The fact that Churchill actually wrote this thing over three years ago, and he is getting attacked nationally for it NOW, is even more disturbing, because it's evidence that this is the beginning of a new stage in a long-running smear campaign only just now coming to full fruition. That is the campaign to create the myth of "political correctness" on college campuses: a campaign that audaciously appropriated the language of rebellion and dissent for an extraordinarily repressive project; one where the sniveling, grovelling, contemptible semi-literate toadies who run foundation-funded campus right-wing rags become rebels against the "leftist establishment" (they actually use this idiot phrase); one where speaking a critical word about the current "president" of the United States gets cast as an act of political "intolerance" against "conservative" students -- and all of this with the goal of getting even mildly critical academic figures (whether profs, grad students, or anyone else) to shut up, threatening people with their jobs, maybe even eventually abolishing tenure, and thereby further restricting the already anemic political discussion in this country, all in the name of free discussion and "ideological diversity"! Of course, most of the media are so lazy, so stupid, and such slime to begin with that they give "equal time" to the ludicrous charges of the right on the one hand and reasonable human beings on the other; after a while, when the big lie has sunk in, they simply parrot reaction's bullshit claims as fact.
It is in light of the attack on Ward Churchill and Northeastern University prof. M. Shahid Alam (who was gratuitously raghead-baited by Bill O'Reilly last night) that things like Daniel Pipes' "Red Channels"-style hitlist look even more distrurbing than they did previously. Churchill will not be the last to experience this witch-hunt before it runs its course.
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