Whither Logic

"FP: Why do you think Conservatives are such failures in fighting political war and in protecting themselves from intellectual discrimination? Why were all Conservatives sleeping while the Left took over the campuses and instituted its suffocation of thought and speech? Why did it take a former radical like Horowitz to fight this problem on a real level?

Thomas: Conservatives actually believe in the First Amendment and fair treatment of those with opposing viewpoints. The left has taken advantage of this commitment to freedom of expression while refusing to reciprocate. In exposing such hypocrisy on the left, David Horowitz is one of the latest in a long line of former radicals who have shown that the best critic of a system often is an apostate (e.g., Whittaker Chambers in Witness). ":

A ga'llon of bottled water costs more than a gallon of gasoline, yet you don’t hear left-wing asshats screaming about the high cost of bottled water, do you? No cries of corporate greed at Evian or Poland Spring, right?

"One of the peculiar phenomena of our time is the renegade Liberal, wrote George Orwell in 1945. He meant not the classical liberal who believed in individual freedoms and small government but the leftist liberal who glorified communist experiments and disdained middle-class life. To Orwell, the existence of intellectuals who loved the Soviet Union despite the purges, mocked bourgeois liberty despite the pleasing bourgeois circumstances of their own lives, and identified with revolutionary movements that would speedily ship them off to camps this was a fact in need of explanation.":

Winds of Change.NET: "The article quoted a professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo (who was described as having 'lived for many years in Muslim countries') as saying that 'Norwegian women must take their share of responsibility for these rapes' because Muslim men found their manner of dress provocative. One reason for the high number of rapes by Muslims, explained the professor, was that in their native countries 'rape is scarcely punished,' since Muslims 'believe that it is women who are responsible for rape.' The professor's conclusion was not that Muslim men living in the West needed to adjust to Western norms, but the exact opposite: 'Norwegian women must realize that we live in a multicultural society and adapt themselves to it.'"