[lbo-talk] Todd Gitlin: the most pompous ass ever?

[David Green]

http://www.maxajl.com/?p=5428 "In fact, what’s important is not even ripping 
into the Western fetishization of Palestinian non-violence, although that is an 
issue. The Palestinian civil resistance is powerful, ennobling, and has real 
potential. That’s clear. The problem is +972, whose writers/editors simply 
cannot shake off the arrogance of the colonial racist culture into which they 
were born and which conditions them to publish this simply insulting non-sense 
from a hack American sociologist whose most important contribution to the 
intellectual culture would be to staple his fingers to his mouth. Oh and the 
symbolic violence of this prose troubles you? It troubles me to see the 
professor descending from Morningside Heights and lecturing people about how to 
resist the violence he pays for, and to see him given a platform by 
self-described leftists."