the political left lost their bearings when
they tried to pass rules such as, “A man
mustn’t refer to a woman as a ‘skirt’ or a
‘broad.’” Any well-brought-up man does
not do that anyway. To make a law against
that, or to think you can make on-campus
rules of that sort, I think is what upset
those right-wingers who seriously are
defending the freedom of speech clause of
the Constitution.
We’re not talking partisan issues here,
that is, something where the Republicans
and the Democrats differ in their party
platforms. I’m talking issues that seriously
impact society and people, political issues.
If there is an issue in which the faculty feels
one side is disastrous, and disastrous to the
point it could properly be considered evil,
it should be spoken out against. That was
the case in this war. Many faculty members
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It may be that some departments on
some campuses lost their bearings a little
bit. I don’t know Horowitz’s motives, but I
think in that movement of trying to counter
the extreme left wing political correctness
movement, they really have broadened
their fi eld of activity so that professors
shouldn’t speak out on any controversial
issue.
An example of this emerged at the
Senate meeting where I tried to get the
Senate to consider the resolution against
the Iraq War. One senator who was very
evidently earnest, as I could judge from the
look on her face, said, “The Senate should
not pass a resolution against the war because
it might make uncomfortable those students
who like war.” In Nazi Germany, what if a
university faculty had thought that it should
speak out against the annihilation of Jews,
and somebody on that faculty said, “No!
You might hurt the feelings of those who
like to annihilate Jews!” …
Of course university faculties can take
stands on serious political issues.
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What about students who might
not necessarily like the war, but
might be members of the ROTC or
returning veterans from the war?
They could come and debate it with
faculty at the assembly. Assemblies are
public meetings. … What the assembly
wanted to say was not that soldiers are
bad or that the ROTC is bad, but that this
particular initiative to bomb the hell out of
Iraq and occupy it and seize their oil was
not in the American way. It is not going to
serve our nation well. It is going to turn
the world against us. When South Africa
got the world turned against itself with
apartheid, universities would not cooperate
with South African universities. South
African faculties became isolated. That will
happen to us for sure. The world is against
America now, and it’s not going to help
American faculties in their international
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