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...schism between conservative and moderate elements in the Republican Club amounts to an unfortunate oversimplification. This view is evinced in the May 21 editorial "Tilting at Windmills." As the dissent ("The Right Isn't Monolithic, Either') aptly points out, however, many conservatives, like myself, find the activities of Peninsula, Summer E. Anderson '92 and clan appalling and an extreme disservice to conservatism and Republicanism. Their apparent disavowal of rights dear to liberal-democratic society is highly distressing. I guess, then, what does make me moderate relative (oops) to these extremists is that I am a liberal in the traditional sense...
...totalitarian methods and paranoid, hostile demogoguery advanced by the leadership of the Republican Club. The name "Republican" has been selfishly invoked in an attempt to legitimize caustic and deeply personal crusades against gays, abortion, Liberals, moral relativists, etc. In their blind, unqualified support of rightist, truth-proclaiming organizations like Peninsula and Association Against Learning in the Absense of Religion and Morality (AALARM), however, Anderson and his majority have undermined the club's legitimacy and credibility. They have isolated themselves in a monolithic, polarized extreme. Of course, they don't see it this way. But if their sincere...
...extent that things have improved in this society, it is the result of the actions of men and women who dared to question the morality of an ethical system which enshrined these values. No doubt the founders of Peninsula, had they been contemporaries of these people, would have been quick to denounce them as "moral relativists," attacking the mainstream values of their day in order to establish their own political agenda. These dissenters stood for tolerance, equal opportunity and an end to discrimination, not "moral relativism...
...Peninsula, AALARM and the executive board of the Republican Club have a right to say what they want and as loudly as they want. These groups thrive on publicity, and each new criticism of their actions inevitably brings with it a wave of smug denunciations. They viee each criticism as another proof of their paranoid claim that a hostile, unified left is out to get them...
...need by fooled by their rhetoric. All Peninsula & Co. have done is create a myth of a united opposition in order to advance their own limited agenda. There is no battle at Harvard between Truth and Relativism, simply a group of media-crazed loudmouths attempting to impose their bigoted values on the rest of the University...