Roger Brown gave me an update on “my book vs. the local library” saga early this morning:
Bob Whitaker,
I hated to miss todays Town Hall but I was having trouble with my computer. I have been hounding the library non-stop, through phone calls, emails and in person, about “Why Johnny Can’t Think”. In one email a couple of weeks ago, the librarian said that he had been informed that your book is racist propaganda. I asked him who said that but he never replied. Is it possible that your book is on some kind of ADL ban list?
That is neither here nor there though. The reason that I’m writing is to inform you that the librarian has just agreed to meet with me to pleed my case. Wish me luck.
I still think that I should have tryed to join the library in some fashion and work from the inside. However, I decided to trust your hundreds of years of experiance and just bug the **** out of them.
I keep saying that the other side recognizes how much more dangerous my book is than the usual “exposure” books that are long and detailed. My other books were in libraries all over America. My last one was in the library in Americus, Georgia. It was EVERYWHERE.
Not one single library has this one anywhere on earth.
You are one of maybe two or three people who have seen the significance of this. Our enemies are afraid of me the way they are afraid of practically nobody else. I was a professor, and I was on the political inside. I know how to hurt our enemies the way few others do.
They scream at the Great Exposures our leaders put out. They don’t mind giving them SOME publicity. But they do not touch my book in any way.
There’s a reason for that.
You are one of the very, very, very, very few people on our side who can see this.
#1 by Joe on 01/18/2005 - 6:37 pm
From what I’ve read of your book so far (the 27 page preview — and I’m ordering it), as a person who is center-left, much of what you say makes perfect sense to me.
However, as much as the academic one-sidedness can be an annoyance (Thankfully not so much at Georgetown, at least in the international relations department), I can’t help but note that it is far more dangerous in the policy arena today.
For instance, political correctness is, indeed, about as close to a religion as it gets. (Maybe a better term is ‘worldview’? Many Buddhists consider Buddhism, for instance, to be not a religion but a worldview)
However, in the policy arena, isn’t a bona-fide religion, Christianity, doing even more damage? Except for appealing in religious language, using words such as ‘sanctity’, no one on the right has presented a single decent argument against full and equal legalization of gay marriage.
The policies which have become the bible of academia, such as a “living minimum wage”, while economically silly, are less dangerous because they’ll probably never be implemented. A ban on gay marriage does vast calculable damage in the real world, and simply makes it harder for Christians to be taken seriously in the realm of public policy.
#2 by Bedford on 01/18/2005 - 8:43 pm
I apparently haven’t been successful – yet, in getting Bob’s book into a public library. This particular library just purchased a dozen or more of those “……….For Idiots” series of books and has the 8 lb. tome of Slick Clinton. The world is becoming more and more Orwellian – obscenity OK, but stop anything in print by declaring it “racist” or “anti-semitic”. On another related subject, the Black Snake paper is now almost the official organ of the naacp – I am expecting it to propose a statue for Strom’s negro daughter on the State House grounds – Lil Bradley Warthen would volunteer as chief fund raiser.