Posted on 04/15/2002 9:44:51 PM PDT by IthacaRepublicans
This post is to alert you all to the situation at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. We brought Bay Buchanan to campus to speak on "The Failures of Feminism". She was tremendous, but now campus radicals are attempting to declare her talk an incident of hate. Not seeing an opportunity there, they have now turned their attention to any future events we may hold.
From the article: "Rothman said the committee is now looking at scenarios in which a public speech could be deemed a bias-related incident so the committee will be prepared to deal with future incidents like this one."
Our story has been picked up by Rush and FoxNews and we're hoping to head the libs off at the pass, before they can declare any public speech they dislike to be hate speech.
From FoxNews.com: When the posters first appeared, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian Alliance (BIGAYLA), the Student Government Association (SGA) and Students for Women's Empowerment (SWE) immediately demanded that our Republican club be punished.
"When I saw that flyer, I read it as 'Bay Buchanan is here to hang me,'" said Katrina Baker. She said the "Constitution is irrelevant on this campus. We are [a] private [college]. We do not go by that here." Daniel Baker, president of Created Equal: Allied in Fighting Homophobia, said the poster was in poor taste, "especially in Gaypril when there is heightened risk of violence against the LGB community."
Any help that you could provide us would be welcomed, we're a young club facing entrenched leftist radicals. If you have any suggestions, please e-mail us at icrepublicans@yahoo.com.
Conservative blessings,
Kyle B. Clark
Chairman, Ithaca College Republicans
What the heck is "Gaypril?"
Kind of speaks for itself, doesn't it.
Back in the 1960's, as Bill Buckley put it in Up From Liberalism, liberals would defend people's right to disagree with them, but didn't think that anyone did. Now the radicals know that people disagree with them, and will use a mailed fist to crush any dissent. Since they have abandoned the idea of free and fair discussion, they must be opposed with all of the legitimate tools of political power.
Libs spew hate, it = free speech,Republicans point out facts,i.e. feminist are pro-death,that is hate speech.
The truth hurts them libs.
My guess is that this is some idiot renaming of 'April'. Why "there is heightened risk of violence against the LGB community." in "Gaypril", I have no idea.
I think that you have neatly described our current situation, except that you are being too hard on the 'dark ages'.
We had a small discussion about this earlier today, here. And a wide-ranging thread about WTF is wrong with the state of NY here, following one of Joseph Sabia's columns here.
Anyway, welcome aboard, and happy Gaypril 15'th ;)
City of Evil bump.
That's a good start. Two years ago I cut off the university that I went to. They had sent an alumni news letter to my house that had photos of all of the speakers that were on campus for various lectures in the past year. Jesse Jackson was on the cover and every other speaker was either a prominent liberal in the media, a Democrat politician, or some leftist from the entertainment business. There was a whole series of pro homosexual lectures as well. I sent an email to the president of the university and to the fund raising department that was asking for money. I told them that I would never contribute again and cited my reasons why. I have not been contacted since.
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