Racism Decried
By liars. GWU Hatchet offers up excuses of seven lefty students who posted bogus fliers vs. David Horowitz’s Islamo-Fascism Week.
“It is to our great dismay that the student body and the media missed the clear, if subtle, message of our flier: the hyperbolic nature of the flier was aimed at exposing Islamophobic racism,” the e-mail said.
Posters hung around campus read, “Hate Muslims? So do we!!!”
GW Seven apparently missed the clear, if subtle message of the Horowitz event. It’s phobic about Islamo-fascism.
Hatchet neglects to include any comment from IFW organizers who were smeared. CFA email apparently came in late. IFW allowed to explain what it is about here. Sort of. In reaction to more attacks, in the wake of the poster attacks. Sheesh, hard to catch a break:
Several students present at Monday night’s gathering attacked senior Sergio Gor, president of GW YAF, for today’s events.
“We are being targeted because we are conservative,” said Gor, who left the meeting before its conclusion. “No way in shape or in form do we support hate speech.”
Gor said GW YAF is hosting several events at the end of the month for “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week.” The week will feature two Iranian women - who were persecuted in the Islamic republic - and conservative writer and activist David Horowitz.
Some individuals in attendance at Monday’s discussion said this situation is not as bad as it seems. Lara Nasri, a graduate student and a member of the Campus Anti-War Network, said the video listed on the poster, “The Power of Nightmares,” was a documentary questioning the West’s fear of terrorist networks.
“It was completely satirical and overblown,” Nasri said. “It was the antithesis of racism.”
Gor disagreed with Nasri.
“This is not satirical,” said Sergio Gor. “It is hatred.”
Initial report, poster here.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:49 am on Wednesday, October 10, 2007
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October 10th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
The speed with which the rhetoric changed after to hoax was exposed was stunning, even as I expected it. The reaction showed how wrong the campus “anti-war” crowd were in the first place, but that is a lesson that is already being ignored.
One can only hope that as our premier universities continue to show their natures to their patrons, that people will begin to demand better for their money and their children’s education.
October 10th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
“…that people will begin to demand better for their money and their children’s education.”
Yeah, like trade school. Learn something useful besides how to the redistribute (other people’s) wealth.
Better yet, go to school on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. You’ll learn a bit about your place in the world there, and be doing something useful to boot. .
October 10th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Once upon a time I attended a state uni. on the left coast. I had started school a number of years after everyone else and had some experience under my belt, like ‘Nam. One day as I was leaving the supermarket that was closest to my home I saw a young guy in a cammie uniform who had a sign saying that he would work for food and that he was a homeless vet. Being a lifelong warmonger I stopped to donate some food as I had no work that he could do and that was when I learned about the ethos of the institutions of higher education. He told me that he wasn’t really a veteran but was instead trying to raise awareness of their plight, in essence lying to everyone who passed. I didn’t tell him that I was one of the veterans that he was trying to raise awareness for, I just left. He could have carried a sign stating his cause and I would have been happier with that than an impersonation. I guess that one gets a subliminal thrill from dressing up like a primary actor.