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

philion at stolaf.edu philion at stolaf.edu
Mon Feb 7 13:03:53 PST 2005


"The problem was that parts of the far left refused to also fully condemn the murder of the victims in the World Trade Center and instead labelled them "little Eichmanns" and such."

Wow, that's a neat rhetorical trick there Nathan, pretend that there were lots of people going around declaring the WTC victims 'little Eichmans and such". Also pretend that people like myself and others on the left weren't critical of that essay because of the way it would get distorted and used to attack the antiwar movement. It didn't move me to stay away from antiwar protests, even if they were imperfect ones.

"How about being able to condemn BOTH actions by the US and actions by its enemies that kill innocents?"

Your belief that the majority of the antiwar movement didn't do that is nonsense. Although it's kinda hard to keep up with which enemies we're supposed to hate, the list is always getting revised. Probably in 10 or 20 years we'll be reaching some kind of accord with AQ. WHat the heck, we did with Qaddafi. But, in the meanwhile, tons of resources that could be better spent on working people's needs here and abroad will continue to go to departments that 'fight' our 'enemies'. Long live the working class, ha ha.



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