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Originally posted by Rudey
 Didn't think you would pick this up. I was wondering when someone would actually bring this up but nobody has yet.
David Horowitz plastered ads in university newspapers around the country on this. Everyone considers him full of hot air though. His ideas do hold a LOT of validity but the guy is out to make money and gain fame and it took people a while for people to understand that. Sadly he presents his ideas in a way to provoke a reaction and dismisses all opposing sides swiftly.
After the ads, before kids realized what he was really about, lots of campus fired up about this with Berkeley being at the head I believe. Several other campuses did not publish the ad and an issue of free speech and censorship arose from it.
He actually spoke at my school and kids saw where his argument was coming from, but he was really harsh. This guy is mean when it comes to someone asking him something that he thinks goes against what he believes. Once again, it's all a part of his desire for wealth and fame and nothing more.
http://www.adversity.net/reparations...rations_ad.htm
-Rudey
--In the end, the anti-globalist pro-rally white kids who don't wash their hair went home and all discussion of reparations was left for the black audience.
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Oh, okay. I think I understand the whole thing now.
Rudy, you're saying that the "Ten Points" was written as a counter-argument to Horowitz's ads? If that is the case, I am extremely disappointed in the author of "Ten Points".
He had the opportunity to rebut Horowitz's claims in a rational, deliberate manner but he chose instead to compose what I can only term a diatribe. If the author is indeed in favor or reparations, why did he choose to send the argument into the realm of Theatre of the Absurd (I KNEW I could find a use for that dang English degree!)?
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The following was added after my original post....
I just thought of something. Were the Ten Points written in an ironic vein? Like perhaps the author is actually
against reparations and so is trying to undermine the pro-reparations cause by publishing that?
Okay, I'm off to bed now! Goodnight, GreekChat! Go to sleep, Rudey!