Doug Collins

@ gel this straight @

iF I saw Jimmy Pattison coming duwn Marine Drive |
might wave ‘‘hello’’ but {| wouldn’t cross the road to slap
him on the back. He may have done great things but he is a
hard-eyed cove for whom pcople come second to bucks.
His ever-ready smile is nothing more than a sales gimmick.

I'm on his side in the honorary
doctorate affair, though. He
didn't ask for the silly thing in the
first place but he does deserve
some sort of medal for his role in
Expo. However, anyone who ex-
pects reason from the male and
especially the female ninnies of
UBC is a fool. The universities are
strongholds of left-wing bigotry.

The objection to Pattison's
becoming a ‘‘Dr."’ was that he isa
porn merchant. But what if he is?
Did he take pictures of history
professor Jean Elder’s bum and
invite the city’s droolers to behold
the mighty? You would think so,
judging from her mid-Victorian
excitement in this matter.

She and her fellow-bitchers
complain that because 1¢
distributes porn he is ‘‘degrading
and humiliating women’’. But
where are her brains? Doesn’t
porn humiliate and degrade men,
too? And by what right do these
characters say that because Pat-
tison deals in porn he is ‘‘an of-
fensive symbol in the eyes of the
women of British Columbia’’?

What gall! Ninety-nine per cent
of the women of British Columbia
don’t give a fig what Pattison

Puritans speak only for
themselves. They are censors and
intellectual bullies whose troops are
student dunderheads.

The issue is all the more in-
congrous when you consider that
activists from academe have long
encouraged many of the por-
nographic ills of our society.

Regardless of the pros and cons
of abortion as such, for instance,
any sane person would have to
agree that abortion-on-demand
can be a thousand times worse
than anything you might find in
the porn prints. And if the esteem-
ed Dr. Henry Morgentaler were to
be nominated for an honorary
doctorate at UBC, wouldn’t the
very ones who rallied against Pat-
tison be rallying for Henry?

The push for permissiveness has
also come in large part from the
universities. Permissiveness in
education, in lifestyle and in the
arts. Didn't university professors
create hell back in the 1950s when
the cops raided a Vancouver
theatre in which Cat On A Hot
Tin Roof was being shown?

In that case they were right to
do so. But as the man said, one
thing leads to another. So why act

wants to censor the arts, it is
argued that no-one has to buy a
ticket, Well, no-one has to
buy a porn magazine, either.

The answer to this contradic-
tion is to be sought in two fields:
snobbery and polities. High life
porn is OR, the low life variety is
not. And just as the women's
movement is almost entirely left-
wing, su is the university protest
industry. tt is therefore quite all
right to support a sexy play that
atiacks a rotting Southern society,
but not all right to support the
capitalist status quo and
“imperialisav’.

A neat example of that was seen
when the Hotel Vancouver was
about to be renovated and the
UBC governors announced they
would accept the Captain Cook
painting that graced the hotel lob-
by. The leftists at UBC, faculty
and students, immediately
screamed blue murder.

The picture showed Captain
Cook landing on the shores of
British Columbia with Indians on
their knees before him. Whether it
was ereat art | don’t know, but
even if it had been painted by a
modern Rembrandt it would have
made no difference to the lunatics
who objected to it. In their view it
giorified conquest and was
therefore political porn. So it
never did reach UBC.

The Pattison fuss is of the same
brand. As far as the mob is con-
cerned Pattison is a capitalist, a
restraint advocate and a Socred,
and any move to queer his pitch
meets with approval,

Mind you, it would meet with
my approval if honorary doc-
torates were declared one with the
Dodo. There are already too
many people who are not doctors
running around calling themselves
such. But that’s not the point, is

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