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Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 230
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - 03:23 am: | 
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Horowitz: "Cornel West is a black airhead"
Summary: David Horowitz referred to Princeton University professor Cornel West as a "black airhead," adding that he "is blessed with these unearned and undeserved perks solely because he's black." Horowitz further described West's work as "useless" and claimed that he "hasn't written as scholarly paper or book in twenty years (if ever)."
In a May 28 FrontPageMag.com weblog post, right-wing activist and author David Horowitz referred to Princeton University professor Cornel West as a "black airhead," adding that he "is blessed with these unearned and undeserved perks solely because he's black." Horowitz further described West's work as "useless" and claimed that he "hasn't written as scholarly paper or book in twenty years (if ever)." Horowitz's remarks appeared in defense of recent attacks on his book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America (Regnery, January 2006), in which he criticized numerous professors for their political views and participation in political events outside the classroom.
Horowitz used the term as part of his purported paraphrase of a May 26 AlterNet weblog post by Evan Derkacz, which criticized Horowitz for his attacks on West. In fact, Derkacz defended West as "an American Book Award winner and distinguished intellectual."
West, a professor of religion who has published extensively, is no stranger to criticism and controversy.
Media Matters for America has repeatedly pointed out false and misleading claims that Horowitz has made about his own book, most recently his comparison between the recent allegations of plagiarism and related academic misconduct by Ward Churchill, professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and the reported activities of other professors Horowitz profiled in his book.
From Horowitz's May 28 FrontPageMag.com blog post:
One of the professors profiled in my recent book of that title is Cornel West, a man [who] confuses attitudinizing with thought, whose intellectual output the liberal New Republic assessed and found "worthless," who is one of the academic world's most honored and distinguished figures and yet hasn't written a scholarly paper or book in twenty years (if ever).
The leftwing journal Alternet is outraged by these facts. Here is its entire argument against my description of the unbearable lightness of Cornel West's being: "In the nation's top universities, African-American representation goes from offensive to paltry. Anywhere from less than 1% of tenured faculty are black to a high of 4.3%. In other words, you'd need to go out of your way to pluck a black professor for your rant about the nature of academia."
In other words, Cornel West is a black airhead so don't hurt his feelings by pointing this out. Actually, my book The Professors features portraits of several bloviating dummies like West who are white. Professors Michael Vocino and Grover Furr for example. However, neither Vocino nor Furr have 20 honorary degress, a professorship at Princeton, a $35,000 academic speaking fee, a several hundred thousand dollar academic salary, or a lucrative book racket for appending their signatures to encyclopedic publications of the Harvard press.
Cornel West is blessed with these unearned and undeserved perks solely because he's black -- there is no other explanation (but don't hurt his feelings by pointing this out).
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Roxie
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Username: Roxie
Post Number: 843
Registered: 06-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - 09:10 am: |
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Another case of "dogshit" telling "vomit" it stinks. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 2317
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - 12:22 pm: |
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Horowitz is a racist--he used to be a hardcore Communist and leftist and then did the Eldridge Cleaver when the wind started changing and he found himself caught out in the cold with no other skills other than rabble rousing.
Nft--I wonder why you would post the rantings of someone who hates black people here on this site--explain yourself. |
Yukio
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Username: Yukio
Post Number: 1295
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - 12:27 pm: |
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thats funny . . . LOL @the Eldrige Cleaver |
Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 234
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - 03:19 pm: |
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I wonder why you would post the rantings of someone who hates black people here on this site--explain yourself.
I try to post things that are provocative, informative and debate worthy. I put things out for people to read and hopefully respond to. I don’t believe in a sterile environment where only one voice or opinion is heard or tolerated. I believe the critics as well as supporters should be heard and debated.
As most know, David Horowitiz is a right wing racist zealot who bristles with indignation when he is correctly identified. He was a committed anti-Viet Nam war activist and a harsh critic of the American government and foreign policies in the 1960’s. He was a former editor along with Peter Collier for Ramparts Magazine. Both later underwent an extreme political conversion and have become hard line neoconservative critics of the left. Horowitiz was a leftist radical who smoked marijuana and allowed members of the Black Panther Party (the original BPP!) to live in his home and openly supported militant black activism. Now he is one of black peoples harshest critics.
Horowitiz has done the ultimate flip flop from a passionate left wing anti-government radical of the 1960’s and early 1970’s, to an ultra neoconservative who has zero tolerance for the activism or the political mindset he once championed and supported. He is on a personal Jihad against liberals (especially college professors), blacks and those who question or have unflattering words for the current White House administration or the so called war on terrorism.
What I personally find to be amusing and sick at the same time, is his total denial of race his baiting behavior. When Joan Walsh (a Salon columnist) criticized him in an article as being a “racial provocateur”, Horowitz almost lost his mind!
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 2323
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - 04:26 pm: |
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Ntfs:
Do Yo Thang! |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 4602
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - 06:06 pm: |
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A lot of white liberals and radical activists began to lose their anti-establishment zeal when their paternalistic attitudes toward blacks started to be challenged. They thought they knew what was best for black folks and when black folks told them to go convert other whites and let blacks do their own thing, these leftists were miffed. The only thing worst than a reformed smoker is a reformed Communist. |
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