Coverage of rally shows leftist fear
Your editorial about views that I allegedly expressed was
illiterate (“Horowitz displays patriotic ignorance,”
Daily Bruin, Jan. 15). I didn’t say that no one could argue
about the policy of the current war. I pointed out that the war
itself was not the result of a policy decision about a country
10,000 miles away ““ as was Vietnam. It was the result of an
unprovoked attack on innocent civilians.
I did call the Spartacist Leninists “fascists,” but
not because they were exercising their right to free speech. They
had obviously come to prevent anyone from hearing what Dinesh
D’Souza and I had to say.
Also, your article on the conservative student rally at which I
spoke, was one of the lamest newspaper “reports” on an
event that I have ever read (“Conservatives hold rally in
Westwood,” News, Jan. 15).
I pointed out in my speech that UCLA has virtually no
conservative professors. An investigation of voting records by my
Center for the Study of Popular Culture shows that registered
Democrats on the UCLA faculty outnumber Republicans 15-1. The only
explanation for this gross disparity is political bias in the
hiring process.
UCLA is a one-party institution. How can students get a good
education if they are only getting one side of the story?
Conservatives are so feared by UCLA leftists that they organized
not one but two demonstrations to obstruct two lone conservative
speakers and prevent their ideas from being heard.
In this article, the only account of what either I or
D’Souza had to say was provided by a comment from an
undergraduate who falsely claimed that it is my view that
“African Americans are the prime beneficiaries of
slavery.” This is a lie.
It would have been easy to find out the truth, if the Bruin
““ along with forty other collegiate papers run by
totalitarian leftists ““ had not refused to run my reparations
ad last spring.
The article by Dexter Gauntlett (“Horowitz speaks on UCLA
campus,” News, Jan. 15) was somewhat better than your
editorial or the coverage of the rally. But it was the other David
Horowitz who won 15 Emmys.
And the debt to the Christian founders I acknowledged was for
establishing the principle of equality not for declaring slavery an
immoral institution.
My ancestors were indeed slaves but in another time and at
another place.
David Horowitz Director Center for the Study of Popular
Culture