Re: IP: What are your reac tions to this? (fwd)

On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Eugene Leitl wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 19:09:10 -0500 From: David Farber Reply-To: farber@cis.upenn.edu To: ip-sub-1@majordomo.pobox.com Subject: IP: What are your reac tions to this?

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Young Ben Shapiro discusses the sophomoric thinking of some professors at UCLA. http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/db/articles.asp?ID=17431

Effects of campus liberalism far-reaching LIBERALS: Professors give support to murders of law enforcement, terrorist acts ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Ben Shapiro

Universities have a serious problem.

Universities have MANY serious problems. The fact that they are now mere hazing facilities (and goddamn expensive ones at that) providing for the "filtering out" of those society would rather not have to listen to (the poor) - and the fact that we as a society still allow this "university system" to act as a control over gainful employment is probably the single worst problem the universities have. But, you came here with your own specific university problem, so let's just address that one :-)

The type of liberalism so heavily

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favored by the intellectual elite has crossed the line. Professors throughout the educational world are supporting murderers and terrorists;

Really? You mean they have actually started to behave like congresscritters and presidents?

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they are justifying despicable actions because of the political philosophies of the actors. Murder, slaughter, and terrorism are OK, they say, as long as they are directed at law-enforcement officials or civilian Westerners.

I guess they are finally teaching Karma :-)

It's

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fine as long as the murderer is anti-capitalist, anti-establishment or anti-conservative.

I sure hope he's on one of MY juries! It sure beats the other 11 who will be "hang 'em, he's a commie fruitcake cause he doesn't bow to D.C. five times a day".

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This frightening ideology has not only blurred the line between liberalism and radicalism � it has destroyed it. This ideology cannot truly be called liberalism � it can only be called evil.

I gather from the phrasing here that the message itself is not what is being complained about, but rather the target of the message is the issue. Hypocrisy is a wondeful thing, isn't it? ;-)

And this evil must be eradicated

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before it spreads and engulfs the aspiring youth of our nation in its dark and shadowy tentacles.

Yada, yada, yada... -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place... --------------------------------------------------------------------