Warrior

This is pretty funny. Hat tip to JRD.

The Ultimate Warrior, like just about any professional wrestler, has been involved in his fair share of over-the-top moments. A voodoo curse was placed on him by Papa Shango, causing him to vomit profusely. Another rival wrestler, the Undertaker, once attacked him from behind and put him inside an airtight casket. On more than one occasion he fought his way out of a body bag. He even ripped up an Iraqi flag in the middle of the ring.

After a recent speaking engagement at UConn, it became clear that Warrior (which is his full legal name, by the way) does his politics the same way he did his wraslin’ — with intensity, with boldness and with little regard for anyone else.

Yes, things were fairly calm until Warrior described how liberal thinking has created an “abyss of moral relativity where everything is as legitimate as everything else.

“The broadest and most despicable illustration of this most destructive consequence of moral relativity,” Warrior said, “is that barbarism, today, is as legitimate as civilization.”

Warrior goes on to provide specific examples that, he thinks, illustrate his point. He laments that that “the bum is as legitimate as the businessman … , that queers are as legitimate as heterosexuals…, that Kwanzaa is just as legitimate as Santa Claus and Christmas.”

The UConn College Republicans, who were responsible for bringing Warrior to speak on campus, immediately began apologizing to the university community.

“He [Warrior] got agitated [by those disrupting his speech] and responded,” said Heath Fahle, spokesman for the group, “and just said some things that were patently offensive to anybody that was listening, just over the top.”