October 17, 2003

SECOND GRADE DEMOCRATS: No, sorry,

SECOND GRADE DEMOCRATS: No, sorry, they're the College Democrats. But it can be hard to tell sometimes…
Ashley Bell, an LSU law student who is the national president of the College Democrats of America, recently penned a borderline-illiterate screed about the current Louisiana governors' race that, in addition to being full of miss-spellings, run-on sentences, and Communist-like capitalizations of "Party," also erroneously referred to Louisiana GOP gubernatorial candidate Bobby Jindal as "Arab-American," and spoke of "the Republicans token attempt to mend bridges long burnt with the Arab American community."
Problem is, Jindal is in fact an Indian-American. Made aware of this, Bell sent out an apology three days later, which read:

In a recent email describing the Republican Nominee in Louisiana Bobby Jindal, I used what local news has termed Arab American - But in Fact Indian American is the politically correct terminology.

Now despite all the teaching about diversity that universities mandate these days, Mr. Bell is apparently unaware that "Arab" and "Indian" are not only not the same thing, but are also practically mutually exclusive. Not to mention that he thinks his error was not factual but rather politically incorrect- a greater sin in the PC college cosmos, of course. Is he so ignorant that he actually thinks that people from India are Arabs- or that those in the Arab world are Indian? Guess they all "look the same," huh?
This person is the national leader of the College Democrats? He's almost as embarrassing as Terry McAuliffe, the national leader of the real Democrats.

Posted by Stephen Silver at October 17, 2003 09:35 PM
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