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Ward Churchill: Blame Youself
Posted by Raven on June 4th, 2007
More accusations of misconduct for Ward Churchill.
Michael puts it bluntly:
If your going to rock the boat, be prepared to get put under a microscope. This is why so many people don’t want to be in politics.
As I said here the other day, free speech is free…but one has to responsible for it as well. And when you spout off Anti American rhetoric shortly after America is attacked, you best expect to be put under that microscope.
More:
On Friday, January 28, 2005 Bill O’Reilly painted a verbal target on the back of University of Colorado Ethnic Studies Professor Ward Churchill, vowing to bring him down for remarks he wrote online in 2001. Since that time in a systematic, deliberate way O’Reilly and FOX News have decided that Ward Churchill does not deserve to teach and have set out to destroy him. I personally believe this is because anti-academic elements within the right-wing movement thought at the time that this would be an easy case to use to test the concept of “tenure” in federal court. If that was the original intent, it backfired mightily.
This isn’t about his comments regarding September 11th victims being little Nazi’s. Churchill’s writing on this opened him up to scrutiny- as it would to me had I written that. Churchill is a man who has lied about his race; his academic research has been found to not only faulty, but historically inaccurate. He has plagiarized the works of others. To claim anti academic elements within the right wing movement is responsible for Churchill’s downfall is disingenuous, as is calling this censorship. Churchill can blame NO one but himself.
June 5th, 2007 at 12:49 am
but he don’t like th truth, he can’t be responsible for his own actions or words…..
June 5th, 2007 at 7:16 am
The argument of every liberal, and esp. of every Ivory Tower Coward like Churchill. Sad, this is probably far from over at this time. Talk about wasting tax payer money:roll: