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David Horowitz: Verminous Anti-Intellectual Hack · Nov 22, 12:55 PM
If anyone were ever inclined to take anything David Horowitz says or writes even this least bit seriously, this ought to cure them. Surely he is the most disingenuous & intellectually dishonest man in the country. (And there is plenty of serious competition for that particular honor.) After being completely shut down by the unanimous vote of a committee of the Pennsylvania State Legislature — a committee controlled by Republicans — this is the best Mr. Horowitz could come up with:
Asked how he could claim victory when the legislative panel had worked so hard to identify student victims, and failed, Horowitz offered more stories of students who were being hurt. He said that he had spoken to a dance student who was upset about her paper’s grade and that he had encouraged her to file a grievance. She didn’t want to. Horowitz acknowledged that there was no political issue in the paper, but said her reluctance to go through the grievance machinery showed the problems that students face.
I have half a dozen students at any given time who are “upset” about a grade, so obviously I discriminate against conservative students. And furhtermore, my university, by Horowitz’s logic, ipso facto, has inadequate grievance procedures.
After the damning example above, Horowitz accuses Bloomsburg University Political Science professor Diana Zoelle of giving “a test in which students were forced to explain why the war in Iraq is wrong, with the implication that their grade would be lower if they did not back that position.” It comes as no surprise, really, that there was no such test question & that Horowitz never actually checked out what he had “heard” about the professor. This is McCarthyism plain & simple. Horowitz would be a comical figure if he didn’t have such wide influence. He is a serial liar who counts on the ignorance & prejudice of his conservative audience to maintain the illusion that he is anything more than a verminous little political operative. That he is taken seriously == except as a threat to academic freedom — is evidence of how debased American political discourse has become.
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I am first-year taking Poli Sci – we read Horowitz for class. The contrast of the man and his theory is interesting to see! I wonder, though, how Horowitz’ work in academia makes a larger claim about his contribution to social science?
— MJ 11/29/2006 03:20 AM #