SWEET Ann Coulter takes another look at the Ward Churchill controversy:
Tenure was supposed to create an atmosphere of open debate and inquiry, but instead has created havens for talentless cowards who want to be insulated from life. Rather than fostering a climate of open inquiry, college campuses have become fascist colonies of anti-American hate speech, hypersensitivity, speech codes, banned words and prohibited scientific inquiry.
Even leftists don’t try to defend Churchill on grounds that he is Galileo pursuing an abstract search for the truth. They simply invoke “free speech,” like a deus ex machina to end all discussion. Like the words “diverse” and “tolerance,” “free speech” means nothing but: “Shut up, we win.”
Agreed. Totally. For some time now I have maintained all these issues are political. Race? The environment? Class envy? Even immigration. All of them are political issues and not the issue itself. Ann Coulter is completely correct, IMHO.
Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton could care less about helping blacks gain equality or parity. They are race-hustlers who are in it for the money and power. This same attitude applies to people like Ward Churchill and others who abuse “the system” for their own gain. Tenure is just another abuse of power and money by the left, who don’t want to compete on an equal basis because they cannot win that way.