ACTA's Must-Reads

and a response. and a pretty damning one too.

That response was a joke, a lot of the typical psuedo-intellectual yada-yada-yada.

Bottom line: if the intellectual dreck that Mr. Churchill, the response's writer, and their ilk has so much value -- why don't they go private, and make more money?

Answer: students know it is crap. That dreck has no authentic value, outside the arcane world of academic accreditation. As Dr. Walter Williams said of this stuff -- "defund" it.

Art D. apparently didn't even bother to read what Tim B. wrote.

One wonders what the author of this blog thinks of ACTA's report. Indeed, I imagine that some readers might be especially eager to hear this blog explain why it is a national scandal of Ward Churchillian proportions that Penn State (for example) offers a course on "American Masculinities" and a freshman honors course on "Sentient Beings: The Rhetoric of Animals, Nature, and Ethics in Modern Culture."

Mr. Luker:

"Art D. apparently didn't even bother to read what Tim B. wrote."

Yeah, I tried. More of the same ol' "some guilt, mostly not guilty, ACTA too biased, let's talk this to death and it will go away, yada-yada." All on someone else's dime, of course.

To the point: Mr. Churchill fiercest critics include academic peers, full-blooded Indian activists, and former relatives.

The range of critics alone should be illustrative. But some want to wait for a Higher Being to deliver the word to them.

Well, I don't have to wait. I know 90% of the public would be fired for behaving like the Great White Deceiver.

What makes GWD so much better than them?

Divine selection? Special intellect? Hardly -- GWD should be no better nor worse than anyone else, despite his non-stop bleatings to the contrary.

FYI --

One of Mr. Churchill's main academic accusers, Dr. Thomas Brown, has posted his comments on IHE -- and they are devasting for the Great White Deceiver.

http://insidehighered.com/views/2006/05/19/wilson

Er, Art, bro', If you had bothered to read what Tim Burke wrote, it would surely have occurred to you that he is not a defender of Ward Churchill's published work; and, fyi, I worked with Professor Brown in bringing Churchill's remarkable errors to public light and the attention of authorities at the University of Colorado and am quoted in the review committee's final report (which I have to assume you also haven't bothered to read). You really ought to inform yourself better than you do before making a record of your ignorance at the keyboard.

" .. Er, Art, bro', If you had bothered to read what Tim Burke wrote, it would surely have occurred to you that he is not a defender of Ward Churchill's published work .."

As in, like where, in that thicket of 10,000 words, O Brilliant One?

Silly me. If someone takes 500 words to get a take-away point, I fall asleep. Darn -- I'm just not as jejune as Herr Luker.

Better yet -- let's take $250,000 of the public's money and have an NSF conference to argue about this. Of course, they'll be arguing about this matter until eternity, but what the heck -- we'll have gotten paid.