Reader isn't for free speech

Look who's painting the kettle black! By calling virtually everyone a "fascist" (My View, Dec. 26), Alexander Simon, who unfortunately is an associate professor of sociology at UVSC, paints himself as a "never can get over it" sorehead. This numbskull, under the guise of promoting free speech, clearly wants to do the opposite: take it away from the mainstream at UVSC and elsewhere.

I do agree with Simon on one thing: "We are living in dangerous and desperate times." However, it is clear that he is the danger, and he certainly is desperate in publishing such nonsense.

Charles B. Jackson

Ivins