Comments on: This land is your land, but it’s really my land

By: Victoria

Victoria — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 06:19:29 +0000

This is the link which will take you to the ENTIRE article written by Kurt Anderson for the October 15, 2007 Edition of New York Magazine.

The name of the article is: “The Age of Apoplexy” Are the controversial comments of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (or Larry Summers or Bill O’Reilly or NARAL) really so threatening?

http://nymag.com/news/imperialcity/38948/

NOTE: If you check out the Title/beginning post – you will notice that “meany weirdo president of Iran” doesn’t exist in this Article – I’m not sure how a journalist will reply to this, but I’m not impressed – Kurt Anderson wrote this piece for the New York Magazine, but others want to add words to what he has said.

Is this an HONEST and fair journalistic practice? I would say NO, not even close -

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By: Scroop Moth

Scroop Moth — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:30:05 +0000

Key — still athirst for your hero, I see. Now that you’ve read the Song of Roland, you need to keep going to the Quijote. Title to the farm used to be held by Cervantes, but it’s been subdivided quite a few times into parcels as small as WorldMagBlog, the monuments have been moved, the boundaries are disputed, and you can’t get title insurance. Plagiarism has more prestige than copyright. You are right to express the claimants as x, y, z but you’re mistaken to think that time is any respecter of priority

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By: krm

krm — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:31:35 +0000

DCL – We don’t have open inquiry and debate on the US campuses anymore (just ask Lawrence Summers formerly of Harvard).

Open inquiry and debate is the disinfectant of propaganda and other bad/wrong ideas.

I would not want to let the known propagandists come talk on campus unless there was open inquiry and debate to test and correct the errors.

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By: DC Lawyer

DC Lawyer — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:08:36 +0000

That’s not the bigger issue, Harrison. Who’s culture? The question itself is offensive.

I agree with the article you quoted. If I were president of a university I’d let Hitler speak if he asked. The fact is that the only way to defeat ideas is to hear them and destroy them. Not with censorship, but with full an open inquiry.

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By: Kyle A

Kyle A — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:27:03 +0000

Night Train, Congress is almost 100 years late on this issue. Why did the Democrats decide that in 2007, after years of silence, that they must recognize the Armenian holocaust as genocide?

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By: Night Train

Night Train — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:25:16 +0000

Our own president denies the Armenian holocaust, and is right nowurging Congress not to recognize it, and yet no one calls him a madman.

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By: DR

DR — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:07:38 +0000

As little as I agree with HRW, he’s right on this – we need old school Lincoln-Douglas style debates.

Of course, the audience might fall asleep. Sigh.

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By: hrw

hrw — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:45:49 +0000

forget “true” tolerance and try open debates in your face with elbows up.

Watching American politcal debates which are heavily controlled and snaitized with little chance for give and take, one is reminds how afraid all political elites are afraid to subject themselves to the public arena.

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By: Kyle A

Kyle A — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:25:00 +0000

The solution is to promote true tolerance.

X and Y and Z need to put up with each other and use peaceful means to try to accomplish their differing goals.

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By: trr

trr — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:43:51 +0000

I suppose it was a good chance to let his crazy views be known better, to see them for what they are.

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