“Alan Schussman”:http://www.schussman.com/article/1256/letters-to-the-editor-passing-in-the-night reads the letters to our school newspaper, the “Daily Wildcat”:http://wildcat.arizona.edu/, so I don’t have to. The context is an effort by Republican state legislators to “require that a U.S. flag be displayed”:http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breakingnews/021506AZ_Schools_Flags in every public school and university classroom. Tucson Democrat Ted Downing responded that “This is not the proper way to bestow patriotism. If we want we should spend more on teaching American history.” Today in the “letters to the editor”:http://media.wildcat.arizona.edu/media/paper997/news/2006/02/16/Opinions/Mailbag-1616232.shtml?sourcedomain=wildcat.arizona.edu&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com a number of University of Arizona students provide evidence that he might be right. Here’s Rob Monteleone (a senior), for example:
It doesn’t surprise me that someone who represents affirmative action wants to twist and distort the Constitution to suit the needs of poor, always-the-victim minorities. The Constitution was written so that all men would be treated equally. Whites, blacks and anyone else in this country … even the ones who don’t belong here.
As Alan remarks, “I’d suggest Amendments 13, 17, 19, and 24 as starting points for Ted Downing’s civics curriculum.”
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Brendan 02.16.06 at 12:09 pm
I’m really glad that SOMEONE has to read this shit who isn’t me.
‘Homosexuality a ‘mental disease’
I found Wendy Watters’ letter yesterday nauseating. She offered an example of a couple spending 20 years together, but “long-term gay-relationship” is an oxymoron, especially since most refuse to be with one partner, contract HIV, commit suicide or overdose on drugs because they are so depressed with their lives. Perhaps they are depressed because they are living an unclean and Godless lifestyle. These “relationships” should not be encouraged, and it is time to focus on putting an end to deviant behavior. Let’s spend our tax money on research for curing this mental disease instead of trying to make people feel good by saying it’s OK.
I’m tired of liberals trying to justify any type of behavior simply because they are too emotional to make the proper judgments in life. One does not need a psychology degree (sham degree) to see the low self-esteem that is pervasive among gays and the left, where self-hatred is the trend. Those who need constant affirmation of their lifestyle by others will never find happiness. Pull yourself out of the gutter and don’t live sleazy, then maybe you won’t be so miserable.’
From a mathematics (!) senior.
Kieran Healy 02.16.06 at 12:11 pm
> From a mathematics (!) senior.
I hope no one tells him about Alan Turing.
Z 02.16.06 at 12:25 pm
A mathematics senior !
Or about Godfrey Hardy.
harry b 02.16.06 at 12:43 pm
Or about his heterosexual classmates.
Ginger Yellow 02.16.06 at 12:45 pm
I like the way the anti-affirmative action bigot manages to tack on a completely gratuitous dig at gays at the end of his letter. As if he wasn’t sure when he’d get another chance to vent his hatred of people different from him.
catfish 02.16.06 at 1:08 pm
What’s really depressing is that on one side of this “flag in every classroom” political debate are people who are wasting everyone’s time trying to paper classrooms with symbols, while on the other side are people who think that:
(1.) The purpose of teaching US history is to “bestow patriotism.”
(2.) The legislature should micromanage the college curriculumn by deciding that all students should have X semesters of American History.
otto 02.16.06 at 1:41 pm
I think we should also have a picture of Mohammed as a suicide bomber in every public school and university classroom.
loren 02.16.06 at 1:56 pm
quoting that wacky math senior: “most refuse to be with one partner, contract HIV, commit suicide or overdose on drugs because they are so depressed with their lives.”
I’m glad to read that most gay couples refuse to commit suicide, among other things (you’d think a math major would be more careful with ‘order of operations’ sorts of issues).
nick s 02.16.06 at 1:59 pm
Reads like ever letters page in every local US paper, alas.
justin 02.16.06 at 3:40 pm
Man, that takes me back…I remember the Daily Wildcat, but as I recall my friends and I only ever picked it up for the crossword. I recall an editorial in the newspaper my freshamn year standing up against that great affront to academic rigor: gay students coming out.
snuh 02.16.06 at 5:13 pm
he did say “The Constitution was written so that all men would be treated equally”, so, in fairness, i’m not sure the later need for the 19th amendment really contradicts him.
C. L. Ball 02.17.06 at 9:49 pm
I don’t quite follow why the 17th amendment matters here.
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