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MANY ANTI-SEMITES see themselves as the victims of a sinister and well-coordinated Jewish conspiracy. Kahane, who ironically bears the title of rabbi, also shares this delusion. He claims that "liberal Jewish McCarthyites" plot to supress his views, which are anti-democratic and, many believe, racist. For his visit to Cambridge, therefore, Kahane sought to manufacture local villains. And although he was unsuccessful in getting Harvard or Hillel, the Jewish student center, to oblige by suppressing his speech, Kahane used the material at hand to unleash his standard litany of accusations and threats. The Crimson found his claims newsworthy...
...past three months, the students have been compiling a 220-page book entitled "How Harvard Rules," which promises to raise a few eyebrows. The $8 paperback, to be released in January, will critique and analyze the nation's oldest university, which publicists charge "shelters rampaging Cold Warriors, ferociously racist and sexist theoreticians in the social and natural sciences, and corporate apologists masquerading as 'value-free' academics...
...jewelry store in a downtown neighborhood. Because you worry about robberies, admission is by buzzer...Someone arrives at your door. He is young. He is male. He is black. Do you buzz him in? Are you a racist...
...MORE frightening than the particular offensive statements articulated by Cohen and his cohorts is the fact that his logic can be used to support almost any racist policy. Real estate agents can refuse to show Blacks apartments in white neighborhoods because property rates go down when they move in. School desegregation can be rejected because of the danger to white kids. Some people might even argue that search and seizure prohibitions should be relaxed for Blacks because of their high crime rates. After all, crime prevention is important, not individual rights...
...apparently done very little to change certain stigmas. Further, what is all the more frightening in this particular case is that I consider this friend to be a fairly enlightened and intelligent person. He is not some sort of neanderthal and has never shown himself to be sexist or racist or prejudiced in any way before. Our interpretive difference was subtle, yet very important...