Re: Thoughts on Ward Churchill

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was reading the messages in reverse order.  This one from Lou starts out ok, but he
cannot resist jumping into the flames.

I do agree with Lou's first statement about Goodwin and Dershowitz.

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 06:07:17PM -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
> 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?

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