re: #130 Charles

Once again, I am very sorry to see this “hate-speech” war. Spencer is no doubt irritated that he has been boycotted, and furious that CAIR used lgf to provide ammunition against him to the ALA. He claims that his fellow panelists must have known of his presence from the timetable materials.
Be that as it may, the only surprise in this ALA/Spencer controversy is that he was invited in the first place. The ALA, like the teachers’ unions, are tending leftward, and are easily persuaded to uphold free speech selectively. (The very subject of the panel - stereotyping - suggests that it is all about Islamophobia. In a recent book on being Muslim in America, an example of Islamophobic stereotyping is offered with great indignation: Walt Disney’s Aladdin - in which scimitar-wielding soldiers chased the heroine for stealing an apple threatening to cut off her hand.)
Spencer is a zealot. He is so intent on selling his product (that the doctrine of Islam is poison) that he does not care who is buying it and for what purposes. But then, nobody in politics can be sure that what they say is not being abused by the opposition.