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...David Duke will not be receiving an honorarium for his speech at the IOP, as indicated in "Shopping Blues" (Beth L. Pinsker, January 21). No speakers receive honoraria from the IOP. The editors regret the error...
...content of the talk. But it mainly arose from members of the audience watching their fellow students respond to the speaker: as a hero or a racist, an academic or an anti-Semite, a leader in the tradition of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. or that of David Duke...
That's why Hillel members not only did not invite the late Meir Kahane to speak at Harvard but walked out of the Hillel building when Kahane showed up uninvited two years ago. That's also why the Institute of Politics erred by inviting to campus David Duke, a former KKK wizard and no less a bigot than Jeffries...
Content-free invitations, in short, don't exist. We'll be the first to defend the free speech right of people like Jeffries, Kahane or Duke to pontificate in front of Out of Town News. Or, if a Harvard group chooses to invite them, at Sanders Theatre or the ARCO Forum...
...Jeffries invitation, though, seems not even to have been intended as a "content-free" one. By applauding the content of Jeffries' speech, BSA members showed precisely how they feel about him. At least--we hope--IOP members won't cheer Duke with anywhere near the same intensity...