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[Phys-L] Another teaching moment. (Nazi symbol and "free speech".)



This has ben the subject of at least two threads. This time the writer
also questions the standards of the college and like Plato (or was it
Aristotle?) complains about the degeneration of today's youth.

"Chira, for his part, seems more confused than dangerous. In the same breath he insists he is not a Nazi or neo-Nazi, but that he is a National Socialist (the term for which Nazi is shorthand). He insists he is not a white supremacist, a racist, or anti-Jewish, but he claims to be a follower of and supporter of the American National Socialist Movement (NSM), which calls for citizenship to be limited to non-Jewish, heterosexual whites, and praises Hitler on its website.

All of which raises the larger question, which is not so much whether or not Chira should have the freedom to be an ignorant lout, but rather, how did someone so incapable of evincing even a modicum of logic get admitted to a good college like Bellarmine in the first place? Are there no standards anymore?"


All:

http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2005-12/31wise.cfm


bc
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