Let's leave aside the name-calling here, and defend Ward Churchill's right to say things that people will consider odious. And let's even assume (or pretend) that when he was describing my co-workers and colleagues as "little Eichmanns," his goal was to illustrate how the benighted savages of the Middle East perceived them, not, heaven forfend, giving his own opinion. He's not defending the practice of murdering civilians by piloting planes into building, of course, he's just pointing out the inevitability of this sort of response when the United Stated of Starbucks commits the faux pas of extending economic opportunity to countries populated by small, dark-skinned folks.
The amusing thing, to me at least, is that the response of the benighted savages of Middle America was just as predictable, and if one can hide behind Churchill's distinction-without-a-difference, then the responses of the bumpkin taxpayers whose efforts create the vile culture that the latter-day Churchills ostensibly loathe but somehow prefer to the cozy confines of ideologically pure (?) Cubas and Viet Nams are equaly foreseeable.
Just observing, of course.
- Moishe Potemkin
Posted by MoisheP at February 6, 2005 02:44 PM