Bill Ayers and Dinesh D’Souza are debating racism on C-SPAN right now. After reading Ayers’s most recent book, I like him but, I have to say, the ultra-white super-rich American Ayers looks really bad lecturing the not-so-white immigrant D’Souza on racism. They should have chosen a different topic. And if that opportunity was not present, Ayers should have refused to participate. He is making a horrible impression in a debate that he had every chance of winning.
P.S. D’Souza has now chosen to veer off into the area of tenure review and has made himself look like the biggest fool on the planet. This is the hallmark of a lousy public speaker: he can’t quit while he’s ahead.
P.P.S. And Ayers has chosen to bring the discussion back to racism. Is he stupid? This is one subject where he simply can’t win over this particular opponent.
P.P.P.S Why did the question about Israel have to be asked by an overfed fella burping contentedly between meals? Of course, D’Souza wiped the floor with him in two seconds with the question of, “Do you deny the right of the Jews to have a Jewish state?” The whole thing was made even worse by Ayers’s “Israel has systematically wiped out the indigenous populations.”
I also have to say, it’s kind of obnoxious that the debate just has to be held at Dartmouth, a super-expensive place for kids who have only seen the world out of the windows of their parents’ jets. I expected better from Ayers.
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