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This Tuesday, Joshua Kaufman, who happens to be a Crimson columnist, used The Crimson to attack and insult me and other students who are listed on the masthead of the Peninsula magazine (Naming Names: Peninsula's Fascists, October 15, 1996). Since he apparently felt it was all right to publicly call me a fool and a fascist for the crime of being on the staff of a student publication, I think he should hear a few things I have...
...Kaufman, I have never met you and sincerely hope I never will. For the record, I did not write the Peninsula article in question, although I agree with some of the points it makes. Nevertheless, you dare use The Crimson to call me names that you would never have the guts to use in a face-to-face conversation. You decided to show everyone that you lack both elementary decency and a sense of humor, by insulting the entire Peninsula staff for an article that ridicules your politically correct sacred cows (and sacred professors). You write that you "are proud...
...dare accuse Peninsula staffers of anti-Semitism because of one article's attack on professors like Alan Dershowitz and Stephen Jay Gould. I have met plenty of anti-Semites while living in Russia, a country where being Jewish was almost a crime against the state, and I deny you the right to use the sufferings of our people to lend legitimacy to your whining. I am sure that if you ever came face to face with a real anti-Semite, you would turn tail and run, as pseudo-intellectuals like yourself have done all over the world. Gould and Dershowitz...
...dare denounce us as "freakish fascists" because of Peninsula's refusal to condone the actions of stormtroopers from the Strategic Offense Society (who twice disrupted scheduled classes at this University) and the moral laxity of the Harvard administration (who let the offenders go without even a slap on the wrist and recently rewarded their parental organization, the BGLSA, with office space). You obviously have no idea what a fascist is; pray to God you never have to find out. You dare accuse me of "marching under Stars and Stripes while eschewing the basic values this country stands for" for exercising...
...applaud Josh Kaufman's bold and courageous column on the magazine Peninsula. It's about time students were held personally responsible for the hateful statements they have made while hiding under the banner of a campus "publication." --Robin S. Goldstein...