Horowitz’s Ten Points Miss the Point
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from The Tech Online Edition,
3/23/01:
In light of the protests at Brown University this week, many of you have heard of David Horowitz’s advertisement/column “Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea — and Racist Too.” Much has been made of Brown students organizing to remove issues of The Brown Daily Herald containing the offensive ad from the newspaper stands.
Unfortunately, reporting on the matter has not given any reason for the uproar surrounding it except the title. This has lead to blind rage but little actual amelioration of the situation. At the risk of giving Mr. Horowitz more free publicity, I present his ten points and place them in a proper context.
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