing into the hands of conservatives" doesn't seem
> > to be worth worrying about.
> >
> > According to Andrew Brownstein, "Some coalition members said the ad
> > fit a pattern of poor coverage of minority students by The Herald. A
> > sore point is that no black or Latino students serve on the paper's
> > board or work on its staff." So, even before the Horowitz ad,
> > students of color at Brown had legitimate grievances; the ad that
> > "suggests that despite the horrors of slavery, black Americans are
> > better off economically today that black Africans" and "calls
> > reparations 'one more attempt to turn African-Americans into victims'
> > and explains the 'debt blacks owe to America' for helping end the
> > slave trade" was just the last straw, it seems.
> >
> > Yoshie
>
>But surely, Yoshie, this does not excuse what the Brown students did. How
>does this advance their cause? If there are racist policies at the paper,
>then certainly these bright young things can think of better ways to
>confront them than to destroy every copy of the paper they can grab. Or is
>the campus left at Brown utterly devoid of ideas save authoritarian ones?
>
>DP