Lecture: The Left's Assault on Free Speech with Don Feder
"You're against hate crimes laws? You're a racist."
Too often discussions about race are dictated by passion, emotion, intolerance, and knee-jerk reactions. And too often, those who disagree with the status quo, politically correct assumptions about race are labeled as insensitive, discriminatory, and, yes, racist.
It's time to challenge these assumptions.
The UMass Republican Club invites you to a special lecture by Don Feder, conservative activist and author, about hate crimes laws and free speech restrictions, entitled "The Left's Assault on Free Speech: Hate Crimes Laws and other Forms of Censorship."
In light of accusations about hate crimes swirling around the UMass Amherst campus, it's time to rethink what hate crimes really are, and how liberals' intolerance for other points of view undermines their claims to tolerance and open-mindedness.
And make no doubt: this will be the event of the semester covering race and free speech. You don't want to miss out.
This event is brought to you by the UMass Republican Club - one of the most active and nationally recognized College Republican clubs in the country - and Young America's Foundation.
The UMass Republican Club's email address is info@umassgop.org.
About Don Feder:
Mr. Feder was a Boston Herald editorial writer and syndicated columnist from June 1983 to June 2002. For 19 years, his column appeared in the Herald, New England's second largest newspaper. On February 28, 2002, the paper published his 2,000th column.
Feder's column was syndicated by Creator's Syndicate in Los Angeles and carried by more than 40 newspapers and e-magazines nationwide.
His writings have appeared in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, National Review, American Enterprise, Reader's Digest, Front Page Magazine, Insight and Human Events. The author of two books A Jewish Conservative Looks at Pagan America (1993) and Who's Afraid of the Religious Right? (1996), Feder has traveled extensively in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. He was in Belgrade two weeks after the bombing ended in 1999.
Feder is the 1998 recipient of the International Communications Award of the Republic of China on Taiwan and the winner of the first-place prize in the Amy Foundation Writing Awards for 1993. The Amy Foundation recognizes writers who project Biblical truths in the secular media.
Feder is a 1969 graduate of the Boston University College of Liberal Arts and a 1972 graduate of the Boston University Law School. He is admitted to the practice of law in New York and Massachusetts.
Besides practicing law and writing a syndicated column, Feder served as executive director of Citizens for Limited Taxation (a Massachusetts taxpayers group that passed a cap on property taxes), executive director of the Second Amendment Foundation and editorial director of WEEI Newsradio in Boston.
He has a media/political consulting firm called Don Feder Associates, is a frequent contributor to various publications, and has a website – www.donfeder.com.
Don Feder is also World Congress of Families Communications Director, as well as the Communications Director of the documentary Demographic Winter: the decline of the human family. He's also the editor of the Boycott The New York Times web site.
