[lbo-talk] churchill's essay

Joel Schalit managingeditor at tikkun.org
Thu May 18 11:24:29 PDT 2006


very interesting to read this exchange - i agree. i'm just fascinated by it because we're having the same discussion on the editorial list of Bad Subjects, and two or three of the current editors were actually hired by Churchill to teach at CU Boulder - or were his thesis students. the contrast in perspectives is fascinating.

On May 18, 2006, at 11:16 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:


> info at pulpculture.org wrote:
>
>> Thanks. I was pretty sure that he'd finally acknowledged -- in
>> spite of the disingenuous press release when the controversy hit
>> the fan -- that he really did mean that everyone including
>> janitors are culpable in one way or another. He lays it out in the
>> second piece and in a footnote says that, yes, he too should would
>> have been just as guilty as anyone else on one of the planes and,
>> thus, deserving of the same fate as those on the plane.
>>
>> He engages in the kind of thinking Doug has criticizes here: the
>> all or nothing, you're the oppressed or you're an oppressor
>> thinking. I have been criticizing that at the blog on a number of
>> levels, which Carrol called a 'pissing match' and which I've been
>> calling the "more oppresseder than thou" sweepstakes, arguing that
>> it emanates from a (naive) standpoint epistemology.
>
> I cited someone's critique of Churchill here once (can't remember
> who and I'm too lazy to track it down now) - his analysis is almost
> entirely at the level of nations, not classes or castes or other
> groups. So, Americans oppressed Indians, and Americans support
> Israelis who oppress Palestinians. It's a pretty short distance
> from that to collective guilt.
>
> Doug
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