Tales from the illiterate right

I just read a particularly hysterical post on the conservative Red County blog. Written by the lurid Mr. Warner Todd Huston, it is entitled "Sacramento City College Crushes Student's Free Speech."

Really? The college crushed a student’s free speech?

According to Huston, student government president Steve Macias, an Orthodox Calvinist, arranged for an anti-abortion group to participate in SCC's “Constitution Day.” The group—the “Genocide Awareness Project”—was duly approved by the appropriate student government group. They set up their booth, their ghastly photos.

But then, says Huston, “the world came to an end.”

The world?

Huston explains: “Pro-Infanticide groups such as Planned Parenthood” showed up with their own booths the next day.

Why, yes, that’s a veritable holocaust. Any fool can see that.

But that epochal cataclysm was followed by another: “left-wing hatemongers in the student body immediately began to circulate a recall petition to have Mr. Macias removed from the Associated Student Government leadership.”

Huston pronounces that action “insane” and “un-American.”

It might be neither. Evidently, there was a story (possibly false, as it turns out) that Macias got approval for the “Genocide” group using another name—one without "genocide" in it, I guess. No doubt, it was that story that set off the recall effort.

Conservatives have their bugaboos. Naturally, the press, that right-wing bugaboo par excellence, spread that pesky canard. The bastards.

According to Huston, on top of all that (i.e., on top of those world-ending cataclysms), Macias has endured a nasty email exchange with a Sacramento College professor. Or so he says. It has inspired the unpopular student leader to squeal,

"Why Do these teachers feel that it is there [sic] role to put us students down? … I am deeply offended that an instutution [sic] that taxpayers pay for and pay to attend would allow this individual to clearly descriminate [sic] against people of faith. Calling Christianity 'make believe.' [sic] is unacceptable dialougue [sic] from Teacher to student. Especially when you seek out and attack the student."

Oh the humanity! Naturally, the professor wasn't asked to give his side of the story.

Mr. Huston ends with this remarkable piece of "reasoning":

So, what we see with this dispiriting case is typical of the distempered left. All these caring, civilized, open minded, more tolerant lefties are in full attack mode trying to shut down the free speech of people with whom they disagree... as always. Sadly, that's the fascist, Obamaesque sort of actions we are coming to expect from the extreme left and the bubble ensconced, pointy-headed, ivory tower dwellers in academe, isn't it?

Oh my.