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...Mark Sneider's piece about a rally for student inclusion in the presidential search began, "If only Toqueville could have been there." If only Mark Sneider could have been there. While Sneider told me that he missed the rally, he did not spare us his opinion...
While we should question Sneider's ethics, we should not ignore his arguments. Though they contain statements about the rally that are disputed by the New York Times and by people who did not attend, his arguments deserve a response...
Rather than focus on issues, Sneider focused on people. Rally-goers were identified as "rabble-rousers," "fellow revolutionaries" and "complainers, ideologues or activists." We are described as a "predictable cadre of student activists" with a "narrow agenda...
Since my roommate on Peninsula never uses any of these terms about me, I asked Sneider, who has never heard my voice, why he chose them...
Alas, he told me it was because I attended a rally with such people, and that speaking at the rally made me an advocate of the sit-ins that I personally oppose. Sneider, by this standard, supports the official Crimson position giving students a veto over the presidential choice, since he did not dissent from The Crimson's editorial. This logic is absurd...