Mike Rosen: The professor must go (Ward Churchill at Univ. of Colorado)

Rocky Mountain News column ^ | February 4th, 2005 | Mike Rosen

[Lazamataz]

Are you folks aware that Ward Churchill is going to give his 9/11 speech TOMORROW at CU. Roll out the red carpet.

Un-f***ing-believable.

[Jabba the Nutt]

For all the Academic Freedom folks, where was their defense of Lawrence Summers, the President of Harvard? He's been forced to crawl on his belly and appoint not one but two independent commissions to investigate and to recruit more women to Harvard. Where are the protestors?

The Academic Freedom folks, like the Anti-War folks are flying false flags. They don't believe in these principles, they're simply on the other side, the side of the Anti-Americans, the Islamo-Fascists and the commie-socialists. That's it, politics by any means.

[muawiyah]

This Ward Churchill has been playing a sort of "Eichmann" trick himself.

Remember Eichmann's statement that "if there were no Jews" he would not be mistaken for one? Well, here's Ward Churchill, who is not an Indian, pretending he is an Indian.

Although I don't have access to his work on the matter, I would suspect he's been very much a part of the movement to suppress American cultural recognition that Indians ever existed.

In that sense, Ward Churchill is, himself, an Eichmann carbon copy.

[thombo]

Don't know anything about Rosen(talk show radio host?),but if Churchill is dumb(and arrogant)enough to go on his show,let em do it.These creeps need to be exposed.

[muawiyah]

Doing a www.google.com search for 'squaw "ward churchill"' gives you 90 references. Reading through the first half dozen reveals that it's Ward Churchill himself who has been leading the effort to suppress the use of the word "squaw", which is the Abenaki word for WOMAN, not the Onondaga word for female genitalia as he claims.

I have no doubt there's other stuff in the record concerning the effort of the Abenaki to gain federal recognition that's going to bring up Ward Churchill, and without even finding it I just know the man's going to be in there arguing that the Abenaki are "white folk", not Indian at all!

Churchill also does a lot of focusing on what he calls genocide ~ he's a veritable student of the practice.

So, when was it that it occurred to me that this Churchill guy may have been studying Eichmann for genocidal ideas?

[GVnana]

his employer, CU-Boulder, should be free to fire him for his hateful, absurd and grossly insensitive utterances.

Yes. And if he were working for a private institution, he'd probably be gone by now. But CU Boulder is a public college, and I doubt the speech alone would be considered grounds for dismissal, and Chruchill would have a lawsuit if they did fire him. The college is going to need more than that.

[ariamne]

Surely the older WWII generation alumni must have some influence, especially since colleges count on their alumni for annual funds.

I think of the people we knew who died on 9/11, and I just want to lose my breakfast.

This creep (I won't even say his name) will surely have much explaining to do when he meets his maker. In the meantime, it would be nice if he were at least made to squirm.

[jwalburg]

I wonder if Churchill is even his real name.

[jwalburg]

And there's a UNLV prof under fire for suggesting that gays, like other people without children tend not to save for the future as much as those with children. He has to promise to give up his next pay increase because one student was "offended" by his statement and unofficially complained.