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

David Green davegreen84 at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 9 10:50:29 PDT 2011


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."


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