Deconstruction is to blame?
Reader comment on item: Extremists on Campus

Submitted by Marcus Verhaegh (United States), Jun 26, 2002 at 16:29

How bizarre to claim that discussion of 'deconstruction' by left-wingers is 'not that harmless,' because it leads to anti-Semitism. Who is the creator of 'deconstruction'? Jaques Derrida, a Jew and very much a leftist. The inventor of the term 'post-modernism'? Former Emory Professor Lyotard, a leftist and a fierce critic of Nazi ideology in all its form--one who specifically casts 'post-modernism' as a response to the Holocaust.

Let me suggest that the problems discussed in this article are that a very small percentage of academics in the US have extremely anti-Western, pro-Palestinians view; and that Palestinians and anti-white racists (who thus hate Israel) have access to university campuses and websites.

--MV

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