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...addition, 124 of 223 faculty members signed a statement repudiating a book by the professor, Anthony Martin, "for its ad hominem attacks upon members of the Wellesley College community, for its racial and ethnic stereotyping, and for its anti-Semitism...
...could have had their own dark, resentful suspicions confirmed. It was a symposium on infotainment featuring a quorum of the national media elite -- Sam Donaldson, Bernard Kalb, Phil Donahue. When Donaldson, who says he often listens to Limbaugh, slammed him for calling certain feminists "feminazis" and for "his ad hominem attacks and ghoulish humor," the audience of 2,000 erupted in approving hoots and applause. Mary Matalin, who managed George Bush's campaign last year, was also on the panel, and she asked how many in the audience had ever watched or listened to Limbaugh. "Silence," Matalin says. "Absolute silence...
Attacks on alleged political correctness are themselves often attempts to narrow the range of permissible debate and embrace the chic of victimization. In a May commencement speech about the new intolerance, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas complained that "a new brand of stereotypes and ad hominem assaults are surfacing across the nation's college campuses, in the national media, in Hollywood and among the . . . 'cultural elite' " aimed at "those who dare to disagree with the latest ideological fad." If anyone has ever actually prevented Thomas from expressing his views, I would like to hear of it. Vigorous dissent...
...really don't want to discuss my opponents and interlocutors. I'll be fighting an election against him. But I don't fight on an ad hominem basis. I have respect for him. He is highly intelligent. He has a strong personality. We get along well together as opponents, and we find it possible to put our differences aside to try to create the circumstances which can bring peace to our country. There's a mutual acceptance of each other's integrity...
This is about as sophisticated as their reasoning gets. For the Left, ad hominem attacks and intimidation have proven an effective way to avoid rational debate...