On Broadside and Gryboski

By Aman Agah

I am addressing not just the author of this piece, but the entire student paper because I find it disturbing that Broadside has, in its lack of action and accountability, supported the hateful words that Michael Gryboski has printed regarding queer students, black students, and Palestinian students. This particular piece, "Homosexuality Is a Mental Illness: Political Correction Interfering with Reason," is a repeat of last year, and if Broadside or Michael Gryboski were actually interested in promoting dialogue and discourse it would not be printed in the second to last issue at the very end of term.

Several claims are made in the article that are not supported or properly defined. To hide behind supposed facts and science and then to claim that there is a separation of these things from politics is not only false but blatantly hypocritical. You are sharing your politics by restating these "scientific facts."

I would also to point out to you how much of an impact this has had. I am an alumni and former employee of George Mason University (as well as former staff writer on Broadside), currently living in New York. I was made aware of this story yesterday and immediately recognized the author to be the same student who had attacked Students for Justice in Palestine, and was informed of his later article misquoting, misrepresenting, and attacking Malcolm X. The fact that this has reached beyond the campus community is important for Michael Gryboski and Broadside to begin taking responsibility for promoting ignorance and hate.