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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 11:22:20 -0500
All parts of the political and social spectrum show impossibly bad behavior and there is no excuse for it. djf
From: "John Fulton" <jfulton () westcapital com> To: "David Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu> Subject: McCarthyism in action... Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:05:38 -0500 or is it Stalinism? http://www.nationalreview.com/contributors/kurtz120501.shtml Silencing Sommers Stanley Kurtz National Review Online December 5, 2001 8:25 a.m. ...Christina Hoff Sommers, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute...was delivering an invited speech at a conference on "Boy Talk" (a program sponsored by the Center for Substance Abuse and Prevention (CSAP) of the Department of Health and Human Services) when CSAP official Linda Bass summarily interrupted, and commanded Sommers to end her talk. Minutes later, as Sommers was forced by a hostile crowd to defend her claim that scientific studies ought to be used to help evaluate the effectiveness of government drug-prevention programs, Professor Jay Wade, of Fordham University's Department of Psychology an expert on "listening skills" ordered Sommers to "shut the f*ck up, bitch," to the laughter of the others in attendance. Having been muzzled by Bass and put upon by the crowd in a manner well outside the bounds of civilized discourse (and with not a move made by those running the conference to chastise Professor Wade) Sommers had little choice but to leave effectively ejected from a government conference, simply for airing her views. ***
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