Note the following news excerpt:
"The NCAA is requiring bowl games to ban the "hostile" or "abusive" use of American Indian nicknames, mascots and logos beginning next year. On Tuesday, the NCAA announced it's extending its prohibition to include bowl games. The decision was made after Bowl Championship Series officials sought a ruling after determining it could not impose the prohibition, NCAA spokesman Bob Williams said. Only one Division I-A school, the University of Illinois, will be affected".
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Indian names are "hostile"? I thought they were names that expressed admiration. I thought they paid tribute to the strength and heroism of the Indians in defending their native lands. On what authority do the NCAA say that such names are hostile? Or is it really a matter of the NCAA being hostile to strength and heroism? No doubt "The powder-puffs" would be a team name that would win NCAA approval.
Hey! Hang on a minute, though. "Powder Puffs" might be "hostile to women"! You can never really win with the PC warriors. They will always dream up something to criticize.
Help Defeat Censorship
The Australian State of Victoria has laws that drastically restrict free speech. Two Christian Pastors were recently penalized there because they criticized Islam, for instance. The latest victim of the oppressive legal environment there is a law professor, Andrew Fraser, who wrote an article which called for a reduction in the number of black and Asian immigrants that Australia is allowing into the country. The article was accepted for publication by the academic law journal hosted at Deakin university in Victoria but legal pressures were brought to bear on the university not to publish it and they caved in. So I have now put the "suppressed" article online here. Prof. Fraser has asked that the article be circulated to anyone "who might be interested in defending the editorial integrity of a university law review". I have put it online not because I wholly agree with it. I don't. I am not at all bothered by Australia's intake of Asians, for instance. But, as a libertarian, I will always do my utmost to defeat censorship. So let anybody know about it who might be interested. If it gets re-posted all over the place, that will really defeat the censors.
I should stress that the article concerned is not some rave by a Right-wing nut but a fully accredited (peer-reviewed) academic journal article by a Professor of Law at a major Australian university.
