Bill Ayers Fizzles at Dartmouth Debate with Dinesh D'Souza
See also Dinesh D'Souza was Right about Obama
The Indian American immigrant vs. the radical white son of a one percenter capitalist was quite a spectacle. The Dinesh D'Souza and Bill Ayers debate on Thursday night at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire,
and sponsored by Young America's Foundation, hands down showed D'Souza
has a broad view of history and a love of America as a "wealth creator."
In contrast, Ayers has a narrow progressive view where "we [the people]
are the sovereign, collective authority."
The
professor from Chicago waxed poetic about that city being the best
example of the answer to the debate question of "What Makes America
Great?" Ayers kept listing name after socialist name of great American heroes including his wife Bernardine Dohrn. Really?
If
I didn't know anything about Ayers' communist leanings, his violent
revolutionary past, or his extremely negative view of America, and just
took him at face value on that stage, I would characterize him as very
limited in his understanding of the world around him. He appears
self-absorbed, and at the same time out of his league alongside D'Souza.
When you look
at Ayers with his little loop earrings and scruffy beard, and hear his
sarcastic comebacks to D'Souza, you can't imagine him being any more
interested in "social justice" for humanity than that outside his
million dollar apartment.
Ayers
threw out numbers and pretend facts, as most progressives do for
emotional effect, but D'Souza caught him on a couple of them. For
instance, Ayers said 90% of indigenous Native Americans were killed off
by the Europeans who slaughtered them to gain the land; but D'Souza
corrected him and said most of the indigenous people died from diseases
brought in from foreigners. Genocide or disease, a big difference.
Since
Ayers can't get off the problem with "white supremacy" in America
today, and talked a lot about slavery and disenfranchised groups
including women and "queer rights" groups, D'Souza countered with the
unknown fact that 300,000 white men from the north during the Civil War
fought against the south to win freedom for slaves.
Regarding
the Second Amendment, Ayers said "we should disarm" and put serious
limits on citizens who own guns. He also said the "Constitution is there
to be changed," we should extend the vote to prisoners, and we should
get rid of the Electoral College.
In
comparing libertarians to anarchists, Ayers said they have in common
that we should have a "deep skepticism of government" and of "the
imposition of the state in our lives." That's really an odd statement
coming from a small 'c' communist. He's all about the State being in our
lives.
In
his closing remarks, Ayers named the U.S. military as "invading
occupying soldiers" with an "arrogance that is foolish and
deadly...America is a mass of contradictions."
What
more can we say except that inviting Bill Ayers to hold a reasonable
discourse in a public forum couldn't possibly end well.
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