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People should be free to choose what is best for themselves as long as they do not infringe on the rights of others to do the same. I created this blog to discuss issues I have with big government, liberal media,and to talk about my support for capitalism and the Iraq War.
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Libearal squelching free speech in the name of multiculturalism. Surely you jest?
Hmm, let's see, what did that article conclude?
"In plugging their ears to Darwish, Brown's Muslim students proved her very point: Muslims who attempt constructive self-criticism are quickly and soundly squelched - by other Muslims. "
Yeah, this article was totally a searing criticism of liberal academia.
Seriously, what the hell dude? It was a student group on a liberal campus who wanted to bring her there in the first -place; it was a Muslim group of students who managed to get it called off. Not only was the administration not involved on either end, but the people trying to get her to speak were exactyly the people you're pretending were trying to shut her up.
The argument is about multiculturalism and making sure nobody gets their feelings hurt. How dare anyone say anything negative about a group of people at a college campus where we respect all cultures. That is the main point. It is the culture of the liberal schools I am talking about. These school preach everyday about respecting cultures and becuase of that anyone who talks "negatively" about a particular group of people will not be able to be heard. All in the name of multicularism and it is annoying as hell. There should be dissent - there should be other voices. Discussion is good, arguing is good. Liberal colleges will have none of that. And it is blatantly apparent all over this country of ours and I am sick and tired of it, so when I see examples of it I mock the hell out of it in order to bring as much attention to is as I can.
Yeah, and I think that point of view is perfectly fine, but again, this WAS NOT a case of soime liberals saying "hey, you shouldn't diss that guys culture, knock it off." This was a case of a bunch of liberla students SPECIFICALLY TRYING TO BRING IN A SPEAKER TO DISS ANOTHER CULTURE, and then having the people FROM THAT CULTURE on campus step in and shut them down. I don't deny that what you're talking about does happen but htis totally isn't an example of it.
The culture that was being "dissed" is not a culture at that school. Islamic extrememsts I hope are not at that school. A fellow Muslim women was going to talk about extremism. Muslims did not want to hear about the extreme. Why would they not? Why would they not be fully supportive of this lady? Standing behind this women who talks outloud sounds like a good thing. Does this mean those muslims on campus support extremists?
"Darwish argues that her own community - in the Middle East and in America - is hostile to criticism, even from Muslims. After 9/11, she says, many in Egypt refused to believe that Muslims were responsible. Instead, they blamed "the Zionist conspiracy." "
Yeah, sounds like they're ahving trouble making the distinction in their own minds.
You're definitely correct to say that these Muslim students who are trying to prevent her from talking are idiots, because they should be TRYING to distance themselves from the extremism and hatred in their culture which she is speaking against; however, these Muslim students are certainly NOT liberals trying to protect someone else's culture out of relativistic ideals.
I quote:
“But Hillel said her "offensive" statements about Islam "alarmed" the Muslim Student Association, and Hillel didn't want to upset its "beautiful relationship" with the Muslim community. “
One can't help but think if a Christian group protested a speaker critical of Christianity Hillel would not find her relationship to the Christian group to be beautiful enough to bar that talker from speaking. One, suspects that if one was to ask her to be more explicit about 'beautiful' she would say it nice to have an amenable relationship with a group of a different culture. Furthermore, one would suspect that the Christian group would not be considered 'beautiful' because it’s typical American culture. This of course is all conjecture, but gives reasoning as to why I fell multiculturalism helps explain what happened here.
yeah, but that just seems like campus politics rather than any multiculturalistic ideals. After all, they wanted her to come speak in the first place.
Arguably, its the muliticultural ideal that motivates this agent to act politicaly by forbiding the speaker from talking.
By the way - Darwin the admin is involved. Unless this lady was going to speak for free the admin would have had to shell out money for her to come there. Groups ask admin for the money to get the speaker. There is a budget for those type of activities.
Then that strengthens my point even more by showing that the administration was willing to pay to have this woman come there and diss Muslim culture.
I thought about that. But then I heard about how the process works from a Loyola friend of mine who is in charge of the funds for that.
There is a certain amount of money every year for speakers. Each group can invite one person (controversial or not) Loyola republicans invited Ann Coulter this year. Loyola admin gave the money becuae they had to. Of course the students complained but the admin said she could still come but they did give out extra money to feed all the protesters. They had the protest catered. Yes caterd. But at Brown the admin heard the complaints from other groups and decided to pull the speaker.
The admin didn't decide to pull the speaker, the student group that invited her decided to uninvite her.
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