Motherhood and apple pie.
Posted on 03/05/2005 4:44:06 PM PST by freespirited
One-sixteenth blood quantum. My kids are more than that.
Protecting the faux-Indian Ward Churchill's right to opinion is one thing. Demanding that we respect his opinion is another thing entirely. Better that the University professors should be defending Adolf Hitler.
Odious and offensive are not mitigated by coming from a different source.
I'm less offended by what these bozos say (let's face it, there have always been people willing to say the most offensive thing that pops into their heads for the shock value) than by their appalling ignorance and lack of scholarship. This woman is stupid, and she's a department chair.
I started watching the video. I have to go do something else, but I must see the rest. If you are looking for amusement this evening, I recommend this video just based on what I have seen so far.
Ward Churchill makes the case for lobotomies...
Democrat: a form of schizophrenia "characterized by incoherence, delusions lacking an underlying theme, and affect that is flat, inappropriate, or silly"
Amazing how the two definitions are exactly the same!
I tought off and on at an eastern university over the last few years and my conclusion is that much of what is taught in schools is a waste of time and money. And that's because the people teaching this pap are very second rate. I've had full professors insist that SIngapor is the capital of the Philippines and that the Civil War was fought in 1846. Worse many of them buy into the sillest of conspiracy theories. According to one such "academic" we never got to the moon since calculators weren't available until 1972 or so?!?!?
As long as we tolerate these cesspools of stupidity and support them with truckloads of cash this is what we will get.
Just further proof that Liberalism IS a mental disease.
I figured michael moore would be a heavier anchor around the dims' necks.
She's a Latina...she doesn't need no steenkeen English skills.
"For all I know or care, I'm one-sixteenth Cherokee myself, but it seems fairly certain that Ward Churchill is not, or he would have been able to prove it by now."
LOL, this WAS a good read!
Ignorance, indeed.
In mid 60's, I could buy a POCKET calculator at my community college bookstore. Thank you, NASA!
It was very limitied in the number of functions available, was about the size of a 9 transistor pocket radio, cost about $50(!), and ate batteries like candy, so most of us continued to use our slipsticks.
As far as CALCULATORS went, what else was UNIVAC & relatives, if not 'a calculator', albeit large & power-hungry one?
Or, the late 50s/early 60s 20-decimal Marchant desktop scientific electric calculators? KA-chunkata, KA-cunkata, KA-chunkata, Ka-DING!
1968 IMB System-360 Models 20, 30, 40, & 50 with tape drives, disk drives, and a rudimentary optical reader.
Maybe if he were only in it for the attention, but I'm never convinced by the "ignore 'em" argument, and I think his $90K a year job might be at least as important to him as the TV time. If keeping up the pressure might possibly lead to his unemployment, it's worth a shot.
I just followed one of the links above to the Maher program. I think Churchill acted stoned out of his melon. Either that, or he's the stupidest man alive. Maher had to make all his points for him.
Wow, that's a blast from the past...I had that album. You have to take it with a grain of salt. That 1910 Fruitgum Company album cover was a parody of indian dress and mannerisms, but the end result was they made a couple of decent songs. Ward Churchill hasn't done anything remotely beneficial. I take no offense from that album cover, or from having sports teams with native American-derived names, etc. I take serious offense with someone who claims Cherokee descent who speaks with such vile hatred in their heart, like this pestiferous Churchill.
CU will regret it.
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