[mark1080]

Professor Churchill blaming the victims of 9/11/01 is a good example of non-critical thought

[mywholebodyisaweapon]

I pray for poetic justice for Professor Churchill.

[camle]

hmm.. since he is also a part of american society, perhaps he feels guilty that somebody didn't drop a plane on him?

[aspiring.hillbilly]

The headline is false, this is exactly how this dooshbag thinks...

[sgtbono2002]

Since Dr. Churchill is now trying to impose his stupid theory on the rest of the world it is my hope that now he will get a taste of his own medicine.
First he should be out of a job, since no University needs a person with such an ignorant outlook . And a pop in the mouth wouldnt hurt him either.

[TexasTaysor]

He hates Americans for their "capitalism", yet he gets paid by an American university and was going to accept money for this speech......hmmmm, doesn't that put him in the same category as a "capitalist"?

[OpusatFR]

""While I respect his freedom of speech, I think at some point we cannot allow professors to hide behind the curtain of "academic freedom" and "freedom of speech.""

From what I can see, Ethnic studies is not a discipline. It seems to be merely opinion. I had thought it was similar to anthropology, but it isn't.

I suppose anyone with the correct radical views and nonsensical statements can "create" a degree(?) program based on very sketchy ideas.

[Sgt_Schultze]

I saw some of Churchill's colleagues defending his freedom of speech and decrying the vicious complaints he has received. The far left has no understanding of free speech. They think it a license that allows them to say whatever they wish while being shielded from criticism for their poorly reasoned statements.

They always forget that their detractors also have the same freedom of speech which can impel others to gather in protest to mock and deride stupid statements on the part of liberal academics. The first amendment is only a shield against government restraint, not against detractors and mockery.

[Sax]

"they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break."

Ok, as an academic scholar, that's how he choses to prove his point? "GIMME A BREAK?" With such inescapable logic how can any ever expect to oppose him?

Of course the prof. will say he was merely speaking in the vernacular - dumbing down his speech for the benefit of the rest of us. Thanks, for the I-am-more-enlighten-than-you eye-opener there prof, now politely cram it up your arse.

[Hu Gadarn]

Let me get this straight. The man who called the people who died in the WTC Nazi's... well actually "little Eichmann's" and who calls those who flew the planes "patriots" and "strike Teams"(terrorists to you and me). is actually thought of as a thoughtful academic? Here's an Idea! Lets take him on a helo flight to the site where the WTC used to stand up to say the level of the top floor? Then push him out without a parachute so he can experience FIRST HAND what its like to be a little Eichmann! Thousands of people from over 40 countries worked in the WTC.
How is it that "America" is to blame for the hate of others? THIS "Professor" is nothing more than a hate-mongering, terrorist sympathizer who hides behind the mask of an academic. He's a wannabe and if I had any say in the matter his teaching credentials would be pulled and he would be barred from teaching his sewage laden doctrine.

[Congressman Billybob]

Thank you for providing the President's e-mail addy. I sent her the following:

Dear President Stewart,

I have spent 22 years in education, including two graduate programs. I've been a college professor. And I've read theories of education, going back to Aristotle and Plato.

I know, and you should also, that all colleges and universities have a basic purpose of seeking truth. Since Hamilton College has violated that purpose for a more crabbed intent -- selling a political viewpoint that is non-factual, shall we say -- the failure has to begin in your office. Are you going to take steps to straighten out your institution? Or should your Board fire you and start over?

And you can forget your "free speech" apologetic. Unless you have a physics teacher who presents the flat Earth theory, for instance, your faculty does make distinctions between true and false in ideas presented.

No need to reply to me. The press will be watching Hamilton closely. Whether you get a clue, or get fired, will be a matter of public knowledge.

Sincerely,

Congressman Billybob [TWO different columns this week]

Click for latest, "Homer, Shakespeare, Pope, and George Bush"

Click for latest, "Dusty Rhodes, a Death in the Family"

[SuziQ]

I saw an interview with him last night. Looks like he's starving for attention, and this is the way to get it. I heard Laura Ingraham's show last night, and the man being interviewed said that Churchill's claims about being Native American and fighting for their rights are bogus.

[mark1080]

here is Professor Churchill's essay
http://www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/s11/churchill.html

[McGavin999]

I think it's time the taxpayers of this country put their collective foot down. It is insane that we are financing America haters like this. Do I think they should all be fired? No, but I do think that students should hear both sides of an issue. It's time for some diversity of thought on campus. I also think tenure should go down the toilet.