Tag: Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania

PHOTO PROVIDED LOCK HAVEN — There is a political civil war raging over control of the U.S. presidency, said David Horowitz, conservative writer and founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, to an audience of about 100 students, faculty and community members in Lock Haven University’s Parson Union Building on Monday. “We have respect for the electoral process and we understand that if the other person wins, we have the next few years to organize.” However, Horowitz said, the type of scrutiny surrounding President Donald Trump–a duly elected president, according to Horowitz–was last seen when Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860. “America has a tradition, we’re about compromise because our views are so different. Particularly, Horowitz said, cultural Marxism is found in the education system, and he lamented over Lock Haven University for its lack of conservative professors. “The attacks on America begin with saying that it’s built on slavery and racism, that we are a white supremacist culture, which is ludicrous in this day and age,” Horowitz said. This has never happened in a majority black country or a majority Asian country.” Historically, Horowitz said, “Slavery existed for 3,000 years, and no one said it was immoral until [William] Wilberforce, a white Christian male in England, and Thomas Jefferson wrote it into the Declaration of Independence.” Horowitz called it “truly remarkable” that 87 years after the signing of the Constitution, the U.S. voted to the end the slave trade, which he said it inherited through England. White people, Europeans and the English didn’t go over to Africa and throw nets over black people. “It’s an ideological term, invented by leftists. “Students listen to divisive statements every day on campus,” she said. “I think it speaks well of LHU to permit viewpoint diversity on campus.” The goal behind inviting Horowitz, said Noah Ellison, president of YAL, is to build LHU’s speaker credibility and to demonstrate the school is a place where controversial issues can be discussed.