One needs leave the University for no more than a fortnight to gain an invaluable perspective on the sheer
imbecility and shocking audacity of its leadership. Perhaps living in Asia has given me an even more striking comparison to the volume of stupidity that seems to permeate the halls of our sacred institution of learning.
Given the venom and acid of the words spoken and written by
PFC member Mason Quiroz, there can be little doubt, at least to anyone looking from the outside in, that there is little, if any, love lost between Quiroz and the Commentator. Yet no one seems courageous enough to challenge him on his hatred of the group. So, let me see if I have understood this correctly: It’s okay to hate, as long as you hate the right group.
The danger in that thinking is so obviously apparent as to flabbergast the reasoned mind; and yet, as is typical of the intellectual elite at the University, hatred and intolerance is nonetheless encouraged toward groups that refuse to fall in line with the most recent PC hyperbole. What you are saying, in essence, is that it’s quite all right to hate conservative groups because they hate, and hate for hate balances out. How enlightened. Students at the University should be frightened not of the sarcastic humor of groups like the Commentator, but rather at the ease with which those who govern their resources are willing to collar speech and expression when it doesn’t suit their fancy.
Scott D. Austin
Luodong Town, Taiwan