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Related stories: External LinksD'Souza bio at Hoover Institution MORE LINKSBusiness Section What's in a Name? Perhaps Plenty if You're a Job Seeker[EDITOR'S NOTE: Simply more proof, Dinesh D'Souza's opinions notwithstanding, of the pervasive racism present in 2002 United States of America] Racism is alive and well not just in the Majority Leader's office, but in employers' hiring offices up North.
Hoover Institution Dinesh D'Souza and Gore Vidal square off over why the U.S. is hated.
Eric Alterman In his newest book, D'Souza argues that wealth has no obligations to poverty except to avoid itDinesh D'Souza is touring for a new work, The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in an Age of Techno-Affluence ... The thrust of his argument is [that] wealth has no obligations to poverty except to avoid it. As he once argued for the logic of racism, he now speaks for the morality of parsimony. The United States, he asserts, is "probably the best society that now exists or has ever existed."
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PERSON PROFILEDinesh D'SouzaDinesh D'Souza was previously a John M. Olin Research American Enterprise Institute. He is presently (2003) the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He seems to be on the permanent payroll of the John M. Olin Foundation. Here's a little bit about D'Souza from The Feeding Trough:...a large portion of Bradley money goes to the major colleges and universities. Bradley president Michael Joyce "...believes that investment in academia is vital to the long-term success of the conservative movement, and has directed millions toward academic research and program development. According to Joyce, Bradley has helped pay for the work of approximately 600 graduate students over the years. 'That's like building a wine collection,' he said." [From "Buying a Movement."] One of these bottles of fine wine is Dinesh D'Souza, a [former] scholar at the Bradley-funded American Enterprise Institute. As an undergraduate student at Dartmouth College, D'Souza founded and served as editor of the ultra-conservative Dartmouth Review, the first member of the (now) Bradley-funded Madison Center for Educational Affairs "Collegiate Network." The Review was reportedly kicked off campus after a student uproar following the paper's publishing of "humorous" articles featuring KKK-type stereotypes of Black students. During D'Souza's term as editor, the Review also reportedly published private correspondence of gay students stolen by its staff members. D'Souza's next journalistic stint was as editor of Prospect, a paper that under his leadership published an attack on women's studies and an "expose" of the sex life of a woman undergraduate student, without her permission [according to author Ellen Messer-Davidow.] With this impressive resume behind him -- and having penned a glowing biography of Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell -- D'Souza was hired as senior domestic policy analyst in the Reagan administration. As a [former] John M. Olin scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, he [formerly] receive[d] an annual grant in excess of $100,000. His subsequent books have also received backing from the Madison Center. In 1995, D'Souza came out with "The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society." The book argues that low-income Black people are basically "pathological" and that white racism isn't really racism at all, just a logical response to this "pathology." D'Souza maintains racism will only end when "...blacks as a group can show that they are capable of performing competitively in schools and the work force...If blacks can close the civilization gap, the race problem in this country is likely to become insignificant." The book would have made interesting reading on the Middle Passage, that early example of European "civilization." And in fact, D'Souza also writes that slavery itself was not a racist institution, merely "economic." He further states that segregation was designed "...to assure that [Blacks], like the handicapped, would be...permitted to perform to the capacity of their arrested development." The book was reportedly marketed extensively in business circles. [From "Buying a Movement."]
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MORE LINKSVictor Davis Hanson NonsenseThe Mind of Mr. D’Souza ...it is the singular achievement of D’Souza that his bizarre writ has for a moment earned universal condemnation from those who can agree on little else. But that rare consensus represents not a “closing of the conservative mind” so much as it reflects the moral vileness of much of what D’Souza writes. And pathetically, the more frequently conservative magazines, media, and institutions offer D’Souza a megaphone, the more apt he is to play the wounded fawn.
Katha Pollitt Ayatollah D'SouzaIn his new book, The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11, far-right provocateur Dinesh D'Souza argues that Al Qaeda really does hate our freedoms--and so does he. Forget geopolitics--Israel/Palestine, US military bases in Saudi Arabia, our support for assorted corrupt regimes, Arab socioeconomic stagnation. No, 9/11 was provoked by feminism, birth control, abortion, pornography, feminism, Hollywood, divorce, the First Amendment, gay marriage, and did I mention feminism? Muslims fear the West is out to foist its depraved, licentious, secular "decadence" on their pious patriarchal societies. And, D'Souza argues, they're right. Working mothers! Will & Grace! Child pornography! Our vulgar, hedonistic, gender-egalitarian, virally expanding NGO-promoted values so offend "traditional Muslims" that they have thrown in their lot with Osama and other America-haters. At times D'Souza sounds like he can barely keep from enlisting himself: "American conservatives should join Muslims and others in condemning the global moral degeneracy that is produced by liberal values."
Keith Olbermann ‘World's Worst Person’: Dinesh D’SouzaBut our winner, another guy lost here in the complexities of 21st century America, Dinesh D'Souza, author of a new book blaming 9/11 on the cultural values of American liberals, which offended Osama bin Laden, causing him to kill everybody. No, I’m not kidding. So, D'Souza goes on the Colbert Report and specifically blames, of course, Bill Clinton. And Colbert mocks him by asking, 'doesn’t some of it lay at FDR’s doorstep?' And D'Souza doesn’t realize Colbert’s joking. Indirectly yes, he answers. FDR gave away Eastern Europe through Yalta and then the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
James Wolcott Ratfink writes new bookWith The Enemy at Home, I prefer to do the irresponsible thing and declare war on Dinesh D'Souza and his stinking mackerel of a book starting now....
MediaMatters.org "Distort D'Newsa" now a CNN analystControversial right-wing pundit and author Dinesh D'Souza has a new title -- "CNN analyst."
Mpls. Star Tribune Catholic Archbishop: Racism is a Problem in Minnesota...exhorts his predominantly white flock of 800,000 to eradicate attitudes of racial superiority that [he says] lie beneath Minnesota Nice.
Nathan Newman Better To Be White Felon Than Honest BlackWant to know why affirmative action and other more activist programs are necessary? Because hard-core racism is pervasive throughout the economy. Nothing better illustrates this than research by Devah Pager, who won this year's Dissertation Award from the American Sociological Association. for research studying how incarceration effects a person's ability to get a job. Also see:The original Post from Crooked Timber.
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