SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT, RE: RACISM AT BRANDEIS: From Harvey Silverglate and Alan Kors' indispensable book "The Shadow University":
It was the tenth year of [Sheldon Hackney of UPenn's] presidency, and he obsessed about race relations throughout. If some halfwit- whether racist or provocateur- scribbled an epithet on a stairwell, the campus would gratify the miscreant by acting as if a fascist night had descended. During freshman orientations, students were taught at "diversity education" seminars to perceive the campus as a hotbed of racism.
UPDATE: The student who made the offending flier last week has apologized.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Here's a great Justice op-ed, deservedly mocking those who walked out on the recent Daniel Pipes speech as "left-wing fascists."
Posted by Stephen Silver at November 25, 2003 05:09 PM