[extropy-chat] Ward Churchill, glory seeker

[Ned Late]

Ward Churchill admitted today his doctorate is an
honorary one. Among other depressing facts revealed on
the various interviews was that he was in Vietnam;
however he apparently learned little from his tour of
duty there. Churchill thinks the "technocrats" at WTC
on 9-11 deserved their fates because they were
'plugged into the imperialist war machine opposed to
Arab interests'. I met Noam Chomsky in 1987, noticing
the same cold, determined contempt in the voice. You
might think these academics have a cause in mind yet a
simple desire for revenge might be a likely
explanation. Sure, a book contract for a title like
say 'Twenty First Century McCarthyism' plus $1,000
honorariums on the radical circuit are attractive to
him, but to retire famous would be even more
satisfying.
Nonetheless, keeping Churchill in his professorship
(he resigned his chairmanship of the Ethnic Studies
Department as planned for a long time, unrelated to
the scandal) would help his detractors as he is the
worst advertisement for left radicalism known today.

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