Nah, old Ward Churchill was a garden variety plagiarizer - and not a very good one at that. Also he took the worst stereotypes of American Indians and mimicked them - dirty hair - halted speech - etc... everything in his life was a lie - well - most of the important stuff.
The guy was and still IS a revolutionary communist who spend decades pushing his crap on young college kids. He’s even on tape advocating terrorists attacks on Americans! Screw that other comparatively meaningless stuff. Please actually read the things I posted above.
I find it astounding that so many of his peers defended him. Says a lot about them, I suppose.
In any other profession, an exposure like Churchill's would bring the axe and total disregard from his peers.
I’ve often wondered what a meeting of aging radicals would be like.
I have this vision that they are all bored because they can’t say anything so outrageous that it offends someone.
They probably just sit around, smoke cigarettes, drink cheap wine and say nothing...