Wednesday, February 26, 2003
Via LGF
yaledailynews.com - Not just another conspiracy theory: manipulating anger
Controversial conspiracy-mongering poet Amiri Baraka was recently invited to Yale, and according to the story at LGF, one Yale student/LGF reader says, he “argued point-blank in his subsequent speech that Israel knew about and was complicit in the attacks of September 11th, garnering him wild applause and numerous standing ovations.”
In some ways worse, though, is the linked op-ed in the Yale paper. All the usual is there - the media is slanted against the Palestinians due to the prevalence of Jews in controlling positions (would someone please tell these people that Jews are part of America, and if they have a certain viewpoint, than that's as legitimately "American" as any other?), an attack on the ADL and an accusation that they would never stand up for Muslims or Arab-Americans (they do) and the usual relativism-without-a-brain that seeks to put all "alternative views" (including conspiracy-theories) on the same level as mainstream thought.