The Irony of Free Speech
Andrew Walden on David Horowitz's speech at UH-Manoa
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?084eaa86-eda8-473c-9dc2-d7c9ec98f6a1
Many of the same campus leftists who had so urgently proclaimed the importance of defending Churchill's right to call some of the 3,000 murdered on 9-11 "Little Eichmanns" came to the Horowitz' event armed with signs reading "No free speech for fascists."
Several attempted to shout down Horowitz' presentation, but were themselves shouted down by an audience determined to hear what Horowitz had to say without interruption.
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In spite of this, Horowitz, described the event as "better than expected" and gave credit to those in the audience who stood up to the "politically correct" would-be censors.
Free speech for Al Quaida sympathizers (ie Ward Churchill) but not for U.S. military sympathizer (ie David Horowitz)?T
hat shows the true face of the Radical Left
Saturday, April 23, 2005
Horowitz personal manners
On David Horowitz's visit to University of Hawaii-Manoa last Wednesday.
Even my conservative/libertarian friends said Horowitz needs better people skills. They commented that seasoned politicians are better at it.
1) When Horowitz entered the stage, he was offered a lei. He refused to wear it. In Hawaii, that is considered rude. I knew right then and there that Horowitz gave a bad 1st impression.
Horowitz later said wearing a lei while speaking would make him uncomfortable. He should see the amount of leis at Hawaii school graudations. The graduate gets so much leis from friends & family that it can literally cover his/her face.
And here's Mark Burch on the lei
http://www.kaleo.org/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/23/426a084ba3349
Horowitz really displayed his true nature when he first walked into the auditorium. One of his group of supporters walked up to him and attempted to give him a lei. Horowitz snubbed this woman and humiliated her in front of the whole audience. His total lack of aloha and sensitivity was a disgrace.
Though Mark Burch is far to the Left, I'd have to agree with him here. Horowitz made a bad 1st impression. People can see that action as a sign of rude-ness and prejudice.
This is why you gotta to be aware of cultural practices when you're in unfamiliar territory. This is especially true when you have very controversial opinions. Horowitz may have good points on academic freedom, but his 1st impression at the speech (not wearing the lei) distracts from any good points he might've raised. It gave others the impression that he was a bigot.
2) On the applauseI mentioned earlier that Horowitz said he didn't like his speech to be interrupted by applause.
That is so stupid.
In fact, applause can be useful to any speaker so that he/she knows what really resonates with the audience.
The speaker can look back and figure out 1) what to leave out in the next speech [stuff the audience ignored/didn't applaud/didn't understand,etc] and 2) what to say again to the next speech [what got the standing ovations]
Let's look at an example of Horowitz's hero President George W. Bush. When President Bush says something that gets a standing ovation, he pauses and admire the applause. Whatever got the loudest applause is what he'll say again in his next speech.
On David Horowitz's visit to University of Hawaii-Manoa last Wednesday.
Even my conservative/libertarian friends said Horowitz needs better people skills. They commented that seasoned politicians are better at it.
1) When Horowitz entered the stage, he was offered a lei. He refused to wear it. In Hawaii, that is considered rude. I knew right then and there that Horowitz gave a bad 1st impression.
Horowitz later said wearing a lei while speaking would make him uncomfortable. He should see the amount of leis at Hawaii school graudations. The graduate gets so much leis from friends & family that it can literally cover his/her face.
And here's Mark Burch on the lei
http://www.kaleo.org/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/23/426a084ba3349
Horowitz really displayed his true nature when he first walked into the auditorium. One of his group of supporters walked up to him and attempted to give him a lei. Horowitz snubbed this woman and humiliated her in front of the whole audience. His total lack of aloha and sensitivity was a disgrace.
Though Mark Burch is far to the Left, I'd have to agree with him here. Horowitz made a bad 1st impression. People can see that action as a sign of rude-ness and prejudice.
This is why you gotta to be aware of cultural practices when you're in unfamiliar territory. This is especially true when you have very controversial opinions. Horowitz may have good points on academic freedom, but his 1st impression at the speech (not wearing the lei) distracts from any good points he might've raised. It gave others the impression that he was a bigot.
2) On the applauseI mentioned earlier that Horowitz said he didn't like his speech to be interrupted by applause.
That is so stupid.
In fact, applause can be useful to any speaker so that he/she knows what really resonates with the audience.
The speaker can look back and figure out 1) what to leave out in the next speech [stuff the audience ignored/didn't applaud/didn't understand,etc] and 2) what to say again to the next speech [what got the standing ovations]
Let's look at an example of Horowitz's hero President George W. Bush. When President Bush says something that gets a standing ovation, he pauses and admire the applause. Whatever got the loudest applause is what he'll say again in his next speech.
Thursday, April 21, 2005
David Horowitz at UH
Last night, conservative activist (and former liberal activist) David Horowitz spoke at the University of Hawaii.
Though it was advertised on Ka Leo ads, the speech didn't get the publicity that Al Quaida sympathizer Ward Churchill got when he came here a few months ago.
At the auditorium, there was a lot of security. Several large guys were in front to protect Horowitz.
When he was being introduced, a woman offered a lei. He took it but didn't wear the lei. A very bad 1st impression. In Hawaii, when offered a lei, you wear it. The audience thought that was rude. In the Q&A session, Horowitz said he was surprised by the offer of a lei and didn't wear it because it would make him uncomfortable.
Horowitz barely begun talking when an old fool yelled "I dont have to listen this" and then left. What an idiot.
Horowitz went on to say that the Left was full of hate. He said that the leftists who refused to fight in Vietnam stayed in college and became tenured radicals who care more about indoctorination than education.
Horowitz mentioned the analogy that you dont go to the doctor to get political rants, and neither do you go to English class to get a political rant. I clapped at the statement (considering my run in with Dr Foltz) but then Horowitz suggest we not interrupt his speech with applause. What an ingrate.
Horowitz mentioned that the head of UH Political Science dept. had an anti-war poster, which Horowitz says intimidates students who might be pro-war.
Horowitz accused the Left of protecting Saddam Hussein (which provoked an audience member to mention that Donald Rumsfeld shook Saddam's hand in 1983), supporting Ayatollah Khomeni of Iran (who killed more people than the overthrown shah) and of ruining the education system of many inner cities.
Horowitz told the audience to be proud of the US, that it liberated Iraq & Afghanistan, and that it put non-whites in positions of power (ie Condi Rice)
After Horowitz's monologue, there was a Q&A session. I was going to ask Horowitz's opinion on the Hawaiian sovereignty movement. However, another person was called on earlier to ask the same question. Horowitz said he doesn't know much about the issue.
During the Q&A session, the hippie leftists were rude. They interrupted Horowitz and those asking questions. This one crazy old lady in the back kept ranting, prompting older conservative attendess to tell her to shut up.
This went on and on.This one old guy in the front was going to ask a question. He was supposed to be the last questioner of the night. Yet the same old lady from the back kept screaming. A security guard went to the old lady but the hippie leftists kept blocking the guard.
Horowitz said he was leaving and walked out. That was a bad move. He should've just let the old man in the front ask his question.
This is all I can remember about the speech for now.
If I have more on it, I'll add on to this post.
Other Horowitz's news:
Horowitz's article on a prof giving an F to a student calling Saddam Hussein a war criminal
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17621
Other Campus Politics News
A pro-Israeli prof at DePaul University in Chicago got fired. Read more at
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43819
Last night, conservative activist (and former liberal activist) David Horowitz spoke at the University of Hawaii.
Though it was advertised on Ka Leo ads, the speech didn't get the publicity that Al Quaida sympathizer Ward Churchill got when he came here a few months ago.
At the auditorium, there was a lot of security. Several large guys were in front to protect Horowitz.
When he was being introduced, a woman offered a lei. He took it but didn't wear the lei. A very bad 1st impression. In Hawaii, when offered a lei, you wear it. The audience thought that was rude. In the Q&A session, Horowitz said he was surprised by the offer of a lei and didn't wear it because it would make him uncomfortable.
Horowitz barely begun talking when an old fool yelled "I dont have to listen this" and then left. What an idiot.
Horowitz went on to say that the Left was full of hate. He said that the leftists who refused to fight in Vietnam stayed in college and became tenured radicals who care more about indoctorination than education.
Horowitz mentioned the analogy that you dont go to the doctor to get political rants, and neither do you go to English class to get a political rant. I clapped at the statement (considering my run in with Dr Foltz) but then Horowitz suggest we not interrupt his speech with applause. What an ingrate.
Horowitz mentioned that the head of UH Political Science dept. had an anti-war poster, which Horowitz says intimidates students who might be pro-war.
Horowitz accused the Left of protecting Saddam Hussein (which provoked an audience member to mention that Donald Rumsfeld shook Saddam's hand in 1983), supporting Ayatollah Khomeni of Iran (who killed more people than the overthrown shah) and of ruining the education system of many inner cities.
Horowitz told the audience to be proud of the US, that it liberated Iraq & Afghanistan, and that it put non-whites in positions of power (ie Condi Rice)
After Horowitz's monologue, there was a Q&A session. I was going to ask Horowitz's opinion on the Hawaiian sovereignty movement. However, another person was called on earlier to ask the same question. Horowitz said he doesn't know much about the issue.
During the Q&A session, the hippie leftists were rude. They interrupted Horowitz and those asking questions. This one crazy old lady in the back kept ranting, prompting older conservative attendess to tell her to shut up.
This went on and on.This one old guy in the front was going to ask a question. He was supposed to be the last questioner of the night. Yet the same old lady from the back kept screaming. A security guard went to the old lady but the hippie leftists kept blocking the guard.
Horowitz said he was leaving and walked out. That was a bad move. He should've just let the old man in the front ask his question.
This is all I can remember about the speech for now.
If I have more on it, I'll add on to this post.
Other Horowitz's news:
Horowitz's article on a prof giving an F to a student calling Saddam Hussein a war criminal
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17621
Other Campus Politics News
A pro-Israeli prof at DePaul University in Chicago got fired. Read more at
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43819
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Pidgin in Hawaii
Kimberly Shigeoka had a great editorial on Pidgin English in Hawaii.
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?0d71a7a6-e014-4e49-9b60-2cb0a1635dc5
My teacher decided to tell the class, in Pidgin, that “You won’t be able to do anything if you speak Pidgin.” He spoke of his own Pidgin speaking friends, who now lead dead-end lives. As he continued to reinforce this statement, I started to become angry. My teacher was off-handedly offending not only myself, but my family as well.
Yes, I am a Pidgin speaker. Not only that, my parents speak Pidgin and my grandparents are full-time Pidgin speakers. I felt helpless and angry as my teacher told us that Pidgin speakers could not become someone. I felt like jumping up and saying that “my grandparents are someone and they speak Pidgin! They are two of the most financially-sound, hard-working people I know.”
Sadly, experiences like my own are common. Many students have been told that it is disgraceful to speak Pidgin. This degradation of Pidgin bashes the self-esteem of many local students, who feel a sense of worthlessness and shame.
1) That teacher should be fired for cultural disrespect and innaccuracy.
I know doctors who can speak Pidgin English and Standard English.
There are plenty of students at the University of Hawaii who can speak Pidgin English to their friends and family, and speak Standard English with professors and classmates from the mainland.
However, the anti-pidgin fanatics will ignore those facts. Facts don't matter to anti-pidgin fanatics.
To solve this issue, we need to show students the difference between Pidgin grammar and English grammar. We teach students who learn English as a second language that their first language is nothing to be ashamed of. That it needs to be kept distinct from English and both languages need to be practiced and studied to stay proficient.
A large problem here in the islands is that students grow up ashamed of themselves and their families. Is this really what we want to be teaching the next generation? That they can never become someone because of their heritage?
Thank you Kimberley Shigeoka
Now, I want to talk about this one Chinese male from my high school. (my fellow McKinley Tigers might know who I'm talking about)
This Chinese male ALWAYS speak Standard English. People tell him "you talk like a haole".
Yet, that same Chinese male struggled in school. He still couldn't calculate percentages in the 12th grade. He flunked plenty of classes in high school and dropped out of community college.
So dont give me this crap that "pidgin is for the uneducated."
What makes it even worse, is that same Chinese male blamed the prevalence of pidgin in Hawaii for his academic struggle. WHAT AN IDIOT! He can't even speak pidign, so why is he complaining.
I know many students at the University of Hawaii who are from rural Oahu and the Neighbor Islands, where the pidgin is a MILLION TIMES STRONGER than the pidgin of urban Honolulu. And those students are academically smarter than that Chinese pidgin-hater!
Then that same bozo complained that making it in Hawaii is overwhelming because (in his words) "you gotta know Standard English, you gotta know Pidign, you gotta know Japanese words, you gotta know Hawaiian words"
I told that bozo that in the mainland, you gotta know Standard English, the local dialect (ie, the Southern dialect, Fargo dialect, NY dialect), Ebonics (African American English) and Spanish.
So dont give me this crap about Hawaii being "overwhelming"
The real reason for that pitiful man's struggle has nothing to do with pidgin.He doesn't take responsibility. Everything is someone else's fault. He's what you call a "victim boy".
That Chinese male is the same I mentioned in the blog. He's the same fool who said "it's not fair that street names in Hawaii are in Hawaiian." He's the same one who is racist towards Polynesians.
6 years ago in Columbine
6 years ago today in Columbine High School, 15 students were killed in a school shooting.
Here is an excerpt from my commentary from a year ago.
http://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2004_04_01_pablowegesend_archive.html
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We all know that the 2 shooters were outcasts who wanted revenge! We still haven't found out whether the murdered victims were the actual bullies, or were they innocent bystanders. Or were the killers so consumed with hate of everything that they didn't give a shit who they killed! No media outlet has bothered to find out!
Of course, if your son or daughter was a victim, you wouldn't want the media to expose that your child was a bully, even if it was true! That's basic parental psychology we're talking about here! Which is probably why the media still haven't investigated if the victims were the actual bullies!
6 years ago today in Columbine High School, 15 students were killed in a school shooting.
Here is an excerpt from my commentary from a year ago.
http://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2004_04_01_pablowegesend_archive.html
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We all know that the 2 shooters were outcasts who wanted revenge! We still haven't found out whether the murdered victims were the actual bullies, or were they innocent bystanders. Or were the killers so consumed with hate of everything that they didn't give a shit who they killed! No media outlet has bothered to find out!
Of course, if your son or daughter was a victim, you wouldn't want the media to expose that your child was a bully, even if it was true! That's basic parental psychology we're talking about here! Which is probably why the media still haven't investigated if the victims were the actual bullies!
10 years ago in Oklahoma
10 years ago today, the federal building in Oklahoma City was bombed.
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were found guilty. McVeigh was executed, Nichols is serving a life sentence.
Some say we need to racially profile Arabs to prevent terrorism. The Oklahoma City bombing is proof that Arabs aren't the only ones committing terrorism.
McVeigh is from Buffallo, NY. So what, do we have immigration restriction preventing people from moving state to state? If you answer no, should we have immigration restrictions preventing people to move from one nation to another?
Some blamed conservative talk radio for the Oklahoma City bombing. Nevermind that many of the rescue workers that day were also fans of conservative talk radio.
Around that time, then-President Bill Clinton said you cant love your country if you dont love it's government. I wonder if Clinton will say that to Democrats today.
10 years ago today, the federal building in Oklahoma City was bombed.
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were found guilty. McVeigh was executed, Nichols is serving a life sentence.
Some say we need to racially profile Arabs to prevent terrorism. The Oklahoma City bombing is proof that Arabs aren't the only ones committing terrorism.
McVeigh is from Buffallo, NY. So what, do we have immigration restriction preventing people from moving state to state? If you answer no, should we have immigration restrictions preventing people to move from one nation to another?
Some blamed conservative talk radio for the Oklahoma City bombing. Nevermind that many of the rescue workers that day were also fans of conservative talk radio.
Around that time, then-President Bill Clinton said you cant love your country if you dont love it's government. I wonder if Clinton will say that to Democrats today.
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