tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543652813050186080.post2558883889830264573..comments2023-09-13T01:04:52.266-07:00Comments on THE WRENCH : A "Turning Point" for a Witch Hunt: The TPUSA Professor Watchlist and Trump's America, Inc.Wendy Lynne Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591185266607991768noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543652813050186080.post-32359039683503235522017-12-15T11:24:01.011-08:002017-12-15T11:24:01.011-08:00Here's that longer piece:
http://thewrenchphi...Here's that longer piece:<br /><br />http://thewrenchphilosleft.blogspot.com/2017/12/letter-to-my-colleagues-concerning.htmlWendy Lynne Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17591185266607991768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543652813050186080.post-19763061057432099562017-11-21T07:13:05.178-08:002017-11-21T07:13:05.178-08:00Excuse me? No conservation? Do you mean conversati...Excuse me? No conservation? Do you mean conversation? Afraid of the truth? Hans--you're plainly neither reading nor listening. <br /><br />Please look for the longer piece on this topic--coming soon.<br /><br />Conversation--great. But this nonsense? Nope. I don't have time for this.<br /><br />I think we're done here.<br /><br />Wendy<br /><br />Wendy Lynne Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17591185266607991768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543652813050186080.post-76182528409902307712017-11-21T06:55:48.651-08:002017-11-21T06:55:48.651-08:00No conservation, Professor?
What are you afraid o...No conservation, Professor?<br /><br />What are you afraid of - the truth?Hanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05183141792723754273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543652813050186080.post-44690541632020200522017-11-21T05:57:50.103-08:002017-11-21T05:57:50.103-08:00Dear Hans,
Thank you for your more reasoned respo...Dear Hans,<br /><br />Thank you for your more reasoned response. I appreciate that. Here's what you fail to fully comprehend: <br /><br />My opposition to TP has nothing to do with their member's right to free speech. It has to do with formal university endorsement. You'd find few more committed to first amendment rights than I. Formal university endorsement is, however, an entirely different thing. It's not merely about recognizing the free speech rights of university community members; it's not even about simply recognizing their right to assemble. It IS about endorsing an organization whose mission is manifestly inconsistent with the university's commitment to inclusion, diversity, and free speech.<br /><br />Yes--free speech. The mission of TP/PWL is to REPRESS speech--particularly, but not only that of professors. PWL is a witch hunt. It has nothing whatever to do with "protecting" conservative students. NO evidence supports the claim that they need protection. That's nothing more than a far right-wing scare tactic that works to repress speech that does not conform to their ideological objectives.<br /><br />Lastly, education is not and cannot ever become an "industry." THAT would be the death nil of anything remotely like free speech, freely conducted basic research in the sciences, freedom to produce music and art. An education industry exists merely to make compliant workers. The academy exists to educate thinking citizens.<br /><br />Hope this does provide more clarity.<br /><br />WendyWendy Lynne Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17591185266607991768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543652813050186080.post-1378713607142284322017-11-20T21:29:01.286-08:002017-11-20T21:29:01.286-08:00Dear Professor Lee:
Thank you for your kind respo...Dear Professor Lee:<br /><br />Thank you for your kind response and your valuable time.<br /><br />I will give you credit for posting my critical comments <br />about your actions. I did not expect. Hats off to you.<br /><br />Of ALL PLACES, our sckools of much higher learning, should<br />incorporate "open borders with little or no interference<br />regarding free speech and encourage vigorous debates.<br /><br />Whomever, opposes such an environment is an enemy <br />of freedom and liberties, regardless of their<br />dogma. Allowing for a forum, will permit<br />the general public to make a rational decision, whether <br />they have merit or should be subject to scorn or condemnation. <br /><br />Professor Lee, as an intellectual, it is incumbent of <br />you to not only promote an open environment but<br />to secure it for all.<br /><br />Evil fears the truth and any form of transparency.<br /><br />I do sincerely apology for my horrid grammar and hope<br />for your forbears in this matter. To this day, I am<br />still hobbled by my GED. Each summer, you will find<br />me enrolled in Head Start, in order to rectify my shortcomings. <br /><br />I should note, my dear Professor, my first post did not have <br />the sufficient volume to qualify as a "screed." Nevertheless,<br />I do thank you for the honorable mention. <br /><br />It is not in the best interest of the educational industry,<br />to become a closed society. The implications are enormous<br />and the ramification unpleasant; not to state the potential <br />impairment. <br /><br />If we can not agree, at least we should have clarity. Yes?Hanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05183141792723754273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543652813050186080.post-59790900831712120132017-11-20T05:34:46.745-08:002017-11-20T05:34:46.745-08:00Dear Hans,
When you learn how to use correct gram...Dear Hans,<br /><br />When you learn how to use correct grammar and spelling, I'll take you seriously. Otherwise, I regard this nonsensical screed as nothing other than the mewing of the intellectually lazy.<br /><br />Thanks for writing.<br /><br />Wendy Lynne LeeWendy Lynne Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17591185266607991768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543652813050186080.post-28255080075008862972017-11-19T13:22:46.958-08:002017-11-19T13:22:46.958-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Hanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05183141792723754273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543652813050186080.post-12885177334361781492017-11-19T13:22:06.006-08:002017-11-19T13:22:06.006-08:00What is the Profess Lee afraid of, the Truth??
If...What is the Profess Lee afraid of, the Truth??<br /><br />If what you say is correct, then the student <br />body will reject their dialogue and their structure<br />will collapse. <br /><br />You, like so many on American campuses, simply<br />wish to censor those with whom you disagree with.<br /><br />Just like most American Socshevikes approach any<br />and all discourse, by raising your voice and shutting them<br />down.<br /><br />You, Camrade Lee, are nothing more than a tyrant<br />wishing to rule with censorship and false<br />accusations.<br /><br />I would best describe you, as a Baccalaureate<br />neanderthal; a disgrace to your institution.<br /><br />Time has come to stop the huge federal funding<br />of radicals such as yourself.Hanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05183141792723754273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543652813050186080.post-39051943792225140702017-11-10T17:15:21.749-08:002017-11-10T17:15:21.749-08:00Lee is not a teacher but a radical lefty activist....Lee is not a teacher but a radical lefty activist. Has no business teaching. Divorced from the truth and character assasinates anyone who does not believe her morbid ideology. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543652813050186080.post-19577626750023978772017-11-02T10:50:49.427-07:002017-11-02T10:50:49.427-07:00Well said, Wendy. Keep swinging, keep kicking...Well said, Wendy. Keep swinging, keep kicking...Michael J. Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09840859418177870381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543652813050186080.post-57090436177375466192017-10-31T01:37:36.116-07:002017-10-31T01:37:36.116-07:00An honorable and laudable goal, ones inclusion on ...An honorable and laudable goal, ones inclusion on such an honor roll I had the distinct player of taking on the demented distortions of the factually challenged Mr Horowitz at a lecture he gave at FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY in Miami. A home to students, not just from Florida but across the Caribbean and points south a diverse student body and one I’m afraid rather unaccustomed to apply a healthy skepticism and especially lacking a depth of historical perspective on North American history. <br />Mr Horowitz ahistorical lecture tried to suggest, that the Conservative Right Political movement is best known for championing the rights of men and women and not only been in the vanguard of liberty but has stood alone in opposition to free speech and social progress. <br />When time for questions eventually arrived, I conducted a brief tour of American history that he might explain his thesis that it has been the conservatives who have made the case for human rights - I asked him these questions:<br />What side of the “Revolutionary War” was the conservative position (Wasn’t it the Tory) supporters of Monarchists in opposition to self governance? When the mercantilist and racists took genocide as their course against the indigenous population, wasn’t it the liberal tradition of men like Ben Franklin and others who studied and learned from native institutions like the Iroquois Confederation. Certainly the abolitionist’s radical liberal position, urging property and voting rights for all human beings in opposition to traditional values of slave ownership opposed the conservatives of their time who contended and argued they had a religious sanction to such criminal human rights abuses. And of course the long incomplete struggle for voting and economic rights for women has been consistently opposed and abused by Conservatives with their “faux” family values. When Horowitz stopped stammering his only rebuttal was to suggest, I do my own speaking tour! Yet all the while the incredulous students stood idly by, seemingly as engaged by one speaker as the other. But the flag was raised, and the brown shirts did not go unchallenged. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09854838040216466506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543652813050186080.post-86370721059787998102016-12-27T08:00:19.284-08:002016-12-27T08:00:19.284-08:00Thanks!Thanks!Wendy Lynne Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17591185266607991768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543652813050186080.post-21513955337308382072016-12-02T17:21:22.859-08:002016-12-02T17:21:22.859-08:00Very nice!Very nice!Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04690031766725236422noreply@blogger.com