IP: McCarthyism in action...

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

All parts of the political and social spectrum show impossibly bad behavior 
and there is no excuse for it. djf

> From: "John Fulton" <jfulton@westcapital.com>
> To: "David Farber" <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
> Subject: McCarthyism in action...
> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:05:38 -0500
>
> or is it Stalinism?
> http://www.nationalreview.com/contributors/kurtz120501.shtml
> Silencing Sommers
> Stanley Kurtz
> National Review Online
> December 5, 2001 8:25 a.m.
>
> ...Christina Hoff Sommers, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise
> Institute...was delivering an invited speech at a conference on "Boy Talk"
> (a program sponsored by the Center for Substance Abuse and Prevention (CSAP)
> of the Department of Health and Human Services) when CSAP official Linda
> Bass summarily interrupted, and commanded Sommers to end her talk. Minutes
> later, as Sommers was forced by a hostile crowd to defend her claim that
> scientific studies ought to be used to help evaluate the effectiveness of
> government drug-prevention programs, Professor Jay Wade, of Fordham
> University's Department of Psychology ? an expert on "listening skills" ?
> ordered Sommers to "shut the f*ck up, bitch," to the laughter of the others
> in attendance. Having been muzzled by Bass and put upon by the crowd in a
> manner well outside the bounds of civilized discourse (and with not a move
> made by those running the conference to chastise Professor Wade) Sommers had
> little choice but to leave ? effectively ejected from a government
> conference, simply for airing her views.
> ***

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