Inside American Education by THOMAS SOWELL

Author:THOMAS SOWELL
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: THE FREE PRESS

A Wesleyan University student reported a similar situation there:

It is nearly impossible to enter the campus center without being inundated by propaganda about gay men, lesbian women, and bisexuals. 36

“Re-education” is a common punishment for those judged guilty of such ideological crimes as “homophobia.” At the University of Vermont, a fraternity which rescinded an invitation to a pledge when they learned that he was homosexual, had among its punishments attendance at workshops and lectures against “homophobia.” 37 Homosexuals are only one of a number of special groups about whom students are no longer free to have their own opinions, nor are free to choose not to associate, even though such groups remain free to be as separatist and exclusive as they wish.

When one of the ordinary frictions of human life happens to involve a member of one of these special groups, such incidents are immediately inflated into a cause célèbre, even when there is no clear or present danger of any larger problem on campus. A homosexual student at Amherst College admitted to the student newspaper “that he had not experienced any other forms of hostility while at Amherst beyond ‘a look that said stay away from me.’” 38 Yet he expressed fear of homophobic violence because one student had written anti-homosexual words on the door of two other gay students. Both the administration and the campus gay organization made a public issue about this one incident and the student newspaper made it a front page story.

This hypersensitivity to their own interests has not led homosexual activists to be at all sensitive as to the rights or feelings of others. On the contrary, intolerance by vocal activists has become as common among homosexuals as among other groups given special privileges on campus. Lesbians at Mount Holyoke College objected to a campus lecture by James Meredith, the first black man to attend the University of Mississippi, because he was promoting the traditional family. 39 As with other intolerant people, disagreement did not imply debate but suppression. For themselves, however, Mount Holyoke’s organized lesbians claimed not only freedom but license, chalking up the sidewalks with slogans like “lesbians make great lovers” and “try it—you’ll like it.” 40 At Cornell likewise, homosexuals have chalked up the sidewalks with slogans like “Sodomy sucks but we can lick the problem” and have removed the American flag from a university building, replacing it with a flag containing a pink triangle, the symbol of homosexuality. Although campus security people were present, the chalkers were neither stopped nor punished. 41 At Harvard, pictures of individuals engaged in homosexual acts were posted all around campus by a homosexual organization. 42

Disregard of the feelings of others extends far beyond words or pictures. Students who use the men’s toilets on some campuses encounter sexual solicitations from homosexuals, or become unwilling witnesses to the homosexual activities of others. College toilets have become sites for homosexual activities to such an extent that a book of favorite places around the country for such gay encounters has been published and updated annually.

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