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.
But it is more curious still that the
writers should pick this epithet for
those few of us who were present at the
rally. What is it we were after? Money?
Popularity? Prestige? Or perhaps just a
clean conscience?
Brian Chaffin
junior
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