The assistant chancellor at Berkeley actually accused me of bringing an unwanted difference of opinion to his campus. On March 15, I spoke at Berkeley, but only because I was accompanied by 30 armed campus police and two bodyguards I had to hire for the occasion. The assistant chancellor sat in the back row among the leftists who had defamed and threatened me and made it clear again that I was an unwanted presence. The current dictatorship of the politically correct on our college campuses has reached intolerable proportions. Universities should not view themselves as political institutions or be captive to political factions.
Intellectual diversity is at least as important as ethnic diversity in a democratic society.
The only remedy for the political correctness that oppresses our campuses is a public outcry. If my reparations ad has provided a catalyst for such educational reform, it will have been well worth the trouble and the attacks.