Posted on 04/22/2005 10:33:18 AM PDT by MikeHu
There were 100-200 people there partly because the media and the university did not want to promote this talk -- but went through the motions of having it so they can seem fair and unbiased. It's unfortunate that a fairly innocuous speaker like Horowitz is vilified and persecuted because all he's saying is that all perspectives should be presented -- and for that he's called a fascist because he's daring to challenge the monopoly of the liberal totalitarianism. It's pretty sick. The audience was largely supportive and quiet but a few ugly, fat, dysfunctional people thought the crowd came to hear their idiotic babblings.
The scene however, was very reminiscent of the start of the '60s revolution that ushered in the counterculture that eventually became the establishment culture -- and now they are fighting off the challenge of entitlement in another era. That's what's becoming increasingly apparent to me -- that we've definitely turned the page on a new era of consciousness that makes the liberal sense of superiority seem so obviously unmerited. Most of these people have become so complacent and indolent that they really can't rise to the challenge except by insisting that anybody is wrong to challenge them -- and those who do, find quickly they are straw men -- with no ability and capacity to respond in any effective manner anymore.
So the next revolution will be a walkover. You just walk into their offices, open their minifridges and eat their lunches, and there's nothing they can do because they'll be so stunned that anybody would.
"No free speech for fascists."
Insults from the left are merely confessions.
Whereas the insults from the right are all true -- as grotesque and bizarre as they may seem.
BTTT. Thanks for the post.
The left has become the very enemy they hated in the 60s.
The remark about the draft dodgers that stayed on and on, and eventually got PhDs must have hit home with people like Hiller.
It really makes you think they have never heard the name Mussolini. They've never even taken 5 minutes to google "fascism". Too much effort for this crowd I guess.
They always were.
It's just that they no longer believe they have to hide it.
Mostly the protesters are the usefull idiot crowd.
Their puppeteers have given them all the facts they need.
Well said. The fascists (of the left) do not believe in free speech for anybody but themselves.
The left is losing their grip on UH. Many who are tenured there could not get a job elsewhere to feed themselves. Hats off the the Hawaii Federation of College Republicans for standing up to the intimidation and personal attacks from the cadre of communists, sanctioned by local politicians, posing as teachers.
Ann Coulter said of the dems, "In their search for monsters, they have become monsters themselves".
Looks like Ann agrees with you.
Yeah, yeah. Brag about being in paradise. I haven't been there for a couple years. :)
I was a Conscientious Objector myself during the Vietnam War era and while serving my alternative service requirements and attending protest and organizational meetings, a few of us noticed that there were those among us who really didn't believe in the spirit of a greater service and greater cause but were "sellouts" and those who were using the movement for personal self-aggrandizement and enrichment.
So when we all came back from the war or service, we noticed that quite a few who said they were willing to stand up for their beliefs and go to jail or leave the country or take some other principled action, had denied they ever objected but had grabbed all the establishment jobs and became the establishment bureaucrats -- and now merely wanted to uphold the status quo with themselves in charge.
Thanks for the report. Hang in there.
That's where liberal guilt comes from:
They have a tinge of what's right but never have the courage to follow their convictions and so the rest of their lives are lived in this anguish of feeling one thing but always acting cowardly to protect only their own asses. So they are very vulnerable to whomever tells them is the "correct" way to feel about every issue because they have so corrupted that they cannot trust their own instincts.
So they get a job as newspaper editor and columnist and smugly tell everybody else what to do -- thinking that will wash the shame of their own existence.
If you think Helen Thomas looks terrible, you ought to see the collection at the local newspapers.
Some of their faces are so bloated with self-righteousness that it looks like their faces are going to explode.
These same grotesque-looking people were shouting down Horowitz as their desperate attempt to draw attention to themselves -- though why somebody would want to is and indication that their thinking caps aren't on straight.
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