Reparations -- Yes? (was Re: Joy In Horowitzville)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
>
>-My impression is that non-black leftists who disagree with Horowitz
>-on his atrocious arguments against reparations for slavery don't
>-necessarily argue for reparations, let alone struggle for them.
>-How many LBO-talkers are actually working on this campaign, as
>-opposed to being horrified by Horowitz & radical Brown students of
>-color who trashed the campus paper that ran his ad?
>
>I'm not sure if the issue is horror- except at the fact that Horowitz has
>gained publicity for himself.  Horowitz planned a strategy to
>self-aggrandize himself, counting on campus censorship to actually help him
>promote his views more widely.
>
>Whatever I might feel about censorship in general, I think censorship that
>backfires and gives much wider play to abhorrent views is nothing to be
>praised.
>
>Maybe you can point to something that was accomplished by getting Horowtiz
>such publicity.  I generally don't see it.
>
>-- Nathan Newman

Well, Nathan, I'm trying to steer LBO-talk away from its addiction to 
Horowitz & toward reparations (among other topics).  You are not 
helping!  :-)

Yoshie