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Ward Churchill — the Fake Indian — Fired From CU

scha·den·freu·de [shahd-n-froi-duh] –noun
— satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else’s misfortune.
[Origin: 1890–95; < G, equiv. to Schaden harm + Freude joy]

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Ward Churchill — perhaps the battiest moonbat of them all — has been fired from his tenured position as a University of Colorado ethnic-studies professor.

The Rocky Mountain News reminds us of the charges that led to his firing:

*Historical facts: Churchill manufactured events in which European Americans intentionally spread smallpox to kill Indians. In one such event, the Army is said to have distributed tainted blankets to Mandan Indians. But no evidence backs the claim.

*Elsewhere, Churchill claimed the United States adopted a formal racial code to identify Indians, similar to the code used by the Nazis to identify Jews. U.S. law includes no such code, legal scholars say.

*Plagiarism: Churchill published an essay on water issues in Canada that closely resembles a pamphlet by a Canadian environmental group. He also borrowed a work on fishing rights originally published by Canadian scholar Fay Cohen.

*Falsifying sources: Churchill wrote essays under the names of other people, which he then cited as independent sources in his footnotes.

How did a fraud like Churchill ever get hired in the first place? Affirmative action:

Churchill thus represents the reductio ad absurdum of the contemporary university’s willingness to subordinate all other values to affirmative action. When such a grotesque fraud - a white man pretending to be an Indian, an intellectual charlatan spewing polemical garbage festooned with phony footnotes, a shameless demagogue fabricating imaginary historical incidents to justify his pathological hatreds, an apparent plagiarist who steals and distorts the work of real scholars - manages to scam his way into a full professorship at what is still a serious research university, we know the practice of affirmative action has hit rock bottom. Or at least we can hope so.

I’ve written previously about Ward here, here, and here.

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Tuesday, July 24th, 2007 | Trackback |

4 Responses to “Ward Churchill — the Fake Indian — Fired From CU”

He even copied other people’s artwork and claimed it as his own.

Left by kma on July 24th, 2007 at 9:04 pm

This was a decision long overdue. He should have gotten the boot when he called the victims of September 9/11 “little Eichmanns.”

Left by Nazar on July 24th, 2007 at 9:19 pm

For Churchill, it boils down to the hatred he has for his country. Churchill hates the U.S. so much he saw fit and necessary to go so far as to fabricate evidence in support of his ludicrous and unsubstantiated views - views that may not have gotten a hearing in the first place at such an institution as CU (without, mind you, the proper credential of a Doctorate degree) had he not falsified his own ethnic identity.

What else can you attribute not only his hiring, but also his tenure, without holding an academic Doctorate degree, to than “affirmative action?”

Left by Angevin13 on July 25th, 2007 at 9:36 pm

East Coast, West Coast; Goings-On, On-Campus:

In Colorado, Ward Churchill had a friend, Ruben G. Mendoza, a teaching assistant at the University of Colorado, Denver. Ruben’s department Chair Dr. Lorna Moore, for abusing students, booted Ruben from the university, against which Mendoza promptly filed suit. Mendoza resurfaced and got fast-tracked to tenure through one Steven F. Arvizu, at CSU Monterey Bay.

Mendoza became the nosebleed of the fledgling university. Churchill was invited to CSUMB by Ruben to speak at a weeklong gathering of the clan. Mendoza has also engaged in academic misconduct, so far without consequence. The Duke lacrosse team fiasco shows that liberal educators have created a phony cultural paradigm that distorts reality. And, miscreants like Churchill and Mendoza do not exist in a vacuum but have powerful political backers.

No Getting Out
The Taliban might as well as run the university. -David Horowitz

Set the Wayback Machine for 23 August 1995: a hot day in the nation’s capitol. But 3000 miles due west on California’s Central Coast, a constellation of events was unfolding that would have a profound effect on Western civilization; plunge it into decades of war. Yet, this cataclysmic upheaval was only part of the plan.

Bill Clinton picked up the telephone. It was his Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, calling from a payphone in Monterey. Bill held the receiver at arms length and gazed at the tasteful floral arrangement that adorned the Oval Office. Leon’s disembodied voice filled the room. What now, asked Hillary. It’s that damn college, mouthed Bill. There was, no getting out. Hillary nodded, just tell Leon he’ll get whatever he needs: http://theseedsof9-11.com

Left by Sylvester Newell on July 27th, 2007 at 2:48 pm

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