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...Bringing Hate to Harvard” (Column, Oct. 31), Nader R. Hasan writes that that Ann Coulter “spewed her hateful rhetoric” and asserted “her racist ideology” during her Oct. 25 speech to the Harvard Republican Club (HRC). Nothing could be further from the truth. We want to set the record straight...
...When Coulter spoke to the HRC in a packed Fong Auditorium, the University of Michigan Law School graduate devoted the entirety of her 35-minute lecture to the perils of judicial activism, discussing topics from partial-birth abortion and elements of the criminal justice system to race-based university admissions and affirmative action...
...have learned about her racist ideology during her speech? And if they could not figure it out from her speech, they certainly should have learned it during the question and answer period, as some audience members asked about her post-Sept. 11 comments. When one audience member invited Coulter to apologize for her racist remarks, she scoffed and decried liberals for “always biting at the rubber worm” (whatever that means). She then went on to deny that mass deportation was a racist idea, and argued that her comments were only slightly more extreme than Senator...
...HRC’s callousness in inviting her. Much of the blame lies with the rest of us—those who knew that a hate monger was coming to speak at campus, yet who did nothing to protest her presence. True, there were a substantial number of Coulter opponents in the auditorium. But we should have packed the auditorium. We should have been stationed outside of Boylston, handing out copies of Coulter’s articles to audience members as they entered the auditorium. The University administration, the Harvard Foundation, and every non-racist student organization at Harvard should...
Instead, we did nothing. Where were the hordes of self-proclaimed progressive Harvard students on the night that a proselytizer of hate came to visit? Coulter is guilty of spreading hate. HRC is guilty of bringing hate to Harvard. And we are all guilty for letting it happen...