<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: Hitchens on genocide</title></head><body> <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 type="cite" 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 type="cite" 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 type="cite" cite><br></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite> <hr></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" 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></x-sigsep> </body> </html>