Once again, Evan Carp’s erudition has blessed the front and center Wespeak page, as Carp declares… more of the same. And so, I continue the ‘fatwa’ against him. But wait, I’m a white Jewish male, fourth generation U.S. born. I’m not a barbarian, although I suppose some blond-haired blue-eyed Westerners might have thought so during some very very VERY brief moments in the twentieth century during which a “final solution” was enacted by order of Adolf Hitler and entire towns vanished off the face of the earth. The Blond Giant with mousey brown hair. I thought only barbarians wrote fatwas.
After all, I’m from a society that believes in free speech. Anyone can say anything about anyone else, so long as the comment is general enough to not include names. For example, my Wespeak from March 7th concluded with the sentence, “Also, Matt DiBlasi, please don’t bury this Wespeak simply because you don’t agree with me.” Except that comment was never published.
Then, for the latest Argus, I wrote another Wespeak poking fun at the Argus for their thoughts (or thoughtlessness) on the topic and practice of censorship. I wrote a mock personal attack demanding that burning bags of poop appear in numbers on someone’s porch (not Evan’s, so please don’t assume). The point was to raise the question of what exactly the censorship policy of the Argus should be, and to poke fun at the Argus for being hypocritical. After all, I myself was censored.
That Wespeak was never published. And the censorship continues…
Matt DiBlasi defended his decision in an email forwarded to me from Marissa Brostoff, the Wespeaks editor. Below is an excerpt from that email regarding an apparent update on the Argus’ censorship policy:
“… i do not determine which Wespeaks are layed out where. layout does that. if i specifically request one to be first, they will put it first, but the only time that happened this year was when i wrote an editor’s notebook. that’s why i got rid of the last paragraph of his previously printed wespeak. it is completely inaccurate.”
So the Argus, according to Matt DiBlasi (I understand there is dissent), no longer prints “inaccurate” information. Interesting policy, especially in light of my original, censored criticism of the layout: Evan Carp has consistently remained the front and center of the Wespeak page on the topic of ‘barbaric Muslims’. Joel’s Wespeak, as a representative of the MSA, is on page 12 of Tuesday’s Argus. Fascinating.
Carp’s only discernable point is that nearly all Muslims are backwards and barbaric gets repeatedly printed in the prime location for Wespeaks. His argument leads to a conclusion that Carp has not explicitly addressed: What do we Westerners do with those barbarians? A question often asked by mass murderers who refuse to believe in a people’s humanity.
But I can’t criticize our Argus’ Editor-in-Chief. Now who, exactly, is the savage? Quite possibly no one. However, maybe it’s all of us.
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