Alison Croggon wrote:
>Quite. I have no brief for Mr Churchill's views. But he has every right to
>hold them and, in a democracy, to be questioned on them. Whether he should
>be hounded out of his job or persecuted because of them is a mooter point.
>And frankly, sets a very bad precedent. Churchill is just a dickhead, but
>other more serious scholars are going to suffer (are being targeted now) if
>his right to speak is not defended.
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>Best
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And I absolutely agree. My error of omission yesterday evening was in
suggesting that Dr. Churchill's effect on progressive or leftist
movements in the US and perhaps elsewhere is potentially disastrous. He
has become the right wing's poster boy for everything that is wrong with
the Left, not with Ward Churchill himself. The expression "Tar with the
same brush" jumps to mind. The people I knew years ago in Academe who
became serious literary and social scholars work with the writings of
Gramsci, Adorno, et al.. But they don't have a "they had it coming"
attitude toward the victims of terrorism: either here or elsewhere. I
may have missed this--but anyone ask Churchill about the Atocha Station
bombing a year ago yesterday?
Ken
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