{"id":306,"date":"2004-03-11T12:18:51","date_gmt":"2004-03-11T19:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/campus-radicals\/"},"modified":"2004-03-11T12:18:51","modified_gmt":"2004-03-11T19:18:51","slug":"campus-radicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/campus-radicals\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Radicals"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is<\/i> despicable that someone defaced posters advertising a <\/p>\n

speech by the Radical Right’s Ann Coulter, who lauds Joe McCarthy, American Fascist, as a hero. We should all speak out against the <\/p>\n

childish vandalizing of these posters. In fact, the Democratic Party should pay Coulter to speak — she scares the hell out of some <\/p>\n

conservatives, too.<\/p>\n

However, we should all also speak out against lying in order to infiltrate, spy on and denounce your classmates, <\/p>\n

as a young Republican did on campus after this incident (and as police everywhere do today, with John Ashcroft’s blessing). This kid <\/p>\n

will go far in the Bush administration.<\/p>\n

As to the Republican students’ ”study” indicating there are few Republicans on the <\/p>\n

faculty, let’s put aside their spying and efforts at intimidation and bullying and ask, if this is true, why? Maybe being a teacher <\/p>\n

isn’t the best route to riches, fame or power? Maybe being a teacher requires real compassion, not pretend. Maybe a campus is not the <\/p>\n

best place to be if you need everyone to agree with you and ask no questions, or if you’re just ”incurious”. Better the White <\/p>\n

House. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[printed in the Daily Lobo 3\/12\/04]
\nRead the background stories …
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\nRight-wing speaker’s image defaced – Daily Lobo – News<\/a>By Felicia Fonseca<\/p>\n

A poster advertising tonight\u00b4s cancelled <\/p>\n

lecture by author and political activist Ann Coulter was vandalized Monday at Popejoy Hall. …<\/p>\n

On Monday morning, [Scott Darnell, <\/p>\n

president of the College Republicans.] said he started to hear reports the posters had been taken down or vandalized. …<\/p>\n

After a walk <\/p>\n

around campus Monday, Ryan Brightbill, a UNM junior, said he went looking for the Coulter fliers he had helped put up Sunday. He said <\/p>\n

when he saw the table for UNM’s College Democrats at the Duck Pond, he stopped to talk about Coulter. <\/p>\n

“I acted like a Democrat <\/p>\n

and said it was great<\/b> that someone was writing on the fliers,” he said. “A girl at the duck pond said, ‘We had been taking them down <\/p>\n

and wrote some dirty comments on them as well.'”<\/p>\n

Brightbill said as he left he thanked the group and said he was a College <\/p>\n

Republican.<\/p>\n

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Study: UNM professors mostly <\/p>\n

Democrats – Daily Lobo – News<\/a>By Felicia Fonseca<\/p>\n

UNM’s College Republicans say there is a biased political atmosphere and climate <\/p>\n

on campus. <\/p>\n

The group released the results of a four-month study Wednesday that found 83 percent of registered professors at UNM are <\/p>\n

Democrats, 11 percent are Republicans and 6 percent are classified as other. <\/p>\n

“There is a one-sided body,” said Scott Darnell, <\/p>\n

chairman of the College Republicans. <\/p>\n

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Opinion – <\/p>\n

Daily Lobo<\/a> (7 letters — including mine — and a column on this topic)<\/p>\n

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ABQjournal: College GOP’s Case a Stretch<\/a> by Jim Belshaw<\/p>\n

The complaint <\/p>\n

of the College Republicans is common. It is received truth at campuses across America that conservatives are an oppressed <\/p>\n

minority<\/b>.<\/p>\n

It is at once a hard sell and the core of the conservative party line: We are victims. Victims of liberals, <\/p>\n

victims of the media<\/b>, victims of the faculty.<\/p>\n

As a friend put it, “I expect them one day to file a class action suit to <\/p>\n

reclaim their ancestral lands in Tanoan.”<\/p>\n

They’ve done well with victimhood. They’ve prospered with it.<\/b> But the victim <\/p>\n

sell becomes harder when they hold the White House, the Senate, the House of Representatives, several hundred 24\/7 talk radio stations, a <\/p>\n

TV network, numerous magazines, 20 or 30 syndicated columnists, Mel Gibson, Dennis Miller and the Supreme Court. (We haven’t forgotten <\/p>\n

Florida already, have we?)<\/p>\n

It’s hard reconciling great swaths of power with oppressed victimhood<\/b>.<\/p>\n

So I have a <\/p>\n

request: Don’t do it. It’s unbecoming. You don’t look good doing it<\/b>.<\/p>\n

We already have far too many victims in America. It <\/p>\n

would be good for the country if the College Republicans could find a way to ease back on the victim throttle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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