Writing in the Chron, San Francisco State University grad Cinnamon Stillwell says the recent turmoil there caps a 10-year campaign of liberal intolerance directed (now) toward campus Republicans, and (previously) Jewish students.

San Francisco State University has been in the spotlight lately, and the picture that has emerged is not a flattering one. Following last month's nationwide elections, members of the SFSU chapter of the College Republicans were confronted by an angry mob simply for setting up a table and handing out political literature. Members of the International Socialist Organization, the General Union of Palestinian Students and others surrounded the Republican students, shouting at them to "get out" of SFSU.

...SFSU has a reputation for intolerance that goes back at least 10 years. In this case, Republican students, clearly a minority at SFSU, were the targets. But in the past, such animosity was directed mostly at Jewish students or those seen as supporting Israel. Jews at SFSU have been spat on, called names and physically attacked, as well as censured by the administration for defending themselves, even as their attackers went unpunished.

The case of Tatiana Menaker, a Russian Jewish emigré and former SFSU student, is an example of the latter indignity. After committing the "crime" of responding verbally to another student's anti-Semitic epithets during a 2002 rally, she found herself...pulled into a kangaroo court, threatened with expulsion and ordered by the university to perform 40 hours of community service (but specifically not for a Jewish organization), ...(then)...later exonerated after seeking legal assistance from the Students for Academic Freedom and the local Jewish Community Relations Council. But the damage was done.

....In 1994, the Student Union Governing Board commissioned a mural to honor the late Black Muslim revolutionary Malcolm X....the finished product ...(included)...Stars of David juxtaposed with dollar signs, skulls and crossbones, and the words "African blood"... on May 26, 1994, under the guard of police in riot gear, the mural was sandblasted......

Stillwell also remarks:

...The flyers hung all over campus in April 2002 displaying a Palestinian baby on a soup-can label and the words "Palestinian Children Meat, slaughtered according to Jewish rites under American license" hardly constitute legitimate criticism. Then there was a "Peace in the Middle East" rally, organized by the SFSU Hillel chapter on May 7, 2002. This seemingly innocuous event was beset by pro-Palestinian protesters bellowing such enlightened statements as "Zionists off the campus now," "Go back to Germany, where they knew how to deal with you" and "Hitler should have finished the job."

....As for SFSU, it remains to be seen whether the administration will exorcise the cancer of extremism on campus or allow it to fester. While pontificating about "free speech," ....the SFSU administration continue(s) to underestimate the growing radicalism in their own backyard. As a result, what began with attacks on Jewish students has now spread outward to any students who don't share the liberal politics of the majority.

I'm all for vigorous debate of controversial issues. And I have little use for self-appointed or institutional "hate speech" police, even if it's Jews or Republicans being abused. People, even those not quite yet at the cusp of adulthood, are best left to sort these things out on their own. This can include, but must not be limited to, the court of public opinion. I lament that so many students today at radical hotbeds like SFSU put their passion for identity-badge protest and activism over learning, when they still have so much to learn. A smart person knows how much they don't know.

At campuses such as SFSU, mandated multiculturalism has smothered free inquiry and civil discourse. One's quest for knowledge, like one's quest for good music, should be catholic ("comprehensive, universal, broad in sympathies, tastes or interests" - Webster's).

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at December 15, 2004 04:39 PM

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