BohemiansforStPaul
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My college is supposedly a free thinking Christian Liberal Arts College, yet there tend to be a lot of closed minded thinkers writing on college blogs and in the newspapers. In the editorial below a "well regarded" student whom I cannot stand wrote this slanderous and propagated editorial. I need help from my fellow Paulites when putting together an editorial to refute his pathetic claims.
The ignorance on my campus is appalling and it is important to combat the issues and at the sametime present the case in a way that might inspire more to join the ranks of Ron Paul.
"Ron Paul not worth covering
Dear Editor,
I thought it was sobering to see not one but two letters last week praising the candidacy of Ron Paul. At a college like Calvin with such a conservative student body, Paul is especially attractive — a long shot Republican, but with views unorthodox enough to make him “cool.”
However, I find the reflexive support he finds among young people looking for a vaguely anti-establishment, blog-approved candidate to be disturbing.
He has a long history of unapologetic gun-toting racism that has ensured his perpetual re-election in southern Texas, where views are simply mainstream, right-wing ideology taken to a scarily extreme level.
He is the only candidate with an A+ from Gun Owners of America. He once wrote in a newsletter that “Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the criminal justice system, I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in Washington, D.C. are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.” When pressed, his only response was that he was “taken out of context.”
(I’m not exactly sure in what context he was thinking, but I would be very interested to know.)
Certainly his fundraising prowess is fascinating, but I think it more shows the gullibility of cause-obsessed college students than any real zeitgeist tapping; that is, unless we’re a bunch of gun-polishing white men with fantastical ideas about taxes that mostly benefit the rich.
Some of his more libertarian views are agreeable, as well as his anti-war stance, but even they are rooted in a noxious bigotry, elitism, xenophobia and unthinking conservatism.
Thus I would say that it’s fine to ignore him and his quixotic, soon-to-be-over run, unless it is to rail against how he is suckering the youth of today into believing that his reactionary stance represents anything good, let alone anything that has led to good in the past.
Even if a few of his ideas would result in something positive, they stem from a kind of intolerant aggression against the very idea of community and responsibility to anyone other than oneself, something that not only is anathema to idea of America, but also something which I find disagreeable in the very character of a person. "
Back in 2004 here at Calvin College many students and faculty refused to attend the commencement because George W. had just pushed our nation into an unjust conflict. Those voices have been drowned out by the neo cons on the right and the Clinton followers on the left. The students don't want to go on a limb. Its frusturating, there are a few of us who continue to speak out, but its hard to get the word out without being falsely labled or laughed at.
Anyway if you could help by giving suggestions for jumpstarting this campus~ that be great!!!!!
The few of us here will hold down the fort and fight for the freedom our nation deserves...
Remember the Alamo
The ignorance on my campus is appalling and it is important to combat the issues and at the sametime present the case in a way that might inspire more to join the ranks of Ron Paul.
"Ron Paul not worth covering
Dear Editor,
I thought it was sobering to see not one but two letters last week praising the candidacy of Ron Paul. At a college like Calvin with such a conservative student body, Paul is especially attractive — a long shot Republican, but with views unorthodox enough to make him “cool.”
However, I find the reflexive support he finds among young people looking for a vaguely anti-establishment, blog-approved candidate to be disturbing.
He has a long history of unapologetic gun-toting racism that has ensured his perpetual re-election in southern Texas, where views are simply mainstream, right-wing ideology taken to a scarily extreme level.
He is the only candidate with an A+ from Gun Owners of America. He once wrote in a newsletter that “Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the criminal justice system, I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in Washington, D.C. are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.” When pressed, his only response was that he was “taken out of context.”
(I’m not exactly sure in what context he was thinking, but I would be very interested to know.)
Certainly his fundraising prowess is fascinating, but I think it more shows the gullibility of cause-obsessed college students than any real zeitgeist tapping; that is, unless we’re a bunch of gun-polishing white men with fantastical ideas about taxes that mostly benefit the rich.
Some of his more libertarian views are agreeable, as well as his anti-war stance, but even they are rooted in a noxious bigotry, elitism, xenophobia and unthinking conservatism.
Thus I would say that it’s fine to ignore him and his quixotic, soon-to-be-over run, unless it is to rail against how he is suckering the youth of today into believing that his reactionary stance represents anything good, let alone anything that has led to good in the past.
Even if a few of his ideas would result in something positive, they stem from a kind of intolerant aggression against the very idea of community and responsibility to anyone other than oneself, something that not only is anathema to idea of America, but also something which I find disagreeable in the very character of a person. "
Back in 2004 here at Calvin College many students and faculty refused to attend the commencement because George W. had just pushed our nation into an unjust conflict. Those voices have been drowned out by the neo cons on the right and the Clinton followers on the left. The students don't want to go on a limb. Its frusturating, there are a few of us who continue to speak out, but its hard to get the word out without being falsely labled or laughed at.
Anyway if you could help by giving suggestions for jumpstarting this campus~ that be great!!!!!
The few of us here will hold down the fort and fight for the freedom our nation deserves...
Remember the Alamo
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