Re: Re: [PEN-L] Churchill Falloutï

[Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers@xxxxxxxxx>]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> On May 27, 2006, at 2:07 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
>
> > I should mention, btw, that one of the reasons me and Doug have
> > patched things up was his telling Brown where to get off, when he
> > showed up on lbo-talk.
>
> What a creep Brown is. It's sad to learn what we've learned about
> Churchill's research habits, but no amount of footnote-checking will
> absolve white people of their crimes against indigenous people. Why
> set out to ruin Churchill, like Brown did, unless you're trying to
> develop an apologetics for genocide?
.

If I remember correctly, one of the points Churchill was trying to make
when *everyone* pounced on the Eichman comment was the indication that
the 'playbook' of domination hasn't changed since the assimilation
(forced or not) of the Native American culture, that the powers that be
are doing EXACTY (or some approximation) the same thing to Iraq and the
middle east. There are many whose interests are vested in suppressing
that line of inquiry. IMHO, opportunism plays a part in why someone
could do something like that.

Leigh
http://leighm.net/