Ding Dong the WITCH is dead!

[lafille_lolli]

So here's a little blurb from an article I stumbled across today while procrastinating online.
Globalization » "Some People Push Back" On the Justice of Roosting Chickens

Written by Ward Churchill, published 9/11/2001 // Dark Night Press (www.darknightpress.org) -This article appeared in Pockets of Resistance #11 September 2001

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[lafille_lolli]

What Ward Churchill Didn't Say
(It's the singer...not the song)

Check out ZNet response:

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=30&ItemID=7204

[holden_wake]

hmmm, comparisons to the nazi's are always a bit problematic and an easy cop-out at that. but he makes a good point, the target was not homeless, children, poor, minorities, or aboriginals, but the most affluent and powerful in american society.

Churchill is one of the most provocative thinkers in american academia right now, and people are actually trying to shut him up. Colorado lawmakers are trying to get him fired, and Bill O'Rilley actually had a poll on his website asking whether he should be fired. So much for free speech and thought in America.

I want to invite him to SFU. its so hard to get a right-wing protest these days.

[the_watchmaker]

it is a shame that he made the nazi comparison, if only because people tune out as soon as the nazi card is played. but he does make a very provocative charge - that those in the wtc were as complicit in the deaths of millions as a member of the nazi regime who himself was not directly murdering anyone (albeit, the wtc people were less conscious of the damage they were causing, and their connection was more indirect). it also suggests something of the nationalist verve that is connected to notions of 'progress'...

...as an interesting aside, i saw feminist artist judy chicago speak on the weekend. she did a piece on the holocaust in the 80s, to some pretty scathing reviews. the major political objection was to her placement of the holocaust as progression of western world policies and politics. americans should be reminded that they share a lot of history with germany, and that nationalism shades into fascism rather easily.

[barcoder]

But reading that, I couldn't help but think that the majority of the people working in the twin towers probably were not the well-educated financial elite, but wage-earners like secretaries, clerks, receptionists, janitors, cafeteria workers, etc.

The Eichmann reference is rhetorically questionable, like Brian said. Its kind of effective but given my above caveat, its truth value is dubious. The point about technocratic complicity, however, is valid and important.

But it makes you think about what September 11th actually accomplished, or what it was expected to accomplish. On the one hand, global hatred toward American empire is more out in the open. But on the other, all it has done is provide the domestic political backing for a drastically stepped-up colonial/military aggression and gave an excuse to come down on internal dissent. The 9/11 attacks made America worse, and it made them stronger.

[lafille_lolli]

I guess I found this article interesting, not because I am supporting Churchill's claims, but that there might be an interesting relationship between his arguments and Native American resistance in the United States.