A8 - Sunday, December 9, 1984 - North Shore News On logic in academe HANK YOU, B.C. PRESS COUNCIL. | couldn’t have done a better job myself. You have given the enemies of tree speech a smack in the snout, a blow to the belly, and a hit to the heart. The lackwits, noddies, pimpleheads and mental crip- ples of the Kill Collins Move- ment were hoping for some- thing different. They would then have plastered the ver- dict all over the North Shore as proof thal a maniac was on the loose, and left-wing vigilantism would have assumed even more raucous tones. As it us, they'll have to. make do with this bit: **The claims that Collins indulged in errors of fact and that his writing contained mis- information were tound to be unsubstantiated Your man had been accus- ed by the amusingly-named Coahtion for kar Media (prosecutor-professor Robin Ridington’s favorite cabal) as being ‘‘abusive, sexist, racist, malicious and inaccurate”’ Which tine was continued before the press council The prospective victim pleaded guilty on all counts except inaccuracy. But the council set the rascal free, stating that if a guy wants to oppose multicult’ (my main sin), so what” It is mystifying that Pro fessor Robin Ridington and his cronies could be so dim The prof’s English was bad enough, seeming to. have been forged in Jargonville But his logic was even worse As | asked the council, how get this straight . ay : Doug Collins can academics demand academic freedom for them. selves, and less than press treedom for the press? Included in his” myrtad complaints was that | was critical of “identifiable groups”' From that one can con elude that when television stanons film East Indians jumping up and down and drinking champagne in cele bration of murder, the crews should go out with a supply of bags, which would be plac ed over the heads of the cele 8 mailbox |>.<| Don’t give them pets! 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Even in academe, it can't be often that people fall all over themselves like blind oxen trying to get out of a borg lf anthropologist Ridington and his fellow bit chers are typical of academe, i want my money back. Not only can he afford to waste all kinds of time chasing in significant me, but his anthropological learning seems to be a little lacking A muind-reader, he said that Collins believes the white race tO be superior to other races. If | thought that, | would sav so. And | haven't said so) But our PhD. should know there’s quite a lot ot argument ino Anthropology Land about supertority In the U.S...) Professor Carleton Coon ot Harvard argues for the supenority theory in his book 7Ae Origin of Races Inthe Uo KO Protessor John Baker claims to have tound significant mental as well as physical ditterences between the races And the late Sir Ar thur Keith believed that pre judice, discrimination, xeno phobia and other things of which Ridington disaproves May serve important evolu Wionary purposes Well Known American writer and scholar Nathamel Weyl, a Jew, claims super rority for the Jews, as per his The Creative Flite in America) But, somehow, no one accuses Aim af beimp a Tacit 1 would hkhe to know whether Ridington gives his students all these viewpornts, or whether he confines his teaching to his tavorite liberal theories and pet CAUSES Ridington accused me of being ignorant So tam And soushe Butrbhe wants f0 do some learnin’ about freedom of speech) bao walling to um In addh tion ta the one he tas already patt a few lessons been given. thats Mferci Counted Press And detus mote that apain BC because of the News putyy Stand a fow ineore pear May bow be prepared te Speak onat rn See . apace i Una ate a. y Vae glazing Vivoage: the yiass a Maye ae we StOr ‘ es) boeding avacalbte EATONS HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICE Trust Eaton's to handle all your home improvement needs. 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