[MD] Free Speech

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu>:


> [Arlo]
> I'd be interested in knowing how you consider using the word "nigger" to be a
> potential catalyst for Dynamic growth. Are you envisioning a modern Brujo
> heralding the creation of a racially "pure" state?

Didn't you say you supported freedom to use "nigger?" 

> [Platt]
> Glad to see such student "fools" at Penn State and Temple University are now
> protected from faculty reprisals by newly issued academic freedom policies. The
> intellectual level can claim a victory against political social forces. Thank
> God.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Yes, relativism won the day. Now all something has to do to be "intellectual" is
> simply "believe it to be so". No longer will anyone have to justify what they
> say within intellectual discourse, now a simple "I heard it on Limbaugh" will
> suffice.
> 
> Having been the target of perennial right-wing anti-intellectual crusades, I'm
> sure Pirsig is happy he is no longer in the Academy (personally) with these
> ongoing right-wing assaults on intellectual standards. Sadly, what you
> characterize as a victory for intellectual patterns, is actually the death
> throes for intellectual as it is devoured by political social forces. No wonder
> you "thank god" rather than "reason".
> 
> I can see it now. Mandates to faculty to pass anyone who claims "conservativism"
> regardless of merit, for fear of right-wing reprisals. Dissertions with a
> bibliographic list of one reference, reading simply "Limbaugh says so". Oh yes,
> what a fabulous victory for Party Ideology and social level patterns of power.
> Hello Truth-by-Party, Goodbye truth-by-reason. (But then again, that's been the
> Party Mantra for the right-wing since the early '90s). Its akin to the Church
> demanding the Academy teach the world is flat. Its a perversion of intellectual
> level dominance. But, now, who doesn't expect that from the "right"?

And all along I thought you supported freedom of speech. Not so -- just speech
that meets the static, elite requirements of the Church of Reason. Oh well,
I'm not surprised. Just another example of liberal hypocrisy.






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