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A contradictory position
Rocky Mount Telegram
Ultra-conservative activist David Horowitz shot through North
Carolina last week to take aim at his favorite target: left-wing
college students and professors.
But his intent was quite a turnaround from his quest earlier this
year, when he argued that free speech often is stifled by the
political correctness practiced at many of the nation's universities.
Horowitz raised quite a ruckus as he sought to buy advertising space
in college newspapers to attack the rather dubious idea of paying
reparations to the descendants of African slaves. He crafted his ad
so it would be as offensive as possible to liberal and minority
students, in order to prove his contention that left-wing censorship
is running rampant in American academia. The response he got was
exactly what he had probably hoped for, if not more.
Now he's back with a very different message, which he promoted Wednesday at a luncheon
sponsored by the conservative Raleigh think tank, The John Locke Foundation, and at an
evening speaking engagement at UNC-Chapel Hill.
In his latest public campaign, he is lashing out at campus peace activists and
anti-war protestors, labeling the sometimes naive but generally well-meaning young
idealists as "threats to national security." He reserved sp
ecial fire for UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser for not doing enough to promote
any responses to several of the recent anti-war rallies held on the campus.
It appears that Horowitz's conception of free speech is a purely one-way street,
reserved only for people who share his views. Unfortunately for this former 1960s
radical who has turned into the self-appointed head of the
university thought police, it just doesn't work that way.
Universities are meant to be places where young people can be exposed to the widest
variety of ideas possible, from Adam Smith to Martin Luther King Jr. And they should
be a fertile breeding ground for innovational though
t that students otherwise might not be exposed to in mainstream media outlets.
Reversing that could transform our institutions of higher learning into simple
vocational schools.
Horowitz apparently never learned the lesson he so fervently tried to teach with the
placement of his anti-reparations advertisements.
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