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

[philion at stolaf.edu]

Nathan writes:
"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."

Yeah, this is a Marc Cooper kind of tactic, distort what someone writes
and then argue against that distortion. Honest debate at least required
acknowledging that Churchill's argument was not against working class
persons in that building, nor lower level administrators. If that is how
you read his argument, you've plainly experienced problems of reading
comprehension. Now mind you, lest you distort *my* view of Churchill's
argument, even that having been said I find the argument less than helpful
politically speaking. However, if you want to argue that Churchill is
arguing that the working class persons in the building had it
coming,...that's plainly not the case. It's odd that you would believe
that, given that you're a well educated lawyer/scholar/activist who
shouldn't experience such lapses in reading comprehension.

"This indifference to suffering of those families by that sector of the left
was what alientated lot of people from the antiwar movement."

Yeah, I know, when I see those 911 Peaceful Tomorrows folks, I just think
to myself, "self-haters".