We Might Let Horowitz Appear, If He Has Three Keepers
Has this become the new face of Catholic higher education?
St. Louis University, a Catholic institution, continues on a path designed to made it a laughingstock in the annals of academic freedom, maintaining its ban on yours truly while proclaiming its commitment to intellectual diversity and… academic freedom.
David Horowitz can’t seem to get into Saint Louis University no matter how hard he tries.
Six months ago, the university blocked a student organization from bringing Horowitz to the university for one of his talks about “Islamo-fascism.” Horowitz is a conservative critic of higher education as well as a wide range of other sectors of society. The university said at the time that it didn’t want Horowitz to talk on campus in a way that could be divisive (as many of Horowitz’s critics have said his talks on Islam tend to be). Students also reported that they were told by university administrators that they didn’t want Horowitz speaking without someone who would offer contrasting views.
Horowitz believes that the university is trying to keep him off campus no matter what — and he’s trying to call the university’s bluff. Working with students at the university, he’s now proposed a new topic for his appearance (academic freedom) and he’s willing to appear with someone who will disagree with him in a debate (Cary Nelson, national president of the American Association of University Professors and a strong critic of Horowitz).
The university’s present position is that I can speak only if there is someone on the platform to refute my views and, if that someone is a critic of this university, a third person to explain Catholic values — which I guess are the values of Torquemada (pictured above) and the Inquisition.
I guess freedom of speech is one thing; Freedom to appear is another.
"Divisive" is how the Left describes any position with which they disagree. Positions with which they agree are by definition correct ones, and thus are not necessary to debate.
"Free speech" is a term that the Left uses to protect its speech and keep all opposing speech away, as in "We want to be FREE to limit your Speech." The absurdity of limiting speech because it might be "divisive" is just that — absurd — and particularly at an alleged institution of higher learning. I'll bet the administration and liberal students are proud of themselves for keeping the nasty conservatives away from campus. Administrators never learn, but I wonder how those students will feel in a decade or two….. shamed, I hope.
Free Speech is applicable to the leftwing only, they don't like opinions that don't mirror their demented loopy upside down logic. I'm ashamed to be a Catholic, narrowminded cowards the lot of them.
Excuse me?!!?!!! So the actions of intellectual elitists at a Catholic college means all Catholics are narrowminded cowards? Talk about small minded!! Not to mention most regular Catholics come down on the side of the right and fully support the free exchange of ideas even those they disagree with. I did find something to agree with you about though, I'm ashamed you're a Catholic too!!!!!
The Catholic Church did not escape the Leftist infiltration of her elites any more than other institutions of our once free republic. We in the pews suffered the most from this Mr. Horowitz; far more than you as we had to endure the smug elites destroying our Mass, desecrating our churchs, removing our timeless rituals and indoctrinating our children in values alien to every thing Catholic. St.Louis University, and the katholic kumbaya-krowd at kolleges just like it, are a plague upon true education and true Church teachings reaching the next generation.
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More vague denuciations of Mr Horowitz. Can anyone explain in precise terms what he has done that is so terrible? Anyone? Helloooo?
See the National Association of Scholars' post on this: Horowitz vs. Islamo-Billikenism http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?doctype_code=A...
Universities used to be bastions of free speech.
No longer!