Posted on 02/11/2009 5:24:20 PM PST by pissant
I write today regarding the College's decision to invite a particular speaker to our campus. This decision to invite her on behalf of the College is one that involves our whole campus and signals that we as a whole will receive her openly.
Unfortunately, I am certain she will not receive many of us so kindly. I'm speaking of Ann Coulter, and I am advising you to rescind her invitation.
The United States is a nation that prides itself on acceptance and diversity and refuses to accept any less. The same holds true for the College. We are proud of the fact that ethnically diverse students comprise more than one third of our campus population, that 60 percent of our students are females and that we have a multiplicity of students of different religions, political views, abilities and sexual orientations.
Yet, Coulter has insulted people in each of these groups. On women, she has said, "It would be a much better country if women did not vote."
On Muslims, she has said, "News magazines don't kill people, Muslims do."
On homosexuals, Coulter has said, "I thought gays just wanted to get married to one another and settle down in the suburbs so they could visit each other in the hospital."
On Judaism, Coulter has said, "We just want Jews to be perfected."
The list of her odious quotations continues, and while she may not have been talking to students at the College, she was certainly talking about them. She has insulted the majority of our students directly and the remainder of us by extension because those whom she insulted are our friends.
Coulter has insulted our intelligence, and she has denigrated the work of those who strive for tolerance and equality. Her appearance encumbers all that the College has striven for in its implementation of courses and educational events on race, religion, homosexuality, gender equality and differing abilities.
How can we reconcile our attempts to shape a new generation of students who are tolerant, accepting and aware of those who are different from us when we invite as a guest a person who refers to our students as she does?
Coulter is no more welcome here than would be any other racist or sexist or homophobe. Yet, we are welcoming her to the College and embracing her visit with one the campus' largest venues, Kendall Hall.
My question is this: What does it say to our students by inviting her here, someone who has at one point or another blatantly insulted at least half of those enrolled here? Even more fundamentally, what does it say about us?
Mike Kowalczyk Student Representative kowalcz2@tcnj.edu
With a first name of Mike and a middle name of Loretta, what is this critter?
Ha! Gotta love how Coulter baits the libtards into giving her free publicity and cred! They’re too dumb to learn, herd animals that they are. If they were smarter, it would gall them to know they’re punching her meal ricket.
It used to be called Trenton State, my sister graduated from there.
It used to be called Trenton State, my sister graduated from there.
And she's hit the nail on the head with each swing Mikey.
Well put. Make sure to email that to this personage.
No, I’ll keep my rights, thanks. If straight men could vote with their heads, we wouldn’t be dealing with President Zero, would we?
Thanks for the link. I sent loretta a nice note thanking her/him for his/her intolerance and praising the dip skit for stopping free speech.
hehe
Mike Loretta Kowalczyk
Princeton sued them because they were the original "College of New Jersey" (even though they hadn't used the name since Woodrow Wilson's day).
TCNJ doesn't sound like a very pleasant place, but it is nice that they won the law suit against the big boys.
Interesting. I am guessing the other two-thirds of the students are devoid of any ethnic background. < /sarcasm>
what does it say
this
you do not like folk who represent an idea or view which is not the same as yours .
You harp on about your precious diversity and yet you do not understand diversity is not just based on color or religion but also based on views.
So the next time you harp on about tolerance remember it is you who is the most intolerant people in this country
In many cases it would be better if women did not vote. They vote their feelings. Feelings is hardly what government should be concerned about.
Right on! The ladies should absolutely not decide who should run this great country for that very reason. Obama is a not-so-smooth talking buffoon that captured the hearts of the feel-good mentality of so many women. I’ve found that about 1 in 5 actually think more than they feel. That’s okay in the bedroom but not when choosing a leader.
guarantee he’s a raving homo
How can we build a tolerant society if we have to let just anyone speak?
How can we shape a new generation of students who are accepting of the differences in people if we let in people who don’t agree with us?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBOQzSk14c
JUDITH:
I do feel, Reg, that any Anti-Imperialist group like ours must reflect such a divergence of interests within its power-base.
REG:
Agreed. Francis?
FRANCIS:
Yeah. I think Judith’s point of view is very valid, Reg, provided the Movement never forgets that it is the inalienable right of every man—
STAN:
Or woman.
FRANCIS:
Or woman... to rid himself—
STAN:
Or herself.
FRANCIS:
Or herself.
REG:
Agreed.
FRANCIS:
Thank you, brother.
STAN:
Or sister.
FRANCIS:
Or sister. Where was I?
REG:
I think you’d finished.
FRANCIS:
Oh. Right.
REG:
Furthermore, it is the birthright of every man—
STAN:
Or woman.
REG:
Why don’t you shut up about women, Stan. You’re putting us off.
STAN:
Women have a perfect right to play a part in our movement, Reg.
FRANCIS:
Why are you always on about women, Stan?
STAN:
I want to be one.
REG:
What?
STAN:
I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me ‘Loretta’.
REG:
What?!
LORETTA:
It’s my right as a man.
JUDITH:
Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
LORETTA:
I want to have babies.
REG:
You want to have babies?!
LORETTA:
It’s every man’s right to have babies if he wants them.
REG:
But... you can’t have babies.
LORETTA:
Don’t you oppress me.
REG:
I’m not oppressing you, Stan. You haven’t got a womb! Where’s the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!
LORETTA:
[crying]
JUDITH:
Here! I— I’ve got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can’t actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody’s fault, not even the Romans’, but that he can have the right to have babies.
FRANCIS:
Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister. Sorry.
REG:
What’s the point?
FRANCIS:
What?
REG:
What’s the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can’t have babies?!
FRANCIS:
It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
REG:
Symbolic of his struggle against reality.
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