Brown students trash Horowitz

[Dennis]

> > But surely, Yoshie, this does not excuse what the Brown students did.
How
> > does this advance their cause?
>
> 1. Why does it need an excuse?
>
> 2. It gave them something to do, thus contributing to internal
> solidarity, which is the main object of such actions.
>
> 3. It can't enhance racism. Racism grows steadily in the _absence_ of
> visible black political activity.
>
> 4. If it gained anyone for Horowitz's cause that is all to the good. We
> can do without  such obvious racists pretending to be anti-racist.
>
> 5. Once again we see the easy assumption of white radicals that their
> political judgment is automatically superior to any black political
> judgment.
>
> 6. The police power of the state was not invoked in the suppression of
> speech; hence references to freedom of speech are prima facie evidence
> of either intellectual slovenliness or racism.
>
> Carrol

Even sadder.

DP