[Lorianne]

The fault lies, generally, with the sick academic culture in which he has thrived, and, specifically, with the administrative weasels at the University of Colorado who have repeatedly rewarded his dubious critical achievements.

Exactly. Boycotting the Univesity of Colorado is the best plan of action to stop the spread of this disease. He's right, it's really not about W. Churchill, the problem is much bigger than one blowhard.

[Names Ash Housewares]

Chuchill is a repugnant human being. But I want to see this extremist dope paraded around as a liberal freak show to the country. He is what the left is all about these days. Let people see its true ugliness.

[bitt]

"FAUX INDIAN"!!!! That's great!!"

courtesy of Boazo

[dennisw]

btttt

[Shermy]

"Along the way, however, he convinced lots of people that he was a Cherokee Indian"

And John Kerry isn't Irish. Those who disliked him the most didn't think much of his Irish routine, it was just another character flaw.

Has anyone said this guy can't teach a classroom on Indian History or Ethnography? Maybe he does it well.

[SueRae]

You betcha. When my daughter (now 11) starts looking at colleges, you can be darn sure that Mom will be investigating each school very carefully as well. UC is off the list. I wonder what UC alumni and others (who may fund endowments to UC) will have to say. Vote with the pocketbook, that may get their attention.

[Brett66]

Ward Churchill, the face of the democrat party.

[Mears]

bump

[Charlespg]

Maybe its time to see if people can endow some new Universities No tenure,no ethnic Studies

[14erClimb]

bttt

[ProudVet77]

And he makes $97,000/year to work 7 months max. Suspect he can retire pretty early and still get a decent hunk of change since he is a government employee.

[LS]

This is absolutely right. I use this example all the time in arguing why NO university should waste time with a class on Marx, except as offering a historical dead end:

If we take as axiomatic the principle that colleges exist in order to pursue and disseminate the truth, it follows that no accredited mathematics department would employ a teacher who denied, say, that base angles of an isosceles triangle are equal; that no physics department would employ a teacher who denied the force of gravity; that no chemistry department would employ a teacher who denied that protons and neutrons are found in the nuclei of atoms; that no biology department would employ a teacher who denied that green plants convert light energy into chemical energy by photosynthesis.

But you know what? Thank God for Ward Churchill!! He is sending sales of our book through the roof, because people can easily see what good academics/scholarship is (us) and isn't (him). Go Ward! Sell more of our book!

[nmh]

BTTT!

Very good analysis.

[TimSkalaBim]

I wouldn't say that "nothing" should be done with Ward Churchill. For example, there's no reason why Sen. Harry "Ward Churchill" Reid, or Kent "Churchill" Conrad, or Barbara "Churchill" Boxer shouldn't be made to publicly support the right of this anit-American nutcase to demand the U.S. be erased from the planet. I don't know how the 'Rats could defend him and 'reach out' to rural and red state voters at the same time. And if the 'Rats rebuked Churchill, they'd piss of their Churchill-Moore-Dean-gra$$root$ base.

[FormerACLUmember]

Brilliant, absolutely breath-taking analytic thinking. Thank you for an INCREDIBLE post!

[satchmodog9]

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[madprof98]

The suggestion that "studying" is involved in any of these subjects is laughable; they are quasi-religious advocacy groups whose curricula run the gamut from historical wish fulfillment (the ancient Egyptians were black; the U.S. Constitution was derived from the Iroquois Nation) to political axe grinding (the Israelis are committing genocide against the Palestinians; the U.S. is committing genocide against the people of Cuba) to gynocentric self-help (reasoning from verifiable data is a tool of male domination, to which the experiential impressions of women are a necessary antidote) to circumstantial special pleading (Lincoln was gay because, well, he was a nice guy; Hitler, not so nice, therefore not gay). Contesting the status quo is the raison d'etre of these departments. No idea is beyond the pale — except, of course, the suggestion that the status quo might somehow be valid.

Anyone who imagines that this might be an exaggeration hasn't been on a college campus in a good long while. And it's not just a few campuses: victimology is the received orthodoxy in the liberal arts and social sciences nationwide. Nor can students bypass these courses. Many of them fulfill the "diversity" requirement mandatory for all majors.

[HassanBenSobar]

"The fault lies, generally, with the sick academic culture in which he has thrived, and, specifically, with the administrative weasels at the University of Colorado who have repeatedly rewarded his dubious critical achievements."

Such a good article makes such a glaring mistake. Who really determines which professors get what rewards? Not administrators--other faculty! The inmates run the asylum. Lefty tenure committees choose who gets hired and who gets tenured; dept admins are tenured profs who want some extra bucks and less teaching; same with deans; etc., etc., etc. Ward Churchill's peers are just as guilty--they recruited him, hired him, promoted him, provided peer reviews, voted him for awards, etc.

The whole system is sick. I would never waste a nickel on anything academic program in the fields of study they list in this article. It's just plain disgusting.

[John Lenin]

If the broke the ethics code of teaching he should be fired and make sure it's known it's not about free speech it's about telling the truth to academia.

[Duke Nukum]

Him and Moore should do a road movie together, the Road to Tenure, maybe?

But they need a repugant female to play the traditional love interest. Susan Sarandon? Sharon Stone? Who?

Maybe a male of indeterminate sex? Ben Afflick? The guy who plays Apollo on the new Battlestar Galactica?

[Unam Sanctam]

But the epistemological nadir of any university is found in the wacky world of ethnic and gender studies: black studies, Africana studies, Chicano studies, Latino studies, Puerto Rican studies, Middle Eastern studies, Native American studies, women's studies, gay and lesbian studies, et al. The suggestion that "studying" is involved in any of these subjects is laughable; they are quasi-religious advocacy groups whose curricula run the gamut from historical wish fulfillment (the ancient Egyptians were black; the U.S. Constitution was derived from the Iroquois Nation) to political axe grinding (the Israelis are committing genocide against the Palestinians; the U.S. is committing genocide against the people of Cuba) to gynocentric self-help (reasoning from verifiable data is a tool of male domination, to which the experiential impressions of women are a necessary antidote) to circumstantial special pleading (Lincoln was gay because, well, he was a nice guy; Hitler, not so nice, therefore not gay).

Well said.