In his blog, David Horowitz responds to my earlier critique of his plans for an Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week that called for colleges and student governments to ban funding for Muslim Student Associations.
Horowitz writes that he "was attacked by the left on DailyKos. This follows a pattern the Kos left has followed since 9/11 of defending the jihadists, and attacking the defenders of freedom in this country and abroad." This is, of course, silly, and Horowitz offers not one single example of anyone on Kos "defending the jihadists," let alone a "pattern."
Right-winger David Horowitz is calling for "the defunding of MSA chapters who promote of ethnic hatred and refuse to condemn holy war" unless they agree with his view that Hamas and Hezbollah are evil. Horowitz also wants funding removed from MSA chapters for sponsoring speakers he disagrees with.
This is an extraordinary attack on free speech. In my book, Patriotic Correctness: Academic Freedom and Its Enemies, I write about the threat to free expression posed by Horowitz's efforts to silence political speech on campus. Horowitz's advocacy of suppression even includes calling for campuses to ban professors from putting cartoons on their office doors. This effort to ban funding of Muslim groups on campus is a perfect example of the suppression sought by his Orwellian-named (and modestly titled) David Horowitz Freedom Center.
It deeply saddens me that two women from my native country of Iran have chosen to degrade feminism. Under the misconception that their gender will shield their hatred and deception, Manda Zand-Ervin & Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi hope that even with flawed logic they can dissuade you from seeking dialogue with Iran.
Fox News contributor David Horowitz visited UC Santa Cruz to explain how conservative viewpoints are not represented in an academic setting. You may remember that Horowitz has called UC Santa Cruz the worst school in the country, based on his conversations with five students. I am serious, he only talked to five students. Though many students were forced to watch David Horowitz's speech from outside of the auditorium, that did not stop Horowitz from making fun of the people outside. We heard later that he called us "racist bigots". One person on the outside held up a sign saying "Kill Whitey" which most of the others outside, including myself, opposed. Ironically, it was written by the same guy who disrupted Horowitz's presentation. There is one funny segment in the clip At 1:38 and 1:52 into the clip, as Horowitz pops a snot bubble. Send this clip to Media Matters if you think it is deserving of being shown.
My ultra-right wing nutcase brother is constantly emailing me all this anti-Obama crap. Today he emailed me an article posted on the David Horowitz web site, Front page.com. This article which I read mentions Dorothy Tillman and explains how she was even more radical than Pastor Wright, it goes on to explain how since Obama supported her failed attempt to run again for political office because she supported him, that he must agree with everything she stands for.
My brother just emailed me an update, Horowitz will be on Hannity and Colmes tonight. It begins, last night Colmes admitted he supports Hillary Clinton, no wonder they are giving this loser a forum, both are probably in full agreement, albeit for different reasons, but the results are the same.
It’s both astonishing and telling that among the questions far-right pundits like Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Don Feder, David Horowitz, and Ann Coulter fail to ask about Barack Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright is whether Wright isn’t in fact right with respect to some of his claims about race relations in America.
So preoccupied with the opportunity to reign in Obama’s popularity through guilt by association, so stupified with indignance at the suggestion that African Americans still face racism in “our” America, so thrilled at the possibility that McCain could beat Clinton if she’s the democratic nominee, these self-appointed profits of righteousness are tripping over each other to trash Obama.
Youtube phenom "Hotforwords" raises the ante on the "teaching for love" canard. In the process, she schools us on how teaching really can realize the administration's dream in the form of the ultimate "quality" process.
What does a young Yalie think it takes to fix our "broken schools"? $125,000 a year for teachers.
I'm not generally a big fan of "charter schools," which more often than not are sleazy operations that combine experimenting on other people's children with transparent attempts to break schoolteacher unions.
But one NYC charter school really breaks the mold by offering the same argument for developing teacher talent that administrators make for themselves: you pay for it. A starting salary for teachers of $125,000 a year, to be exact.
In this final season of David Simon's The Wire, we see the dystopic contemporary Baltimore created by the class war from above. It's a city ravaged by "quality management," the same philosophy that administrations across the country have adopted in shunting the overwhelming majority of college faculty into contingent positions.
As Time magazine television critic James Poniewozik puts it, "All The Wire's characters face the same forces in a bottom-line, low-margin society, whether they work for a city department, a corporation or a drug cartel. A pusher, a homicide cop, a teacher, a union steward: they're all, in the world of The Wire, middlemen getting squeezed for every drop of value by the systems they work for."
It’s reasonable to question the views that humanities faculty have regarding enterprise. But does that mean five philosophers teaching full-time should earn less than one nurse?
While one university president jacked tuition through the roof and whacked away millions in personal compensation, he permatemped the faculty. Upon his retirement, about 60% of the faculty (not counting grad students) were contingent, teaching a full-time load for $18,000.
In a couple of recent posts, I raised questions about the Democratic candidates' health plans--Obama's really won't cover many people and Clinton's enthusiastically endorses tiering of care.
As we move closer to the likelihood of an Obama presidency, isn't it time to start moving the candidate toward repairing the shortcomings of his health-care plan?
Too often, I find myself wandering around the public library and asking myself where all the ‘new’ books are. One of the downfalls of the library here in my area of Kentucky is that it doesn’t seem to have much money coming into it. There are a few ‘new’ books available. And when I say ‘few’, what I mean is that there is a small set of shelves just across from the outdated card catalog computer system that holds about 15 to 20 ‘new’ books. Sad to say, but my public library still considers Hannibal Rising a ‘new’ book. So, the point is, on weekends that I’m off work and I take my daughter there, I’m trying to find something to read that is in any way current.
Saturday, I stumbled upon a book by Bernard Goldberg: 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America.
Having followed David Horowitz & Company throughout Islamofascism Wareness Week, and--with the generous assistance of Daily KOS contributors--having endeavored to undermine its premises with reason and fact, I would now like to offer some summary observations about how IFAW went--and didn't, and what it was all really about--predictably.
Thanks again to all those who helped me complie a list of feminist scholars. Speaking truth to power--my aim is to do this worthy goal at least a moment's worth of justice.
Incidents like this, where a right wing nut harasses a once a week "liberal" professor at a private college are more and more common thanks to the terrorist campaign of Ayatollah Sean Hannity and Ayatollah David Horowitz.
Horowitz has engaged in a crusade against non-conservative professors while Hannity is openly encouraging his Insanitized audience to videotape and audiotape professors so that "he can expose them."
The ultimate goal of Horowitz and Hannity is to shut professors up who don't have conservative viewpoints. They don't want fairness, they don't want people exposed to as many views as possiblem, and they don't object when conservative teachers shove their BS down the throats of others.
For my first diary here at Daily Kos, I want to talk about something that is still going on but doesn't seem to be getting a lot of attention anymore: David Horowitz's Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. When my school's College Democrats found out that IFAW would be coming to our school, we knew we had to take some kind of action, so a friend of mine and I organized an event we called the "Teach-In for Tolerance."
This week, David Horowitz and his band of degenerate murderers, religious extremists, and fear-mongering terrorists are polluting the country with their special brand of racism and hatred that we have come to expect from right-wing Bush sycophants. These religious persecutors, war-criminals, and lackeys continue on their project to destroy America from within, while murdering as many brown-skinned people as possible along the way. All who dare not bend automatically to their sick will to power and their destiny to destroy are fair game. Not only the religion of Islam, but the international community, its rule of law, and its respect for human rights are also in the cross-hairs of these sick, demented brown-shirted bastards.
In honor of the Great Professor Horowitz, and to counter-balance his campaign to infect the world with his ignorance, I proclaim this Bushismo-Fascism Awareness Week and will present a series of diaries that describe Bushism and its basis in fascistic ideology.
