Every Muhammad, Jamul and Jose

by La Shawn on January 27, 2004

in Conservatives

More conservative club bashing. Another high schooler tries to start a conservative club to counteract the ubiquitous liberal bent in government-run schools.

In the newsletter, Bueler calls for a crackdown on “every Muhammad, Jamul and Jose who wishes to leave his third world state to come to America, mostly illegally.”

This statement is inflammatory, I’ll admit. Without going off the politically correct deep end, I think some sensitivity is warranted. However, the kid should be protected against liberal thugs who turn out not to be so tolerant after all! Reading stories like this and the ones about Affirmative Action bake sales remind me of the way I treated people like this back in my liberal days. When I was in law school, there was a group called the Western Heritage Society that may or may not have been off the wall (I can’t remember). Its leader was bold in his commitment to preserving “western heritage.” To my liberal ears, that was code for “Racism!” At the time, I couldn’t appreciate nor tolerate different points of view.

I bashed the guy just like everyone else in the mostly-liberal school. The Black Law Student Association had a lot of clout and received university funds to book speakers and events, and as far as I remember, the Western Heritage Society received money to do the same. But no one would dare criticize our selections the way we did theirs. Idi Amin could’ve been a guest speaker, and not one of those “sensitive” white liberals would’ve dared say a thing!

I was the sort of person back then who would’ve admired cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal had I known much about him. Check out the web site for slain Officer Daniel Faulkner for more information on Abu-Jamal.

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