A Forum for Vigorous Debate, Cornerstone of Democracy

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A FORUM FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND VIGOROUS DEBATE, CORNERSTONES OF DEMOCRACY
[For the journal--guidelines, focus, etc.--go to www.theamericandissident.org. If you have questions, please contact me at todslone@hotmail.com. Comments are NOT moderated (i.e., CENSORED)!]
Encouraged censorship and self-censorship seem to have become popular in America today. Those who censor others, not just self, tend to favor the term "moderate," as opposed to "censor" and "moderation" to "censorship." But that doesn't change what they do. They still act as Little Caesars or Big Brother protectors of the thin-skinned. Democracy, however, demands a tough populace, not so easily offended. On this blog, and to buck the trend of censorship, banning, and ostracizing, comments are NEVER "moderated." Rarely (almost NEVER) do the targets of these blog entries respond in an effort to defend themselves with cogent counter-argumentation. This blog is testimony to how little academics, poets, critics, newspaper editors, cartoonists, political hacks, cultural council apparatchiks, librarians et al appreciate VIGOROUS DEBATE, cornerstone of democracy. Clearly, far too many of them could likely prosper just fine in places like communist China and Cuba or Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Russia, not to mention Sweden, England, and Austria.
ISSUE #45 PUBLISHED MAY 2023. NOW SEEKING SUBMISSIONS FOR ISSUE #46.

More P. Maudit cartoons (and essays) at Global Free Press: http://www.globalfreepress.org

Friday, July 26, 2019

Tina Chang and Marie Howe

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The above cartoon was sketched in 2014 and sent to the deaf ears of both Howe, now a high and mighty chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and Chang.  For another cartoon on Howe, sketched also in 2014, see https://wwwtheamericandissidentorg.blogspot.com/2014/08/marie-howe.html.  
The student newspaper of Howe’s college, Sarah Lawrence, published both the above and that cartoon (see http://www.sarahlawrencephoenix.com/editorial/2014/8/26/letter-to-the-editor-g-tod-slone-of-the-american-dissident)... a rarity indeed for student newspapers!  However, it would not publish a third cartoon I’d sketched on other Sarah Lawrence employees et al.  That cartoon can be examined here:  
https://wwwtheamericandissidentorg.blogspot.com/2014/09/kamden-hilliard.html.  Below it are some interesting comments by Sarah Lawrence students et al with its regard.