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Today, David L. Horowitz, author of several books addressing sociopolitical issues, founder of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, basher of the Fifth Left and leader of the neoconservatism movement, will be speaking on campus as a guest of the Harvard Republican Club...
...Horowitz is becoming a perennial spring presence at Harvard; last year around this time, he asked The Crimson to run a controversial advertisement, “10 Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery Is a Bad Idea—And Racist Too,” to help publicize his book of the same title...
Whether or not one believes the ad should have run, or that people such as Horowitz should be allowed to use this powerful medium, is part of a broader issue. We must remember the ease with which minorities have been victims of America’s selective enforcement of two of its fundamental beliefs: equality of man and freedom of speech...
America’s ideals often do not coincide with her practices. Horowitz displays similar bouts with selective memory and hypocrisy in his arguments...
...perhaps one of his most radical claims, Horowitz makes the assertion that blacks ought to be somewhat thankful to America, which he said “was a pioneer in the fight against slavery, and in establishing the first multiracial society in human history.” He seems to forget that it is America who unduly enslaved blacks in the first place and perpetuated that “peculiar institution” for 32 years after the British Empire outlawed...