Re: Thoughts on Ward Churchill

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

LabBitch:
> People come under investigation for violating codes of scholarly conduct.
> Every person working in a university comes under the same code: the one
> upheld by the USG.

Wrong. Doris Kearns Goodwin and Alan Dershowitz go unscathed while Columbia
investigates pro-Palestinian profssors.

> In the academy, the whole point is that we _know_ we make mistakes and that
> knowledge is a _social_ product. The rituals of deference and demeanor are
> geared toward instilling that in you every step of the way.

I cannot decipher this postmodernist trope. Sorry.

> That's pretty damn fraudulent Lou. Why you want to defend a guy who shat
> all over the leftists and feminists who worked hard to bring about the very
> possibility that he got hired at all is beyond me.

For the same reason I insist on beating my mother every chance I get.

> he has set back feminist and leftist struggles in the academy by, no doubt,
> at least a decade if not more.

Have you actually ever read a book by Ward Churchill?