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> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
> On Behalf Of Chuck0
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 10:53 AM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Ward Churchill is Neocon Test Case for Academic
> Purges
>
> Michael Dawson wrote:
>
> > Two points:
> >
> > 1. If you believe this analysis, then you should be in Boulder setting
> up
> > rallies, or at least spending huge chunks of energy helping Churchill.
>
> We're working on it.
>
> > 2. Last week on John Stewart's show, I saw tape of Churchill in Hawaii.
> > There, he said in front of the cameras that the job of academics is not
> to
> > explain history carefully and strive toward science, but to say
> inflammatory
> > things "to provoke response." What would we say if a rightist made such
> an
> > insane and simply incorrect thing? That's right: We'd howl and call
> for
> > dismissal.
>
> No, we wouldn't!
>
> I watched that segment too and I'd say that you completely misunderstand
> Churchill's argument. Ward is arguing that professors should be
> provocative, thus prompting their students to respond to them. Isn't
> this what you would want out of your academic experience, professors who
> challenge you to argue things with them and get you to think?
>
> Otherwise you just snooze through class.
>
> Chuck
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