[lbo-talk] Marc Cooper's flipping out over Churchill

[Nathan Newman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <philion at stolaf.edu>
-"It was at the mass meeting in New York of antiwar activists that the
-coalition was destroyed in the weeks after 911, because a minority refused
-to call for the 911 killers to be brought to justice under international
-law, since they argued that imperialists had no right to call for such
-justice.   It was a sickening set of arguments then and hateful in the
-extreme. "

+You attribute 'hate' to the political argument. I see a political position
+that you disagree with alone.  There is no evidence of hate that you've
+presented.

The problem is that you see no hatefulness in telling families that they 
have no right to justice because their dead loves ones -- many of them 
working class, many lower-level administrativestaff  - were "imperialists." 
This indifference to suffering of those families by that sector of the left 
was what alientated lot of people from the antiwar movement.

-- Nathan