Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Ward Churchill is wrong

Professor Ward Churchill's asertions that the people in the WTC were "little Eichmannns" or that they were responsible for represssive American policies are just plain stupid. On September 11th 2001 I got a call from a frantic woman that I used to do business with. Her offices were located in the North Tower of the WTC. They had been destroyed. Luckily the people of her firm got out alive. And who were the little nazis that escaped? The workers of Helen Keller International. An organization that helps millions of deaf and blind people all over the world.

Churchill shows not only his utter lack of knowledge of current events, but a troubling lack of emotion toward the lives of thousands snuffed out while drinking coffee, or organizinig day care activities, or trying to decide whether to burn to death or fall 60 stories.

If there is an Adolf Eichmann comparison to be drawn it is Ward Churchill who comes to mind. He is no different than any other biggoted hate-mongers of this era.

Laudibly he has stood firm for Native American issues. The reality of oppression against African Americans, Jews, Indians, Muslims, etc, by this nation and all the rest of the nations of the world, does not give Churchill, or any Nazi, the right to judge a fellow human as less than human. By doing this Churchill is prepetuating that which he claims to loath. He is the professorial equivelant of Phil Sheridan who said that "the only good indian is a dean one." For clearly Churchill believes that those men and women, killed in the WTC, are better dead than alive.

Ward Churchill is a hypocrite and should be fired.

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