Columbia University and Lee C. Bollinger Treat Ahmadinejad Better than the 'Minuteman'
At Columbia University, its president, Lee Bollinger, picked up kudos for courage for having Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speak on campus.
It would “impoverish public debate” to exclude controversial speakers like Ahmadinejad, Bollinger said.
But apparently it did not “impoverish public debate” to have a representative of the Minuteman organization disrupted and shouted down with impunity at this same Columbia University earlier this year. The “courageous” Bollinger did nothing to punish those students who used storm-trooper tactics to silence a point of view they did not like.
Thomas Sowell, Syndicated Columnist
10/2/07
It would “impoverish public debate” to exclude controversial speakers like Ahmadinejad, Bollinger said.
But apparently it did not “impoverish public debate” to have a representative of the Minuteman organization disrupted and shouted down with impunity at this same Columbia University earlier this year. The “courageous” Bollinger did nothing to punish those students who used storm-trooper tactics to silence a point of view they did not like.
Thomas Sowell, Syndicated Columnist
10/2/07
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