No longer just a "potential" experiment
A while back I mentioned how I wanted to do a little experiment to see if conservative postings at such places as on the wall beside the elevator buttons in Haley would be allowed to stay up the same as more liberal event announcements and postings. I didn’t do it back then, partly out of the reason that if I did it that way, it would be being done to be intentionally inflammatory (not that things like the open letter to Laura Bush weren’t). But I’ve finally had something come along that lets me commence with the experiment without it being strictly to prove a point.
My favorite political columnist and one of my heroes, Dr. Mike Adams, is coming to Auburn to speak on Tuesday. I knew as soon as I found this out that at least a little entertainment was to be had through advertising it up in the English Department the way the anti-war protests (and every freaking other liberal event on campus) are advertised on a regular basis. I had no idea what entertainment I was in for, however, until the girl who arranged the speaking engagement emailed me the fliers for the event. She had picked out four really good Adams quotes and had designed four different fliers around them. The quotes:
“People often ask me why and how I experienced such a radical transformation, both politically and theologically… [Because] Republican women are simply more attractive than Democratic women.”
“If you are easily offended by free speech, get the hell out of college.”
“Marxism is an emotional disorder, not a political philosophy. And political correctness is really the only form of hate speech.”
“There are more communists teaching on the average American campus than there are teaching in all of Cuba. And, of course, these communist professors do a lot of stupid things, most of which violate the United States Constitution.”
After conferring with a few friends, we decided the first two were best suited for English Department display. And so I paid to make copies of these with my own money (so if there are ever any complaints, no one can say I used anything of the Department’s besides wall space) and posted them on Monday afternoon in the same places where I find the advertisements for every other event there is: on the walls by the elevator buttons and on the bulletin boards across from the elevators.
And, shockingly, this afternoon, only three of the six remained. I saw this coming and had made plenty of copies of the fliers, and I have now replaced the three fliers which, I’m sure, were simply taken down by accident or magically came untapped or untacked. Interestingly, one of the places where the Adams flier had been removed was occupied instead by an advertisement for something like “Sisters in Action,” some feminist film festival. I made sure to put up the “Republican women” flier back on that wall right next to the Sisters in Action one.
Part of me wanted to include a little note attached to each flier that was a repost that points out how liberal event advertisements and letters telling Laura Bush how evil she and her husband are remain in these places unmolested for weeks at a time but that the last copy of this flier posted there lasted less than two days, but honestly, I think it may be funnier if they just keep quietly reappearing.
I’ll be sure to keep everyone updated on the experiment’s progress. =)
My favorite political columnist and one of my heroes, Dr. Mike Adams, is coming to Auburn to speak on Tuesday. I knew as soon as I found this out that at least a little entertainment was to be had through advertising it up in the English Department the way the anti-war protests (and every freaking other liberal event on campus) are advertised on a regular basis. I had no idea what entertainment I was in for, however, until the girl who arranged the speaking engagement emailed me the fliers for the event. She had picked out four really good Adams quotes and had designed four different fliers around them. The quotes:
“People often ask me why and how I experienced such a radical transformation, both politically and theologically… [Because] Republican women are simply more attractive than Democratic women.”
“If you are easily offended by free speech, get the hell out of college.”
“Marxism is an emotional disorder, not a political philosophy. And political correctness is really the only form of hate speech.”
“There are more communists teaching on the average American campus than there are teaching in all of Cuba. And, of course, these communist professors do a lot of stupid things, most of which violate the United States Constitution.”
After conferring with a few friends, we decided the first two were best suited for English Department display. And so I paid to make copies of these with my own money (so if there are ever any complaints, no one can say I used anything of the Department’s besides wall space) and posted them on Monday afternoon in the same places where I find the advertisements for every other event there is: on the walls by the elevator buttons and on the bulletin boards across from the elevators.
And, shockingly, this afternoon, only three of the six remained. I saw this coming and had made plenty of copies of the fliers, and I have now replaced the three fliers which, I’m sure, were simply taken down by accident or magically came untapped or untacked. Interestingly, one of the places where the Adams flier had been removed was occupied instead by an advertisement for something like “Sisters in Action,” some feminist film festival. I made sure to put up the “Republican women” flier back on that wall right next to the Sisters in Action one.
Part of me wanted to include a little note attached to each flier that was a repost that points out how liberal event advertisements and letters telling Laura Bush how evil she and her husband are remain in these places unmolested for weeks at a time but that the last copy of this flier posted there lasted less than two days, but honestly, I think it may be funnier if they just keep quietly reappearing.
I’ll be sure to keep everyone updated on the experiment’s progress. =)