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The May 9 edition of the New York Post carries a short article by an Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis student named Keith John Sampson. He tells a story of how he was charged with "racial harassment" simply because he was "caught" reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book. I'm not kidding. Sampson tells his story:
The book was Todd Tucker's 'Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan'; I was reading it on break from my campus job as a janitor. The same book is in the university library . . . .
But that didn't stop the Affirmative Action Office of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis from branding me as a detestable Klansman.
They didn't want to hear the truth. The office ruled that my 'repeatedly reading the book . .
12-May-2008 20:18
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Thought police must be wet with anticipation. So many white males so many charges to level.
This story is so ridiculous it sounds like a hoax. If it really happened, we have lost our minds.
I think we can trust the story. After all, it was in the American Thinker not the NYT.
Just another example of how the Balkanization of America by the left could have had disasterous consequences. No wonder the cost of higher education has sky rocketed into the stratosphere. When these institutions are paying $106,000/yr. to some nincompoop whose job description ought to be THE THOUGHT POLICE.Heaven help us.
will post another reply with links.
bm, please don’t dismiss this as untrue because it is so ‘ridiculous’. Here is another link with more about this story. Note the links at the end of this article provides the University’s letters to Sampson. Please remember “it is not what we don’t know that bites us in the a$$, it is what we know for certain that does.
Please familiarize yourself with what the though police in Canada are doing to freedom of though – Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn.
Reactionary Ivory Tower Leftism must be crushed to preserve not only freedom of speech, but freedom of thought.
From the source article by the prosecuted individual:
“Let me be clear: I don’t view this episode as a black-against-white or conservative-vs.-liberal issue. It’s a basic civil-liberties issue.”
I’m not sure that anyone here is against civil liberties. If there is, speak now, or forever hold your peace.
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