Ha! Very elegant. If I remember rightly, something like 150 academics asked
to be put on the Campus Watch blacklist in support of eight colleagues...and
many were duly added, though I think they took that particular list down
after the death threats, malicious spamming, &c, which supposedly shocked
Daniel Pipes (!) - yeah right.
Churchill may be a fool (and I think he said some stupid things) but the
right wings blogs made him out much worse than he is. It's always worth
checking what someone actually said and the context in which they said it in
these smear campaigns - They picked Churchill because he was an easy
target, but he's not the point. He was tenured, so getting him set a
precedent. Anyone who said "he's an idiot, why should we defend him?" (a
lot did) kind of missed the point.
Cheers
A
On 10/3/05 6:50 AM, "Christopher Walker" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> <snip>
> If nothing else, this provides incentive/motivation to write
> <snip>
>
> 'Incentive/motivation' is how Judith Butler seems to have interpreted the
> activities of Campus Watch. Adopting what one might term the Niemöller
> strategy, she wrote to Campus Watch:
>
> 'I have recently learned that your organization is compiling dossiers on
> professors at U.S. academic institutions who oppose the Israeli occupation
> and its brutality, actively support Palestinian rights of self-determination
> as well as a more informed and intelligent view of Islam than is currently
> represented in the U.S. media. I would be enormously honored to be counted
> among those who actively hold these positions and would like to be included
> in the list of those who are struggling for justice.'
Alison Croggon
Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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