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Schreiber launches his latest polemic by saying that Prof. Harvey C. Mansfield's moral condemnation of homosexuality lacks any logical foundation and doesn't even deserve a rational response. Schreiber then ends by comparing Mansfield and Peninsula editor Rob Wasinger to "immature children" who are only encouraged by the attention people waste on them. Then what exactly is Schreiber up to in the intervening 17 paragraphs of verbiage? I'd love to know...
Strangely, Schreiber is obsessed with demonstrating the obvious irrationality of statements that he considers so obviously irrational as to require no demonstration. Schreiber reiterates endlessly and neurotically that it "is pointless...to refute their comments"; that "Mansfield's assault does not merit forceful rebuttal"; that these conservatives' statement "neither deserve nor require...angry or concerted response"; that to "bother to demonstrate the ridiculousness and hypocrisy of Wasinger's blather...is to fall into the trap of debating unsupportable absurdities"; and that "these attacks...do not deserve rational refutation...
Professor Harvey C. Mansfield's recent remarks on homosexuality that have been reported in The Crimson prompt me to urge him, even to beg him, to please stop it, stop the gratuitous hurt or pain that he is inflicting on so many of his students and colleagues. I am not referring to the kind of pain that sometimes accompanies exposure to knowledge or a truth that we do not like. I am referring to the kind of shabby, completely undocumented, ignorant and insulting remarks he made about homosexuality...
...this is not mainly about scholarship. Once again, it's a plea for decency in Professor Mansfield's treatment of human beings who are different from himself. Even in an era of so-called grade inflation, I could not give a grade as high as a D to Professor Mansfield on Decency--on this issue, I'm afraid he gets a failing grade. Cynthia Verba GSAS
Prof. Harvey C. Mansfield's recent testimony in support of the Colorado constitutional amendment which ensures that no Colorado citizen will have a special claim on the state by virtue of his preferred method of sexual gratification has, quite predictably, stirred up quite a bit of uproar among the usual parties. It seems that the idea that a Harvard professor might say something sensible about public policy (a rare enough occurrence, to be sure) is simply too much for Harvard's left wing to bear...