Re: [Marxism] Purging liberals from the academy

["Sayan Bhattacharyya" <ok.president+marxmail@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/8/06, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Counterpunch, September 7, 2006
> Parallel Purges
> Academic Freedom in Iran and America
>
> By ROBERT JENSEN
>
> This past year, for example, a number of politicians called for the firing
> of University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill for harsh remarks he
> made about U.S. policy, and it appears that the university is going to
> answer those calls,

Politicians called for the firing of  Churchill for he compared World
Trade Center victims to Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi who orchestrated the
Holocaust.  That isn't "harsh remarks about US policy", but a
grotesquely insensitive remark about innocent victims. His right to
make grotesque remarks should be protected under free speech rights,
of course, and the politicians were wrong to call for his firing. But
to say that what provoked the calls  was merely "a harsh remark about
foreign policy" is inaccurate.

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