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April 24, 2006
Dhimmitude Imposed at Penn State
Penn State art student Josh Stulman worked for years to create a 10-piece art exhibit Portraits of Terror that has been canceled on the grounds that his artwork "did not promote cultural diversity" or "opportunities for democratic dialogue" — in other words, it was deemed unsympathetic to Islamic terrorists.
The exhibit deals with such forbidden subjects as the destruction of Jewish shrines, anti-Semitic propaganda in the Palestinian media, disregard for rules of engagement, and the indoctrination of youth into the cult of terrorism.
The bureaucratic devices employed to quash it were Penn State's "Statement on Nondiscrimination and Harassment" and "Zero Tolerance Policy for Hate" — policies that when creatively applied can be used to ban any form of expression leftist administrators regard as politically incorrect. It appears that anyone critical of Islamic terror is racist and must be silenced.
Said Stulman:
It's not about hate. I don't hate Muslims. This is not about Islam. This is about terrorism impacting the Palestinian way of life and Israel way of life.
But if you want to prove you're not a racist in the upside-down world of academia, you have to take the side of terrorists who have been driven unreachably insane by their race hate of Jews.
An advertisement for the Jewish Stulman's canceled exhibit was defaced with a swastika. I guess that's what he gets for being a racist.
Hat tip: Michelle Malkin
Posted by Van Helsing at April 24, 2006 6:39 AM
Comments
Ah, Dear Old State. My Alma Mater.
I was there in the 1980s. The first two years I spent at a branch campus, and they were pretty good. The last two I spent at State College (aka "Happy Valley"). There you went from being a name to being a number. I remember being bored most of the time. Not too much political activity, left or right. We had moonbats of course, but nobody took them seriously. You always have this 1% who want to raise hell, no matter what. I remember protests about the CIA. I also remember Old Main, the main office building on campus, being defaced by swastikas quite a lot.
I think most of us were like most college students anywhere. We were more concerned about beer, getting laid, final exams, and polishing our resumes, than "fill in the blank" rights. I remember a big criticism about students of our generation was that we were "too apathetic"
compared to the students of the 60s/70s. Thank God!
Still, that was a long time ago. I'd be curious to know what the place is like now. Anybody out there who's a student right now, or has a child attending classes?
Posted by: phil at April 26, 2006 8:31 AM
