Ward Churchill: CU-Boulder has been worse off since prof fired no matter what Glenn Beck says

• Also I don't think you can "Excel yourself". You can excel at being yourself, maybe?  

• It wasn't hi-jacked to serve a right wing agenda, it was re-staffed to serve an anti-Churchill agenda.  Inadvertently, this left the wrong people in power at CU. These things are bound to happen when you are dealing with so much power, and all of a sudden you use it for an illogical, emotionally driven agenda.  Keeping an institution like CU from going to shit is a fine art, a special skill which requires consistent, well thought out maintenance of every thread that holds it together.  The amount of attention that is diverted from these responsibilities, in order to appease the Governor and his Newspaper and oust a tenured professor, is obviously going to be evident. 

•  -- maybe (to all those tangential points which relate to why you like Churchill), but none of that bears on whether he should have been employed as a professor (much less Department Chair) by the University of Colorado, whether they fired him appropriately, or whether (as you imply) the administration of the University has been hijacked to serve a right-wing agenda.  Ward Churchill lacks the academic qualifications and integrity to be an effective champion of these ideological points with which you identify (I have excelled myself in understatement).

•  The USA frames all foreign policy issues as a matter of Good vs. Evil.  The Evil side is always acting irrationally, with no prior historical precedent to set them off, no motive, just evil murderous intent.  The Good US Armed Forces are like angels, sent from God to eradicate these blemishes from the Earth, at a cost of 1,000,000,000,000 a year to the American taxpayer. But it all makes sense, because in the battle of Good vs. Evil, we all know what side we are on right? Ward Churchill saw the danger and foolishness in this way of thinking, which was spreading across the nation like the plague after 9/11, and he spoke out against it in terms that are only a fraction extreme as the mentality he was rising up against. How many innocent people died in Iraq since 9/11? Wasn't it that same Good vs. Evil attitude that caused this? Us vs. Them, with no "What is our responsibility here?". For shame. 

• Churchill is apparently not of aboriginal ancestry, yet he crafted a persona based on a promoting the victimhood of those who are.  He successfully foisted off his ill-informed and plagiarized cant as scholasticism on the University of Colorado, and was employed as the Chairman of its  Ethnic Studies Department despite lacking a doctoral degree.  The University's woes evidently predate Churchill's hiring (as opposed to follow his firing).

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