l[lbo-talk] Churchill Sets Limits on Academic Freedom of Speech

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Apr 3 10:46:18 PDT 2005


Thomas Brown wrote:


>Have you got nothing going on but ad hominem, Doug? Check yourself,
>my friend. Try to focus, and say something intelligent about the
>issues.

Let me be clear about this. I think what you're doing stinks. I think you're the very definition of an opportunist. I'm very focused on what I think is the major issue - the defense of academic and intellectual freedom. The right knows very well what it wants to do: to discredit any radical critique of US society. They think they've found an excellent target in Churchill. And you're making it easier for them. Secondarily, they'd like to discredit the case for US genocide against Indians, which is certainly, along with slavery, a great foundational crime of this country. You're making that easier for them too. So I don't give a fuck about whether the story of a particular blanket is true or not.

You're a good example of why Carrol Cox is wrong to consider motives when evaluating an argument, by the way.

Doug



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