> Well said Amadeus. I retract my statements characterizing imperialism as
> hokey etc. and my statements casting any reading of 9-11 as necessarily
> racist. What you say makes a lot of sense. I agree that the evidence
> either way is not strong, and that predispositions play a major part in
> what people tend to think. I will say that I do feel that the
> alternative view does hold more water, but I acknowlede that is partly a
> subjective position. My main problem is that many progressives have
> expended a lot of energy over the last three years attacking and
> marginalizing those of us with an alternate view of 9-11 as though they
> have a vested interest in the official story being true, and have not
> been open to any passionless evaluation of the evidence, such as it is,
> without blurting out 'conspiracy theorist' etc.
All of the right wingers are jumping all over Ward Churchill:
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One curious thing I've noticed is that Horowitz's website has run only one anti-Churchill rant this week. Is he wondering if this will blow up in his face? After all, if Churchill loses his job, our side can argue that his campaign is really against academic freedom.
By the way, one more note on the "ruling class is racist" thread--I was talking to a local activist here in Kansas City last night. This person has spent some time moving around in the social circles of Kansas City's elite class. He informs me that they are indeed very racist, paranoid about black people especially.
Chuck