Wisconsin Stupidity From Both Directions
You may not yet have heard of Ward Churchill. Rest assured, you will. You can read all you want about this humanoid here and here and here.
The title is invoked because the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, a four year undergrad university in the UW system (20 minutes from my home, no less) has invited and stands behind their invitation for him to speak on campus.
I'm leaning toward not wanting him to speak simply because the radical left wing hate speech and puke he spills is applauded but let the n-word slip past the lips of a white person and he will be stigmatized and/or his career is ruined. (During the OJ trial Mark Fuhrman was asked have you ever used the n-word? Ever? Watch BET any Friday or Saturday night.) I want the double standard out on parade for everyone to see.
On the other hand, I read a line the other evening that sums up my feelings regarding the opposite side of my thoughts. "Free speech is great; it makes the idiots so much easier to spot."
On another note, I am laughing because of the timing of the whole issue. (One of my epitaphs will read, "Baseball, sex and commodity trading; it's all in the timing.") Whitewater, as it's known here, couldn't have picked a worst time to go through this monkey business, because the legistlature is just beginning their biennial budget discussions and funding of the university system is a real hot topic. This is just going to provide fodder for folks who wish to take potshots at the University as a whole in the legistlature and providing free 'ammo' is not something anyone associated with the University would knowingly want to do at budget time.
The title is invoked because the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, a four year undergrad university in the UW system (20 minutes from my home, no less) has invited and stands behind their invitation for him to speak on campus.
I'm leaning toward not wanting him to speak simply because the radical left wing hate speech and puke he spills is applauded but let the n-word slip past the lips of a white person and he will be stigmatized and/or his career is ruined. (During the OJ trial Mark Fuhrman was asked have you ever used the n-word? Ever? Watch BET any Friday or Saturday night.) I want the double standard out on parade for everyone to see.
On the other hand, I read a line the other evening that sums up my feelings regarding the opposite side of my thoughts. "Free speech is great; it makes the idiots so much easier to spot."
On another note, I am laughing because of the timing of the whole issue. (One of my epitaphs will read, "Baseball, sex and commodity trading; it's all in the timing.") Whitewater, as it's known here, couldn't have picked a worst time to go through this monkey business, because the legistlature is just beginning their biennial budget discussions and funding of the university system is a real hot topic. This is just going to provide fodder for folks who wish to take potshots at the University as a whole in the legistlature and providing free 'ammo' is not something anyone associated with the University would knowingly want to do at budget time.
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