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Posted on 09/24/2010 11:20:26 AM PDT by republicanbred
Oh, you ignorant Americans with your venal patriotic chants of “USA, USA” at sporting events. Your bellicosity isn’t patriotism, it’s propaganda and lowly militarism… so says David Green, University Administrator and member of the University of Illinois Institute of Government & Public Affairs.
Green’s poisoned pen letter to American patriots was published by the Daily Illini, an “independent newspaper” at the U of I, and features every manner of attack on America.
Green’s vituperation covers the gamut of anti-Americanism: America is “imperialist,” she is unconcerned over the deaths of Muslims, America is”nativist,” and patriots are prone to “obnoxious, fake-macho, chicken-hawk” chants. In other words all that is wrong with the world is evinced in the United States of America.
The professor’s screed was short, but filled with hate for America:
The vast majority of 9/11 observances in this country cannot be seen as politically neutral events. Implicit in their nature are the notions that lives lost at the World Trade Center are more valuable than lives lost in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and elsewhere; that the motives of the 9/11 attackers had nothing to do with genuine grievances in the Islamic world regarding American imperialism; and that the U.S. has been justified in the subsequent killing of hundreds of thousands in so-called retaliation.
The observance at Saturday’s football game was no different. A moment of silence was followed by a military airplane flyover; in between, Block-I students chanted “USA, USA.” This was neither patriotism nor remembrance in any justifiable sense, but politicization, militarism, propaganda and bellicosity. The University is a public institution that encompasses the political views of all, not just the most (falsely) “patriotic.” Athletic planners should cease such exploitation for political purposes. They might at least consider how most Muslim students, American or otherwise, would respond to this nativist display; or better, Muslims and others that live their lives under the threat of our planes, drones and soldiers.
The overwhelmingly white, privileged, Block-I students should be ashamed of their obnoxious, fake-macho, chicken-hawk chant, while poverty-drafted members of their cohort fight and die in illegal and immoral wars for the control of oil. University administrators need to eliminate from all events such “patriotic” observances, which in this country cannot be separated from implicit justifications for state-sponsored killing.
Looking at the comments section finds very little support for this anti-American and not everyone at the Daily Illini are in love with this hater as an October 11 entry from 2005 shows.
But this isn’t the first time that Green went down the path of hate for the west. Green has penned many antiAmerican, anti-Jewish screeds over the last decade. In 2005, for instance, Green wrote a review of one of Holocaust denier Norman Finkelstein’s books that proved that Green is a supporter of Palestine Liberation Organization and is critical of the so-called Holocaust industry.
Like a well-worn hat, Green tries on the old claim that the American’s actions at abu Ghraib and “Israeli torture” are materially the same as the Nazi-generated Holocaust. In his review Green intimates that Israel perpetrates “criminal behavior” that is little different than Hitler’s.
In March Green wrote a screed on the supposed iron-fisted Israel Lobby where he also says that the U.S. is motivated solely by imperialism in its war on terror.
Green is also a member of the Champaign/Urbana chapter of Anti-War, Anti-Racism Effort and is known as a member of the Jewish Voice for Peace which absorbed Not In My Name, the latter formerly based in Chicago.
It is infuriating that this man makes his living feeding off the taxpayers of the state of Illinois. According to the CollegiateTimes.com website, Green’s 2009 salary was $36,388 of Illinois tax dollars. This is the sort of anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-western “academic” that infests the American university system from north to south and east to west. These people are living off the taxpayers and spreading their hate every single day.
If you would like to contact Green and let him know how you feel, his office phone number is (217) 333-3231 and is email is dlgreen@illinois.edu. ____________ “The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.” –Samuel Johnson
Everyone should pull there young adult children out of the University. Starve them. B@stards!
Professor Green is still bitter about being a clumsy loser at sports when he was a kid. He is also bitter about getting swirlies every day from the 8th grade football team.
Bellicosity at a sporting event. How . . . uncivilized.
That's ridiculous.
No one claims that those lives are more valuable.
But they ARE more valued TO US AMERICANS.
I'd like to have five minutes alone with that SOB and he would have a new definition of "bellicose".
I have a chant for ya, P. Green:
“Up your a—! Up your a—! Up your a—!”
Freakin dweeb.....
It doesn't matter one whit what their motives are, legitimate grievances or no.
it was an act of terror, committed by cowards, and should be reviled as such.
“He is also bitter about getting swirlies every day from the 8th grade football team”.
...it still hurts when he goes #2 from all the atomic wedgies and he can’t wear a shirt that chafes because it’s still tender from all the titty twisters.
What a disgusting pos this administrator is. I hope the students will continue to chant USA, USA, USA, and the parents with them
Viva USA. USA2 rescue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m7OXtze6CA
Go and tell these guys that professor!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClynFFdjook
At least cockroaches and maggots have their purpose in nature.
Perhaps they DID consider it, and came to the conclusion that THEY JUST DON'T GIVE A RAT'S ASS.
Why didn't you phrase it "most American students, Muslim or otherwise" ?
Why are they Muslims first?
What's wrong with "nativism"?
They're shouting "USA - USA"!
Do Iranians shout "Iran! - Iran!"? No - that would be "nativism" - they shout "Death to USA"!
dlgreen@illinois.edu
(217) 333-3231
Target is illuminated....
Good point Rinnwald.
Some professors have never been introduced to the idea they are irrelevant. The experience of standing in front of a class, expounding at will, handing out grades that make/break the students’ planned careers, builds a kind of arrogance that god despises. And when god despises something, it is usually removed from the scene eventually. So say I.
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