This is the text of the talk I gave at California State University, Fullerton, on 06 May 2010. Following this text is an account of the issues we faced with the Campus Project during March, April and May and how going on campus at CSU Fullerton came about. If you have been following Smith's Report for any time at all, you will be familiar with what I say here. If you were a student at Cal State Fullerton on 06 May, however, it is most likely that you will not have been familiar with any of it. Good afternoon. I'm glad you're here. This afternoon I will suggest that the American professorial class, as a class, plays an integral role in supporting a taboo against a free exchange of ideas regarding the Holocaust Question. And that this taboo places the student journalist, and in fact the entire student body, in an impossible predicament with regard to the issue of intellectual freedom on the university campus. That in so doing the professorial class compromises the ideal of a free exchange of ideas throughout the university, and in the student press particularly. Any student journalist who goes against this taboo places her entire career in jeopardy, not merely at the newspaper where she works, not merely in the university where she studies, but for her entire public life. (READ MORE) |
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