Brown students trash Horowitz

Brad Mayer bradley.mayer at ebay.sun.com
Wed Mar 21 09:15:49 PST 2001


What's sad is your total speechlessness. Bankrupt liberalism.

This point is especially agreeable:

> 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.

I'll give the guy a break: I vote for slovenliness. -Brad Mayer


> > What could be more authoritarian than a lecturing liberal? Let the
>radical
> > students figure out what's best for their cause. OUR role is to "think of
> > better ways" to support and defend them, even when we disagree with their
> > tactics.
> >
> > 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
>
>Pretty sad, man.
>
>DP



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