When you walk out of a meeting like I did the other night, you are stunned. Stunned at what was said and how this acclaimed individual acted like a spoiled brat. Sometimes your mind is just so overrun you can't think clearly. Tuesday, it was just one asinine statement after another. I wrote a long piece on the meeting yesterday, but you know how you go over and over the speech in your mind and you just get more and more upset and angry.
New Orleans was a major hashing point for him. He was upset about how the media keeps claiming that Bush was on vacation and not doing anything for the people in New Orleans. He was upset that people automatically assumed that meant Bush hated black people. Trust me his best friend is black. He was upset that there was hardly any blame for Ray Negin's failure to move people out of New Orleans.There all reasonable points to make but please Mr. David Horowitz do not use race to prove an argument.
Such as: Ray Negin is a black mayor and a corrupt mayor. The New Orleans Police Department the most corrupt police department in the country and its a black run police department. First of all, everyone knows that New Orleans is a corrupt city, not because its black, but because its corrupt. Its been corrupt for a hundred years and it will be corrupt for the next hundred years. Negin may be a corrupt mayor, because he is corrupt, not because he's black. Maybe the media did not want to heavily criticize him because he's black, or maybe they did because at first he was the one going through the ringer in the media or maybe you just make up shit.
Horowitz comes to our campus on his high horse. Speaks about our faculty like he knows it. Condemns our teachers like he has sat in on a class. Blames everyone for not standing up to the teachers. If you assume everyone is against you then everyone will be against you. Many people can all read the same thing and take away different opinions but obviously you're reading in a different language. Even if teachers don't believe what you believe they can still teach, and teach well. If you're worried about kids and schools worry about high schools, thats where the real problems are.
Friday, November 17, 2006
David Horowitz (Nov 2005)
David Horowitz, a staunchly conservative speaker and editor of Front Page Magazine, spoke on behalf of the College Republicans at the University of Rhode Island last night. If you don't know who Horowitz is, he is a very controversial speaker whose "platform" is non-indoctrination by college professors in their classrooms. If any one ever gets a chance to listen to him speak, or better yet ask him a question, do it. You will not regret it (well maybe you'll regret going, but not verbally chastising him)
He used to be a very, very radical Leninist. I'm very careful not to say Marxist or Communist, because at this point in time, I don't believe he ever was a true Communist. He also did a lot of work for the Black Panther movement, apparently very 'shady' work with the Black Panthers. One day, his friend was murdered, he believes by the Black Panthers, and magically his views change. That should freak people out right there, because its one thing to gradually change over time, but its a completely different animal to go from one extreme to another. From a radical leftist to a radical neocon.
I went to the speech with a fairly open mind. Trying to stay neutral throughout the entire thing. Apparently, that is a very hard thing to do especially if you could here some of the red herrings he through out there. Some of the stuff he said was simply unbelievable. The original audience was fairly small, a group of locals (mostly elderly and very particular with their "view"), the college Republicans (about 25), some professors probably 4 or 5, some of the college Democrats (low profile), about thirty or so semi-neutral people, you know reporters, cops, some college kids, and 2 black people. 2. One I knew was a member of the NAACP and the other was a well known African American Studies Professor. He starts off the speech without much fan fare, simply rehashing the fact that students shouldn't be pressured in classrooms to defend their beliefs or chastised for it, which in all fairness is a valid point and sure you shouldn't get a bad grade just because you disagree with your teacher. Right after about the 4th or 5th time he said this, using the term "liberal teachers" once or twice, the fun began.
A group of about 120 NAACP and Uhuru SaSa students quietly walk into the back of the room. When I mean quietly, I'm not trying to downplay their dramatic entrance, its just that honestly I didn't know there were even walking in until Horowitz, later I will refer to him as Fulloshitz, but for know Horowitz stopped speaking and said, "Stop! Is this a demonstration? This is why I cannot come to a University like this. I'm not recognizing you." After about five minutes the crosstalk settled down and he continued with the speech adding, "I'll talk, but only if you guys behave." The complete demeanor of his speech and the content changed as well. He went off on many tangents including Iraq, Kerry, Inner city schools, Katrina (several times), slavery (several times), and immigration.
I guess when your up speaking lets say from the hip, you may have the tendency to word things a little off, and if somebody doesn't see your speech or hear your inflection they may misconstrue things. So when you read something that somebody has said, you should give them the benefit of the doubt, like he could easily mean this or this; people don't do that and thats why clips and sound bites can be deceptive, but when you see him speak or you read a dialogue (cause they have the innate ability to truly depict how a conversation is going) you usually don't misconstrue anything.
Horowitz is a liar and a shameful man, who should not be in charge of any policy, anywhere. To his credit, he loves this country. But he shouldn't defend it to the point that he does. His arguments were so circular and so self-fulfilling, it was nauseating. It was the kind of thing you couldn't debate with him about because by the third minute you'll be like "What the fuck?" and probably want to punch the living shit out of him. He'll make a valid point here, and then surround it with bullshit. In a sense, just because the words in your sentence are spelled correctly it doesn't make your sentence true.
A list of stuff that he said:
He used to be a very, very radical Leninist. I'm very careful not to say Marxist or Communist, because at this point in time, I don't believe he ever was a true Communist. He also did a lot of work for the Black Panther movement, apparently very 'shady' work with the Black Panthers. One day, his friend was murdered, he believes by the Black Panthers, and magically his views change. That should freak people out right there, because its one thing to gradually change over time, but its a completely different animal to go from one extreme to another. From a radical leftist to a radical neocon.
I went to the speech with a fairly open mind. Trying to stay neutral throughout the entire thing. Apparently, that is a very hard thing to do especially if you could here some of the red herrings he through out there. Some of the stuff he said was simply unbelievable. The original audience was fairly small, a group of locals (mostly elderly and very particular with their "view"), the college Republicans (about 25), some professors probably 4 or 5, some of the college Democrats (low profile), about thirty or so semi-neutral people, you know reporters, cops, some college kids, and 2 black people. 2. One I knew was a member of the NAACP and the other was a well known African American Studies Professor. He starts off the speech without much fan fare, simply rehashing the fact that students shouldn't be pressured in classrooms to defend their beliefs or chastised for it, which in all fairness is a valid point and sure you shouldn't get a bad grade just because you disagree with your teacher. Right after about the 4th or 5th time he said this, using the term "liberal teachers" once or twice, the fun began.
A group of about 120 NAACP and Uhuru SaSa students quietly walk into the back of the room. When I mean quietly, I'm not trying to downplay their dramatic entrance, its just that honestly I didn't know there were even walking in until Horowitz, later I will refer to him as Fulloshitz, but for know Horowitz stopped speaking and said, "Stop! Is this a demonstration? This is why I cannot come to a University like this. I'm not recognizing you." After about five minutes the crosstalk settled down and he continued with the speech adding, "I'll talk, but only if you guys behave." The complete demeanor of his speech and the content changed as well. He went off on many tangents including Iraq, Kerry, Inner city schools, Katrina (several times), slavery (several times), and immigration.
I guess when your up speaking lets say from the hip, you may have the tendency to word things a little off, and if somebody doesn't see your speech or hear your inflection they may misconstrue things. So when you read something that somebody has said, you should give them the benefit of the doubt, like he could easily mean this or this; people don't do that and thats why clips and sound bites can be deceptive, but when you see him speak or you read a dialogue (cause they have the innate ability to truly depict how a conversation is going) you usually don't misconstrue anything.
Horowitz is a liar and a shameful man, who should not be in charge of any policy, anywhere. To his credit, he loves this country. But he shouldn't defend it to the point that he does. His arguments were so circular and so self-fulfilling, it was nauseating. It was the kind of thing you couldn't debate with him about because by the third minute you'll be like "What the fuck?" and probably want to punch the living shit out of him. He'll make a valid point here, and then surround it with bullshit. In a sense, just because the words in your sentence are spelled correctly it doesn't make your sentence true.
A list of stuff that he said:
- "Democrats and Progressives are the cause of all that is wrong with the inner cities."
- In a response to a question regarding women making 76 on the dollar to men, "That is feminist balogna, if women made 76 percent of what a man did, then smart capitalists would fire all men and hire women to increase their income." Which actually received huge applause from all of the locals and College Republicans, but has to be one of the most retarded statements I have heard an "educated" person
- "What are the WMDs of the Civil War? The firing on Fort Sumter. If I uncovered a document that said Lincoln dressed up Union soldiers as Confederates and ordered them to shoot at Fort Sumter. Would anyone in this room" at this point motioning to NAACP crowd in the back "say that we shouldn't have fought the Civil War. Alright. Then why is the liberal media hopping on Bush about WMDs?"
- Just an extra bullet to let the above quote sink inYou leave a forum like that with such a bad taste in your mouth. People like Horowitz are in charge in this country. Their opinion is giving just as much weight as yours, but in the end their just crackheads who use peoples emotions and ignorance to be successful.
Virgin Post (Dated 2005)
This is my first post of hopefully a long series of posts. Either that or a very short series of posts cause I either want to give up right away or be very successful and keep with blogging. I guess I could describe myself, but that would be a waste of my time and probably a waste of yours. One thing that you probably should know about me is that I am borderline bi-polar, which I'm guessing is an oxymoron, but I haven't taken the time to work through that mini quagmire.
Mostly this particular blog should be more of my political/social rants and views with a little bit of research for a hint of flavor. Quick shout out to Media Matters , the poor man's Nexis. My views are neither liberal nor conservative, but if you must know Fuck Bush. Didn't like him five years ago, hate him now. I believe what I believe, but I'm not a cold hearted prick who can't take criticism, i.e. Bill O'Reilly. If I am wrong, call me on it.
I guess the purpose of this blog would be held in the title, Sexy Avidya. Avidya is a Hindu/metaphysical term meaning self ignorance. Its more of an illusion that one creates within himself. You see what you want to see. It causes men to expend vain effort and pursue vain causes (religiously, socially, or in any aspect of life). The sexy part is that when true knowledge dawns, avidya is realized as something that never was, never is, and never will be real. Perhaps, I could show somebody true Vidya.
Mostly this particular blog should be more of my political/social rants and views with a little bit of research for a hint of flavor. Quick shout out to Media Matters , the poor man's Nexis. My views are neither liberal nor conservative, but if you must know Fuck Bush. Didn't like him five years ago, hate him now. I believe what I believe, but I'm not a cold hearted prick who can't take criticism, i.e. Bill O'Reilly. If I am wrong, call me on it.
I guess the purpose of this blog would be held in the title, Sexy Avidya. Avidya is a Hindu/metaphysical term meaning self ignorance. Its more of an illusion that one creates within himself. You see what you want to see. It causes men to expend vain effort and pursue vain causes (religiously, socially, or in any aspect of life). The sexy part is that when true knowledge dawns, avidya is realized as something that never was, never is, and never will be real. Perhaps, I could show somebody true Vidya.
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