"The collegiate interpretation of both of these dates, September 10 and September 11, is hopelessly absurd." Dr. Ben Voth
Ben Voth "On September 10, colleges and universities will observe the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Kirk was assassinated on a Utah college campus while debating members of the campus community. Kirk was embroiled in an escalating ideological debate about how higher education changes the American mindset and presses political arguments that are at least debatable. His assassination was a high mark of incivility." . . .
. . . We can barely recount the agency and purpose of the act 25 years later because the government of Iran, in the form of radical Shia supremacism, chants every day in their state-run mosques at Tehran, “Death to America!” That rhetorical world has not fallen away, and our own political sphere entertains the absurd notion that America deserved those 3,000 deaths and more. September 11 produced a war on terror rhetorically constructed to deflect the underlying religious motives of the 9/11 attacks and yielded massive military occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. To avoid a 20th anniversary in Afghanistan, our troops were abruptly withdrawn in August of 2021, and now women live in unspeakable subjugation to an archaic, outrageous sectarian branch of Islam practiced by the Taliban." . . . More...
Dr. Ben Voth is professor of rhetoric and director of debate at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He is the author of several academic books regarding political communication, presidential rhetoric, and genocide.
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