IP: two RE: American Council of Trustees and Alumni

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "Hiawatha Bray" <watha () monitortan com>
> To: <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
> I for one am heartily sick of people who accuse their critics of
> "censorship."  I've glanced at the ACTA report and it seems to me rather
> overwrought and extreme in its assertions.  But what of it?  It's just a
> document expressing a particular point of view.  However wrongheaded it
> might be, it doesn't pose a threat to anybody's freedom of speech.
> Certain academics have expressed various views on the war and other
> matters; the folks at ACTA respond.  Last I heard, that was how freedom
> of speech was supposed to work.
>
> Here's a news flash, everybody:  Your right to free speech does not
> include an obligation for others to keep silent as the pearls of wisdom
> flow from your lips.  To the contrary, it's precisely when the other
> fellow tells you that you're full of crap that free speech blossoms into
> full flower.
>
> So criticize ACTA, if you will, for writing nonsense.  But don't
> criticize them for writing.
>
> Hiawatha Bray
> Boston Globe

Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:47:50 -0500
To: farber () cis upenn edu
From: Will Rodger <wrodger () home net>

Academics trying to silence those they disagree with? A very, very old 
story, indeed.
Anyone doubting it need only read Harvey Silverglate's "The Shadow 
University." 
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060977728/qid=1006184701/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_2_1/103-8201974-8381445>
Silverglate, a noted civil libertarian and defender of the 1960s radicals, 
does a masterful job of showing how intolerance from the left is no less a 
problem. Left, right, center -- pseudo intellectuals are everywhere.
Will Rodger
Alexandria, VA

"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume






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