Another example of Leftist “projection”
Posted on August 26, 2008
I have received an email [SocRes@newschool.edu] from New York’s neo-Marxist “New School” which in part reads as follows:
“I am writing to announce an upcoming Social Research conference, which I think you and some of your colleagues and readers may be interested in attending. This conference, Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times will be held at The New School in New York City on October 29, 30, and 31, 2008 and will be the 18th conference in the Social Research series dedicated to enhancing public understanding in an engaging, multi-disciplinary discussion.
Over three days, the conference speakers will explore how the trends and challenges that face universities in the US and abroad today may affect the core values of academic freedom and free inquiry. These current trends include rapid globalization, changes in the geo-political arena, modes of financing, the extension of higher education franchises, the rise of collateral institutes and research centers, the relationship between specialization and integration, regime change, and other conditions of duress.”
No mention of threats to free enquiry coming from the Fascist New School itself — where “hundreds of students, staff and faculty members” have done their best to prevent even a moderate conservative from being heard. And nor does there appear to be any mention of the pervasive speech codes in American universities that effectively stifle any criticism of homosexuality, Islam etc.
And how would I go if I offered to give a talk at the New School on the topic: “Psychopathy as an explanation for the high rate of black crime”? I have had articles published in the academic journals on both psychopathy and black crime so I would be reasonably qualified to discuss that topic. My qualifications on that topic would at the very least be greater than Al Gore’s qualifications in climatology. But I think I would be taking my life in my hands if I endeavoured to discuss that topic in front of the brownshirts of the New School.
I am an atheist but I think that the best advice for the New School is to be found in Matthew 7:3-5.
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They’re not trying to prevent McCain from “being heard”; they’re trying to prevent themselves from being forced to listen – at their own graduation ceremony.
It’s a day to celebrate their achievements. The students are the focus of the ceremony. The faculty are the presenters. And they don’t want McCain as a keynote speaker. Why shouldn’t they get what they want at their own ceremony? That makes them fascists? Calm down, moron.
And what would happen if you deliberately misused science to paint an entire ethnic group as psychopaths, without reference to the social conditions they live in, the history they arose from, or the consistent violence and harassment they experience from the police? You’d get what you deserve, I hope.
(There is a word, by the way, for people who denigrate entire ethnic groups in order to justify political violence. See if you can figure out what it is.)
Kevin is right. These people are the bastions of “tolerance and diversity”. Why should they let McCain speak at their own gradutation? After all “tolerance and diveristy” means they should only have to listen to people they agree with. How could you possibly not know that?
Another question, how are these people going to make “the world a better place” if they are forced to listen to views they don’t agree with? Besides, McCain might spoil their “day to celebrate their achievements” by hurting their tender ears with the truth. That would not be very tolerant of you, would it? Sheeeeesh.
Mr. Keith’s response is a wonderful example of the left responding to something without bothering to read it. Which, in turn, provides an excellent example of projection. Mr. Keith assumed he knows what the author is thinking and responds accordingly. Unfortunately, the response speaks more to Mr. Keith’s biases than it does to what the article actually says. Mr. Keith additionally gives us the response of most on the left to any earnest attempt to study crime: without having read the non-existent information, he critiques it. I suppose you have your answer. No, we cannot discuss certain things, because people like Mr. Keith already know everything, they don’t need any additional information. Take your own medicine Mr. Keith and “calm down moron”.