long weekend

I crashed early last night out of exhaustion. What a long weekend. Not in terms of time, but more in terms of stress. Preventable stress.

Anyways, I am behind in school work. It's pretty bad. I've got a lot to do in the next 48 hours and a lot to do in the next 12 days. I'm trying to stay balanced so I don't burn out in the next two days, but we'll see.

The question is - when do I get a weekend where I'm not at Ft. McCoy? I went this last for FTX, the one before for a recon, the one before to go to AAFES, the one next week for another FTX.

So, on to something light. Let's have Crazy Conservative Hour!

Like most conservatives at Madison, one of my main gripes with this campus is that its liberalism only applies to Liberals.

What does that mean? Liberalism? So free speech (a liberal tenet) is applied unevenly when a conservative speaker comes to speak... and is allowed to speak?

Nothing could have demonstrated this better than the events on Friday night when the College Republicans brought Michelle Malkin to campus to speak on immigration. In true democratic UW fashion, there was plenty of time for Q and A afterward. At this point things, as they normally do, got interesting. The lecture had been laden with rude remarks from the audience, but nothing was more offensive than when a student used his 15 seconds of fame to yell clarification of his sources to the invited lecturer: “A review of the book, you dumb fuck.”

In true democratic UW fashion... you mean, in democratic fashion? Is the UW qualifier really necessary? I forgot, you're oppressed. And have never used profanity about a liberal.

I’ll give you a moment to let that sink in.

Oh, it sunk... IT SUNK!!!

Ignoring the hostility that is normally evoked at conservative events, I find this event alarming for reasons beyond its political resonance.

Who evoked the hostility? Conservatives? You create controversy and expect people not to react.

Sure, we’ve grown up in an age where profanity has become increasingly more commonplace. That an individual feels this is appropriate language for any instance is certainly a reflection on his own discretion; that it could enter the mind of a student of this supposedly acclaimed university that such prose should be invoked against an invited and distinguished lecturer should cause us all to balk.

Now, this kid is probably just an idiot with no filter between his (small) brain and mouth. Or maybe he was drunk. Either way, I don’t want to be affiliated with him. And as a fellow student, neither should you.

Easy way to dismiss the rest of the legitimate claims & questions against this speaker. Also, anyone who disagrees with me and does something I don't like is an idiot and/or a drunk!

How can it be acceptable that there are those among us who blatantly disregard the liberal ideals that have secured this institution’s primacy? It should be of concern to us all that a student uses cheap, profane language when he is representing the university. What it certainly should do is cause reflection: What has happened to UW?

Wait - didn't you just qualify liberal values as UW liberal values? Which side are you on? Liberalism's side? Are you a closet liberal upset with what's happening to it? I'm confused. Liberalism is bad; UW is a liberal school; Some liberal does something stupid; Why isn't that person a good liberal?

The liberal exchange of ideas is something in which students have always taken great pride. Why then, at moments when these exchanges are possible, are they marked by enmity and ignorance? My experience at this university has been marked by events like what ensued Friday night — hostility and pettiness where thoughtful discussion could have occurred.

Let's abolish this liberal exchange of ideas. Clearly, it's gotten to be too much. People are using profanity. PROFANITY! OF ALL THE DISGRACES!

The national acclaim UW has garnered...

Put down the thesaurus and step away...

...would suggest that the student population is a highly intelligent group. As the hallmark of political universities, the capacities for discourse should be widespread. However, if liberal tradition is going to dictate that this is the new lexicon of political discourse, I am deeply afraid for the progeny of this institution.

Let me see if I follow.
Free speech is a liberal value. By asking a question at a political event (during a question and answer period), that person is expressing UW's LIBERAL VALUES(TM). Since Malkin's free speech rights were infringed, the University isn't really liberal. Therefore, conservatives are the real liberals.

Which leads me to the question - are conservatives just self-hating liberals?

Original here. Comments? Questions? Post below.