February 1, 2005

Ward Churchill Resigns as Department Chairman

Charles at LGF is reporting that Ward Churchill, who has written that the victims of 9/11 got what they deserved, has resigned his post as chairman of the ethnic studies department at the University of Colorado. He links to an article here, but I can't get any text to appear. Another article in yesterday's Rocky Mountain News reports that the school's regents will hold a special meeting Thursday to discuss Churchill's views. Charles has some of the text of the missing article, including this:

In his statement released Monday, Churchill protested what he called “grossly inaccurate media coverage,” which had “resulted in defamation of my character and threats against my life. What I actually said has been lost, indeed turned into the opposite of itself,” Churchill stated.

And:

Denying that he is a “defender” of the September 11 attacks, Churchill said, he had simply been “pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.”

“I have never said that people ‘should’ engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy. As Martin Luther King, quoting Robert F. Kennedy, said, ‘Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable’.”

I posted many excerpts from Churchill's disgusting essay last week, and others have covered him, including Glenn Reynolds. Read these passages and you'll see that Churchill was indeed calling for attacks on the U.S., and that he did in fact applaud them. He's the most repulsive academic character I've seen -- and that's saying a great deal indeed.

— Winfield Myers

| Feb. 1, 2005 | 9:11 AM