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Know Thy Enemy

Or not, at thy own risk. Reynolds weighs in with praise for the ACLU and the press, as well as FIRE, in resolving the bizarre case of PC persecution of a reading janitor at a university that has its head even farther up an inaccessible place than usual. The red-faced anti-educationists are forced to admit that at least in this case, reading is not a thought crime. Hey, what if it had been a pro-Klan history that guy was reading? Isn’t it important for an informed citizenry … at universities, of all places … to know how the enemy thinks? That’s why you read Mein Kampf, Mao’s little red book, Fars, Daily Kos, etc. What would have happened if the hapless janitor was watching the latest al-Zawahiri rant on YouTube?

Wait a minute, here’s one. What if he secretly was a Klan guy, but he had decided to inform himself about anti-Klan views? Persecute or not persecute?

Topics: moronocy, academia

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:17 pm on Friday, May 9, 2008

2 Responses to “Know Thy Enemy”

1. RebeccaH Says:
   May 9th, 2008 at 6:24 pm

   I have to agree with the reader who objected to a $106K salary for a “diversity” officer. University educations are growing ever more expensive by the minute, and part of the reason is the burgeoning ranks of non-academic administration.

   My experience working for a university taught me that “diversity” is simply a code word for “African-American”, and that people involved in promoting this diversity are bullies of the first water.

2. Vanguard of the Commentariat Says:
   May 9th, 2008 at 6:43 pm

   I thought the Left was the ardent defender of the “little guy”, of the powerless against the powerful, comforting the afflicted while afflicting the comfortable, on the side of the “losers of life’s lottery”. . .

   And now they do this to a poor janitor.

   Alas,another one of my youthful illusions shattered.

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