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...Nazism" was the term employed by AFARM co-founder Joshua Oppenheimer in the Crimson on December 15 of last year to describe the actions of myself and my colleagues in the Alliance against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality. While campus conservatives have become somewhat inured to the rhetorical abuses of liberal extremists over the years, we felt that an organization which was to be recognized by the University and funded by the Undergraduate Council and the Office of the Arts should be prepared to step into the public eye and substantiate these claims...
...fact, I am sad to say that this is not the first time he has resorted to such tactics; in his attack on AFARM, he spent his entire editorial poking fun at that group's name. Intellectual debate? I don't think...
...goes on to take issue with the fact that AFARM has received funding from the Office for the Arts and the Undergraduate Council. Whether or not AFARM is highly politicized is irrelevant; both the Perspective and the Salient, two political publications, received Council funding as fledgling organizations. Also, Lat's question, "Should a group whose idea of 'art' is a really bad play script about gay rights receive money from the Office for the Arts?" is strange. I assume he is referring to AFARM's piece in HQ, "Sugar Daddy Memoirs From the Association for the Absence of Rabid Moralism...
Finally, there is an overwhelming lack of humor regarding this whole matter, Sure, AFARM's posters and its members' comments are pretty silly. However, to think that AFARM's actions aren't somewhat amusing shows a complete lack of a sense of humor. I think that is quite obvious in the way Lat scrutinizes AFARM. He thinks naming their official positions after character in the Marquis de Sad's 120 Days of Sodom is "highly offensive." But is Lat any better after his pirates an obscure quote from the movie "Ferris, Bueller's Day Off," changing it to become...
...first person to say that AFARM isn't the greatest or most successful organization to take root at Harvard. However, they do serve an incredibly important purpose. In an environment where liberals and conservatives write a never-ending stream of serious and solemn articles and letters about homosexuality, feminism or whatever, a whimsical group with strong political views is definitely needed. I think that the political climate at Harvard would be much more stressful without AFARM...