This Week's Hell's Letters: Letter to the President of the University of Michigan
Note to the reader: Please read the President's letter at the url below, to which the present letter refers: http://www.umich.edu/pres/speeches/index.html
To: Mary Sue Coleman, President, University of Michigan (presoff@umich.edu)
From: John 'Birdman' Bryant (www.thebirdman.org)
Date: 15 Nov 2006
Thanx: BrettDear Ms Coleman:
I am webmaster of www.thebirdman.org , a popular webpage that gets more than a million hits a day, and I was wondering if you could answer some questions relevant to your 8 Nov 2006 paean to diversity and affirmative action in light of the recent passage by Michigan voters of 'Proposal 2' which apparently made such policies illegal. Here are my questions:
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* If you are so interested in diversity with respect to race, etc, then why do you seem uninterested in diversity of IDEAS, and particularly a diversity of ideas which would challenge the liberal nostrums about race, etc, which you seem to hold? Or to put it another way, why is it that those who oppose the liberal nostrums on race, etc are shouted down as 'racists', 'haters' and the like, and are subject to university sanctions or restrictions, while the ideas embraced by liberals receive the university's imprimatur?
* Why do you say that "we will fight for what we believe in, and that is holding open the doors of this university to all people", when in fact the university should NOT be accessible to all people, and in particular should not be accessible to the people who are not academically or intellectually qualified to take its courses?
I will be publishing my letter on my website, and will be happy to publish your response along with it, plus any further letters that we may exchange.
-Birdman
[Mary Sue did not respond.]