Dinesh Joseph D'Souza was born April 25, 1961) is an Indian rightwing conservative political commentator, author, filmmaker and a forgiven person. From 2010 to 2012, he is president of The King's College, a Christian school in New York City.
Born in Bombay, D'Souza came to the United States as an exchange student and graduated from Dartmouth College. He became a naturalized citizen in 1991. He is the author of several bestsellers, including titles on Christian apologetics. D'Souza has been critical of New Atheism. In 2012, D'Souza released his film 2016: Obama's America, an anti-Obama polemic based on his 2010 book The Roots of Obama's Rage; this film is the second highest-ranking political documentary film produced in the United States.
On 20 May 2014, D'Souza pleaded guilty in federal court on charges of using "donor straw" to contribute an illegal campaign to the 2012 United States Senate campaign, a crime. On September 23, she was sentenced to eight months in a halfway house near her home in San Diego, a five-year probation, and a $ 30,000 fine. On May 31, 2018, D'Souza was issued a full pardon by President Donald Trump.
In 2016, D'Souza released a film and documentary, both titled Hillary's America , in which he offered his version of the Democratic Party's history. Widely recognized as a provocateur and polemic, D'Souza's films and comments have been the subject of controversy because of the promotion of conspiracy theories.
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Early life and career
D'Souza was born in Bombay in 1961. His parents were Roman Catholics from the state of Goa in West India, where his father was a Johnson & Johnson and his mother are a housewife. D'Souza attends Jesuit St. Stanislaus in Bombay. He graduated in 1976 and completed 11 and 12 years at Sydenham College, also in Bombay. In 1978, D'Souza traveled to the United States under the Rotary Youth Exchange and attended a local public school in Patagonia, Arizona. He went on to matriculate at Dartmouth College, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1983 and became a member of Phi Beta Kappa. While in Dartmouth, D'Souza writes for The Dartmouth Review, an independent publication, not affiliated with Dartmouth College, subsidized by alumni and edited by students.
After graduating from Dartmouth, D'Souza became editor of a monthly journal called The Prospect , a publication funded by a group of Princeton University alumni. The newspaper and its authors sparked much controversy during D'Souza's editors by, inter alia, criticizing college affirmative action policies.
From 1985 to 1987, D'Souza was the editor who contributed to the Policy Review, a journal which was later published by The Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC In an article in September 1985 titled "The Bishops as Pawns, "D 'Souza theorizes that Catholic bishops in the United States are being manipulated by American liberals in agreeing against the buildup of the US military and the use of power abroad when, D'Souza believes, they know very little about the things they lend religious credibility they..
He was a policy adviser in the administration of President Ronald Reagan between 1987 and 1988.
In 1991, D'Souza became a naturalized United States citizen.
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President King's College
In August 2010, D'Souza was elected president of The King's College, a Christian liberal arts college which was then stationed at the Empire State Building in Manhattan. The college moved into a larger room in fall 2012, adjacent to the New York Stock Exchange in the Lower Manhattan financial district. On October 18, 2012, D'Souza resigned from his post at The King's College following a press report that he had shared a hotel room at a Christian conference with a woman he introduced as his fiancee, though still married to his wife. 20 years. D'Souza called the report "pure slander" and "deserved to be condemned by Christians."
Political criticism
Neoconservative labeled, D'Souza defines conservatism in the American sense as "preserving the principles of the American Revolution." In the Letter for the Young Conservative, written as an introduction to conservative ideas for youth, D'Souza argues that it is a fusion of classical liberalism and ancient virtues, in particular, "the belief that there is a standard moral in the universe and life according to them is the best way to have a full and happy life. "He also opposes what he calls the modern liberal belief that" human nature is basically good, "and thus" the great conflict in the world... arises from a poor misunderstanding which can be improved through ongoing conversations and through UN mediation. "
D'Souza opposes government policy based on affirmative action and social welfare. In the book Illiberal Education D'Souza argues that the intolerance of conservative views is common in many universities. He has attributed many modern social problems to what he calls "the left culture." In his 2007 book, the Enemy at Home: The Left of Culture and His Responsibility for 9/11 he wrote that institutions with liberal values ​​have triggered "angry volcanoes against America that erupted from the Islamic world.". "
In a review of D'Souza's 2003 book, What's So Great About America , economist Thomas Sowell writes that D'Souza's book reveals the mistakes and hypocrisy of criticisms of the United States by the Islamic world, "the cult of domestic multiculturalists , "those looking for reparations for slavery, and intellectuals around the world, according to Sowell:" It may take someone from the outside to truly appreciate all the blessings that too many native-born Americans take for granted. D'Souza understands how rare - sometimes unique - this is a blessing. "
Sowell also notes that D'Souza takes a step further and challenges the idea that all world cultures are the same: "D'Souza challenges one of the main places of today's intellectuals: Equality of all cultures." If we start with a multicultural premise that all cultures are "Such cultures have really outperformed others in providing the things everyone is looking for - health, food, housing, security, and the amenities of life."
D'Souza is also critical of feminism, and Bruce Goldner, in the review of D'Souza Illiberal Education, notes that he "has a tendency to characterize feminists as castrating misanthropes."
Christianity and religion
D'Souza attended the evangelical church of Calvary Chapel from 2000 to about 2010. While declaring his Catholic background important to him, D'Souza also said he was comfortable with Protestant Reform theology and identified as a non-denominational Christian. A Christian apologetic writer, D'Souza has argued against leading atheists and Christian critics on religious and moral issues. Opponents of the debate include Dan Barker, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Singer, Daniel Dennett, Michael Shermer, David Silverman, and Bart D. Ehrman.
As a guest contributor to Christian Science Monitor, D'Souza writes, "The moral teachings of Jesus do not provide support - indeed they stand as a stern rebuke against - a historical injustice committed in the name of Christianity. "He often spoke against atheism, mistrust in spirituality, and secularism.Douza described his views in the 2007 book he wrote, What is so Great about Christianity In 2009, he published his Life After Death: The Providence , which tries to use scientific and philosophical arguments to support the concept of the afterlife.
D'Souza believes "living beings are the product of intelligent design," but he is not a supporter of the intelligent design movement, as he does not regard it as a satisfactory alternative to the theory of evolution through natural selection. He argues that belief in the afterlife and in the Great Beings is a plausible conclusion given the available evidence, and that atheists have misinterpreted the case for Christianity in many areas.
In an article of the Center for Catholic Education Resources, he shared his beliefs about the separation of church and state: "Groups like the ACLU, with the consent of non-judicial collusion, actively promote the jurisprudence of anti-religious discrimination.The Supreme Court has distorted the Constitution to make adherents of religion of all religions become second-class citizens. "D'Souza argues that current jurisprudence unfairly promotes secularism and undermines the doctrine of ratification of laws informed by religious morality.}}
D'Souza also commented on Islam. He stated in 2007 that American intervention in the Middle East "denies Muslim freedom and controls their own destiny." He has debated Serge Trifkovic and Robert Spencer, who both consider Islam "inherently aggressive, racist, rude, and intolerant." He has labeled Spencer an "Islamophobia" and "an effective polemic" in his writings on Islam.
Colonialism
In the second chapter of What's So Great About America , D'Souza argues that while colonialism is terrible, it has unintended consequences from lifting the third world countries to Western civilization. D'Souza writes, "I realize that by saying these things I open the door for my critics, and the irreparable western enemies, to say that I justify colonialism... This is the purest nonsense. What I do shows historical facts: despite the corrupt and self-serving motives of its [practitioners]... colonialism... proved to be the mechanism that brought millions of white people into the orbit of Western freedom. "He raised the European colonization India as an example, arguing that in long-term colonization is beneficial to India, because it introduces Western law, universities, infrastructure and the like, while effectively ending human sacrifice, Sati practices, and " "others.
Abu Ghraib
D'Souza argues that Abu Ghraib's torture and abuse-prisoner scandal was the result of "liberal American sexual immorality." He further asserted that the condition of detainees in Abu Ghraib "is comparable to accommodation in Middle Eastern mid-level hotels."
Florida school shooting comments
In February 2018, D'Souza was heavily criticized for a series of tweets mocking the shooting victims of Stoneman Douglas High School. In response to photos of victims who reacted to Florida lawmakers who dropped a proposed ban on gun attacks after the shootings, D'Souza tweeted "the worst news since their parents told them to get a summer job". D'Souza's comments are condemned by liberal and conservative commentators. Jonathan M. Katz writes, "Let it never be said that Dinesh is not actively rooted for the deaths of children." Others accuse D'Souza of being "trolling kids". D'Souza was also criticized by the Conservative Political Action Conference, which removed him from the list of speakers, and called his comment "untenable".
Media appearance
D'Souza has appeared on many national television networks and programs. Six days after the September 11, 2001 attacks, D'Souza appeared on Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect . He denied the statement that terrorists are cowards by saying, "Look what they do, you have a large number of people who are willing to give their lives, no one backs down, all of them throw themselves into concrete pieces.This is a warrior." Maher agreed with D'Souza's comment and said, "We have become cowards, destroy cruise missiles from two thousand miles away."
During the interview on The Colbert Report on January 16, 2007, while promoting his book The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and His Responsibility for 9/11, D'Souza stated that the " liberal has responsibility for the September 11 attacks. He said the "tendency to intervene" of liberals had a decisive effect in convincing the Carter administration to withdraw support from the Shah, which led to the control of Muslim fundamentalists against the Iranian government. He also said that the distorted representation of American culture on television is one source of American hatred by Muslims around the world. D'Souza believes that traditional Muslims are not very different from traditional Jews and Christians in America. Towards the end of the interview, he admits that he and Islamic militants share some of the same negative beliefs about American liberalism.
Authorship
In 1995 D'Souza published the End of Racism, in which he claimed that excessive racism claims held back progress among African Americans in the US; he defended the owners of Southern slaves, and noted that "American slaves are treated like property, which is said, quite well". A reviewer for The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education responded by posting a list of sixteen recent racist incidents against blacks. Michael BÃ © Ã… © rubÃÆ'Â ©, in a long review article, called the book an "encyclopedic pseudoscience", calling it absurd and saying some of the policy recommendations were fascist; it's "a terrible humiliation of human modesty to set new standards and sorry for 'intellectuals'". The book is also highlighted by many other critics: John David Smith, in The Journal of Southern History, says D'Souza claims the blacks are inferior and argues that "D'Souza bases his highly insensitive reaction , the polemic of statistical evidence and harsh historical evidence, is often derived from context and patched together in an illogical way.The book is flawed because it ignores the complicated and violent causes of white racism, misrepresents Boas's argument, and belittles the matrix of ignorance, fear and length of economic inequality -the way that he breaks down the black cultural pathology.How, according to his own logic, one might expect a lower person to raise himself without government assistance. " The Douun's condemnation condemns serious, white and black pathology, and adds a little to our understanding of the painful American racial dilemma. Paul Finkelman commented on the sarcasm of D'Souza's racism, and said, in a review article entitled "The Rise of New Racism", that what D'Souza said is not true, and many are only partially true; that the book is "like a scholarship parody, in which selected 'facts' are pulled out of a recognizable context, and used to support a particular point of view." In Finkelman's opinion, the book exemplifies the "new racism", which "(1) denies the history of racial oppression in America; (2) rejects biological racism in favor of attacks on black culture; and (3) formal support, jure equality to attack law civil rights that prohibit private discrimination and to undermine public policy that may monitor equality and give it substantive meaning ".
In early 2007, D'Souza published the Enemy at Home: Left of Culture and Responsibility for 9/11, where he argued that the remaining American culture was largely responsible for the Muslim anger that led to the September 11 attacks. He argues that Muslims do not hate America for freedom and democracy, but because they think America imposed its moral depravity (support for sexual depravity) on the world. Conclusion D'Souza urges conservatives to condemn the American entertainment industry.
The book was criticized in major American newspapers and magazines and described as, among other things, "the worst nonfiction book on terrorism published by a big house since 9/11" and "national disgrace". D'Souza's book provoked controversy in the conservative movement. His conservative critics have widely mocked his thesis that leftists are responsible for 9/11. In response, D'Souza posted a 6,500 word essay on the Online National Review , and NRO then published a series of responses from conservative writers accusing D'Souza of character assassination, elitism and pseudo -intellectualism.
D'Souza wrote the book America: Imagine the World Without Her , which became the basis of this film. When Costco's warehouse club pulled books off its shelf shortly before the film's release, conservative media and social media fans criticized the move. Costco said it was withdrawing the book because of low sales. D'Souza denied the explanation, saying the book had just come out a few weeks and had soared to # 1 on Amazon.com, while Costco kept hundreds of books much lower. He and other conservatives confirmed that it was withdrawn because one of Costco's founders, James Sinegal, supported Obama's politics. Costco rearranged the book and cited documentary releases and related interests for reorder.
In July 2017, D'Souza published a book entitled The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left, two weeks before Republican President Donald Trump referred to participants in a neo-Nazi rally in Virginia. as "a very nice person." D'Souza explains an awkward time by repeating the rumor that one of the rally organizers is "an Obama man." Conservative Colonel New York Times Ross Douthat criticized the book, saying it was a "request to be noticed" by D'Souza, who had "hacked": "Because D'Souza has become a professional con artist, what what he adds is amazing elision, sweeping calumnies and funny jumps. "
His Christian apologetic books, What's So Great About Christianity and Life After Death: Evidence , both are on the New York Times Best Sellers list.
Opposition to Barack Obama
Forbes article and The Roots of the Obama's Rage
At the end of September 2010 opinion article on Forbes about President Barack Obama, titled "How Obama Thinks", D'Souza calls Obama's father "African and cheeful socialist". He went on to write that the latter view controlled the Obama administration's policies.
The Roots of the Obama's Rage , where the Forbes article is a concise version, was published in September 2010 by Regnery Publishing. This book presents an interpretation of Obama's past and how he formed his beliefs; was on The New York Times Best Seller's list for four weeks in October-November 2010. D'Souza appeared at the Glenn Beck Program in September 2010 to discuss some of his books. theory.
Some commentators have strongly denied a statement about Obama, made in books and articles, including Media Matters for America, which shows what is claimed to be a mistake in an article titled "The Roots of Rage Obama rooted in lies". Ryan Chittum, in an article in the Columbia Journalism Review, described the Forbes article as a "fact piece, a paranoia filled with errors... the worst kind of smears journalism - a job that very disgusting ".
Some conservative publications have criticized D'Souza's allegations. In "Obama, Anticolonial Hegemonist?", Daniel Larison of The American Conservative states, "Dinesh D'Souza has written what may be the most ridiculous part of Obama's analysis that has not been written... All in all , The article D'Souza reads like a bad conspiracy theory. "Larison criticizes D'Souza's suggestion that Obama is anti-business, citing the lack of evidence.
Andrew Ferguson of The Weekly Standard wrote, "D'Souza always sees no evidence as evidence of anything or anything... There is, indeed, a name for beliefs that motivate President Obama, but that's not anticolonialism, that's not socialism, that is liberalism! "The magazine published the letter D'Souza, in which he expressed surprise" in a small and sensitive tone to Andrew Ferguson's comment ".
At the end of February 2017, a student at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, stole over 200 leaflets advertising D'D'souzy at university in the first week of March. D'Souza called the protest "pathetic," and advised the demonstrators, "Let's go out and debate me In the best case you might win, in the worst case, you'll learn something". The twin brothers Manfred and Jonah Wendt, founders of the conservative group of Tigers for Freedom, have deployed about 600 notices about D'Souza's visit to campus. Those returned by protesters contained negative comments about D'Souza.
2016: Obama America Movies
D'Souza wrote and co-directed the documentary-style polemic 2016: Obama's America . Through interviews and reenactment, the film compares the similarities in the lives of D'Souza and President Barack Obama. D'Souza suggested that early influences on Obama influenced the decisions he made as president. The movie slogan is "Love him or hate him, you do not know him." The film has been criticized on the grounds that what D'Souza claims as Obama's investigation includes huge projections, speculations, and selective loans from Obama's autobiography, to prove D'Souza's own narration. In the film's "Fact Check", the Associated Press found that D'Souza provided little or no evidence for most of his claims, noting that some of the charges were factually false, and described the film's central thesis as "almost entirely subjective and the best logical stretch."
After a limited release starting July 13, 2012, the film expanded to over 1000 cinemas by the end of August 2012, and reached over 2000 theaters before the end of September 2012, eventually generating over $ 33.4 million. This is the fifth best-selling documentary in the United States over the past four decades, and the second best-selling political documentary.
The Obama administration described the film as "a dangerous attempt to disgrace the president dishonestly". Later, when D'Souza was charged with violating electoral laws, D'Souza and his producer associates alleged that he was selectively prosecuted, and that the charges were politically motivated reprisals for the film's success.
Other movies
America: Imagine a World Without Him
In March 2013, D'Souza announced work on a documentary film titled America: Imagine the World Without Her for release in 2014. America is marketed to a political conservative and through a marketing Company Christian. The Washington Times states that D'Souza says that Americans no longer have past heroes like Washington, Lincoln, and Reagan, but "we have us" in "our struggle to restore America."
Lions Gate Entertainment released America in three theaters on June 27, 2014 and expanded its distribution on the weekend of US Independence Day holiday on July 4, 2014. CinemaScore reported that the opening weekend viewers gave the film an "A" rating. The film scooped $ 14.4 million, making it the best-selling documentary in the United States in 2014.
Metacritic's review website surveyed 11 movie critics and rated 10 reviews as negative and 1 as a mix, with nothing positive. It gives an aggregate score of 15 out of 100, which shows "extraordinary dislike". Similar websites of Rotten Tomatoes surveyed 24 criticism and, categorizing reviews as positive or negative, rated 22 as negative and 2 as positive. From 24 reviews , it's rated an average of 2.9 out of 10. The website gives the film an overall score of 8% and says the consensus is, "Passionate but poorly built, America preach to the choir. " The Hollywood Reporter ' s Paul Bond says the film performs well in its limited theatrical release," overcoming some negative reviews in mainstream media ". Bonds reported, "Conservative... looks happy with the movie."
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On July 25, 2016, D'Souza released the documentary film Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party. The film criticized Democrats and Hillary Clinton, the candidate for Democratic (and last) candidate for the President of the United States in 2016.
The film is universally screened by professional film critics. In the review of Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a 4% approval rating, based on 27 professional reviews, with an average rating of 1.7/10. The critics' consensus on the site reads, "Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party" found Dinesh D'Souza once again preach to the right wing choir - though less effective than ever. "In Metacritic, which gives a normalized ranking, the film has a score of 2 out of 100, based on 17 criticisms, showing" extreme dislike "The film has the fifth lowest score of all the films on this site Peter Sobczynski wrote," < Hillary's America is probably the dumbest documentary I've ever seen in my life. "The July 2016 review in Variety has characterized D'Souza as" a wingnut right-wing conspiracy, a type of "thinker" who took off from Barack Obama's birther theory and kept going, spun out a comic-book liberal crime net. "
Critics and other figures view the film positively. The John Fund of the National Review states that "[the film] is on the spot and is definitely selective, but the disturbing facts are accurate and extensively documented in the book D'Souza that accompanies the film. "He also called the film" very patriotic ". On July 23, 2016, Donald Trump, then running for Republican presidential candidate against Clinton, asked supporters to watch the film.
On January 23, 2017, the film was nominated for five Razzies including: Worst Picture, Worst Actor (Dinesh D'Souza), Worst Actress (Becky Turner), Worst Director (Dinesh D'Souza and Bruce Schooley), and Worst Screenplay. In response to the Razzie nomination, D'Souza stated that he was "actually quite respectable" and called the nomination of "small revenge" in response to the Trump election victory, also stating that "the film may play an important role in the election." After "winning" four of five possible Razzies, D'Souza repeated his view that the nominees were given in response to the triumph of the Trump election.
Financial success of election campaign and pardon
On January 23, 2014, D'Souza was accused of making $ 20,000 in illegal campaign donations to the New York Senate campaign, Wendy Long and causing false statements made to the Federal Electoral Commission. His lawyer responded to the charge by saying his client "did not act with any corrupt or criminal intent" and described the incident as "at best... a misguided misconduct." Gerald Molen, who co-produced the 2012 2016: Obama's America with D'Souza, stated that the indictment was politically motivated retaliation for the film's success. Harvard law professor, Alan Dershowitz, felt the charge was unfair: "The idea of ​​burdening him with crime because this does not sound like the application of prosecutorial wisdom... I can not help but think that [D'Souza] Politics has something to do with it... This is a selective prosecution. "He went on to say the alleged breach of such a campaign is common in politics.
On May 15, 2014, US District Judge Richard M. Berman rejected the notion that D'Souza was elected to prosecution, stating, "The court concluded that the defendant respectfully did not submit evidence that he was selectively prosecuted."
On May 20, 2014, D'Souza pleaded guilty to one count of crime in making an illegal contribution on behalf of another. On September 23, 2014, the court sentenced D'Souza to a five-year probation, eight months in a shelter house (referred to as a "community confinement center") and a $ 30,000 fine.
After D'Souza's conviction, his claim of selective prosecution continued to receive support from some conservative media and commentators.
On May 31, 2018, President Donald Trump gave D'Souza a full pardon, claiming on Twitter that the authors/activists "were treated very unfairly by our government."
In a tweet on the same day, D'Souza notes that Trump not only forgives but (previously) dismisses Preet Bharara, a US lawyer who accuses him. What drives the forgiveness is debatable. According to D'Souza, Senator Texas Ted Cruz made a personal petition to the president to forgive him, and that other members of the "inner circle" of the president have also lobbied for pardon. But Trump told reporters on the Air Force One that "No one asked me to do so."
Personal life
In 1992, D'Souza married Dixie Brubaker, whom she first met when she worked in Washington, DC They had one daughter, born in 1995. In her book Life After Death: Evidence, states that Brubaker has near-death experience at the age of 19 years. The couple lived together in California until D'Souza moved to New York as president of King's College. He maintains a residence near San Diego, where his wife and daughter remain.
On October 16, 2012, an article in World Warner, author Warren Cole Smith reported D'Souza's activities after the September 28 talks that year in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Smith says D'Souza, who was married at the time, checked into the hotel with another woman and went with him the next day. In his denial, D'Souza says that he and his wife have split up. She confirms that she has been engaged to Denise Odie Joseph - herself married to Louis Joseph. After an investigation by officials at King's College, D'Souza stated that he had suspended his engagement to Joseph.
After D'Souza's affair became public, the guardians of King's College announced after meeting on October 17, 2012 that D'Souza had resigned from his position as university president "to meet his personal and family needs". Smith notes that D'Souza filed for divorce on the date of Smith's investigation. D'Souza and Brubaker then divorced.
D'Souza married Deborah Fancher, a conservative political activist and mother of two, on March 19, 2016. The marriage was held near San Diego, California with Pastor Rafael Cruz, father of US Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who leads. Fancher, 50, immigrated from Venezuela at the age of 10.
Work
Books
The books written by D'Souza include:
Movies
Awards and nominations
See also
References
External links
- Official website
- Appearance in C-SPAN
- Dinesh D'Souza on IMDb
- Dinesh D'Souza on Goodreads
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