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From: Mark Pavlick
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: Hitchens on genocide
In 1992 there was a series of right-wing attacks on attempts by progressives to commemorate the victims of the actual history of the Americas during the five centuries of the Columbian era. Hitchens' Nation column of 10/19/92 was one of those attacks.
If anyone has evidence that Hitchens recanted the sentiments supportive of genocide expressed in this piece, and apologized to any of the people he attacked, maybe they could post it.
There are continuities between this piece and current positions of Hitchens, including its vocabulary. In the '92 column Hitchens ridiculed those engaged in a fast in remembrance of the sufferings of Native Americans as "masochistic", and said he himself would enjoy a full-course meal.
In his 10/8/2001 column "Against Rationalization" Hitchens referred to "masochistic e-mail traffic from the Chomsky-Zinn-Finkelstein quarter", i.e., anyone who didn't agree with his explicitly anti-intellectual position on the events of 9/11.
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From: "Jeet Heer" <jeetheer at hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Hitchens on genocide
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 05:16:49 +0000
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Could we return to the original question which started this thread. I'm a big fan of Hitchen's pre-Sept. 11th writing and was a bit taken aback by the quotation from his working indicating that he believes the conquest and destruction of the Native American population was a great boon to humanity. Does he really believe this? If so, is he not a moral idiot? Does Peter or anyone else know about the 1992 column that was quoted in the original posting.
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