| | Tibor,
You have my admiration for standing up to the twerps. So does your university. That said, it remains a fact that if one stands up to coercion from the Left, then - as your story demonstrates - the practical consequences end right there, even on a university campus, where the Left is still more influential than anywhere else. But to think that the same is true anywhere else is to be caught in a long-term time warp. How true is it - outside the rarified environment of a university campus - that things are as you write below?Today, thinking it's the Right that's a threat to civil liberties is clearly wrong, what with political correctness guiding universities and other institutions in their hiring and promotion policies.
When was the last time that an American radio or television broadcast was censored from the Left? Is it within living memory? Yet hundreds of fines have been levied by the FCC for speech that the Right considers "indecent." Is there a single broadcaster on the Right whom censorship from the Left has driven off the air, as Howard Stern was censored off the air by the Right? If you count the total number of Americans in prison today for "hate" and other "crimes" that would not be illegal except for legislation from the Left, you come up with a big fat ZERO. On the other hand, the number of Americans in prison for drugs and other "offenses" criminalized from the "Right" is somewhere in the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS.
Outside the Ivory Walls, Tibor, there is a world in which people's lives are censored, not by bile in nasty letters but by force. Let's keep a sense of proportion.
(Edited by Adam Reed
on 5/06, 7:57pm)
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