One Moore stupid white man

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Apr 17 13:19:42 PDT 2002


Michael Perelman wrote:


>The author of Arming America is about to get a similar treatment.
>
>On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 03:28:37PM +0000, Justin Schwartz wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone remember David Abraham? He was a left wing Princeton asst prof
>> of History who was essentially run out of the profession by a cabal of right
>> wing Germanists who objected to his thesis that Hitler had the support of
>> the German capitalist class. His book contained a number of errors--unlike
>> their books of course!--and these were magnified into charges of
>> incompetence or dishonesty. He went to law school and is now a law prof at
> > the U of Miami. I heard him on an NPR Sat am quiz show this summer . . . .

Which just goes to show you that when you're writing counterhegemonically, you have to be at least 7.842 times as careful as someone doing PR for The Man.

Doug



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