Monday, February 08, 2010 1:01 PM
Right-Mind
David Horowitz banned at St. Louis U. again
From Inside Higher Education:
“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.”
Don’t you just love the tolerance and open-mindedness on the US higher education campuses?
It’s almost like the statists fear free speech and the transfer of ideas.
Can you imagine what the 1960’s college anti-war protests would look like today if they had to follow politically correct rules: nothing divisive can be said; you have to have contrasting views at the podium; etc.
We’re living in very surreal times.