Just damn.
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Posted on 02/23/2005 12:49:23 PM PST by Pikamax
Churchill attacks essay’s critics University of Colorado president calls for calm
By Craig Gima cgima@starbulletin.com Ward Churchill, the outspoken Colorado professor who created a national uproar by comparing 9/11 victims to Nazis, told an overflow crowd at the University of Hawaii last night that he is the target of a right-wing strategy to attack academia.
"I was targeted because they thought I would be an easy target," Churchill told the crowd of about 800. "That was a mistake.
"It's not just an attempt to purge me," he said. "It's a purge of the academy."
The crowd was mostly sympathetic to Churchill, a University of Colorado ethnic studies professor. He was applauded more than a dozen times and was greeted at least three times with standing ovations.
Before the speech began, about a dozen members of a UH college Republican group protested.
"I never wanted to be a poster boy for academic freedom," Churchill said. "You can't give an inch. If you let this one down, you've lost it all."
Much of Churchill's speech was devoted to explaining and expanding on his essay written on Sept. 11, 2001, that called 9/11 victims "little Eichmanns."
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LUCY PEMONI / STAR-BULLETIN University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill drew about 800 people to his speech at UH-Manoa last night -- plus a dozen protesters like these.
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He said the theme of his essay and a later book was that the United States has been involved in violating international law and killing innocents and should not be surprised that some people would want to kill Americans -- the "chickens coming home to roost," as his essay is titled. He argued that the World Trade Center could be considered a legitimate target because it is a symbol of the financial power that allows the United States to flex its military might.
He said if you read his essay, he called the "technicians" in the World Trade Center "little Eichmanns," a reference to Adolf Eichmann, who actually did not kill any Jews but made it possible for the trains to run on time and for the Holocaust to take place.
It's obvious, Churchill said, that he did not mean to say children, janitors, firefighters and innocent bystanders were part of that group. Instead, he said, he was referring to investment bankers and others who make the killing of innocents by the U.S. military and U.S. policy possible.
Churchill did address the issue of his ethnicity, admitting that he is not Native American.
"Is he an Indian? Do we really care?" he said, quoting those he called his "white Republican" critics.
"Let's cut to the chase; I am not," he said.
His pedigree is "not important," Churchill said: "The issue is the substance of what is said."
He went on to explain that the issue of whether he is Native American has been blown up by sloppy reporting and reporters quoting other reporters.
His speech drew mostly positive reaction from those who attended. But Tyrone Hogenauer said he was disappointed.
"I thought he was going to talk on free speech," Hogenauer said.
Instead, Churchill talked about himself and attacked his critics the way they are attacking him, Hogenauer said: "It's a sad thing."
UH student Kirsten Chong said her professors assigned her to listen to the speech.
"He was humorous and he certainly didn't pull any punches," she said, adding that because she is native Hawaiian, she agrees with much of what he said.
Hey, maybe the guy is from India and just got a little confused, like Columbus. Regardless, he lied to the university and should be fired.
Well, because I grew up in Glendale, and spent a summer in Chula Vista once, I disagree.
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Dan
Churchill - "I may be a liar, but I never burnt no wagons!"
"Churchill admits he is not Ward Churchill, not an American, not a man, and, possibly, not of terrestrial origin...developing!"
Good Lord. This turd could spin his way out of a black hole. How pathetic.
The more this fraud talks, as many FReepers have noted, the more he reveals the pandering, narcissism of the left and the overwhelming majority of academia.
Its always "the ends justify the means" with these losers.
He's not a native american, but he plays one on college campuses so that makes him legit. Sarcasm off...
Well, of course. I mean, race, class and gender are at the heart of every argument in the academy today.
No kidding?! I'm shocked, utterly shocked!
Just damn.
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If his "pedigree" is not important, why did he lie about it for several years???
Did you know most college's faculty are 90+ % democrat? I'd say a "purge" of the socialists from college campuses is LOOOONG overdue.
I am trying to figure out what motivates white people to condemn their own type? Very odd behavior. Certainly there is the "look how intellectual I am" component but there has to be more.
Much of it, I think, stems from the pure spoiledness of Americans in general. The inate belief that most Americans have that nothing really bad could ever happen to them, not personally but on a larger socio-political level. And a huge ignorance of history helps bring about that mindset.
Why else would you try to ferment and foster such hatred of your own kind? Especially in a world where the white man is so greatly outnumbered. It's friggin' suicidal, if you ask me.
Oh boy! What till Bill O'reilly gets a hold of this one. The walls are closing in on our boy Churchill. He's finished. Masquerading as a minority is a federal offense punishable by life in prison.
His pedigree is "not important," Churchill said: "The issue is the substance of what is said."
Jeezul Pete, did she ever miss the point! LOL!!!
His pedigree will soon be 'unemployed'. Hopefully some quiet evening he will go outside of his shipping container 'house' to relieve himself and will lose his balance on the fence and the pigs will eat him...not that I have anything against pigs.
"Walking Eagle" - a birdbrain so full of sh*t that he can't fly.
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