The #Rationalwiki tells us things about #David Horowitz. You are entitled to believe it but there is not even a pretence of honesty, of even-handedness. The National Review is better, sympathetic; it reads as honest too. The Life and Work of David Horowitz is rather lengthy, telling us inter alia that the Black Panthers were major criminals.
David Horowitz [ rationalwiki ]
might not be a Jew but he is a Useful Idiot. Should you believe a word they say? I wouldn't.
David Horowitz
and I understand the radical Left and their
Marxist movement better than anyone...because I used to lead it.
I was born to card carrying communists. I was friends
with Black Panthers. I e
Discover the Networks -- the largest and most
extensive database on the Left -- to spearhead this investigation.
Black Lives Matter protests and riots ended more
black lives in 2 weeks than police took in all of 2019.
David Horowitz had two Kronstadts, I think. One of
them was more important and more personal; the other was more global, if you
will. “Kronstadt”? This term refers to the Kronstadt rebellion of 1921, in which
Soviet sailors, soldiers, and others turned against Lenin and the Bolsheviks and
were, of course, crushed like bugs. Since then, some ex-Communists and
ex-leftists have spoken of their “Kronstadt.” The term has a couple of
definitions: It can refer to the moment of one’s
“Kronstadt.” The term has a couple of definitions: It
can refer to the moment of one’s disillusionment with the Party; or it can refer
to the moment at which one took a stand against the Party. In any case, this
moment, for some, was the Nazi-Soviet pact. For others, it was Khrushchev’s
“secret speech.” For others, it was the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution,
or the suppression of the Prague Spring. Many, of course, have never quite had a
Kronstadt.
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https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/David_Horowitz
David Horowitz ex Rationalwiki
David Horowitz is a former figure in the
New Left
turned batshit arch-conservative.
Conversion to
conservatism
A "red-diaper baby," Horowitz edited the New Left magazine Ramparts
from 1969 to 1975. He subsequently renounced his leftist past and became a
conservative.
He made a bit of a name for himself in the '90s with a memoir, entitled Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey, about how his Stalinist parents did everything but skin him alive as a child, how left-wing politics are nothing but a false religion, and how in consequence it is perfectly reasonable to align oneself with the looniest fringe of the Republican Party (usually the screaming lunatic fundamentalists who badger the hell out of women at abortion clinics and otherwise make their positions untenable). His bibliography has a fair share of rants against entitlements, Affirmative Action, and other programs to help the poor.[1]
Horowitz insists his "conversion" was caused by the unsolved murder of Betty Van Patter, an accountant he had recommended to do books for the Black Panthers, who he was aligned with. After Van Patter looked at the ledgers and brought discrepancies to the attention of Panther Chairwoman Elaine Brown, she went missing and her body later was found with her head bashed in on the shore of San Francisco Bay. Horowitz claims the Panthers did it, but there never was a conviction.
Horowitz in action
One of David Horowitz's pet peeves has been the long-standing issue of
historical reparations for
slavery. If
his criticism was based on costs or on the fact that no one currently alive was
directly involved with slavery in any capacity, he might have gotten away with
it. Instead, we got the same logic-twisting that made Booker T. Washington
anathema to the
Civil Rights movement:
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“”The
claim for reparations is premised on the false assumption that only
whites have benefited from slavery. If slave labor created wealth
for Americans, then obviously it has created wealth for black
Americans as well, including the descendants of slaves. The GNP of
black America is so large that it makes the African-American
community the 10th most prosperous "nation" in the world. American
blacks on average enjoy per capita incomes in the range of twenty to
fifty times that of blacks living in any of the African nations from
which they were taken.[2]
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In layman's terms: "Slavery made us money and slaves' living conditions were slightly better than what they'd have been otherwise, so you should thank your plantation owners for giving you any wages at all."
Current projects
David Horowitz
Freedom Center
The "David Horowitz Freedom Center" (DHFC)[3]
is Horowitz's vanity
think tank
that exists largely as a vehicle for Horowitz to spread
Islamophobia and combat "liberal
academia." The DHFC runs a number of projects, most notably publishing the
conservative FrontPage Magazine.[4]
The magazine, which started out as a more aggressively conservative version of
The Weekly Standard, but in more recent years has morphed into
Stormfront-lite,
takes a rabid anti-Islam editorial stance and publishes other miscellaneous
wingnuttery
by the likes of
Ann
Coulter,
Daniel
Pipes, and
Melanie Phillips. Its more recent pundits
Bruce
Bawer, Daniel Greenfield, and Jamie Glazov have dropped any semblance of
subtlety and frequently display overt racism and borderline neo-fascism
in their screeds. The DHFC runs "Students for Academic Freedom",[5]
and Discover the Networks,[6]
a site allegedly keeping tabs on the "loony
leftists"
giving cover to the
Jihad Johnnies and other assorted radicals. The DHFC has also taken aboard
Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch fame.[7]
Spencer's
Islamophobia is so virulent that it's too
wingnutty
even
for
Dinesh D'Souza![8]
US Representative Ron DeSantis, who is running for
Florida governor in 2018 has spoken at the center's conferences on four
separate occasions.[9]
DeSantis has also used a racist
dogwhistle in his campaign.[10]
Academic Bill of
Rights
Horowitz has been pushing his
deceptively named Academic Bill of Rights (ABOR)[11]
for quite some time. In one instance, his
McCarthy complex managed to spark an investigation into
Pennsylvania's higher education system. However, the investigative committee
found that Horowitz's charges were overblown and that he had failed to document
the widespread "indoctrination" he claimed existed.[12][13]
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