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...last week's theft of 4,000 copies of the Brown Daily Herald by an assemblage of students named--strangely and somewhat offensively--the "Third World" coalition. The attack on the Herald followed the publication of an advertisement by David Horowitz opposing reparations for the descendants of slaves. The ad was inflammatory to say the least, asserting in part that African-Americans owed an equal debt to white Christians for the creation of an anti-slavery movement. But nothing in the ad would justify--indeed, no mere statement of opinion could justify--the removal of newspapers and ideas from...
...missed an opportunity--an easy opportunity--to show what freedom of speech is all about. And Horowitz would not have got off unscathed. We suppose you might have run an editorial explaining why you printed a provocative ad by someone whose intention it was to provoke. As it is, Horowitz is using the rejection of his ad by The Crimson and other college newspapers to argue, as he put it in a letter to The Wall Street Journal, that "moral and physical intimidation" by "the political left that is fully in control of the campus public square is able...
Readers will recall that Horowitz submitted the ad; The Crimson turned down the ad but suggested Horowitz re-do the piece as an op-ed and submit it in that form, whereupon The Crimson would consider accepting it under its normal op-ed standards. Horowitz refused, writing that since "your editors have censored my ad, why would I have any reason to believe that they would accept anything I wrote on this subject for publication...
...that very same article, however, you ran a photograph of the full text of the ad as an illustration to the story. In so doing, you made clear that you were not afraid to publish his views and were sincere in objecting only to the form of its presentation. After all, in the end, you published his entire text, and did so for free...
Congratulations for a principled stand, but also for your brilliant strategy in upholding the dignity and professionalism of The Crimson. Horowitz has embarassed a number of campus papers that were afraid to publish his controversial views or that capitulated to mob rule by apologizing for having run the ad. The Crimson should be proud of its decision...