<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Re: Hitchens on genocide</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <STYLE type=text/css>BLOCKQUOTE { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } DL { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } UL { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } OL { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } LI { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } </STYLE> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4807.2300" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So what was the actual text of the original column?  I don't particularly like Hitchens, but given his nasty sense of humor, he is also easy to quote out of context.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-- Nathan Newman</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=mvp1@igc.org href="mailto:mvp1@igc.org">Mark Pavlick</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lists.panix.com href="mailto:lbo-talk@lists.panix.com">lbo-talk@lists.panix.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 06, 2001 9:33 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Hitchens on genocide</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><X-TAB>        </X-TAB>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'<U> Nation</U> column of 10/19/92 was one of those attacks.</DIV> <DIV><X-TAB>        </X-TAB>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.</DIV> <DIV><X-TAB>        </X-TAB>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.</DIV> <DIV><X-TAB>        </X-TAB>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.</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE cite type="cite">Status:  U<BR>X-Originating-IP: [130.63.75.220]<BR>From: "Jeet Heer" <jeetheer@hotmail.com><BR>To: lbo-talk@lists.panix.com<BR>Subject: Re: Hitchens on genocide<BR>Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 05:16:49 +0000<BR>X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Dec 2001 05:16:49.0970 (UTC) FILETIME=[357A3920:01C17E15]<BR>Sender: owner-lbo-talk@lists.panix.com<BR>Reply-To: lbo-talk@lists.panix.com<BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE cite type="cite">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.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE cite type="cite"><BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE cite type="cite"> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE cite type="cite">Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at <A href="http://go.msn.com/bql/hmtag_itl_EN.asp">http://explorer.msn.com</A></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><X-SIGSEP><PRE>-- </PRE></BLOCKQUOTE></X-SIGSEP></BODY></HTML>