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A Weak Moment for Women in Banning Larry Summers
Fox News ^ | September 30, 2007 | Susan Estrich

Posted on 09/30/2007 5:14:00 PM PDT by decimon

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It is one crazy world when the man who rules Iran with an iron hand, denies the Holocaust, and vows to destroy Israel can speak at Columbia University, but the former president of Harvard and former Secretary of the Treasury can’t speak at U.C. Davis.

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I always thought we liberals were supposed to be in favor of free speech, open discussion, the marketplace of ideas, the notion that good ideas can defeat bad ones.

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It does us no good to forcibly silence those who say out loud what others believe in private.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: academia; estrich; larrysummers; sexdifferences; women
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1 posted on 09/30/2007 5:14:01 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

Grow up Susan. Your liberal group ain’t so liberal.


2 posted on 09/30/2007 5:28:56 PM PDT by encm(ss) (USN Ret.)
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To: decimon

Susan is having a spell. She’ll get over it soon.


3 posted on 09/30/2007 5:29:25 PM PDT by Chaguito
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Susan is having a spell. She’ll get over it soon.

I hope not. She said some things that need to be said on her side of the fence.

4 posted on 09/30/2007 5:32:33 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

Dang. She almost sounds like a conservative, wishing to confront concepts with facts.


5 posted on 09/30/2007 5:33:39 PM PDT by trimom
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To: encm(ss)

Liberal owning up to the undeniable final truth:

“This wasn’t what we wanted!!”

Sorry, Mzzzzz Estrogen, you can’t have it both ways.


6 posted on 09/30/2007 5:36:12 PM PDT by elcid1970
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To: decimon
Of course she just asserts that what Larry Summers said at Harvard was mistaken...no proof needed.

Why are the male/female ratios of Nobel Prize recipients in Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology/Medicine so lopsided? There must be a lot of countries where rampant sexism is holding back the female Einsteins and female Feynmans. (Of course that is true in the Muslim countries, but most of the Nobel Prize winners in the hard sciences are from the US, Europe, Japan, Canada, or Australia.)

7 posted on 09/30/2007 5:36:24 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: trimom
She almost sounds like a conservative, wishing to confront concepts with facts.

I can remember when Liberals were usually strong advocates of free speech. It would be a good thing if that type of Liberal were to regain control from the outright loonies.

8 posted on 09/30/2007 5:39:48 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

If Summers wasn’t a former Clinton flunky, Estrich would be calling for his head.


9 posted on 09/30/2007 5:45:02 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: decimon; trimom
> I can remember when Liberals were usually strong advocates of free speech. It would be a good thing if that type of Liberal were to regain control from the outright loonies.

You're thinking perhaps of the "Classic Liberal", which is to say, (small-l) libertarian. Freedom of speech is a central libertarian principle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_liberal

"Modern Liberal" is nearly a synonym for "Socialist", and socialists are not noted for supporting free speech.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_American_Liberalism

10 posted on 09/30/2007 6:02:07 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Our daughter earned 3 undergrad degrees in four years and now, she’s a candidate for a PhD in Genetics. She’s worked her butt off for all of it and never expected to do anything less.


11 posted on 09/30/2007 6:06:49 PM PDT by trimom
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To: decimon
Liberals are not liberal when it comes to ideas. They scream hysterically, stomp their feet and demand their opponents shut up. That sums up liberals' reaction to non-liberal ideas in a nutshell.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

12 posted on 09/30/2007 6:07:58 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: decimon

Were I to run a school i’d allow all kinds of folks to speak. I always liked going to see speakers from the otherside. It was interesting and challenging. Students need to be challenged and frankly aren’t challenged with enough conservative speakers.


13 posted on 09/30/2007 6:08:02 PM PDT by SmoothTalker
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Women are doomed because of some Harvard students? These Harvard liberals don’t represent me.
14 posted on 09/30/2007 6:11:30 PM PDT by Redgirl (In vino, veritas)
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To: Verginius Rufus
There ARE innate differences between men and women. But feminist dogma demands people deny they exist. That's why its impossible to have an intelligent discussion about male-female differences in our society today. Liberals insist any discussion MUST proceed on the assumption both sexes are the same in every respect save differences in their physical plumbing.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

15 posted on 09/30/2007 6:12:36 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Verginius Rufus

As I recall, Larry Summers merely voiced a speculative contributing cause for the much lamented disparity in numbers of women vs. men in certain professions. He did not offer a statement of alleged fact, or even that what he said was his personal conviction. The reaction by the radical feminist thought police and their spineless lackeys to his words demonstrated clearly their willingness to punish prohibitively public expression of certain thoughts.


16 posted on 09/30/2007 6:45:39 PM PDT by Elsiejay (,)
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To: decimon

I’m delighted that he was banned. It just demonstrates the extremism of the left.


17 posted on 09/30/2007 6:49:53 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: decimon
With apologies to Bogart...

- So, Ms. Estrich, what in heaven's name made you want to become a liberal in the first place?

- I always thought liberals were supposed to be in favor of free speech, open discussion, the marketplace of ideas, and the notion that good ideas can defeat bad ones.

- Free speech? Open discussion? The marketplace of ideas? Get real - these are liberals we're talking about.

- Clearly I was misinformed...

18 posted on 09/30/2007 7:32:04 PM PDT by Zeppo (We live in the Age of Stupidity. [Dennis Prager])
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I always thought we liberals were supposed to be in favor of free speech, open discussion, the marketplace of ideas, the notion that good ideas can defeat bad ones.

Bwaaaaaaaaa. Good one, Susan. It almost sounded like you meant it for a second or two.

19 posted on 09/30/2007 8:31:00 PM PDT by TigersEye (Don't taze me, Bro!)
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To: dayglored
You're thinking perhaps of the "Classic Liberal"...

No, I know what I'm thinking of.

20 posted on 10/01/2007 2:42:19 AM PDT by decimon
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