LHU Visitor Horowitz Attacks Democrats, Leftists

LOCK HAVEN – David Horowitz, a self-described leftist radical turned conservative, spent an hour on the Lock Haven University campus Monday night. In a half hour talk and another half hour responding to questions from an audience of 100, he took the Democratic Party and “leftists” to task.

He started by lamenting what he said was the fact that Lock Haven University was made up of liberal professors with only one or two conservatives on the faculty. He offered nothing to substantiate the claim. He was critical of the Starbucks response to a recent Philadelphia incident in which two black men were asked to leave the business when they had not placed an order; they were ultimately arrested when they declined to depart.

Horowitz talked of identity politics relative to racism and sexism. He cited former Minnesota Senator Al Franken who elected to resign when confronted with an allegation of sexual misbehavior. Horowitz said Franken was deemed guilty before the facts in the case came out, giving him no chance to defend himself. And he was critical of the “Me-too” movement.

Much of his talk was aimed at the Democratic Party, saying it was “terrible” what happened to the party, claiming the party was responsible for the failure of inner-city schools. He called systemic racism “a total myth” and said the Democratic platform is “unacceptable” to blacks and Hispanics.

Several opponents to Horowitz’s campus visit handed out flyers to those attending, the sheets calling him a “right-wing activist funded by big money, a sloppy researcher who makes unsubstantiated claims and distorts facts” and is a “promoter of anti-Muslim and racist views and sentiments.”

The hour-long session in the Parsons Union Building was without incident. Two LHU campus officers were in attendance.