tom paulin oxford::Hysteria and outright manipulation distort his record and thereby divert discussion from his ideas to the bogey that people imagine.
People have written me that inviting a speaker like norman finkelstein is like throwing a bomb in a darkened theater; it is like exposing the vulnerable young to inexorable evil.
I do not think so.
Have we reached the point where we fear ideas?
As for trapping people in a theater, who has been forced to stay?
As for the dark, well, dialogue is enlightenment.
So, i turn the question back to you, sitting here.
Are you the flash in the night?
We will then concentrate on the icecapades of the intellect, the unthreatening but elegant analysis of what we already agree to as objective, and the airing of voices that sound like us and say what we would say.
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