UPDATE: John Podhoretz at Commentary doesn't mince words in his characterization of Brandeis's president:
What Lawrence has done here is the nothing less than the act of a gutless, spineless, simpering coward.My late uncle, Marver Bernstein, served as the university’s president from 1972 to 1983. I know Marver would have been appalled beyond belief at his shameful successor’s monstrous capitulation to the screaming voices of unreason. As should we all be.
It's very late in the day.
I don't agree with the decision at all, but dayum, those Muslim students were more effective than your ilk was at ND back in '09 when someone you detest was slated for an honorary degree. The ND prexy rightly refused to bow to your pressure then and the Brandeis prexy wrongly did the same thing. Whatever happened to intellectual freedom on American campuses? . Can't say I'd look to your ilk to defend it either, after the ND go-round a mere matter of months following our freelyt elected sitting President's inauguration.
ReplyDeleteAh, the old hard-left tactic of changing the subject. The reason ND should not have let the MEC speak is that he had a record as being cool with fetal extermination.
ReplyDeleteI'm hard left? I thought my 1st sentence indicated I did not agree with the decision made by the Brandeis prexy. And I did agree with the ND prexy who stood his ground vs. the anti-abortion crazies who have hurt their cause in the past by their antics.
ReplyDeleteThen why bring it up? This is an entirely different set of circumstances.
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