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...saying his comments at the Thurmond party were "totally unacceptable and insensitive, and I apologize for that." He added, "I grew up in an environment that condoned policies and views that we now know were wrong and immoral, and I repudiate them. Let me be clear: segregation and racism are immoral." Lott asked for "forbearance and forgiveness as I continue to learn from my own mistakes." But once he got beyond his script and the questions started, Lott was talking about the new Pascagoula River bridge for which he had won federal funding, the Nissan auto plant he had helped...
...that they get taken out with the celebration’s garbage. Many who describe black Democrats as an endangered species seek to orchestrate a move of which Gary Kasparov would be envious. Those who misrepresent the new black political mentality as an example of burgeoning American conservatism remove racism from the social consciousness and restrict black politics to a purely domestic scope. In reality, black politics in America are inextricably linked to the African Diaspora and a world of exploding poverty. The Democratic Party is losing the so-called black vote because it has lost any remnant...
...letter would have been the same, but whether The Crimson would have published such a piece at all. The problem is that homophobia—of which Pappin’s letter is a particularly insidious example—is not being put on the same platform as racism, anti-Semitism or other equally disgusting forms of hate; to diminish it thus is both ignorant and incredibly dangerous, as the secret court of 1920 showed us in the first place...
...rather for the fact that “my quoted remarks completely misrepresent my real views.” And what are his real views? “The need to oppose all forms of anti-Semitism” based on “a lifelong commitment to fighting racism in all its forms.” There, however, is the rub. Paulin compares Zionists to the SS, yet at the same time excoriates T.S. Eliot, Class of 1910, as anti-Semitic, professing himself a “Philo-Semite” for whom calls for Israel?...
...Blair government is a Zionist government.” If this classic anti-Semitic slur were correct, however, why is it that Paulin himself hasn’t been silenced? Whether right or wrong, charges of anti-Semitism do not suppress free-speech, any more than do charges of racism. Such charges are part of the hurly-burly of living in a free and open society in which speech, even the speech we hate, is protected. In this same spirit, however, now that Paulin may well come to campus, the English department should not retreat behind the facade of free...