Monday, December 16, 1985 Daily Nebraskan Pago 5 Letters Guest opinion on apartheid makesactual, ethical mistakes This letter is in regard to the guest opinion (Daily Nebraskan, Dec. 13) on apartheid from students representing the UNL College Republicans. The first fascinating remark in the article , is "A self-professed Marxist, Mandela stated that...he would kill again...." Do the writers imply that to be a Marxist one must be a murderer? Or did theyjuxtapose the two ideas in the best tradition of propaganda to elicit guilt by association? The first mistake is one of fact; the second, one of ethics. The term "self-professed" inspires all the awe of the confessional. After this is a curious aphorism: "selective indignation rarely allows for the interference of factual realism." I wholeheartedly agree. "Factual realism" is indeed a meddlesome thing, and should learn its proper place. Later we find an attack on "wanton advo cates of violence." This I must protest. Wanton though they may be, let's keep their sexual proclivities out of it. Any way, I think the writers would have inspired more indignation with a dif ferent phrase. After all, "wanton" and "violent" remind us of half of our prime-time heroes. The fact that "liberal politics and liberal thinking...make a bad situation. . .worse," is supported rapidly by some keen historical insights. I will add my own voice to the chorus by mentioning that liberal thinking in the West, from the Renaissance to the Revolution, has brought us to our pres ent, unhappy condition, in which, each of us being comparatively free, we think more of political and economic benefits than universal principles of justice. By the way, this concern for the Uni ted States' political and economic advantage, voiced in the third para graph of the opinion, is curious in con trast with the condemnation of "self serving" extremists at the end of the article. 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