tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6730657139931062421.post1813465383203708579..comments2023-05-14T03:03:09.451-05:00Comments on Female Impersonator: David Horowitz, mentions "political pluralism," speaks sexism/racismAmeliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884754298018500343noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6730657139931062421.post-77593407278857749302009-04-09T14:08:00.000-05:002009-04-09T14:08:00.000-05:00Thank you for posting this article....Horowitz att...Thank you for posting this article....Horowitz attended URI a few years back to spread his racist/sexist agenda. It was wrong back then and it is wrong todayJBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06106754271053724531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6730657139931062421.post-65545100706787813612009-04-07T10:54:00.000-05:002009-04-07T10:54:00.000-05:00Thanks for your comment, Anonymous. That part of h...Thanks for your comment, Anonymous. That part of his talk left me completely speechless. And because I feel that I was not as well-educated about that particular topic, I did not include it in my post. So thank you for your input about it.Ameliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10884754298018500343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6730657139931062421.post-42008793806689383652009-04-07T10:50:00.000-05:002009-04-07T10:50:00.000-05:00when i went for the talk, i thought it would be wo...when i went for the talk, i thought it would be worth listening. i mean, what would be so controversial about trying to promote intellectual diversity on campuses? <BR/><BR/>but i suppose i was naive. he seemed to be there just to sell his provocatively titled book. <BR/><BR/>he lost all credibility with me when he made it into a partisan issue. he lost all credibility when he sputtered passionately, "israel is the only non-terrorist state in the middle east." right, i guess countries like lebanon, turkey, jordan, egypt are all terrorist states. he lost all credibility when he declared that race in america is not an issue anymore and that the women's studies department seek to indoctrinate a political agenda. <BR/><BR/>and the final straw - he lost all credibility when he spewed that the reason why civilian deaths in Gaza was so high was because the Hamas killed them, not the Israeli Defense Forces. that was straight propaganda from Fox News. i have heard this shit told before to gullible anti-Palestinian audiences.<BR/><BR/>as someone who has researched extensively on the israeli-palestinian conflict using primary texts, all the bullshit Horowitz spewed was predictable lies, characteristic of those when the truth is inconvenient. <BR/><BR/>what is his training? what is his background? what is his research? he only has his emotions and his partisan agenda to further his cause. <BR/><BR/>he claimed to promote intellectual diversity. i want intellectual diversity when there are FACTS. through the question and answer sessions, his bigoted diatribes only contradicted what he was originally claiming to promote. <BR/><BR/>i agree that we should have more conservative speakers or lecturers. a liberal needs to be challenged, to be able to understand what exactly we are trying to defend. but i want a speaker, REGARDLESS of his political standing, to lecture on reasoned, logical, factual materials. Horowitz was not one of them. <BR/><BR/>i checked up on him, and he was a Marxist in the 60s and supported the Black Panthers. very interesting as now, he is at the extreme end of the other spectrum.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6730657139931062421.post-89983318966825717632009-04-07T08:16:00.000-05:002009-04-07T08:16:00.000-05:00To me, it's always annoying when smart people with...To me, it's always annoying when smart people with interesting ideas drape their comments with vitriol and biased hate. I'd like to engage them on their thoughts, but it's so hard when they move to surface level attacks. Very interesting, Amelia.lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13285797515594923013noreply@blogger.com