[lbo-talk] Oberlin College: Hell on Earth

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Nov 10 08:42:24 PST 2003


mike larkin wrote:


>Hilarious.
>
>
><http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10633>http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10633
>
>"....Oberlin embodies a far-Left paradise of agitation, Marxist
>activism and sexual licentiousness. It is, in short, a model of the
>Leftís paradise. It is specifically for this reason that it
>resembles most traditional Americansí version of Hell....
>
>"In April, Carmen Vazquez, a self-avowed butch lesbian socialist,
>gave a lecture in which she reproached the queer movement for
>avoiding larger public policy issues. She enjoined queer activists
>to battle neo-conservative American leaders in a quest to prevent a
>new fascist American state. Then she encouraged students to have sex.
>
> "So did author and poet Nikki Giovanni, another campus speaker. Not
>to be outdone, Joani Blank, owner of the Good Vibrations sex
>superstore in San Francisco and Down There Press, a publisher of
>erotica, not only encouraged students to have sex when she spoke at
>Oberlin in 2000, but discussed her businesses role in providing sex
>toys to the customers the world over. Apparently, she is the only
>capitalist Oberlin could appreciate."

Hell? This sounds like a taste of paradise!

Doug



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