Intellectual facism

Submitted by Justin Spigelman (Canada), Jan 27, 2003 at 01:57

As a freshman in University I have experienced first hand the anti-capitalist and anti-American tirades on the part of both the vast majority of the faculty, as well as the majority of the student body.

While it can be expected that virulent anti-Americanism is most prevalent within the muslim/arab student organizations, they are by no means the sole propagators of such baseless hatred. In fact it seems that the entire left wing socialist(communist)movement which provides an umbrella for many of the different "activist" clubs, has created an environment of outright lies with regard to world events, as well as a climate in which dissenters fear for their academic and physical safety should they voice any disagreement with the prevailing winds.

Unfortunately I fear that they are succeeding in poisoning the minds of the all too impressionable and naive university students

. Displays of twisted facts and sympathy toward islamic terrorists have made their way into the background of my campus under the guise of being against racism, in the form of weekly protests in support of the so called "human rights of Palestinians," which usually transform into shrieks of "death to America" and "death to Israel".

As I stated the participants are not just muslims, in fact a large proportion of the marches include professional protesters which represent wonderful characters such, anarchists, anti-globalization activists, communists, pacifists(majority of the student body), and a hodgepodge of those who claim to "oppose racism" (what a joke).

One blatent example of the intellectual facism that has gripped my campus is the uproar over the upcoming speech by none other than Daniel Pipes, at my university campus on the part of student and faculty activists, in fact it came very close to being cancelled. What is going on here? I mean I don't have a problem with the endless supply of speakers who constantly refer to Israelis as Nazis and Americans as arrogant oil grabbing pigs. I guess freedom of speech only applies to those speakers who agree with the views of the majority of students(a sad fact), I guess Im living in the twighlight zone.

Maybe once sharia law is imposed on campus my fellow students might decide to wake up and realize the depths into which this so called institution of "higher learning" has sunk too.

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